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!
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Every market we collect.
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Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
About
Minami Lane is a small, wholesome management game set on a Japanese-inspired street. Create and manage your own street, make sure everyone is happy, and watch the villagers live their lives! Enjoy 2 to 4 hours of playtime, cute tanukis and lots of cats!
Build your street
Build homes to add villagers to your street, then improve their happiness by beautifying every inch and building a variety of shops & attractions! These include ramen shops, boba cafes, bookstores and more, each with unique inventories and effects.
Manage your shops
Attract customers with everything from floral bouquets to karaoke! Shops you create will need your careful guidance to offer the right products at the right prices. Lead them to success and make your neighborhood thrive.
Watch your villagers live their lives
Once you start the day, you'll get to see each villager react to your street and offer helpful feedback on how to improve! Memorize their preferences and refine your street the following day.
Reach your objectives
Complete missions to unlock new levels with more buildings, villager types, and other surprises.
What Minami Lane offers:
2-4 hours of play time
Create and customize your own adorable street
Manage shops by adjusting their inventory, recipes, and prices
Play strategically to complete each level's mission objectives
Keep the streets clean by picking up trash
Tanukis and cats!
What Minami Lane does not offer:
Hardcore strategy
Multiplayer
Tons of missions
New levels after release
In Minami Lane's missions, you'll need to strategically plan each day and use elements such as random events to your advantage to complete multiple objectives.
The sandbox mode focuses on creativity and relaxation, allowing you to immerse yourself in the peaceful, cozy world without the stress of objectives.
Minami Lane is the collaborative effort of Dorian (Doot), Doriane (Blibloop) and Antoine (Zakku). Doot, a former data scientist turned game developer, brings light strategy and management gameplay, while Blibloop breathes life into the isometric world with her Studio Ghibli-inspired, hand-drawn designs. Zakku adds the finishing touches with joyful, wholesome music compositions and soundscape. We really hope you will enjoy this tiny game we made with love 💕
Sums Steam only; PlayStation publishes no volume signal, so the true total is higher by an unknown amount.
| Store | Price | Audience | Score | Chart | Est. revenue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SteamYou are here | $2.49−50% | 6.7Kreviews | 97% | — | $1.1M |
| $4.99 | 99ratings | 92% | — | not modelled |
Matched by title — a reused name can pair the wrong games. * is a critic aggregate. Prices and positions are each store's United States storefront; Epic charts worldwide. Audience and Score too, except Steam's, which is worldwide.
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Reviews
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Reviews
Minami Lane is such a relaxing and laid-back little game. It’s cozy, simple, and just feels good to play without any pressure. Perfect for when you want to unwind and enjoy a peaceful gaming session. It may be a short game, but it has so much charm and heart. If you’re looking for something wholesome, relaxing, and easy to pick up, I highly recommend giving Minami Lane a try. Sometimes, a small game is all you need to brighten your day. ++Cats
Ok, this game is super cute and idk why I slept on it for so long. It's not as relaxing as it seems, there is a real sense of business acumen you feel after busting your ass though.
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Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 2/day in the week to Aug 5 → 4.14/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 26 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 7 places towards #1, and the 2,402 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
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All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
Languages: English*, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese*languages with full audio support
Hours played at review time, across 192 reviews with recorded playtime.
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Minami Lane is a short but very charming and cozy little game. I really enjoyed the overall design and the cute visual style. Everything feels warm, simple and pleasant, which makes it a relaxing game to play. One of my favorite things is definitely the cats! 🐱 I always love when cozy games include cats, and Minami Lane has plenty of them. They add a lot of charm and make the little world feel even more alive. The game is quite short, so you shouldn't go into it expecting a huge or lengthy experience. It was a fun little experience from beginning to end. Its short length actually works quite well for what the game is trying to be. Overall, Minami Lane is a cute, relaxing and enjoyable game that I would definitely recommend if you like cozy games, charming designs, cats and shorter experiences. It's not a massive game, but what it does, it does well and sometimes a short and sweet game is exactly what you need. ♥
Очень очень мило! Игра пытается в испытания, но у меня не возникало трудностей с дополнительными заданиями ни разу, это полнейший расслабон. В начале уровня задалбывает (но не сильно) собирать мусор, но когда заставите этого тануки - или как его там господи боже мой - убираться, игра сводится к тому, чтобы гладить котов и ловить велосипедистов. Вроде ничего не делаешь особо, но не ощущается скучно, так как дни длятся совсем мало, а после них следует прокачка зданий. Очень понравилась механика с рецептами (не очень правда поняла можно ли сделать идеальный рецепт и для стариков, и для молодёжи), и даже это потом облегчается с помощью тануки, хотя выписывать кто что хотел изменить в рецепте было забавно. Все здания улучшены, все коты поглажены, отличная игра!
A short cute little game. It’s not very complex so you get a hang of it pretty quick. Feels like a very polished flash game like Lemonade Stand style.
This is a good game. I enjoyed playing this while recovering from my arm surgery. Super cute and wholesome. It's a short game but you can also keep going if you wish.
cute little game w cute tanukis
Excellent petit jeu de gestion sans prise de tête, avec le bon dosage de défi et une esthétique que j'adore. Très mignon, super palette de couleur, ambiance sonore agréable. J'ai passé environ 4h30 sur le jeu... d'affilée, elles sont passées toutes seules ! J'aurais aimé plus de missions principales, mais j'ai passé un super moment et il reste le mode bac à sable. (Et ça vaut clairement son petit prix !)
Short, cute, and honestly quite relaxing. The music is nice, the gameplay is pretty straightforward yet not mindless, graphics are nice and colorful, and I will always appreciate a game that lets you pet cats! Well worth $4.99 in my opinion!
I picked this up during the latest Wholesome Games Festival, and I'm so glad I did! Minami Lane is a delight, a wonderfully cozy, casual management sim packed to the brim with charm. The art style is effortlessly cute, and the game does a fantastic job of naturally easing you into its different mechanics without ever feeling overwhelming. While customization options are a bit on the lighter side, it feels just right for the scope and style of this type of game. Don't let the cozy vibes fool you, though. It can be fun and challenging! The level mission objectives keep things engaging, and looking out for cute little surprises like the tanukis and cats appearing along the street is a great bonus. The first night I bought it, I ended up playing all night. If you're looking for a relaxing management sim with a lot of heart, definitely check out Minami Lane.
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