Roundabout

Sep 18, 2014

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Mar 4, 2015

The two-man dev team at No Goblin created the most original, the most unique and the most crazy absurd thing I have seen in video game history – and it’s amazing. In the first few minutes of gameplay I was Georgio, the driver of a spinning limousine, en route to picking up customers with crazy missions. This limousine spins while you dodge traffic, hit a few pedestrians, and avoid other objects. The objective of the game is very simple: pick up the passengers at the big yellow stars and take them to where it directs you.

Feb 22, 2015

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Feb 23, 2015

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Nov 17, 2014

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Mar 28, 2015

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Sep 18, 2014

Roundabout is simply overflowing with personality, offering the best bad acting around and clever missions that even make the aggravating city exploration worth plodding through. Release Date: September 18 (PC), Early 2015 (Xbox One, PS4) Platforms available on: PC Developer: No Goblin Publisher: No Goblin Genre: Action, puzzle Not many people remember Kuru Kuru Kururin, an obscure launch title for the Game Boy Advance in Japan, Europe and Australia. It was a quirky little game about controlling a constantly spinning propeller through a series of increasingly intricate mazes and obstacle courses. The developers at No Goblin clearly remember Kururin, though, and for the studio's debut game have created Roundabout as a hilarious love letter to the handheld oddity. In Roundabout you play as Giorgio Manos, the world's first and best revolving limo driver. Yes, a revolving limo, and like its Kururin inspiration, that means piloting a constantly spinning death machine through a world that was meant to be driven in a straight line. Navigation is tricky at first as you become acclimated to the limo's spinning speed, but quickly clicks into place as you learn to take advantage of the rotation to squeeze between obstacles. Whether it's a loving couple awkwardly failing to make eye contact or someone speaking with a painfully fake accent, it is all made to look like amateur hour, but in a way that is too hilarious and expertly executed to be a mistake. Of course, as a limo driver the main focus of the game are its missions, which have you driving customers all over the city. Missions force you to take challenging routes through the city that will put your spinning and spatial relations skills to the test.

Oct 6, 2014

It's crazy how much effort has gone into the foundations of this tiny piece of Technicolor idiocy. It's also kind of noble, really.

Oct 7, 2014

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Sep 18, 2014

Roundabout works well as a short chunk of oddbeat humor and arcade-like gameplay. It's unapologetic in its goofiness, and it tells a fun story on top of its relatively unique gameplay. Sure, you can draw comparisons to the games that inspired it, but when was the last time you played an absurdist 1970s limousine game that was this much fun?