ClusterTruck

Clustertruck is a platformer game played from the first-person perspective. Across nine worlds with ten levels each, the player navigates to a designated goal by jumping across moving trucks with real-time physics that collide, flip, and tip over. During a level, the player may sprint or slow down time. Touching the ground or any obstacle triggers a game over.

Each world introduces a new obstacle; for example, the third world has ice that causes trucks to be slippery, the fourth world adds lasers, and the sixth world adds a boulder that the player must run away from. Clustertruck culminates in a boss fight in the final world. The player may earn bonus points by skipping trucks or remaining airborne, which can be spent on power-ups, such as grappling hooks, double jumps, speed boosts, air dashes, and a jet pack. The player can use the level editor to construct and share custom levels.

The development of Clustertruck began in 2015 and spanned one year. While traveling home from Gamescom in 2015, Wilhelm Nylund, the lead designer and CEO of Landfall, imagined himself escaping traffic by jumping on trucks to get home faster, inspiring him to develop the prototype of Clustertruck. New features were playtested and discussed within the team on whether it would be implemented. Building it in Unity, Landfall ultimately added power-ups and obstacles that passed.

After a few months in development, an early alpha build was released. During the alpha phase, playtesters discovered they could finish levels early by reaching the front of the truck line. They messaged the developers on Discord to make Clustertruck more optimal for speedrunning.

Clustertruck received scores of 76/100 on Metacritic for the PC version, 74/100 for the Nintendo Switch port, and 69/100 for the Xbox One edition. On OpenCritic, it holds a 50% approval rating.

Critics generally praised Clustertruck's gameplay, likening it to the children's game the floor is lava. Other reviewers commended how the gimmicks in each world and stressful gameplay kept it fun. Emily Sowden of Pocket Gamer noted the sudden increase in difficulty, stating that it is "brutal" and "unfair at times" but also "super simple to pick up" for any player. Nintendo Life's Gonçalo Lopes praised it for "masterfully" implementing a combination of casual and hardcore gameplay and giving the player choices on how to beat a level.