Mini Metro

It sounds like an unusual focus for a video game, but, surprisingly, this puzzle game is purely fantastic. The simplicity helps drive the complexity that awaits you as more and more stations pop up. The game ends when you've kept people waiting too long at any single station or it's become "overcrowded" and presumably you have a riot or mass protest on your hands. You don't see any of that, though, only a casual, cool zoom in to the stop you didn't keep an eye on or connect or address in time. Literally all you have to do is drag and drop lines to connect these stations to address these transit issues. Impressively, the Switch version manages to feel just as intuitive as the computer version, because all you have to do is slide your finger across the screen to connect stations. Making edits to your transit lines is just as easy as dragging a pre-existing line from one place to the new location. In seconds, you'll be laying down tracks by lightly grazing the screen with your fingertips.

The fun that comes from this game is downright Zen-like. You keep eagle eyes on the entire map and watch as the train cars, which move on their own, progress along the lines you chart. The more weeks you keep the trains running, the more bonuses you earn, such as extra cars to drop on the same line, or the ability to add more lines, or the ability to make tunnels through waterways. Really, that's all there is to this game. It's simple, it's fun, and it's about mass transit. Who knew something seemingly so stodgy could be made so addictive and hard to put down?