Padge Plays! Indie Edition: Switchcars (2016 - Altfuture) Switchcars Game PC Gameplay
4Welcome to Padge Plays! Indie Edition
In this episode we are taking a spin in over 1000 vehicles while being chased through time itself by big green worm thingies in Switchcars by Altfuture! This is a roguelike. A procedurally generated vehicle roguelike to be exact, and I have absolutely NO IDEA why we are being chased through time and space by huge green worms that remind me of the sandworms in Beetlejuice but that doesn't change the fact that they're out to get you. I mean, if your walking down the street and suddenly a massive burrowing invertebrate with enormous teeth made a bee-line to you, you would run in the opposite direction. And if for some weird reason this lumbricus could keep up with your pace, or even OUTRUN you, you'd hop in the nearest car to speed away as fast as you can!
The time jumping thing though... I can't reasonably explain that to you... because worms.
ANYWAY, you have the choice of over 1000 different vehicles ranging from your run of the mill cars, to bikes, (both motor and pedal) boats, lorries, tanks, helicopters, commercial aircraft, combine harvesters, trams... well, you get the picture and you need to make it to the future to survive! Along the way you'll pass through different biomes varying from pastures, to desert, coastlines, jungle and even the arctic as you try to evade the ever present and ominous threat trying to munch on you.
How far do we get? Or more importantly, how many different vehicles can we drive?! Let's find out!
-- ABOUT THE GAME --
Switchcars is a vehicular roguelike arcade set in a broken spacetime. Escape alien beasts through procedural environments, using more than 1,000 vehicles. All you need to do is reach the year 2055. In theory.
You are probably not going to make it. Not the first time, not the second, but perhaps the 100th? Every round is different, and you'll get better over time, so crack your knuckles and show those alien beasts who's the master of vehicular arts, the ultimate escaper of Earth, the unintended interdimensional time traveler scientist-man of pure vehiculative efficiency! Or, get struck by a bus and try again.
Features:
New kind of gameplay:
Switch instantly between vehicles in your inventory to move as fast as possible.
1,000 vehicles:
Nearly all kinds you can imagine, all driveable, with different behaviors. There's a bit more than a thousand actually, and more is yet to come.
Procedural environments:
Forests, streets, ice plains, outer space, train yards, minefields - Around 100 unlockable types of terrain, diverse traffic to dodge, as well as more than 150 static scenery objects.
Time travel:
The playable years are 1950 to 2055. The point in time dictates available vehicles and environments, but also difficulty. Can you make it to the end and get an interstellar spaceship, the ultimate vehicle?
Vehicle upgrades:
Rocket-propelled motorcycle with caterpillar tracks and machine guns? Yes! There are 40 powerups that can be used on any vehicle, altering their performance and appearance.
Content browser:
Browse vehicles, lanes or powerups you've unlocked. See how many you haven't seen yet.
Immensely replayable:
Due to agile gameplay and procedural nature of the game, the rounds are always different, relatively short and unpredictable - in classic action roguelike manner.
High fidelity:
Crunchy crashes, distinctive and colorful pixel art, highly detailed sound and original adaptive music.
You can grab the game on Steam here:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/442210/Switchcars/
Alternatively you can snatch it on the Humble Store here:
https://www.humblebundle.com/store/switchcars
In this series I will be playing some well known and less well known games all the way from yesteryear through to the present, sometimes from consoles and sometimes from the thousands of PC games available either through websites such as Steam, Good Old Games (GOG), as abandonware, (Home of the Underdogs) or through emulation software. (Such as WinVice C64)
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