Roundabout

released on Sep 18, 2014

Drive a constantly spinning limousine around town! Roundabout is a '70s B-Movie game where you pick up passengers, find secret collectibles, take on dangerous missions, and fall in love in a far out open world puzzle adventure - all while driving a revolving limo!


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Arguably the best game ever made

Roundabout, despite its breezy tone and graphics, is a complicated game. At one moment you may find yourself coolly in tune with the revolving mechanic and knocking past levels like it ain't no thing, but in the next, frustratingly smashing against the environment in an attempt to make a fractional amount of progress. However, the difficulty here may lie in the player's patience (or lack there of) and nothing tangibly related to the game. The bad FMV is, well, bad, but enjoyably so.

It was fine. Ngl doing a more open take on the kuru kuru kururin gameplay formula is pretty ingenious, but once they added a jump button that allows you to just not engage with the spinning mechanics plus the less-than-stellar hit detection means I felt kinda disengaged playing it compared to actual kururin. The characters and goofy FMV have their own kind of humor that either will or won't click. The writing didn't super click with me and the low budgety FMV nature felt less like a B-movie and more like some high school media project or limited run E3 showcase, idk the whole zero-budget style trope has kinda lost its luster to me. Beth hard carries the entire narrative, it's not even funny. That all being said, it did seem like the developers had a lot of fun making the game and I can't really hate it so yeah. It exists!

(oh and if you are so inclined to want the platinum trophy for this game, I hope you like desert bus)

Who snuck a cute romance story into my spinning limo skeleton murder game?

Finally, the goofy edition of Kuru Kuru Kururin.