There are nineteen achievements and most of them are earned just by completing the various game worlds though some require a lot more dedication. While the main campaign is short-lived, there are achievements and the Steam Workshop to add more replayability. Personally, I kept it simple and found great use in the combination of the double jump and time slowing ability. These allow you to develop your own way of manoeuvring from truck to truck. However, you can only have one movement ability and one utility ability. There are many abilities from slowing time to grappling hooks to spawning a truck to just a simple double jump. As well as being used to show the world how much ‘style’ you have on the leaderboards, you can use them to purchase movement and utility abilities. I often beat levels with a bunch of style points from doing tricks and no idea what kind of tricks I did. How do you do tricks? Don’t ask me, I have no idea. How do you earn them? Well, you get some just for completing a level, more for completing it on your first try, more for getting big airtime and more for doing tricks. Throughout the game, you’ll earn style points.
If not for the merciless difficulty, it could easily be completed in around 2-3 hours max. If you’re no stranger to parkour games, it will probably take you even less time to complete. Clustertruck took me around five hours to complete, which is woefully short considering its asking price is £10.99. As well as that I found the final world, Hell, to be surprisingly easy save for the unexpected final boss. Sometimes, it would take me half an hour to beat a hard, arduous level only for me to go on and beat the next level in my first couple of attempts. Challenges that are far from easy to beat.Ĭlustertruck is a brutally difficult game, though admittedly, somewhat sporadically. Clustertruck’s level design is creative and constantly presents new challenges for you to overcome. As well as that, there are ten Halloween levels and ten Christmas levels which can be played through any time of the year. In total, there are nine worlds, each with ten levels and their own theme: Desert, Forest, Winter, Laser, Medieval, Ancient, Sci-Fi, Steampunk and Hell. These obstructions can be anything from collapsing scenery to swinging hammers from the medieval ages to colossal cogs that you are forced to somehow navigate your way through. There are countless hurdles in your path however.
You jump from truck to truck in the hopes of getting to the end and that’s pretty much the entire game. Make it to the goal without touching the floor or any obstacles in your way only trucks. The gameplay in Clustertruck is simple enough. They do have quite a similar premise if you think about it… Ever had the urge to relive that experience? To swiftly jump from object to object in grace? To fell the blip of enjoyment as your feet live the ground? To dodge lasers and explosive missiles once again? Oh, sorry, that’s Clustertruck. Moving from item of furniture to item of furniture in a frantic attempt to keep of the ground somehow filled our childish bodies with adrenaline. Remember that silly, yet enjoyable game you used to play as a kid, ‘The Floor is Made of Lava’? Looking back on it now, I can’t help feeling a certain sense of nostalgia, even if the idea itself is ridiculous.
Platform: Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac, Playstation 4, Xbox One