A few weeks ago, Indie developer and publisher tinyBuild unveiled six games that it has in production for the Switch, following on from the successes of Phantom Trigger and Mr. Shifty last year. One of the titles revealed was that of Clustertruck, an odd first-person platformer wherein you must survive by deftly jumping between crashing trucks hurtling down a freeway. Evidently, it won’t be too much longer before we get to give it a go, as tinyBuild just announced the game went gold.
As of right now, it just needs to make it through Nintendo’s testing and then a release date will be decided. To get fans of the studio excited, a video—which you can find above—was recently posted showing one of the developers playing on the Switch, and having a rather amusingly rough time of beating the levels.
We’ll be sure to give this one a review whenever it goes live on the eShop, but what do you think of the footage? Will you be picking this up? Share your thoughts in the comments below.
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This one isn't for me.
Looks incredibly tedious
So, let me get this straight, you jump from truck to truck?
Wow what a brilliant game <--- sarcasm
It's a lot of fun, might be one of my favourite games from 2016.
For a decent price , this could be a decent time-killer
It's a darn fun puzzle/reactionary game. I saw a lot of folks write it off on PC too, until they tried it.
@Bunkerneath Going by the reviews it received on Steam, it might not be a "brilliant" game but it's a very good one. It's rated 9/10 with over 3000 reviews. That video above doesn't do the game any favours though.
The only thing less enthralling than that video... was that game.
That video is indeed not doing the game any justice. Even more sad that it's from the developers itself. The commentary from the developer is sleep-inducing, and it shows only one level/world, while there is actually so much more variation available.
Now this video below, the first Switch trailer of it, is much more indicative of what you're going to get, and that is an over the top, hare-brained platforming game, that can be quite hectic and exhilarating at times.
Believe me: it can be fun, especially with friends around.
I also LOVE the name. I think they did a good job keeping the origin of the actual word it's based on pretty clear, so it's not fubar...
I really like the look of this game. Very clean, pacey and the ensuing chaos doesn't look like it obstructs your line of sight (That would have killed the game tbh). Good stuff. Will wait for a review to see how it handles.
@ThanosReXXX Well done for going the extra mile and posting that trailer.
You're right, it does look better, and I can see the potential, but still for me the environments these trucks are traveling through look too abstract to me. I'd like them to look more like highways, towns, villages, mountain roads etc.
@gcunit I can understand that it comes across as such in a first impression, which of course IS important, but once you're playing it, you're going to forget all about that in like, 30 seconds.
It's supposed to be a little abstract: that's the aesthetic they were going for. It's a sort of simplified cell-shading. If we're going to dissect it and look for all the things that are missing, then we could also say that they're not really trucks, because the wheels and the drivers seem to be missing, so it's basically just floating containers...
But keeping that abstract style in mind, they still managed to get the whole convoy feel, and traveling across roads. I mean, there's canyons, ice roads, valleys, bridges, deserts and so on. There aren't any road markings to make it all neat and tidy and more real world-like, but I guess that wasn't what they were going for, and it seems to work just fine, both for me and a lot of other people, looking at the reviews and scores the game is getting...
That's actually a very fun game. Had it on ps4
Every developer who makes a game where you are expected to retry a lot should put this much effort on fast loading times. Kudos to them. This game is now on my radar just because of this.
@nab1 I agree with you. Been a pet hate of mine for years.
Looked really fun in SGDQ 2017.
Looks like great fun if it runs smoothly
Clustertruck is a well designed and very fun, if thoroughly glitchy and buggy game.
Looks like it could get very frustrating. Though I do love the look of the double jump, you've got to love a double jump.
I saw Screw/Gameattack play this, it looked a lot of fun.
What can I say: The game IS a clustertruck. They speak the truth.
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