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Minami Lane

Blibloop · Doot Tiny Games · 2024-02-28

SteamPlayStation Store

CasualIndieSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jul 08, 2025 (Xbox Series X|S), Jul 08, 2025 (Xbox One), Aug 15, 2024 (Nintendo Switch), Feb 28, 2024 (Linux), Feb 28, 2024 (Mac), Jul 09, 2025 (PlayStation 4)

Welcome to Minami Lane! Build your own street in this tiny cozy, casual management sim! Unlock and customize buildings, manage your shops, and maximize the happiness of your villagers to complete quests and fill your street with love!

Minami Lane is a Casual, Indie, Simulation, Strategy game released in 2024, priced at $3.34, with an estimated 200,000 .. 500,000 owners and an Overwhelmingly Positive (97% of 6628 reviews) sentiment.

12
playing now
97%
positive of 6.6k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
82/100
IGDB user rating (16 ratings)
2h
to beat · completionist 3.5h
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$3.34
steam price (US)

12 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 18:00 UTC (census sample)

Minami Lane is a 2024 management video game created by Dorian "doot" Signargout and Doriane "blibloop" Randria. The game tasks the player managing a street, where they can build various shops, buildings, and parks to complete missions. There is also a sandbox mode. It was released for Windows, macOS, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation 5 platforms. The PC version received favourable reviews from critics, while the Xbox Series X/S received mixed reception. The game's art style has been lauded, while the short length has been criticised.

Health check

Cooling
  • · 12 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 520 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~65/week).
  • · Review velocity down 43% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 5% of 9,678 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 133k–298k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 6,628 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$4.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $3.24 at Steam (2025-02-22) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 10 of 20 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
1.1k1.1k20242026Week of 2024-02-01: 160 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 1,064 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 296 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 227 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 440 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 609 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 220 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 185 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 105 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 368 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 290 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 186 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 229 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 229 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 86 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 79 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 189 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 127 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 144 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 67 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 82 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 95 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 83 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 91 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 53 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 58 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 74 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 53 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

6382026-08-07 00:00 — 21 players2026-08-07 08:00 — 18 players2026-08-07 18:00 — 35 players2026-08-08 02:00 — 55 players2026-08-08 10:00 — 32 players2026-08-08 18:00 — 50 players2026-08-09 02:00 — 41 players2026-08-09 10:00 — 40 players2026-08-09 18:00 — 63 players2026-08-10 02:00 — 25 players2026-08-10 10:00 — 22 players2026-08-10 19:00 — 31 players2026-08-11 03:00 — 28 players2026-08-11 11:00 — 16 players2026-08-12 07:00 — 12 players2026-08-13 14:00 — 29 players2026-08-14 22:00 — 29 players2026-08-16 06:00 — 18 players2026-08-17 13:00 — 21 players2026-08-18 21:00 — 11 players2026-08-20 04:00 — 12 players2026-08-21 12:00 — 15 players2026-08-22 19:00 — 29 players2026-08-24 03:00 — 9 players2026-08-25 11:00 — 8 players2026-08-26 19:00 — 15 players2026-08-28 03:00 — 9 players2026-08-29 10:00 — 10 players2026-08-30 18:00 — 12 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$4.99$3.242024-02-282026-08-172024-02-28 — best price $3.992024-05-30 — best price $3.992024-06-27 — best price $3.742024-07-22 — best price $3.992024-11-14 — best price $3.992024-11-27 — best price $3.742024-12-19 — best price $3.742025-02-22 — best price $3.242025-03-13 — best price $3.742025-05-28 — best price $3.992025-06-27 — best price $3.492025-07-10 — best price $4.992025-08-14 — best price $4.992025-10-06 — best price $4.992025-11-24 — best price $4.992026-01-05 — best price $4.992026-01-28 — best price $4.992026-03-26 — best price $4.992026-04-24 — best price $4.992026-06-07 — best price $4.992026-07-08 — best price $3.492026-07-23 — best price $4.992026-08-17 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

3332026-05-13 — 10 pageviews2026-05-16 — 14 pageviews2026-05-19 — 9 pageviews2026-05-22 — 13 pageviews2026-05-25 — 12 pageviews2026-05-28 — 15 pageviews2026-05-31 — 15 pageviews2026-06-03 — 14 pageviews2026-06-06 — 23 pageviews2026-06-09 — 13 pageviews2026-06-12 — 25 pageviews2026-06-15 — 20 pageviews2026-06-18 — 14 pageviews2026-06-21 — 11 pageviews2026-06-24 — 8 pageviews2026-06-27 — 18 pageviews2026-06-30 — 20 pageviews2026-07-03 — 13 pageviews2026-07-06 — 12 pageviews2026-07-09 — 15 pageviews2026-07-12 — 10 pageviews2026-07-15 — 17 pageviews2026-07-18 — 14 pageviews2026-07-21 — 8 pageviews2026-07-24 — 21 pageviews2026-07-27 — 18 pageviews2026-07-30 — 8 pageviews2026-08-02 — 10 pageviews2026-08-05 — 5 pageviews2026-08-08 — 14 pageviews2026-08-11 — 13 pageviews2026-08-14 — 8 pageviews2026-08-17 — 17 pageviews2026-08-20 — 14 pageviews2026-08-23 — 15 pageviews2026-08-24 — 16 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

20
achievements tracked
88.6%
earned "Welcome to Minami Lane"
41.7%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsDualShock Controller SupportDualShock Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

7 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Xbox Series, Xbox One (Xbox)4,15433%20
Steam (Steam)3,27032%20
PS4 (PlayStation)14064%21
Switch (Nintendo)1030%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

CozyCuteIndieCasualColorfulLife SimRelaxingStrategyStylizedIsometric

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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