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Another day another demo from the creaking bowels of Steam to possibly pique your interest and prompt a helpful wishlisting. This time, I bring you Easy Delivery Co. Ostensibly, it’s a cozy, casual, and relaxing driving game about a delivery driver cat cruising about a mountain town in a pixel-y kei truck dropping off packages to residents. As good enough premise as any.
The once-lively company town has seen better days. Strange weather has swooped in blanketing the roads in a carpet of white, a now a permanent fixture in this bizarre little town. Worse yet, you’re an underpaid cat driving in freezing temperatures, swigging energy drinks to stay alert, and forking out for overpriced gas to get to the next delivery, then the next, and on you go. Then, there’s the driving, which is as erratic as it is fun, though expect to sling a few deliveries into the odd ravine as you skid and slip up and down mountain roads.
Driving is sketchy as you skid up and down mountain roads. Captured by VideoGamer
There’s something off about the town’s residents. Captured by VideoGamer
Easy Delivery Co. isn’t exactly a looker as it leans on that retro PS1 look that’s having a bit of resurgence in recent years. It’s all dreary snow and treacherous roads, and very grey with not much colour to catch the eye. I’m not exactly selling it here, but stick with it and Easy Delivery Co. flips into a curious mystery. There’s something a bit off about the residents. The weather feels unnaturally oppressive and there are strange lights flickering in the sky. What’s going on in this tucked-away little town? It’s odd and unsettling, a bit too quiet for my liking.
Developer Sam C playfully suggests that it’s a game with ‘definitely no secrets’, which definitely means it has secrets. The Long Dark and Animal Crossing are cited as inspirations, something that’s evident in the bleak, dreary atmosphere reminiscent of the former and the chirpy non-lexical dialogue babble of the NPCs that feels like a cursed version of what’s in Nintendo’s Iyashikei sim. An odd mix, granted, but it works here.
The main menu is a bit of treat, too, styled as a piece of rickety company software beamed onto a vintage TV screen with bent sides and an options menu where you have to double click on .exe files to access different options. You can try out the demo over on Steam right now. The full game is pencilled in for sometime in 2025.
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