20 Minute Metropolis - The Action City Builder
Dejobaan Games, LLC · 2020 · City Builder, Building, Management, Base Building, Strategy
PC
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About 20 Minute Metropolis - The Action City Builder
Construct the infrastructure to rebuild civilization. Set up supply lines, mine skyscrapers for plastics, and find a place to process all the poop your people will generate. You have twenty minutes.
Farms generate food—those are the green dots you see below. All food is bright green. That's how you know it's fresh.
Build apartments. People will take in food and generate work. And they'll poop. But you don't have to worry about the poop right now.
Trails will convey resources like food and work between buildings. There's a limit to the volume of resources they can carry at any given time, so you'll need to plan your layout carefully.
Extend your reach by cutting through forest and... Uh oh...
So, you build a landfill to take care of the poop. Where was I? Cut through forest to get to ancient skyscrapers, which you'll mine for metals and plastics—you're an ace recycler!
Time to expand to other forests! But try not to tear them all down. Set up a water turbine and energy transmitters to power your search for more trees. And build some parks for points. Now you're cooking. Build a dozen high rises. More parks!
You just rebuilt an entire civilization in 20 minutes! That's no mean feat. Heck, it's going to take folks 30 minutes to do it in the sequel.
FEED YOUR PEOPLE
Farms generate food—those are the green dots you see below. All food is bright green. That's how you know it's fresh.
CONVERT FOOD TO WORK
Build apartments. People will take in food and generate work. And they'll poop. But you don't have to worry about the poop right now.
TRAILS TRANSPORT RESOURCES
Trails will convey resources like food and work between buildings. There's a limit to the volume of resources they can carry at any given time, so you'll need to plan your layout carefully.
Extend your reach by cutting through forest and... Uh oh...
YOUR APARTMENTS ARE FULL OF POOP
So, you build a landfill to take care of the poop. Where was I? Cut through forest to get to ancient skyscrapers, which you'll mine for metals and plastics—you're an ace recycler!
YOU HAVE DEFORESTED THE FOREST
Time to expand to other forests! But try not to tear them all down. Set up a water turbine and energy transmitters to power your search for more trees. And build some parks for points. Now you're cooking. Build a dozen high rises. More parks!
AND YOU'RE OUT OF TIME
You just rebuilt an entire civilization in 20 minutes! That's no mean feat. Heck, it's going to take folks 30 minutes to do it in the sequel.
WELCOME TO 20 MINUTE METROPOLIS!
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Very simple city building game. Took about 1.5 hours for me to beat the entire game with a few tries. Since there seems to only be a single map, iteration and learning how to optimize the map is possible. So you learn build order, and figure out resource management quickly. It's not bad, but it's not great either, very unpolished.1 found this helpful
There is not a lot of game, but it is fun for an hour.
20 Minute Metropolis is an arcade city builder, and, true to its name, each playthrough takes exactly twenty minutes. Within those twenty minutes, the player’s goal is to score as many points as possible. Points are gained through building parks, and so, in essence, the goal is to accumulate as many resources as possible to build as many parks as possible. The player also has to balance having sufficient work, waste transport, and food for this growing city. In my playthroughs, this translated to spending the first fifteen minutes or so of the run building infrastructure, then spamming parks for the last five minutes. However, in adding a time limit, the game ceases to be able to focus on a careful building and perfecting of layouts or balance. It instead becomes a frantic scramble to keep up with rapidly diminishing finite resources and the unceasing demands of a changing landscape. From start to finish, the city in 20 Minute Metropolis never feels controlled. It always feels as though it’s teetering on the edge, even though the edge is meaningless. There is no failstate in 20 Minute Metropolis. You cannot go bankrupt or see your citizens starve. Indeed, you effectively have no …
The gameplay and UX is lacking, but I guess it was a stepping stone into making the (much better) T-minus 30. The UI doesn't fit on ultrawides, or full-height when windowed.
Honestly just boring. You have to build roads (without drag and drop) between buildings and build buildings that generate points. Any management game is better than this, if you want something cheap, buy Vampire Survivors for 3 bucks.
great game, quick and easy to understand
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