Scheme Street built a one-way traffic puzzle that looks like a Mini Motorways clone at a glance, and the differences are real enough that Mini Motorways' own studio tried to get it pulled from Steam over it.
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All Quiet Roads asks you to untangle traffic across real cities, London, Tokyo, Rio, by building and upgrading one-way road networks until nothing on the map sits in a red warning state. It's a five-dollar solo project from Scheme Street, and it looks enough like Mini Motorways at first glance that Dinosaur Polo Club, the studio behind that game, sent legal threats over it in 2025, claiming the resemblance put their own IP rights at risk.
That backfired. The backlash forced a public apology from Dinosaur Polo Club, the game stayed on Steam, and the whole episode ended up proving the opposite of what the complaint claimed.
The mechanics diverge where it matters. One-way routing forces different planning instincts than Mini Motorways' bidirectional flow, larger maps let networks sprawl in ways the comparison game never allows, and player-controlled spawn points turn this into more of a simulation than a pure reaction test. One Steam thread that opened with a skeptic calling it “a less polished clone of mini-motorways” ended with that same poster buying the game, and other commenters calling it more complex than the game it's accused of copying. Steam's user base backs that turnaround up at roughly ninety-four percent positive, though the sample is small enough, under two hundred reviews, that it reads as a passionate niche verdict rather than a mass one.
The rough edges are real but minor: pathfinding occasionally ignores available exits, one level has an interchange that can't be removed once placed, and a handful of players report frame rates low enough to notice on modest hardware. That hasn't stopped the small community around it from staying unusually active and engaged for a five-dollar indie title.
All Quiet Roads earned its Steam score without a single press review to its name, on word of mouth and a legal fight it didn't start. Five bucks gets you a real, distinct traffic puzzle, not a clone riding someone else's coattails.