This game might have the worst name ever, but it's actually pretty fun
Data suggests that approximately 18 trillion new games are released on Steam every day. It's difficult to stand out, so it makes sense that developers have gone absolutely bananas with videogame names lately. Case in point: a game called Bananaguy(opens in new tab) came out today, and this week also saw the debut of Pong Pong Crows(opens in new tab), I Commissioned Some Dogs 2(opens in new tab), Dickland: Tower Defense(opens in new tab), KILLBUG(opens in new tab), and a number of adult games that I'm not comfortable sharing with you, dear reader.
Throwing together random words and calling it a Steam page seems to be a working strategy. Still, I submit that the worst game name to appear on Steam this week, or maybe ever, is Jected — Rivals(opens in new tab), a free-to-play early access arcade racer that's actually pretty fun.
The «jected» part of the name is an unfortunate shortening of «ejected,» which happens to be Jected's coolest gimmick: press a button at any time to launch out of your car and continue the race in air. It's a neat trick when you time it right, because most tracks have shortcuts over hills or through canyons that cars can't reach. When you get back to the track (or run out of fuel in your jetpack), a button press instantly recalls your car.
It's part driving, part flying, and also a splash of destruction derby—your car has a health bar and if it blows up, you'll have to find an unoccupied one on the track. Matches play out in a Fall Guys-style elimination structure with four total activities. All of the activities were races in the match I played this morning (sometimes car only, sometimes jetpack only, sometimes both), but there are 13 activities in total, including a dedicated demo derby mode.
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