Truck Delivery

Truck Delivery is a hill-climb game where the cargo is the hard part. Your flatbed leaves the depot with a stack of wooden crates, and every crate is a loose physics box: floor it from a standstill and the top ones slide off the back, take a crest too fast and they float off the bed, land a jump nose-first and they tumble into the grass. The truck itself is chunky and forgiving, with two sprung wheels, a throttle, a brake that turns into reverse once you stop, and a tilt control for lining up landings in the air. Nothing breaks and nothing explodes: if you do roll it, the truck shakes itself back onto its wheels after a second with a comic wobble.

There are forty hand-built routes in five regions, eight to each, easiest first. The Meadows are rolling hills and a first wooden ramp, the Quarry adds rock steps and bumpy gravel, the Snowy Pass has slippery climbs and patches of ice, the Seaside road crosses plank bridges and jumps over sandy ditches, and the Night Road puts it all together under the stars with only your headlights to go by. Lost a crate? Back up to it and it hops right back onto the bed. Red fuel cans along the way top up the tank, and the gauge drops fastest when you keep the throttle pinned.

Every route has three stars: deliver every crate, beat the par time, and arrive with at least 40 percent fuel. Getting all three means driving fast where the road is kind and gently where it is not. A route takes half a minute to a minute, so a quick run always fits, and your stars and high score for every route are saved in your browser. Arrow keys or WASD on a keyboard; on a phone or tablet the brake and gas pedals sit in the bottom corners with the tilt buttons above them. P pauses, M mutes.