Mini Airways
- July 30, 2024
- CCC Games
- 8h median play time
Get on SteamIn Mini Airways, a real-time management game, you'll step into the role of an air traffic controller, directing planes for takeoff and landing while avoiding collisions. Manage challenges such as mountainous terrain, no-fly zones, and peak hours, and upgrade your airspace and airport for smoother operations. With each day's success, customize and enhance your airport to ensure efficient flight management.
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Reviews
- The game offers a relaxing yet challenging experience, requiring quick thinking and multitasking skills.
- It features beautiful graphics and a soothing soundtrack, enhancing the overall gameplay experience.
- The community is supportive, and the developers are responsive to feedback, indicating potential for future improvements and updates.
- The game suffers from inconsistent mechanics, such as planes colliding on parallel runways and unclear upgrade systems.
- Many players find the gameplay repetitive and feel that it lacks depth compared to other games in the 'Mini' series.
- There are significant bugs and design flaws, including issues with hitboxes and notifications, which can lead to frustrating gameplay experiences.
- gameplay42 mentions
- 19 % positive mentions
- 74 % neutral mentions
- 7 % negative mentions
The gameplay is generally engaging and offers a simple, intuitive control scheme that keeps players hooked for hours, reminiscent of classic mini games. However, it suffers from some frustrating mechanics, such as collision issues with parallel runways and a lack of variety in game modes, which detracts from its overall replayability. While the game has potential with impactful upgrades and challenging layouts, it requires quality-of-life improvements and more diverse gameplay elements to fully realize its promise.
“While it is a bit of a rip-off of the aforementioned series, it does a very good job of implementing the recipe at 40,000 ft. The upgrades are impactful, the layouts are challenging, and the core gameplay loop is engaging.”
“The gameplay is engaging and keeps you hooked for hours.”
“Nice and simple gameplay loop with surprising depth and nice maps.”
“The interaction and mechanics are so bad I found it frustrating to play.”
“In addition, I think that the mechanics with the disappearance of planes after they reach the points in the middle of the map is mediocre, and it would be better to send them to the right ends of the map.”
“This game is a knockoff of mini metros with no upgraded gameplay.”
- replayability8 mentions
- 38 % positive mentions
- 38 % neutral mentions
- 25 % negative mentions
The game offers significant replayability due to its rogue elements and unpredictable scenarios, making each playthrough feel unique. While some users note a need for quality-of-life updates and increased gameplay variety, the current content and upcoming features like a workshop and mapmaker promise to enhance replay value further. Overall, players find the experience engaging enough to keep returning, even after failures.
“It's both relaxing and stressful at the same time, and the sort of rogue element leads to a lot of replayability.”
“You never know what will happen or what aircraft situation occurs, so even playing the same map over and over is different every time, making the game effectively infinitely replayable!”
“Incoming features like workshop and mapmaker make it infinitely replayable, which is always good to see.”
“The game desperately needs quality of life updates and more variety in the gameplay to increase replayability, but it has enough content (for now) to keep you interested.”
“Even if you fail somewhere, it does not get boring thanks to its replayability.”
- graphics5 mentions
- 40 % positive mentions
- 40 % neutral mentions
- 20 % negative mentions
The game features appealing graphics and a cool aesthetic, though it suffers from occasional glitches and lacks the polish and detail found in similar titles. Overall, while visually pleasant, it does not fully meet the high standards set by its more renowned counterparts.
“The game offers some nice graphics and a really cool aesthetic; although there are some ugly glitches here and there, it is pleasant all the same.”
“This game is named to bank on the fame of those two games, and this is even more clear by the style of graphics and interface. However, do not expect the same level of polish and attention to detail.”
- music4 mentions
- 50 % positive mentions
- 50 % neutral mentions
- 0 % negative mentions
The music in the game is described as relaxing and chilling, effectively enhancing concentration while players manage the challenge of preventing plane collisions. However, users express a desire for a greater variety of tracks to enrich the experience.
“The game is simple in its form, the music is chilling and helps you concentrate. (Please add more tracks.)”
“Relaxing music and a great challenge to manage all planes not colliding.”
- grinding4 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 50 % neutral mentions
- 50 % negative mentions
Players find the grinding in Mini Airways to be extensive and often tedious, making it feel repetitive over long sessions. However, the game is enjoyable in shorter play sessions, providing a fun simulation experience despite the grinding aspect.
“You'll need a second life for grinding.”
“Mini Airways overall is a fun game to play, yet sometimes it feels repetitive and can get boring and tedious if played for a long time. However, it's a very good simulation game to enjoy in short bursts.”
- story4 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 50 % neutral mentions
- 50 % negative mentions
The reviews indicate that the game lacks a story, with multiple users noting the absence of any narrative elements.
“No story.”
“No story.”
- stability4 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 100 % negative mentions
The game experiences some stability issues, particularly with buggy notifications regarding near-miss airplane incidents. While the graphics and overall aesthetic are praised, players have noted the presence of occasional glitches that detract from the experience.
“The notification of airplanes almost hitting each other is a bit buggy.”
“The game offers some nice graphics and a really cool aesthetic, although there are some ugly glitches here and there.”
- optimization1 mentions
- 100 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 0 % negative mentions
The optimization of the mini airways is generally praised, with users noting that it performs efficiently and runs smoothly as expected.
“Concerning the mini airways itself, it does what it says on the tin; it runs smoothly.”
