Mini Metro on a game watcher morning

A price, at last

16 October — the third link was nz.co.codepoint.minimetro. The name was Mini Metro. The developer was Dinosaur Polo Club, not a numeric developer id in the way the other two were linked, but the name printed on the card. The genre chips read Simulation, Management, and Casual.

The install button did not say Install. It said €1.19 Buy. That is the price on the Netherlands card the morning I read it. Archero and Pou had a zero price. Mini Metro did not. I am not going to call the three 'free games' anywhere on this kicker.

The header did not print contains ads. It also did not print in-app purchases in the badge row the other two used. I will not add either badge to be tidy. Absence on the header is what I recorded.

The star row that did not match

The stars read 4.7, from 74.7K reviews. That is the first average of the morning that was not 4.3. The pile is smaller than Pou's 11.2M and smaller than Archero's 1.74M. A higher average on a smaller pile is still just two numbers. I did not turn it into a winner.

Downloads printed 1M+. Another bucket. Updated on 16 June 2026, the oldest update line of the three. PEGI 3, same age badge as Pou, not Archero's 16.

A still that is actually a map

The gallery included a city picker and, further in, maps with coloured lines, a clock, and a day label. I used one of the map frames. It shows a grid, stations, and routes in progress. The card's own line under the gallery said design a subway map for a growing city. That sentence matches the frame, so I am willing to repeat it as the store's description, not as a strategy.

I did not record a personal high score. The city card in the gallery mentioned a 'best' figure for Melbourne. That number belongs to a promotional city select, and I am not copying it into the facts as if I had played the city.

Data safety on the paid card

The summary said no data is shared with third parties. The types listed were app info and performance, and device or other IDs. Data is encrypted in transit. Data cannot be deleted. The summary also said the app is committed to the Play Families Policy.

A paid install and a data summary are separate facts. Paying €1.19 does not, on this card, come with a sentence that says no data is collected. The summary listed types. I copied the types.

Why it is number three

It is number three because it was the third link. The star figure is higher. The price is not zero. The download bucket is the smallest of the three. None of those is the numbering rule. The numbering rule is written on the home page so a reader does not have to infer a contest.

If I were filing these for a household, the PEGI line and the price line would be the two I read aloud. Mini Metro is PEGI 3 and €1.19 on this card, with no ads badge in the header. That is a different household sentence from Archero's PEGI 16 and ads.

Blanks, id, and the store

Size, version, and minimum Android were not on the header. I left them out. Package id nz.co.codepoint.minimetro. Checked 16 October 2026.

The file is bought on Play, not here. Game Watcher Weekly is not Dinosaur Polo Club and not Google. The icon and the map still are store images, shown whole.

How I would hand this card to someone else

Mini Metro is the card I would describe with the buy button first. On the Netherlands store the button read €1.19 Buy, not Install. That single control separates it from the two zero-price cards I opened before it. I would then say the header did not show an ads badge and did not show the in-app purchases badge the other headers used. I am describing an absence on a header, not a promise that a later build cannot add a purchase. The date of the absence is 16 October 2026.

The map still is the reason the card is easy to recognise. Coloured routes, a clock, a day label, a grid. The store's own sentence, design a subway map for a growing city, matches that frame. I used the frame and I repeated the sentence. I did not copy the "best" number sitting on the city picker, because that figure was part of a promotional select screen and not a result I recorded.

The star row is 4.7 from 74.7K reviews, with a 1M+ download bucket and an update line of 16 June 2026. PEGI 3. Developer Dinosaur Polo Club. Package nz.co.codepoint.minimetro. The Data safety summary listed app info and performance, and device or other IDs, said data is encrypted in transit, said data cannot be deleted, and printed the Families Policy line. No size, no version, no minimum Android on the header.

Number three on the kicker is opening order. The higher star figure did not promote it, and the price did not demote it. If the price on the Netherlands card moves, the sentence in this note becomes a sentence about 16 October, which is all it ever was. The install, or the purchase, happens on Play. This desk does not sell the file and is not Dinosaur Polo Club.

The paper list for this card is where the price column finally has a figure. €1.19. I wrote the currency because the card was the Netherlands store. A reader in another country can see a different amount, which is another reason the date and the storefront sit in the same sentence. I am not publishing a global price. I am publishing the button I was shown.

The map frame has a clock and a weekday abbreviation. That is enough to show the session has a clock, which matches a management listing more cleanly than a poster would. I still will not describe the rules for adding a line, because the card did not print the rules. "Design a subway map for a growing city" is the sentence I am allowed. The controls visible in the frame, a few round buttons along the edge, stay undescribed. Naming a button I have not pressed would be how a note becomes a fake manual.

4.7 from 74.7K reviews, 1M+ downloads, updated 16 June 2026, PEGI 3, Dinosaur Polo Club, nz.co.codepoint.minimetro. No ads badge. No purchases badge in the row the other cards used. Encrypted in transit, deletion not offered in the summary, Families Policy line present, data types limited to what the summary named. No size, no version. I can recite that without the gallery, and the gallery is only there so the card is recognisable.

Number three is not a bronze medal. If I reopen the three links tomorrow and the prices have moved, the numbers on the home page stay as opening order unless I write a new check. The home page says so in the line under the heading. This note says so again because a review is where people look for a hidden ranking, and there is not one.

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