"Small Street makes up for its slow gameplay with amazing originality and cuteness."
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Small Street puts you in the shoes of the manager of an entire shopping street. A shopping street filled with cute little puppets jumping around and going to work just for you. By navigating through menu's and clicking on buttons you construct buildings from the ground up and set up stores and manage the stocks. By hiring puppets and giving them a home to live in (they will pay you rent!) you will acquire money which you then can invest to expand your street with more buildings. These facilities range from sauna's to sunglasses shops.
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Shiny.. Taxi..
There's also the taxi that you control in real-time with two buttons. You bring new immigrants to their designated home place by driving the taxi through your two-dimensional shopping district. Even though the game has much to offer, with features varying from achievements to custom rooftops - it soon loses it magic. The experience gets repetitive and when you build too much buildings the game starts to lag on you. The beautiful design and quirky sounds make up for a part of it, but not nearly enough to make it as lasting as the apps' popularity would like you to believe.
The game offers a new taxi for you to buy with credit - this one being much faster than the original one. The original one, who can be used by free users, is used a lot in the game. To complete certain quests you'll have to finish twenty taxi drives. With the normal speed this could take you fifteen minutes, which is way too long for such a repetitive routine. Not to mention the long waiting periods before your buildings are finished or the disappointing amount of money earned for such long times. It's up to you. Small Street can be enjoyable, but if you really want to get a nice kick out of it you'll probably have to pay up a bit. Luckily, though, the app gives players the option to earn credits for free by offering other games that you can get for free.