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GRIDROAD
GRIDROAD is a traffic optimisation puzzle/simulation game. Build roads, place road markings and tweak traffic lights to build the most efficient traffic junction!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via SteamSpy as of 2026-05-14.
“A properly good simple game, with nice interface and easy mechanics to grasp. Addictive to the point where if you are a perfectionist, this is dangerous but a great game for spending a bit of time logically thinking about getting cars going as smoothly as possible. Hopefully…”
— a player, Steam review · 49 hrs played“I was really bad at this game so I went and worked in traffic signals for four months still really bad at this game 8/10”
— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs played“It's a mind-bending game, and it took me quite a while to complete it, but I enjoyed it somewhat. I even got into the music, which gets annoying after just five minutes. The only thing that really got on my nerves was the fact that sometimes I had to create silly routes and…”
— a player, Steam review · 71 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-08-02 20:21 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Latest official news
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Japanese, Chinese and Russian Support added - GRIDROAD v1.05
- Added basic support for Japanese. - Added basic support for Chinese(simplified). - Added basic support for Russian. Language support is a little bit basic for now as some key UI elements still need
GRIDROAD v1.04 - AI tweaks and WASD road marking placement
Changelog - Tweaked the car AI. Throughout the game's development I've been caught between two crowds. One crowd wants cars to behave realistically and not crash, the other likes a more arcadey AI tha
GRIDROAD v1.02
Changelog - Added the level "Henge". This is a slightly modified version of the removed "Woods" levels. - Removed some old achievements that are no longer obtainable (thanks for the reminder). - Enabl
GRIDROAD v1.01a Hotfix
Changelog - Exit button and mute button now work in the tutorial (thank you for the feedback) - BUGFIX: Fixed an issue in the dutch tutorial where a textbox was displaying when it shouldn't have been.
GRIDROAD v1.01 German + Dutch partial translations
Changelog - Added a partial German translation - Added a partial Dutch translation The translation will be completed next week but for now the tutorial and start screen have been fully translated. A h
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Screenshots
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Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-14.
| Genres | Indie, Simulation, Strategy |
| Player tags | Simulation · Strategy · Transportation · Puzzle · Building · Logic · City Builder · Score Attack · Grid-Based Movement · Colorful · Indie · Singleplayer (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Cloud · Steam Leaderboards · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, German, Dutch, Japanese, Russian, Simplified Chinese |
| Achievements | 35 |
| Estimated owners | 20,000 – 50,000 (SteamSpy) |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 7+ Processor: 2 GHz or faster processor Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: Shader Model 4.0 Storage: 90 MB available space