Can't Drive This

I played this game with 2 players. It's a cool concept but something was missing to make it enjoyable. It is too easy to backtrack if something goes wrong, driving back on existing tiles. There was also a strong incentive to drive as slow as possible, to let the builder set up the track, since the builder's camera is very finicky when nearing the edge of the view (the building cursor will jump back, making you put your tile somewhere unintended). It is also easy for the builder to discard difficult tiles to the side where we don't intend to actually drive. The game has other rough edges, like the "ghost" effect on the build cursor being too subtle (it looks too much like built terrain to the driver), the edge of the playable area coming as a surprise (you can't see it until it's too late), the truck often getting stuck in a tile that was built around it as it fell, etc. The tiles have also a surprising lack of variety: most of them do very little (wall of boxes, pylons, raised circle) and some of them being way too annoying (speed boost, push pin, wet camera effect). This feels like a great concept, and I think the whole idea of asymmetrical gameplay in party games is genius. But this feels more like a jam game than a $20 title. If you have more than 1 friend to play it with, consider buying it on sale, otherwise it is definitely not worth that kind of money.