Ride Tales

The whole planet is the pitch. The whole planet is also the problem. Real world map data hands you roads and shapes but no places worth arriving at, so quests and treasures end up scattered over terrain that holds no opinion about them. Driving down a street you recognise is a genuinely lovely thirty seconds. What I couldn't find was the game that's supposed to start afterwards.

Dropped into somewhere i've actually been and drove around. That's the hook and it worked on me. Late at night it doesn't need to be any cleverer than that.

Tell anyone you can drop into anywhere on Earth and drive off, and watch their face. Pick a place you know for real and it stops being generic on the spot. No handcrafted map can pull that trick. Layering quests and hidden things over an entire planet strikes me as optimistic, but the roaming on its own is the appeal.

Drop in anywhere on Earth is a hell of a headline. It is also my problem with it. Driving stands or falls on how the car sits under your hands: the weight, the grip, the moment you turn in. When the pitch opens with map size and quests and hidden treasure, I have a fair idea where the effort went instead. Lovely place to look at. Much less convincing as something to steer.