Each time I died when the finish line came in sight, my determination only grew. If anything, I only felt growing determination that this next time, I would reach the finish line. I never felt frustrated, no many how many times I slid off a truck or how many times I missed a jump. Normally, this is definitely not my type of game. And you cannot predict when and where the game-ending pile-ups will occur. You cannot learn where the boulders will roll. You cannot anticipate how the trucks will drive. Some have buildings that shoot missiles at you and the trucks.Īnd the worst part? As you die, die, and die again and again, you will realize that there is no pattern to memorize. Some have giant boulders cascading down the hill toward the truck caravan. Also, each course has a variety of obstacles aside from just the moving trucks. The big catch is that the ground is like lava, meaning you will die if you touch it at all. You start on top of an 18-wheeler, and your goal is to run and jump across a series of moving 18-wheelers to the finish line. The premise is as simple as the visual style. But none of that matters as you race and jump across the tops of these 18-wheelers in hopes to make it to the end of the truck line, just so you can try another heinous race across trucks. The shading and shapes of the trees and rocks are nothing to write home about. And yet, I refused to quit until I completed the level available in the demo.Ĭlustertruck, as you can see from just the image above, is unbelievably simple in presentation, even for a tinyBuild game.
This game is a formula guaranteed to make me and most likely several others rage-quit within minutes. The only element it was missing was horror, but I would have nooope'd out of that before the PR rep could have finished asking me if I wanted to try it.īut what Clustertruck does have is extreme pressure, parkour, platforming, insta-fails, no real room for error, and a race against certain death. It turns out that I was right, and it is indeed everything I avoid in a video game. Clustertruck, one of their upcoming titles, appears to be everything I avoid in games, but I tried it at PAX West anyway. Their games are often extremely simple and yet extremely addictive.
I'm a sucker for nearly anything tinyBuild publishes.
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