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Metro Master is #51 in Games Free in Taiwan and charting in 2 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 8 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperYouci Huang
CategoryGames
PriceFree
Released
Rating★ 4.8 (404)
Version26.11.5
Age rating12+
First seen by us
29 Oct 2026
29 Oct 2026Installs (est.)10k+ worldwide
🌟Featured by Apple🌟Featured by Apple📦Updated to version 26.11.5📦Now updating weekly⭐Passed 100 ratings🚀Now shown next to Mini Metro, Subway Idle, Subway Idle 3D +5 more📈Charting in a new country📈Charting in a new country✏️Description updated✏️New iPad screenshots
Full timeline · 28 events
- 🌟Metro Master featured by Applegames · TW
- 🌟Metro Master featured by Applegames · TW
- 🌟Metro Master featured by Applegames · TW
- 📦Metro Master updated to version 26.11.5• New cities: 20 new cities, 31 in total. Tokyo, Nagoya, Seoul, Busan and Singapore; ten cities in China including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen; plus New York, Chicago, Washington, the San Francisco Bay Area and Kuala Lumpur.
• City areas: Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Seoul and the Chinese cities can expand one surrounding city or district at a time, with population from official censuses.
• Challenges: all 31 cities have five challenges, each with its own leaderboard.
• Commuter rail and train length: a new Commuter rail type with trains of up to 16 cars; type and length are now picked in one selector.
• Layered networks: crossing underground or elevated lines are automatically moved to a different level; each section can be set to underground, at grade or elevated; interchanges can be laid out as a cross or side by side.
• Redesigned Stats tab: grouped into Riders, Transfers, Service, Revenue, Network and Construction, with a new estimated construction cost. Load is now called crowding, and riders are left behind only once a train reaches 200% crowding.
• Cinema view: film cities, districts, neighborhoods, lines, stations, trains and riders; following a rider shows where they go next; a new MTR-style on-board display, and a redesigned Taipei Metro-style ticker.
• Demand points: daily travelers at airports, ports, intercity rail stations and border crossings follow official figures; build a station nearby to serve them.
• Share links: sign in to share a link to your plan, so other players can preview it directly.
• Line colors: 23 common metro line colors, and any custom color with Unlock all.
• Supporters and wall boards: become a Supporter from the Account page and get a Supporter tag next to your name on leaderboards; or buy a wall board, draw a picture and put it up on city buildings for 7 days.
• Stability: if the system closes the app in the background, reopening it takes you straight back to the plan you were playing; large networks run longer, more smoothly and with less memory.… more - 📦Metro Master: now updating weekly4 updates in 30 days, after a quiet two months
- 🌟Metro Master featured by Applegames · TW
- 🌟Metro Master featured by Applegames · TW
- 🌟Metro Master featured by Applegames · TW
- 🌟Metro Master featured by Applegames · TW
- 🚀Metro Master: now shown next to Mini Metro, Subway Idle, Subway Idle 3D +5 morethe store's “similar apps” for it changed: who it's seen as competing with
- 🌟Metro Master featured by Applegames · TW
- 📈Metro Master charting in a new countryAustralia
- 📦Metro Master updated to version 26.10.31• Branch lines: a line can now branch off at any middle station and share its trunk track; services can run on the branch only, and branches, services and off-peak can be set to 0%. Branches also work in challenges.
• New cities: Osaka, Sapporo and Fukuoka in a new Japan section on Home, plus Hsinchu (Hsinchu City and County), expandable into Miaoli and Taoyuan.
• Leaderboards: sign in and open them from the Account page. Each city has Unlimited, Break-even 100%+ and Challenges boards showing the top 50 and your own rank; players who bought Unlock all can set an account name.
• Challenges: during a challenge, the Operate tab lists each goal below the four figures and shows whether it is met.
• Building: stations can now be as close as 100 m; tap a line name to rename it, or its color swatch to change the color; off-peak % is disabled when only 1 train runs at peak.
• Out-of-station transfers: two stations within walking distance now connect, shown as a dashed line on the map.
• Cinema view: new Overhead, Cab, Left and Right cameras; platforms show the next train in each direction, and the on-board display steps through the next stop, transfers and arrival.
• Staggered timetables: short-turn, express and all-stops services are spaced out; an express that catches a slower train follows behind it.
• Demand gaps: the Stats tab shows a heat map of people who still ride scooters or drive and cannot walk to a station, with light yellow arrows showing where they are heading.
