TAXINAUT

宇宙でタクシー業務 使い切りアイテムと少ない賃金 せっかちな客と遠すぎる目的地 車混みすぎ チュートリアルがくどい やってて楽しくない Cab services in space Running out of items and little pay Impatient customers and destinations too far away Overcrowded cars Tutorial is wordy Not fun to play

I don't know what's happening here but I approve.

In my opinion Taxinaut is at the same time the dumbest and smartest game there is. At it's core we are talking about almost an arcadic like top-down "try not to hit obstacles while trying to hit waypoints" game. Picture Asteroids merged with stuff from Frogger, Caves of Qud, Elite and Elden Ring. You have your taxi, you fly it through places and try to avoid hitting other vehicles or whatever the flying things are, while also exploring places to get to know way points where you can take your customers. You can also pick customers and if they happen to know exactly where they are going, take them on board, try not to hit things and once you make it the the place, you'll make some money. Rinse and repeat to learn besides more places also about equipment, news, weird temples and other utterly strange aspects of the world you are in. Then you have some "quests", where you need to find out where the hell the you need to go, to progress the quest. Which yes, is again about going somewhere and trying to avoid to hit things while flying. Plain and simple. I'd say by the time I took a passanger to some distant system and we had to fly through a overly crowded customs check to be allowed to get the weird Cthulhu like customer to the destination, I began to understand the depth of this game. Yes, it 99,99999% about driving and avoiding ♥♥♥♥ - with some systems / planets being like seriously and brutally difficult places to move through, but maaan that can be so addictive that you just just keep on doing it over and over again until you succeed. About the world building yes... We are not talking about world building, it's a universe! Your starting location is just one planet in a system, in a whole freakin universe which again are filled with systems, planets and more weird ♥♥♥♥ to explore. Did I say that the visuals you probably saw in the screenshots above are quite unique? No? Well - they are. Its strange, its colorful, its simplistic - someone could even say ugly, but try flying through these viewswith the extremely odd soundtrack playing in the background and you kind of sink yourself complelety into this strangeness and find absolutely nothing strange at all. Not even when your ride robbs you of all your hard earned money, or even kills you. Kind of sad, but it happens in this world and after loading your last save you know not to take customers who have weapons and look shady. Live and learn, live and learn. There is a ton of things in the UI that would improve the user experience / lower the learning curve. Things like, automatic removal of duplicate bookmarks, or indication in a dialog option if/when you already know the answer, or make it more clear how far you are from your destination. Yep yep, but then again... in this game I kind of expect everything to be weird, hard and cumbersome. It fits the overall atmosphere - even supports it and makes it alive and addictive - you just want to explore the locations, the mechanics and so forth. It just works very very well Like said, this is the smartest and dumbest game I've ever played and I 100% recommend to try this out