Mini Motorways vs Turmoil+
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mini Motorways
Design road networks to manage traffic in a growing city. Strategically build roads, manage upgrades, and adapt to evolving urban demands to keep traffic flowing. Explore unique maps and unlock new challenges.
- Draw roads in dynamic, growing cities
- Explore unique maps inspired by global cities
- Manage road upgrades like highways and roundabouts
- Creative Mode for unlimited city design
- Endless Mode for relaxed gameplay
- Expert Mode for ultimate challenges
- Colorblind and night modes
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Have you ever been stuck in traffic and wished you could do something to fix it? In Mini Motorways, the city’s traffic problems are in your hands. From the makers of Mini Metro, Mini Motorways is a game about drawing the roads that drive a growing city. Build a road network, one road at a time, to create a bustling metropolis. Redesign your city to keep the traffic flowing, and carefully manage upgrades to meet the changing demands. How long can you keep the cities of the world moving? Features: • Draw roads in dynamic cities that grow and change—every game is unique! • Explore stunning maps inspired by cities all around the world. • Choose from a variety of upgrades to meet the demands of your ever-expanding road network: highways, roundabouts, and more! • Build without limits in Creative Mode—design your dream city exactly how you want it with unlimited upgrades and editing tools. • Stress-free Endless Mode offers you a relaxing gameplay experience, plus you can continue building your city after Game Over. • Tackle our Expert Mode, which features twists such as permanent roads and limited upgrades for the ultimate challenge. • Select different color palettes on every map including colorblind and night modes. • Relax to a responsive soundtrack from Disasterpeace that grows along with your city. • Unlock new maps and achievements as you achieve mastery. • Export GIFs of your city layouts to share with your friends. • Compete against other players in Daily and Weekly Challenges. • Compatible with Siri Remote, Bluetooth and MFi controllers.
Turmoil+
Experience the thrill of the 19th-century oil rush in this charming simulation game. Build your oil empire, manage resources, and outwit rivals to become the town's mayor. Explore new mechanics and treasures in an expanded campaign.
- Build an oil empire
- Manage resources and pipe networks
- Compete for town shares and mayoralty
- Upgrade drilling operations
- Engage in shady business deals
- Explore procedurally generated levels
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Turmoil+ offers players a visually charming, tongue-in-cheek take on the simulation genre inspired by the 19th century oil rush in North America. Get a taste of the rush and rivalry of the time as you earn your way to become a successful oil entrepreneur. As you make money digging up and selling oil, the town will grow along with you. Lease land at the town auction and search for oil. Build a rig, create an efficient pipe network and bring up the oil to store it in silos. Sell the oil at the best times to maximize profits. Then buy essential upgrades in town to cope with rock, gas and ice. Acquire more town shares than your competitors in a bid to become the new mayor. - A campaign where you build your rags-to-riches oil baron career and beat your rivals. - Dozens of upgrades and new tools to improve your oil mining operations. - Maximize your profits by using natural gas to boost the oil price. - Outbid your competitors at the stock auction. - Meet the town’s characters in the saloon and make shady business deals. - Play single game mode to get one of literally millions of procedurally generated levels and earn as much as you can in one year. Turmoil+ - The Heat Is On is a new campaign with tons of oil to dig up and convert into cash! It is designed to make you feel right at home, but at the same time offer lots of new mechanics and fun features. Here's what you can expect! - A new town (and mayor!) and a new oil-rich map divided into three areas. - In each area, new drilling mechanics are introduced, powered by a new underground substance: magma. - You'll see familiar faces like Edward and Fred and William. They brought their goods with them in train wagons, so you can instantly stock up on all your favorite drilling gear. - There are also new people, like Philip, who runs a shady card game in the saloon. - Jack is a new character that runs a magma tools operation from his shed. He likes chicken. - Anthony is also back from last time. Instead of dealing in diamonds, he has his own store where you can sell and buy all sorts of underground treasures. - The new mayor is not quite like the old one. His tips are free, and he uses a different auction system. But shares still cost money! - There's a cat walking around the village! He doesn't do a whole lot, but what can you expect from these creatures? - And last but not least: a couple of brand new music tracks! The metagame in this new DLC-campaign offers more depth. Instead of diamonds, a total of 9 underground treasures are available. Collecting them all (by trading or digging them up) will offer great benefits. Besides this, the village offers even more things to do, like playing a card game for money.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Turmoil+ at 4.8 against Mini Motorways's 4.1. Mini Motorways's advantage is review sentiment (63% vs 52%) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Turmoil+ holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7K and 8.5K respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 63% of Mini Motorways's written reviews are positive against 52% of Turmoil+'s, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Mini Motorways ships an update every 3 weeks, Turmoil+ monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mini Motorways | Turmoil+ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (7K ratings) | 4.8 (8.5K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 63.4% of reviews — better | 51.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7K | 8.5K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 193 MB | 544 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dinosaur Polo Club | Gamious B.V. |
Customer experience
Mini Motorways
Turmoil+
User reviews
Mini Motorways
From 7K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Fun game
- 👍 Relaxing and addictive
- 🚀 Quick and easy gameplay
- 👍 Great graphics and sound design
- 👍 Accessibility features for colorblind users
Room to improve
- 🐛 Car routes are inefficient
- 🐛 Traffic lights are ineffective
- 🐛 Game can be too difficult and frustrating
- 🐛 Progress and scores not saving properly
- 🔋 Game drains battery quickly
Turmoil+
From 8.5K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Fun and addictive gameplay
- 👍 Simple yet engaging mechanics
- 💡 Interesting oil drilling theme
- 🎨 Relaxing and chill atmosphere
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and bugs
- 🕹️ Clunky and unintuitive controls
- 🕰️ Campaign mode too short
- 🤔 Lack of clear instructions and tutorials
Bugs and requests
Mini Motorways
Reported bugs
3 issues- Bridge icon not working
- Game freezing and crashing on newer iOS versions
- Cars getting stuck at intersections
Requested features
5 requests- Sandbox/free play mode to build cities
- Ability to move/rotate building entrances
- More infrastructure options like roundabouts, one-way roads
- Difficulty settings or casual mode
- Ability to pause and resume games
Turmoil+
Reported bugs
3 issues- Progress loss after completing daily challenges
- Screen going black when adding many horses
- Inability to complete certain actions due to bugs
Requested features
4 requests- Sandbox/creative mode
- More levels and content updates
- Multiplayer or competitive modes
- Improved save/load functionality
In-app purchases
Mini Motorways
No in-app purchases
Turmoil+
No in-app purchases
Questions
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