Double Fantastic’s first sport post-Xbox cut up is a goofy bus driving sim all about slapping passengers who do not comply with the principles and doing job

It has been a few months since Double Fantastic parted methods from Xbox, and so they’ve been busy attending to work since that cut up. There’s that sport jam Kickstarter they just lately launched that has Brutal Legend 2 as a stretch goal (simply ignore the truth that stretch aim is $100 million). And now, the as soon as once more indie studio has introduced their first sport post-Xbox: Thank You Bus Driver, a really foolish job sim the place you drive passengers to their locations, and slap them in the event that they break the principles.

You all not less than have a fundamental understanding of how bus sims work, proper? You drive them round, cease to cease, selecting up and dropping off passengers wherever they should go. Thank You Bus Driver is rather like that, besides there are guidelines your passengers must comply with. Guidelines like no sleeping. Or no toenail clipping. Or no pungent! So what do you do if anybody driving the bus breaks these guidelines? Nicely, you slap ’em after all! That is the place the goofy however charming pressure comes into play.

See, you do must get to every cease inside a sure timeframe, a timer on the dashboard counting down in direction of your failure. However slapping the passengers means continually checking behind you to ensure they’re following the principles. Conveniently, there’s a rearview mirror to regulate everybody, however you do want to show round to enact your slap, that means that you would, after all, crash into oncoming visitors. So the steadiness comes from retaining everybody in test whereas additionally getting from cease to cease in good time. On high of all this, new guidelines can get added at random, so you will must be in your guard the entire time.

And you will wish to accomplish that, too, as the higher you do the extra thank yous you get, and the extra time it’s a must to get to the subsequent cease. On high of that, you may get little tchotchkes on your dashboard, city variants to discover, and “extra!” It is all fairly pleasant, and whereas it does not have a launch date simply but, you’ll be able to wishlist it on Steam here.

Because the announcement for Thank You Bus Driver got here in, studio head Tim Schafer additionally took half in an interview with Bloomberg digging into the method of splitting from Xbox. When Schafer caught on that there was an opportunity the studio may be shut down, after a bout of distress his subsequent thought was, “Nobody places Double Fantastic out of enterprise aside from me. [Xbox CEO] Asha’s not going to shoot my canine. I’m going to shoot it. However I’m not going to shoot it as a result of it’s going to do nice. Lots of people wish to stroll the canine.”