Developer: JW, Kitty, Jukio, Dom
Publisher: Devolver Digitial
Rrp: £2.09 or £7.19 or £15.49 (all of them on Steam) and $2.99 + (Itch.io)
Released: 18th February 2021
Available on: Steam and Itch.io
Played Using: An Xbox One Control Pad
Approximate game length: An hour, maybe two.
Now you may be looking at that pricing structure there and wondering what the hell is going on. No, I didn’t mistype or forget to add any other stores that this game is sold on. The pricing structure is like that because all the proceeds to the game go to charity so if you buy it on Steam any one of those prices will get you the game, and regardless of how much you choose to pay you’ll get the same game with no added extras.
As you may have also noticed I didn’t specify what charity the proceeds from the games purchase go to. That’s because the developers change the recipient charity at will and I can’t find any way to see what charity it’s currently supporting. This particular decision has garnered some ire since for all you know you could be putting money toward something you don’t wish to support.
Anyway, enough about that, lets talk about the game itself. Putting it simply, this game is an endless runner, though it’s not actually endless as you do reach an end point… Alright a better way to explain it is that you complete laps, the laps themselves are endless but every time you finish a lap you’ll see the credits (which are very fast and also skippable). But this is one endless runner that has a bit of a twist, there’s a timer, you have ten seconds to reach the end and when that countdown hits zero you die. Did I mention it takes around two minutes to reach the end? Sounds impossible, right? And it is… at first. However, between attempts you can visit a shop to buy upgrades with the coins you collected, like an upgrade that gives you an extra second for each coin collected, or a small turbo boost when you hit a trashcan.
There are some other things to do while racing, lots of little secrets to find like delivering a pizza or getting the cops to chase you. Just don’t expect anything ground breaking or any kind of story, there really isn’t one at all.
Call me a skinflint if you want but I paid the lowest amount for the game, I sadly don’t get paid for reviewing games and I can’t generally justify spending a lot on them (especially when I already have so many). What I can say is that this game is great, I had a lot of fun with it even for the short time it lasted.
If this appeals to you perhaps try;
Minit
