Deliver food by matching items to orders, ride buses, and run through city streets with minimal interaction options and some broken gameplay features.
The game’s story centers on a young man whose father has gone off to war. With all contact lost, he’s haunted by nightmares and left uncertain about whether his father is even still alive. To cope and stay occupied, he takes up a job as a food delivery guy.
Each shift begins with a few new orders. Your task is to drag the correct food items into the delivery bag by matching them with the order. While the game allows you to make mistakes, messing up three orders results in serious consequences: you’ll have to restart the entire game. Although there’s an auto-save feature, it only activates at the end of a shift, meaning a mistake could cost you 30 minutes or more of progress.
Mistakes are common because the interface doesn’t show what you’ve already added to the bag, and there's no feedback when you drop an item in. On top of that, some orders may ask for items that don’t exist in the game, like a double cheeseburger or a chicken wrap instead of a chicken roll. I was positive I had the right order and still came with a complaint.
Although gamepad controls are supported, the keyboard and mouse setup is far more reliable. Gamepad input is often buggy, with noticeable delays, especially when using the in-game phone.
The phone plays a vital role during deliveries. It displays the delivery address, and also gives access to messages, a photo gallery, and a mini-game. The address helps guide you to the right bus number, the correct station to get off at, and the specific building and apartment.
Buses arrive regularly at stops, and you must board the one with the matching number. To get off at the correct stop, you need to listen for the driver’s announcement, which can be slow and drawn-out. You can kill time using the phone, but the mini-game quickly loses its appeal.
Interestingly, you can’t fail the delivery segment. Even if the option to board the wrong bus is presented, the game won’t let you take it. If you miss your stop, you simply wait for the next one. Finding the correct building is also easy, as only the right door is interactive. The only slight challenge is entering the correct apartment number, but a quick check of the phone resolves that easily.
Before reaching the bus stop, you’ll walk through the city, overhearing conversations about current events. You’re free to skip past them, though. Sprinting drains stamina, but it refills quickly. You’ll explore multiple streets, which may look similar, but contain small unique details.
Interactions in the city are minimal. Occasionally, you can pet animals, photograph graffiti, paint, or help someone, but these are usually hard to miss, as they’re triggered with on-screen prompts. A nice touch is that most signs and graffiti around the city come with automatic translations when you approach them.
Overall, the gameplay isn’t particularly thrilling and is very slow. You mostly run through streets and hunt for delivery addresses. There are several missable achievements, limited freedom to explore, and a handful of different endings, so if you’re aiming for 100% completion, expect to replay the game a few times. Sadly, some achievements appear to be buggy. I got “all graffiti” achievement after the first graffiti, and didn’t unlock the camera achievement even after taking one image. Because of broken order mechanic, you will also lose achievement for making every order right.
