Metro Architect

Build a metro network. Anywhere in the world.

Metro Architect is a metro building and transport management simulation game where you design, expand, and manage subway networks on real-world maps. Build stations, plan routes, operate trains, and create your own public transport system while balancing passenger demand, operating costs, and network efficiency.

Start with one of the official city maps, including Berlin, London, Tokyo, New York, Paris, Moscow, Shanghai, and many more. Or build anywhere in the world with custom maps. Choose any real-world location, from a major capital to your own hometown or village, and transform it with a metro network of your design.

Every map uses real-world population data to simulate passenger demand across different areas. Busy city centres, residential neighbourhoods, and less populated districts create different transport challenges, making station placement and route planning an important part of your network's success.

Design the system. Manage the network.

Build metro stations, draw straight or curved railway lines, create interchanges, and connect districts into a functioning transit network. Choose trains, adjust service intervals and station stop times, manage fares, and expand your system as passenger demand increases.

Whether you want to recreate a real metro system, redesign an existing city's public transport, or build an entirely new subway network, every decision shapes how passengers move through your city.

Rush hour traffic fights back.

Managing a metro network is more than drawing lines on a map. Morning and evening rush hours, changing weather, and uneven population distribution influence how passengers use your system.

Crowded stations, overloaded trains, and inefficient connections can quickly turn a successful network into a transport nightmare. Add capacity, optimize routes, improve service frequency, and keep your city moving.

Take on Daily Challenges. Put your skills to the test.

Think you've mastered metro network design? Take on Daily Challenges featuring carefully designed scenarios individually tailored to real-world city maps.

Each challenge puts your transport planning and management skills to the test, pushing you to rethink familiar strategies, find smarter connections, and make the most of your network. From solving complex transport problems to optimizing your system under pressure, there's always a new challenge waiting.

Features

Build anywhere in the world: Choose from official city maps or create a custom map of virtually any real-world location directly inside the game.

Real-world maps and population data: Plan transport networks using real geography and realistic population distribution that influences passenger demand in different areas.

Complete metro network design: Place stations, draw straight or curved routes, create transfers, and build everything from a single subway line to a complex metropolitan rail network.

Transport management and simulation: Choose trains, manage service intervals, adjust stop times, set fare zones, and balance operating expenses with passenger needs.

Daily Challenges: Test your skills with carefully designed challenges tailored to real-world maps. Face new transport problems and push your network planning abilities to the limit.

Dynamic passenger demand: Adapt to rush hours, changing weather, and fluctuating ridership as your network develops.

Play your way: Create your dream metro system at your own pace, recreate real-world subway networks, or challenge yourself to build the most efficient transport network possible.

Steam Workshop integration: Create and publish your own city maps and trains, discover and download creations shared by other players, and expand your game with community-made content.

Watch your network come alive: See colourful metro lines, busy interchange stations, and moving trains transform real-world geography into your own transport system.