It's really quite interesting how, in a time when big-budget live-service games do everything they can to get you to keep playing them (and, importantly, spending money on them), a kind of spiritual antithesis emerges from this – games where you just hang out with a few friends, doing stupid stupid things that don't cost very much. Deadly companyPeak, you know what games I mean, and yesterday there was a new one that I really liked: RV There Still?
First of all, thanks for this title, developer Nuggets Entertainment, just a pun for all time. In an RV There Yet? you and a few other friends play as what I can only describe as “a guy who thinks going camping in an RV in the middle of nowhere is a good time.” The idea is pretty simple: your vacation is over, you try to drive home, but, oh, the route you were on is closed, so you have to find another way back, and the hijinks begin!
This could mean getting out of your van and pushing or pulling on the air to indicate that you need to reverse or move forward, changing a tire, smoking a cigarette, using a pulley system to lift your van, fighting off a wolf, grilling frozen meat patties, playing a cassette with age-inappropriate tunes. Dad, basic things! Not to mention the most important main function – “hats”.
It is possible that R.V. Is there still? ends up being just another log in the Friends fire, but I'm really interested in seeing how the core concept of “four friends goofing around” is explored. Multiplayer games don't usually appeal to me due to their often competitive nature, and while I don't have time for every single co-op game under the sun, it's nice to see online games taking a different approach. Like Peak before this, R.V. Already there? was created during a game jam and once again shows how limitations can often lead to great results.
Can you still pick up the van there? on Steam Now.
