Yellow Taxi Goes Boom Demo Hits Steam Next Fest - Hardcore Gamer

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Steam Next Fest is upon us and with it comes the celebratory discovery of games you might otherwise miss. Next Fest has been very much a modern-day revival of what we used to have in the days of the Xbox Live Arcade on the 360 where you had big demo events for indie games and could try out as many games as your hard drive could hold. Now, we have a blend of bigger-name games in the fold too, but some games get front and center listings thanks to the genre separation that helps their exposure and one such game is Yellow Taxi Goes Boom – which has a demo available now. It’s an interesting blend of driving, platforming, and collect-a-thon that blends a few different ingredients together to form an interesting stew.

The mechanic Morio has created a taxi that can go anywhere and help others and brings back a bit of the bump and jump car-platforming scene in arcades and NES games like well, Bump ‘n Jump. The taxi controls very accurately and isn’t very floaty with its handling, which can take a bit of getting use to. It very reminds me of Sonic Jam’s 3D World in how everything controls because movement is very deliberate and you’re going to want to scope out areas to figure out the most effective paths. Some areas are very horizontally-focused and require using the dash to get past – or using it to break blocks and get coins. Other times, you want to leverage that dash to have you hit something and send you upwards into more goodies.

The game uses a touch of tank controls with the triggers moving you backwards and forwards and it works really nicely. You can reposition yourself very easily with the left stick and then go into whatever direction you want with RT and then move backwards if you miss a coin or another collectable