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) unintentionally hits a company girlboss named Carissa along with his truck, sending her to a Dragon Quest-inspired fantasy realm. To be able to assist Carissa return to the actual world, it’s essential to inflict as a lot cold carnage along with your supply truck as attainable. Truck-kun correctly doesn’t belabor the plot, protecting 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 attainable as a way to lengthen your run and gather stars. Within the top-right nook of the display, you’ll see a randomized record of challenges and rewards. These challenges are easy and diversified, like driving in reverse for 100 meters, hitting 5 parked vehicles, or delivering a package deal to a selected location on the map, within the vein of Sega’s soon-to-be-revived Loopy Taxi collection. The extra challenges you full on a given run, the extra stars and additional time you’ll earn. A default run gives you 90 seconds of mayhem, however as soon as I acquired the hold 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 last moments can really feel rather a lot like Katamari Damacy, the place you’re flailing round inflicting as a lot carnage as attainable earlier than the whistle blows. The driving controls are primary, but intuitive: you possibly can speed up, reverse, enhance, honk, and drift. You may as well 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 positive supply vans aren’t truly that nimble in actual life, nevertheless it’s a enjoyable gimmick that retains the motion full of life. You’ll need to get extra aggressive along with your driving the longer your run extends, as you’ll appeal to 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 inconceivable to decelerate for the occasional exact flip or supply. Should you get caught in a nook — or simply don’t need to hassle with making fiddly maneuvers — holding down on the D-pad will rapidly spawn your truck someplace close by with a bit extra wiggle room, which is a helpful quality-of-life function. While 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. Equally, while you hit objects like vehicles and avenue lights, you’ll replenish Carissa’s sword meter. When the sword meter is full, honk your horn to set off her tremendous assault and gather much more stars. With all of the chaos occurring on-screen at any given second, it may be simple to neglect to honk till you understand you’ll need to clear a collection of escalating milestones throughout all of your runs as a way 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 a number of mileage out of only one map, by various your beginning factors for every run and clustering dozens of particular object varieties in particular areas. Familiarity with that map will show you how to enhance on every run; for example, if one in every of your goals is to take out parked vehicles, you’ll need to zip towards a car parking zone, whereas should you’re on the lookout for hedges, you’ll need to head for the residential space.
Moderately than burrowing into the sport for hours on finish, Truck-kun is greatest loved in brief periods. Although it simply might have been slowed down by overexplaining its premise, Unusual Scaffold’s newest correctly retains the give attention to 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.
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