GTA meets Loopy Taxi within the weirdest new recreation of 2026

Rockstar’s extremely anticipated Grand Theft Auto 6 is a bit more than three months away from its Nov. 19 launch date. Whereas we’ve seen a few cinematic trailers, we nonetheless haven’t seen any official gameplay footage of 2026’s largest recreation. Should you’re itching for a little bit of free-wheeling vehicular manslaughter within the meantime, Truck-kun is Supporting Me from One other World?!, from developer Unusual Scaffold, is right here to fill the void.

Sure, the title is a mouthful. However the premise behind Truck-kun is definitely fairly easy. A humble supply driver (Driver, that’s you) by accident hits a company girlboss named Carissa together with his truck, sending her to a Dragon Quest-inspired fantasy realm. So as to assist Carissa return to the actual world, you’ll want to inflict as a lot cold carnage along with your supply truck as doable. Truck-kun properly doesn’t belabor the plot, retaining the banter between Driver and Carissa temporary and snappy.

Don’t get too slowed down within the isekai of all of it; the purpose of Truck-kun is to crash into as many issues as doable in an effort to prolong your run and acquire stars. Within the top-right nook of the display screen, you’ll see a randomized record of challenges and rewards. These challenges are easy and different, like driving in reverse for 100 meters, hitting 5 parked vehicles, or delivering a bundle to a particular location on the map, within the vein of Sega’s soon-to-be-revived Loopy Taxi sequence. The extra challenges you full on a given run, the extra stars and additional time you’ll earn. A default run offers you 90 seconds of mayhem, however as soon as I received the dangle of the controls and have become aware of the map, my runs averaged between 5 and 7 minutes. When a siren sounds to warn you there’s only one minute left, these frantic remaining moments can really feel quite a bit like Katamari Damacy, the place you’re flailing round inflicting as a lot carnage as doable earlier than the whistle blows.

The driving controls are fundamental, but intuitive: you’ll be able to speed up, reverse, increase, honk, and drift. You can even sideswipe close by objects by urgent the shoulder buttons, zooming instantly perpendicular to the left or proper out of your present place. I’m fairly certain supply vehicles aren’t really that nimble in actual life, however it’s a enjoyable gimmick that retains the motion energetic. You’ll should get extra aggressive along with your driving the longer your run extends, as you’ll entice extra police consideration as you mow down folks and objects. It provides a whiff of GTA-like motion to the proceedings, though it’s extra foolish than overtly violent.

The choices menu permits for some slight changes to steering sensitivity and has an auto-accelerate toggle, although the latter appears to create extra issues than it solves, making it unattainable to decelerate for the occasional exact flip or supply. Should you get caught in a nook — or simply don’t need to trouble with making fiddly maneuvers — holding down on the D-pad will shortly spawn your truck someplace close by with a bit extra wiggle room, which is a useful quality-of-life characteristic.

Once you drive into toddling pedestrians, they’ll be despatched to Carissa’s fantasy world within the type of slimes, dragons, and skeletons to struggle. This performs out in a side-scrolling minigame on the backside of the display screen. Equally, whenever you hit objects like vehicles and road lights, you’ll replenish Carissa’s sword meter. When the sword meter is full, honk your horn to set off her tremendous assault and acquire much more stars. With all of the chaos occurring on-screen at any given second, it may be straightforward to overlook to honk till you notice you’ll should clear a sequence of escalating milestones throughout all of your runs in an effort to progress. Early on, you’ll hit these targets just by goofing round in your truck. However later milestones can really feel extra grindy, like getting 25 stars in a single run or boosting 12,500 meters.

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Truck-kun is Supporting Me from One other World?! is a compact expertise, with a runtime of about 4 to 5 hours. The sport will get quite a lot of mileage out of only one map, by various your beginning factors for every run and clustering dozens of particular object sorts in particular areas. Familiarity with that map will assist you to enhance on every run; for example, if considered one of your aims is to take out parked vehicles, you’ll need to zip towards a parking zone, whereas in the event you’re searching for hedges, you’ll need to head for the residential space.

Quite than burrowing into the sport for hours on finish, Truck-kun is greatest loved in brief classes. Although it simply may have been slowed down by overexplaining its premise, Unusual Scaffold’s newest properly retains the concentrate on arcade hijinks. Whereas I’d have liked one other map or two to discover, there’s loads of good, dumb enjoyable available right here for underneath $20.

Truck-kun is Supporting Me from One other World?! is out now for Home windows PC and Xbox Sequence X. The sport was reviewed on Xbox Sequence X utilizing a obtain code supplied by Unusual Scaffold.