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The primary flaw of ClusterTruck is that it puts all its eggs in one basket. Namely what the game lacks is any kind of hook for a player looking for some depth in their gaming experience. There is nothing unnecessary or tacked on in this game, which doesn’t excuse some of the things ClusterTruck lacks. The word that best suits the style of ClusterTruck is streamlined. The menu setup is designed to get the player playing as quickly as possible. The art style and color pallet are fairly simple without being completely uninteresting. Everything about the game is simple and clean. The presentation of ClusterTruck is bare bones but not necessarily in a bad way.

Cluster Truck also contains a pretty fully featured set of track creation tools, which is a nice way to add replayability to a pretty small game. Mouse and keyboard is probably the best way to play this game. The game controls pretty well, if maybe a little swimmy with a gamepad. Add to that the fact that the whole game takes place on a chaotic mass of moving big rigs constantly bouncing, bumping, and crashing. What makes ClusterTruck fun is character mobility think Quake II movement speed with a higher jump – which is to say very very fast. The other control on the difficulty is the previously mentioned wacky, random, complexity of the tracks. Later levels would be practically impossible with only the default dash and jump abilities. This mechanic is part of what controls ClusterTruck’s difficulty curve.

These points can be used to purchase new character abilities, such as a double jump, air dash, or bullet time. As the game progresses, the tracks become complicated to positively wacky proportions, including jumps for the trucks, areas where the track falls away or long gaps with reversed or zero gravity.Īs players finish levels, they earn style points based off a number of factors like completion time or jumping on a crashing truck. While the trucks travel through the level, they naturally collide with one another or crash against obstacles, adding a random layer of challenge to each attempt.

These obstacles range from simple logs that need to be jumped over to sweeping hammers that will knock entire waves of trucks off the path. The player must attempt to reach the end of the track without falling off the big rigs or hitting any obstacles along the way. Every ten levels are collected in worlds distinguished by the style of their background. Each level of the game consists of several dozen big rigs which race down a prescribed track. ClusterTruck is essentially a first-person obstacle course that takes place on the roofs of moving big rigs. The gameplay of Cluster Truck is simple but fun. Whether the execution of that concept is fun depends mostly on how much players like first person platforming. ClusterTruck is an answer to the question: What if someone took that one Gang Beast stage with the trucks and made a game out of it? The game is wacky and filled with physics based randomness.