Metro Master
Plan metro lines on real maps
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Plan metro lines on real maps of Taipei, Taichung, Chiayi, Tainan, Kaohsiung, Hong Kong and Macao. Residents ride when it saves them time, and you set the trains.
Plan a metro network on real city maps and watch a city start to ride it.
Population and travel are estimated from real map data. Residents choose between scooter, car, bus, walking, cycling and your metro by door-to-door time: a well-placed station fills up, while a line that wanders or runs too few trains loses riders to other lines or back to the road.
BUILD
• Place stations and draw lines on the map; extend, insert, move or remove stations
• Automatic station names from local places and intersections, which you can rename
• Heavy rail, medium capacity or light rail, with a choice of train length
• Taiwanese cities can start a new plan with the existing national railway in one tap, plus high-speed rail in Taipei
• Undo and redo
OPERATE
• Peak trains per line, off-peak as a percentage; headway follows from the trains and the round trip
• Short-turn and express services, with expresses overtaking slower trains at passing stations
• Too few trains leave riders on the platform; too many raise operating costs
• Construction is free; finances are judged by the farebox ratio, fare revenue divided by running costs
SIMULATION
• Continuous time with morning and evening peaks
• Riding habits build up, and daily ridership grows with them
• Follow any train or passenger across the network
• The same network always gets the same official result
STATS
• Figures for the city, districts, neighborhoods, lines, stations, trains and passengers
• Trends in ridership, mode share, farebox ratio and quality score
• Quality score broken down into waiting, transfers, crowding and riders left behind
• Hourly entries and exits at each station
CINEMA VIEW AND SHARING
• Tilted 3D shots of buildings and trains, including Follow cam, Cab, window and platform views
• On-board station display; track shown elevated, at-grade or underground
• Map themes: Blueprint, Paper, Night and Satellite
• Share cards of stations, lines, trains, cities and challenges in five aspect ratios, or a short video of a line
CHALLENGES AND ACHIEVEMENTS
• Planning challenges in Taipei, Taichung, Tainan, Kaohsiung and Hong Kong, such as Small and Fine, Two by Ten and Light Rail City, with goals for ridership, quality or farebox ratio
• 63 achievements for network design, ridership and mode share, viewable in Game Center
CITIES
Taipei (with New Taipei, Keelung and Taoyuan), Taichung, Chiayi (city and county), Tainan, Kaohsiung, Hong Kong and Macao
UNLOCKING
Taipei is free. Other cities, medium capacity and light rail, 100x speed, map themes and extra line colors each unlock permanently with one ad. Each city starts with one plan, and ads add up to three; one ad also lets every line add a short-turn or express service.
The Unlock all in-app purchase opens everything, with five plans per city, two extra services per line and no interstitial ads.
ALSO
• No timer and no budget cap
• Everything works without an account; sign in with Apple or Google to sync plans and achievements across devices
• Interface in English, Traditional and Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Indonesian, German, French, Portuguese and Spanish; street and station names appear in Chinese
Passengers and ridership are simulated estimates from map data, not real figures.
Metro Master is an independent game, not affiliated with Taipei Rapid Transit Corporation, MTR Corporation or any other operator.
Ratings & Reviews
- This app hasn’t received enough ratings or reviews to display an overview.
• Languages: the interface now also comes in Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Indonesian, German, French, Portuguese and Spanish.
• Custom services and express trains: add short-turn and express services to any line; expresses overtake slower trains at passing stations.
• Train allocation: set peak trains in one place, off-peak as a percentage, and split trains between services.
• Faster official scores: the more complex the network, the bigger the speed-up; scores still follow the game rules.
• Visuals: tracks drawn as elevated, at-grade or underground; new cinematic cameras such as Follow cam and Cab, plus an on-board station display; station names on line maps wrap automatically.
• New cities and rail: Chiayi and Macao; new plans can build the national railway and high-speed rail in one tap.
• Performance and saves: smoother long sessions, lower memory use, and large saves are compressed automatically.
• Account: sign in with Apple or Google to sync plans and achievements across devices; saves are no longer backed up to iCloud.
• Achievements and Home: adjusted achievement thresholds; cities now run north to south.
The developer, Youci Huang, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Location
- Contact Info
- User Content
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Purchases
- Diagnostics
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Youci Huang
- Size
- 13.5 MB
- Category
- Simulation
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 9 more
- English, French, German, Indonesian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese
- Age Rating
13+
- 13+
- Contains
Advertising
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Unlock all $4.99
- Copyright
- © Youci Huang