• Achievements: new city achievements for Taipei, Hsinchu, Taichung and Chiayi; share achievements now need 5%, 10% and 20%, Every City Runs needs 5% in every city including the three Japanese cities, and the three quality achievements need a 5% share. Achievements you have earned are kept, and the Achievements page shows the figure you reached.
• More realistic riders and population: travel choices are tuned to each area's map, and population is now far less overstated in rural areas. Older plans are rescored under the new rules and some challenge goals are adjusted; achievements you have earned are kept.
• Home and Settings: on phones, swipe the city cards to switch cities; the Cities page in Settings now uses city cards that unlock in place; in-game settings have moved to the toolbox.
• Power saving: a new Power saving switch in Settings, which also turns on automatically in Low Power Mode or when the device is struggling. With it on, platforms show how many riders are waiting, in yellow where riders cannot get on, and the map is simplified to reduce heat.
• Notifications: notices, achievement unlocks and tips share one color scheme and appear in turn at the top.
• Account and sync: a new Account button at the top right of Home; the Account page lists plans not yet uploaded or downloaded, cloud saves you have not downloaded can be deleted, and a full cloud is flagged; when a new version is out, the game saves first and then reloads.
• Restore purchases: checks your synced purchases first, and shows Canceled in Settings if you cancel.
• Fixes: riders stuck at stations on short-turn and express return trips; platform queues that kept growing on short lines; Done not responding in the share preview; the last city card out of reach on tablets; occasional slow cloud sync on iPhone.… more - 🌟Metro Master featured by Applegames · TW
- 📈Metro Master charting in a new countryUnited Kingdom
- ✏️Metro Master: description updated· TW
- ✏️Metro Master: new iPad screenshots· TW
- ✏️Metro Master: new screenshots10 screenshots (was 8) · TW
- ✏️Metro Master added 7 languages+ DE + ES + FR + ID + JA + PT + RU
- ✏️Metro Master: app got bigger11 MB → 14 MB (+27%)
- 📦Metro Master updated to version 26.10.30• 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.… more - 📈Metro Master entered the top 10Top Free · Games · TW
- 📈Metro Master charting in a new countryJapan
- 📈Metro Master entered the top 10 on iPad · Top Free GamesTW
- 🆕Metro Master first spotted by AppInsider#105 in Top Free · Games · Taiwan
- 📦Metro Master version 26.10.27No release notes
- 🆕Metro Master released on the App Store
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Rating
4.8 ★
404 ratings
Measured
Best rank now
#51
Games FreeMeasured
New ratings a week
287
App Store, 4-week average
Measured
Metro Master at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-10-31. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
Metro Master is a free urban transit simulation game for players interested in city planning, allowing them to design and operate metro networks on real maps of cities like Taipei and Hong Kong with detailed passenger behavior modeling. The app currently ranks #3 in the Free Games category in Taiwan, indicating strong local traction shortly after its October 2026 release.
Similar apps: Mini Metro, Cities: Skylines II, Transport Fever 2
City Builder Realistic Modern long sessions IAP
#metro #simulation #strategy #urban planning #management #tycoon
Metro Master on the App Store
App details
App ID
6823047296
Publisher
Youci Huang
On the store since
Oct 2026
Under a year
Minimum OS
iOS 17.0+
iPhone XS and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad
Universal purchase · Game Center
Content rating
12+
Languages
10
EN FR DE ID JA PT RU ZH ES ZH
Size
14 MB
Also listed in
Simulation, Strategy
Metro Master downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Apple publishes no download counts. App Store downloads come from chart positions and daily rating growth per country, calibrated on Google Play install counts; lifetime installs from ratings worldwide × installs per rating. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where Metro Master's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
Retention · share of new users still active
Day 1
Day 7
Day 30
Time spent · per daily user
Average time spent Pro
min a day
Sessions a day Pro
Time per session Pro
min
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Business model: Ad-led
How Metro Master makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
Ads · 1 ad networks
Ads
/mo
of revenue
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Taiwan | GamesFree | #51 |
 United Kingdom | Games › StrategyFree | #196 |
Apps near Metro Master on the chart
Games Free, around #51.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Rating
4.8 ★
404 ratings
Measured
Ratings
404
Measured
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisNew ratings a week
287
4-week average
Lifetime rating
4.8★
recent stars not readable yet: new ratings are a tiny share of the total
Review momentum
77/100
faster than 95% of Games apps
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
What users say about Metro Master
From recent reviews.
About Metro Master
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
• In
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
• In
Latest updates
26.11.5
• New cities: 20 new cities, 31 in total. Tokyo, Nagoya, Seoul, Busan and Singapore; ten cities in China including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen; plus New York, Chicago, Washington, the San Francisco Bay Area and Kuala Lumpur.
