You can navigate courses through the Steam client, but I’d like to see some better options for locating levels in-game. You can share these levels online, too! Steam workshop integration is awesome to have for a game like this, even if the menu is a bit convoluted. I even altered the skybox to look like grape Fanta, before realizing that was stupid. I put some towers in there and made a breakaway stone wall for a truck to crash through. Since I love dressing up my creations with random props, I created a small desert-themed test level with a bunch of cobbled-together mountains and randomly-placed cacti. You can setup scripted events, place props anywhere, and build whole new scenarios without ever needing to know a thing about game design. This tool is ridiculously easy to use and allows you to tweak nearly every aspect of the game to your liking. If you find yourself frustrated, you can always check out the level editor. No level is too long to make this a giant problem, but it is frustrating to have a run ruined by bad luck. Just because an AI path is laid down doesn’t mean the trucks will always react properly, so you’ll have instances where levels cannot be completed or your character will go flying in the wrong direction. Sometimes, the physics will hurt the level design. I love the simplicity on display, but I can definitely understand that some people would like an objective or a deeper connection to the game world. It works well for people with ADHD or a penchant for mechanic-based platformers, but can feel like too little for those who expect more out of their games. This plays like Super Meat Boy, but with some drunk driving. Certain levels will become temporary roadblocks for up to 10 minutes, but with the longest level being the very final one at two whole minutes, nothing is really that difficult. There are 90 levels in total, but you can breeze through the campaign in a little under three hours. They may help a bit too much, as a matter of fact. You never need the unlockable abilities, but they certainly help you with tough situations. This all works without screwing around with the basic gameplay controls. I went from being mildly entertained to flat-out impressed with how such a simple idea kept finding new ways to stay fun. The amount of creativity in the course design cannot be understated. One level will have the trucks periodically launched into the air one level will have the trucks driving over a spinning log-like structure yet another level will see you jumping through a boulder and landing on a truck in mid-flight.
You will encounter all manner of variations on the idea of speeding semi-trucks. This helps dramatically in the following levels, which swiftly avoid a regular formula and opt to go for batshit crazy. Things like double jump, air dash, slow motion, levitation, and some other neat toys are available. Thankfully, that isn’t the case.Īfter finishing the first world, you’re given the option to unlock different abilities to help your platforming. From those first ten levels, I thought Clustertruck was just a weird gimmick that would grow tiring quickly. The opening world is, honestly, disappointing. After dying a bunch of times in the first world, you’ll get the hang of how the game feels.Īt first, all you can do is run and jump, along with looking around the environment. That may be disorienting at first, but the way the physics work makes everything feel correct.
The game takes place entirely from a first-person viewpoint. Sometimes level gimmicks come up, and others times, it is just good old-fashioned platforming. You need to navigate from the tops of them to reach a goal in levels that have various obstacles obstructing your path. The main hook of Clustetruck is that you’re on speeding semis that have no regard for their own well-being. Developer Landfall Games definitely had joyous memories of “the floor is lava,” or it wanted to make Mirror’s Edge with autonomous, suicidal trucks.Ĭlustertruck (PC, PS4, Xbox One) Maybe they thought it was too juvenile or couldn’t think of a strong enough gimmick to wrap around that core idea, but I’ve never seen anything even attempt to replicate that childhood wonder. Somehow, developers never really adopted that into a game. Despite my parents not being in favor of my recklessness, I kept trying to up the ante with cushions around the floor and other obstacles. What that involved was basically jumping on furniture to avoid touching the carpet, which would “kill” you. As a child, I would frequently play games of “the floor is lava” when I was bored.
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