1. Finding it

Metro Manager lives on the Home screen — scroll down past your study cards.

The Metro Manager: Lagos entry on the Home screen — Tap the card to open the game.

2. The goal in one sentence

Keep every station below 100%. Black dots above each station show how crowded it is. If any station fills completely, the city gridlocks and the game ends. Your score is the total number of passengers you've cleared.

The How to Play dialog explaining the goal and the step-by-step rules — The rules are in the app — **How to Play** on the start screen, and the ? button in the top bar during a game.

3. Playing — tap, tap, train

The Blue and Red lines already have trains running when you start. You add the rest.

Tap a station. A green ring appears around it.
Tap a second station. A train starts running between the two.
Points arrive. The train clears passengers from the first station it leaves.
Repeat. Keep connecting as the crowds build.

The Metro Manager start screen showing the Lagos map with its coloured lines — The map before you start — Ikeja, Oshodi, Yaba, Mile 2, Marina and the Lekki corridor, on real Lagos geography.

A live game with the Blue and Red lines running, score and resources along the bottom — In play. Score on the left, resources on the right, emergency buttons beneath.

A station selected, with the prompt now reading Now tap the destination — One station picked — the prompt changes to *"Now tap the destination"*.

The completed connection with the score increased — Connected. This link took the score from 118 to 270 in one move.

Trains clear the station they leave. So connect from the crowded station, not to it. A train running back and forth clears up to 25 waiting passengers each time it departs.

4. What connections cost

Every new connection spends from the three resources shown along the bottom bar. You start with 3 tracks, 3 coaches and 1 tunnel, and earn more at score milestones.

Tracks — the rail itself. One per connection.
Coaches — the carriage. One per connection.
Tunnels — needed only when you connect stations on different coloured lines, or cross between the mainland and the island. You start with one.

Spend the tunnel. Don't save it. A tunnel is the only way to drain a station that has no same-line neighbour left to connect to, and those are exactly the stations that kill a run. Holding it back for a better moment is how the better moment never arrives — see the worked example at the end of this guide.

5. Unlocking new lines

Score opens up the map:

200 points — the Green Line opens along the Lekki corridor: Marina, Victoria Island, Lekki Phase 1 and Ajah, with an automatic train.
500 points — the Purple and Yellow lines open.

Each new line means more stations to connect and more trains running without your help.

6. Events and emergency buttons

The city interrupts you. Each event lasts 8–15 seconds; tap the banner to dismiss it.

Breakdown — trains may stall.
Rush Hour — passengers arrive twice as fast.
Strike — some stations stop producing passengers.
Festival — trains clear double passengers. The one to enjoy.

Three buttons on the bottom bar spend score to buy your way out of trouble:

Evacuate (50 pts) — quickly reduces crowding.
Express (30 pts) — boosts every train's speed for 45 seconds.
Clear All (80 pts) — resets every station to zero. Save it for a real emergency.

7. The study connection

This is a study app, and the game knows it. Every 400 points a quiz appears. Answer correctly and you earn tracks, coaches and tunnels — the resources you need to keep expanding. Skip it any time; there's no penalty.

The subject picker explaining that a quiz appears every 400 points — **Pick a subject** on the start screen chooses what those questions come from, so the game doubles as revision in whatever you're studying.

8. Gridlock, pause and resume

When a station hits 100%, that's the end of the run.

The Gridlock game over screen showing score, best, links, time, peak crowding and lines — Score, personal best, links built, time survived, peak crowding and lines in play — then **Play Again**, **Leave**, or share your score.

How this run was lost — and it is the commonest way to lose.

366 points, one link, and one tunnel still unspent. The station that filled was Yaba, at the end of the Red line on the mainland. Its only neighbour was Oshodi, already served, so no same-line connection could drain it — and passengers kept arriving.

The move was Yaba to Marina: different line, and across to the island, so it needed the tunnel. That is precisely what the tunnel exists for. It sat unused while the station it could have rescued filled to 100%.

The habit worth building: when a station's crowd is climbing and it has no same-line neighbour left, that is the tunnel's moment. Saving it for later means losing before later comes.

You don't have to finish in one sitting. The pause button in the top bar saves automatically. Come back later and Resume Game on the start screen picks up exactly where you left off.

Metro Manager: Lagos