Star Trucker
Alice Bee:Euro Truck Simulatormeets Hardspace Shipbreaker, you say?
Thus you must float around the space highway patching up oxygen leaks.
They give you a call sign!
Honestly, that fact alone might make this my most anticipated of 2024.
It’s not actually a Mario Kart game, but it’s basically identical.
It’ll be a welcome reprieve from the busy show floor.
Even the animation for your teenager hauling themself up ledges instantly made me think of PoP.
Except it’s the future.
And you don’t have a sword.
And the few people you encounter are mind-controlled by an AI.
Movement is locked to invisible grid squares so precise placement motions are less important than timing and puzzle-solving.
Escape before this robot gets you.
Pass these cracked pipes without steam puffs murdering you.
These fights start easy, but get harder as the unicorns get larger and e.g.
grow blades for arms, and there are boss fights with e.g.
a giant jack-in-the-box spider-crab bear-thing.
Reasonably cute, but not really compelling.
Then it breaks into song, and all becomes clear.
You start off by grabbing and rotating triangular blocks to very slowly ricochet them off-course.
