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This simulation strategy game, released in 2015, challenges players to design subway systems for growing cities. It has garnered over 12,522 Steam reviews. Publisher/developer attribution is not yet imported.
Overview
Mini Metro is a 2015 Indie game developed by Dinosaur Polo Club and published by Dinosaur Polo Club. On Steam it has gathered 16,498 player reviews, 96% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $10. The pairing of developer Dinosaur Polo Club with publisher Dinosaur Polo Club is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Indie projects reach the market. indielist's white-box model estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 841,000 to 2.0 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Mini Metro can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
16,498
Positive
96%
Steam appid
287980
Engine
n/a
Sales estimate
vv1.0841K to 2.0M
units (median: 1.4M)
≈ $4.8M to $11.2M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Mini Metro at roughly 841,000 to 2.0 million copies, with a median around 1.4 million, derived from its 16,498 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter model (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $8.0M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
90d · low $5.27Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $5.27 to $9.99, averaging $8.94 across 2 discount windows, with a historical low of $5.27 on 2026-04-25.
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Where to buy
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Tags
StrategyPuzzleMinimalistSimulationTrainsIndieSingleplayerCasualManagementRelaxing2DTransportationBuildingTouch-FriendlyMouse onlyDifficultGreat SoundtrackAddictiveReplay ValueTop-Down
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Mini Metro sold?
- indielist estimates Mini Metro has sold between 841,398 and 1,963,262 units (median 1,402,330), derived from its 16,498 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Mini Metro?
- Mini Metro was developed by Dinosaur Polo Club and published by Dinosaur Polo Club.
- When was Mini Metro released?
- Mini Metro was released in 2015.
- How many reviews does Mini Metro have on Steam?
- Mini Metro has 16,498 Steam reviews, of which 96% are positive.
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Mini Metro sold?
- indielist estimates Mini Metro has sold between 841,398 and 1,963,262 units (median 1,402,330), derived from its 16,498 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Mini Metro?
- Mini Metro was developed by Dinosaur Polo Club and published by Dinosaur Polo Club.
- When was Mini Metro released?
- Mini Metro was released in 2015.
- How many reviews does Mini Metro have on Steam?
- Mini Metro has 16,498 Steam reviews, of which 96% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Mini Metro within the Indie segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Dinosaur Polo Club's other releases and Dinosaur Polo Club's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Mini Metro sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Mini Metro page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Indie game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.
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