• City areas: Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Seoul and the Chinese cities can expand one surrounding city or district at a time, with population from official censuses.
• Challenges: all 31 cities have five challenges, each with its own leaderboard.
• Commuter rail and train length: a new Commuter rail type with trains of up to 16 cars; type and length are now picked in one selector.
• Layered networks: crossing underground or elevated lines are automatically moved to a different level; each section can be set to underground, at grade or elevated; interchanges can be laid out as a cross or side by side.
• Redesigned Stats tab: grouped into Riders, Transfers, Service, Revenue, Network and Construction, with a new estimated construction cost. Load is now called crowding, and riders are left behind only once a train reaches 200% crowding.
• Cinema view: film cities, districts, neighborhoods, lines, stations, trains and riders; following a rider shows where they go next; a new MTR-style on-board display, and a redesigned Taipei Metro-style ticker.
• Demand points: daily travelers at airports, ports, intercity rail stations and border crossings follow official figures; build a station nearby to serve them.
• Share links: sign in to share a link to your plan, so other players can preview it directly.
• Line colors: 23 common metro line colors, and any custom color with Unlock all.
• Supporters and wall boards: become a Supporter from the Account page and get a Supporter tag next to your name on leaderboards; or buy a wall board, draw a picture and put it up on city buildings for 7 days.
• Stability: if the system closes the app in the background, reopening it takes you straight back to the plan you were playing; large networks run longer, more smoothly and with less memory.
26.10.31
• Branch lines: a line can now branch off at any middle station and share its trunk track; services can run on the branch only, and branches, services and off-peak can be set to 0%. Branches also work in challenges.
• New cities: Osaka, Sapporo and Fukuoka in a new Japan section on Home, plus Hsinchu (Hsinchu City and County), expandable into Miaoli and Taoyuan.
• Leaderboards: sign in and open them from the Account page. Each city has Unlimited, Break-even 100%+ and Challenges boards showing the top 50 and your own rank; players who bought Unlock all can set an account name.
• Challenges: during a challenge, the Operate tab lists each goal below the four figures and shows whether it is met.
• Building: stations can now be as close as 100 m; tap a line name to rename it, or its color swatch to change the color; off-peak % is disabled when only 1 train runs at peak.
• Out-of-station transfers: two stations within walking distance now connect, shown as a dashed line on the map.
• Cinema view: new Overhead, Cab, Left and Right cameras; platforms show the next train in each direction, and the on-board display steps through the next stop, transfers and arrival.
• Staggered timetables: short-turn, express and all-stops services are spaced out; an express that catches a slower train follows behind it.
• Demand gaps: the Stats tab shows a heat map of people who still ride scooters or drive and cannot walk to a station, with light yellow arrows showing where they are heading.
• Achievements: new city achievements for Taipei, Hsinchu, Taichung and Chiayi; share achievements now need 5%, 10% and 20%, Every City Runs needs 5% in every city including the three Japanese cities, and the three quality achievements need a 5% share. Achievements you have earned are kept, and the Achievements page shows the figure you reached.
• More realistic riders and population: travel choices are tuned to each area's map, and population is now far less overstated in rural areas. Older plans are rescored under the new rules and some challenge goals are adjusted; achievements you have earned are kept.
• Home and Settings: on phones, swipe the city cards to switch cities; the Cities page in Settings now uses city cards that unlock in place; in-game settings have moved to the toolbox.
• Power saving: a new Power saving switch in Settings, which also turns on automatically in Low Power Mode or when the device is struggling. With it on, platforms show how many riders are waiting, in yellow where riders cannot get on, and the map is simplified to reduce heat.
• Notifications: notices, achievement unlocks and tips share one color scheme and appear in turn at the top.
• Account and sync: a new Account button at the top right of Home; the Account page lists plans not yet uploaded or downloaded, cloud saves you have not downloaded can be deleted, and a full cloud is flagged; when a new version is out, the game saves first and then reloads.
• Restore purchases: checks your synced purchases first, and shows Canceled in Settings if you cancel.
• Fixes: riders stuck at stations on short-turn and express return trips; platform queues that kept growing on short lines; Done not responding in the share preview; the last city card out of reach on tablets; occasional slow cloud sync on iPhone.
26.10.30
• 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.
Store changes
What Metro Master changed on its store page: name, icon, screenshots, price, size, languages, requirements.
Description updated
New iPad screenshots
New screenshots
10 screenshots (was 8)
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