by David RodriguezFrom the brilliant independent minds of Strange Scaffold comes their next adventure, Truck-kun is Supporting Me from Another World?! It’s a tough call as to whether or not this is the wackiest pitch that dev team has surfaced in their time. Hell, they just released Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator earlier this year! Let’s just say it’s the wackiest one with an anime aesthetic and vehicular manslaughter.
Yes, it’s true, all the Carmageddon heads can come out of the woodwork for this one because, despite its much cleaner and less edgy tone, this game is for y’all. You, a humble delivery driver, pancake Carissa Ward, an aspiring career woman with a VP job lined up, and isekai her into a fantasy world of monsters, swords, and scrolls with your magic truck. You two need to work together to set things right and get her back home in time for work on Monday.
You do that by, what else, bulldozing as much of the city of Wenvale, USA as possible. Hit – not kill! – pedestrians to isekai them as well, making monsters for Carissa in her new buff elf lady form to fight. Collide and send objects like cars, street lights, boxes, whatever into Carissa as fighting spirit to charge her ultimate attack and slay foes in the fantasy realm. Finding a balance between what to hit is key to making the most of your time, but watch out, you’re not doing it without issue.
Cops are, understandably, a little curious about all the wanton destruction and will try to slow you down as you build heat level up, similar to a GTA game. You can bump their cars out of your path with a swift sideswipe or a straight-on boost directly into them. You also have to, you know, keep doing your job as a deliveryman to retain a shred of inconspicuousness, and you do so by picking up packages at location A and rocketing to location B for completion.
How does it all work? Remarkably well! Strange Scaffold’s charm and superb writing are front and center with the backstory and interactions between the driver and Carissa. She is rightfully pissed about the whole situation even though she’s effectively living the dream of her nerdy fantasies, and he’s a groveling mess concerned with the ramifications of his truck isekai-ing. Are the people he hits with his truck dead? Can they be brought back?! Only time will tell. Drift, bash, and U-turn your way to victory to find out.
The gameplay loop is fun and mercifully lax. You do timed runs of driving recklessly, yet surgically through the city, destroying things, jumping huge ramps, boosting, and completing objectives that range from something as easy as drive forward or backward for five seconds, to crashing into a billboard. You do all of this – and feed Carissa isekaied pedestrians – to get stars, which are used to meet milestones, which are used to progress the story. The cool part? There’s no particular pressure to meet a certain goal or star number in a single run – you get to retry as much as you want! The time limit to each run is presumably to create some segmentation, reset the world, and also perhaps foster some leaderboard/personal goal pursuing for those invested in that, but that’s about it.
Driving does take some getting used to. Your truck controls like a truck – boxy, heavy, but also sensitive and touchy to fit the cartoonish mayhem. Going from Forza Horizon 6 to this is weapons-grade whiplash, but once you get the hang of it, it’s good arcade-esque fun. The art is colorful and pristine, the gameplay and premise beckon comparisons to games like Crazy Taxi, the Katamari series, another indie darling, Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom, and yes, I didn’t forget about you, Carmageddon fans. No gore here, but you still get to pulverize people into non-existence. Good enough? This is worth checking out for the absurdist anime slant alone.
You can support Carissa yourself in the demo for Truck-kun is Supporting Me from Another World?! right now. Visit its Steam page to wishlist and download the demo right now. The game launches on July 29, 2026 on Steam and XBOX Series X|S!
Truck-kun is Supporting Me from Another World?!
