Truck-kun is Supporting Me from Another World?!

Run over pedestrians as Truck-kun in a chaotic OVA-sized campaign, make deliveries, and defeat the Skeleton King across two worlds in this anime driving game with heart! Carissa Ward was all set to start her new job as the VP of marketing–until YOU hit her with your truck and transported her consciousness to a world of fantasy and magic! Rather than accept her fate in Truck-kun is Supporting Me from Another World?!, gathering a party and going on a journey of growth and self-discovery, Carissa uses all her knowledge of anime tropes and Japanese RPGs to find a different path:

Pressed into the service of the newly-incarnated buff anime elf, you’ll speed your magic delivery truck to complete objectives across two worlds in a focused and flavorful OVA-sized campaign, running over pedestrians, sending them to another world as Truck-kun, and helping Carissa power up a Galactic Gate with the stars you generate together. The Skeleton King waits on the other end of the great divide, and the only way Carissa is getting home is to take a Scroll of Resurrection from his weird, dead, bony hands. Good luck!!! Truck-kun is Supporting Me from Another World?! is a very quirky game about running over people to help your friend beat enemies in another world.

Very fun so far, with a lot of exciting possibilities for future updates. It’s goofy and interesting. The arcade gameplay makes it easy to pick up and play for a few runs whenever. Truck-kun is Supporting Me from Another World?! gives off old-school Crazy Taxi vibes with a little bit of Katamari mixed in. Given the premise, the game has so much potential for interesting mechanics. Hopefully, a Truck-kun 2 expands on them. For a game about a truck driver assisting the elf girl he isekai’d, the isekai aspect feels very lacking and seems lazily tacked onto an otherwise dull driving arcade game. The elf girl companion can be ignored completely while driving around aimlessly with no repercussions.

The developers could have made the isekai mechanic actually influence the driving gameplay, but instead it mostly serves as a way of filling out an arbitrary checklist. As for the driving, the controls seem pretty solid, although they take a bit of time to get used to, and crashing into things feels satisfying. However, driving around the same map and smashing into objects can only stay entertaining for so long. Because the isekai mechanic is so underdeveloped, there is very little sense of urgency or failure. A timer limits each session, and there is a checklist of objectives, but that alone is not enough to make the gameplay consistently engaging.