Tow Truck

Tow Truck is a top-down driving game about the most satisfying job in town. A yellow tow truck waits at the garage, and each of the forty jobs puts a stranded car somewhere on the map: a flat tyre by the river, a van stuck at the end of a cul-de-sac, a hatchback halfway up the steep lane, a breakdown in the middle of the bridge. Drive over, reverse until the hook zone meets the car's front, press hook, and the car lifts onto a visible hinge behind you.

Then the real driving starts. The towed car follows like a trailer: it swings wide on corners, cuts in on tight turns and jack-knifes if you reverse too sharply, and a hard bump can shake it off the hook, so you line up and hook it again. Bring it back through narrow streets, past parked cars, roadworks and cones, and finish by reversing it nose-out into the garage bay. Now and then a family of ducks crosses the road, and you wait for them.

Every job is quick, a minute or two, and earns up to three stars: no bumps, under the par time, and never coming off the hook. Later jobs send you out for two cars at once, at night with only your headlights and the street lamps, or in the rain, where braking takes longer. Your stars, best times and high score for every job are saved in your browser. Arrow keys or WASD drive and Space hooks; on a phone or tablet you steer bottom-left and use the pedals and the HOOK button bottom-right.