Truck-kun is Supporting Me from Another World might be the weirdest Steam Next Fest demo I've played this year, but I wasn't ready for it to so neatly blend together the vibes of going on a vehicular Grand Theft Auto rampage with arcade-style Crazy Taxi deliveries and objective clearing. Despite the cutesy, anime-style graphics, your goal is to use your delivery truck to wreak absolute havoc across your seaside town. But, for a good cause. Sort of.
In Truck-kun's opening, you, a hapless delivery truck driver, accidentally run over corporate marketer Carissa just before her big promotion. In the style of an isekai anime or light novel, though, that means she's transported to a fantasy world of monsters and experience points – but also that she's now haunting you. She has the chance to resurrect in time for her promotion, but only if you can help her cheat her way through experience points as quickly as possible. How? By striking down more pedestrians, turning them into low-level monsters she can instantly destroy. It's the circle of isekai.
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The dark premise clashes in a fun way with the vibrant, cutesy presentation that isn't a far cry from Katamari, but the actual driving action is more like Crazy Taxi by way of GTA – with a touch of The Simpsons Hit & Run – in how it rewards you for both making deliveries and causing chaos. It's an oddball mix, but I don't know what else I expected from developer Strange Scaffold (who also made I Am Your Beast, Creepy Redneck Dinosaur Mansion 3, and many more). Their demos are always well worth checking out – and our Steam Next Fest guide has more information about the ongoing event.
Given a time limit for each expedition, you have to juggle multiple goals across that limited time, though they accumulate into game-wide progress. Deliveries themselves work by driving into a circle and then following an arrow. Meanwhile, the bottom of the screen has RPG-style pixel art of Carissa as she slashes through any slimes, skeletons, or other monsters you 'summon', otherwise twiddling her thumbs if you aren't causing enough chaos.
More objectives stack up at the side of the screen, constantly refreshing, challenging you to drift, jump, or smash through objects to earn Carissa more experience points. Chaos is good, of course, but also brings heat, police cars chasing you down which can be boosted into or side-slammed to destroy them for even more points.
It's a deliberately overwhelming amount of information that complicates its simple premise, making it hard to even keep an eye on the ticking clock at the top of screen while you also have to monitor Carissa's monster slaying progress. While she can take care of business on her own eventually, you can also send her energy for a special attack that'll help her mop up a bunch of enemies in one go. All without crashing, of course.
The driving controls themselves are relatively simple. In my demo, I only play a few runs, but it doesn't have the same depth of tricks as Crazy Taxi. Still, combining drifts, boosts, and jumps still gives an arcade thrill, and it's offset by how many different objectives need to be kept in mind in addition to driving the truck. Considering I spent a lot of time back in the PS2 days ignoring my missions in GTA in favor of going on rampages to see how long I could last, it's great to see that feeling distilled down in an arcade style here. I'm not expecting the full game to get much deeper. It doesn't need to. This is a world that's pulling me back already – I just hope it doesn't fully isekai me. Truck-kun is Supporting Me from Another World?! launches on PC on July 29.
