Free driving and parking games

What are driving and parking games

Driving and parking games are about doing a job carefully rather than finishing first. You steer into a tight bay, pull a bus into a stop, back a towed car into a garage or ease a train up to the platform mark. Speed matters less than control: the score goes up for a smooth ride, no bumps and arriving on time. It is the kind of game you can play slowly and still feel good about.

The driving games on Kiloo use cartoon cars, buses, trucks, tractors and trains in bright little towns. Most have forty hand-built levels that start easy and get trickier, and three stars on each level for doing it neatly. Several of them steer like a real vehicle, turning as it moves and steering the other way in reverse. Alongside them sit three car park puzzles, where you think about the order of moves instead of driving.

Driving games to start with

Parking Pro is the place to learn steering: reverse into bays, slot in between parked cars and, from level 25, back a small trailer into place. A bump is only ever a dent. Bus Route puts you in a big red city bus with a long wheelbase, where you pull into every stop, let the passengers on and keep to the timetable. Taxi Dash adds a clock, with fares to pick up at the kerb and a patience bar to beat to the drop-off.

For jobs with a load behind you, Tow Truck has you hook a stranded car and tow it home on a swinging hinge, and Tractor Fields asks you to plough, sow and harvest every tile of a field before the diesel runs out. Truck Delivery is a side-view hill climb where the crates on your flatbed slide and tumble if you drive carelessly. Metro Driver gives you only a notched lever, and the job is to stop the train right on the platform mark.

If you would rather think than drive, Parking Jam has you tap cars out of a packed lot in as few taps as you can, and Car Jam is the sliding puzzle where you move cars along their lanes to free the red one. Traffic Tap puts you in charge of the traffic lights in a small town, waving the ambulance through first.

Steering, reversing and playing on a phone

On a keyboard the arrow keys or WASD drive, brake and steer. In Parking Pro, Tractor Fields and Tow Truck the down key reverses, and the vehicle steers the other way while it goes backwards, just as a real one does. In Bus Route you hold down at a standstill to reverse. Truck Delivery drives with the right arrow and brakes with the left, and the up and down keys tilt the truck for landings. Metro Driver uses up and down to move the lever and Space for the doors. P pauses and M mutes.

On a touch screen most driving games put the steering buttons at the bottom left and the pedals at the bottom right. The puzzles need only a tap or a drag: tap a car in Parking Jam, drag one along its lane in Car Jam and tap a crossing in Traffic Tap. Parking Jam has no clock, so you can take your time.

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