Wasteland Express

by gasimir

co-authored: @hedroncrab, @viemegan, @volnyii, @llenollume

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.85

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.87

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.58

Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.32

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.78

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.98

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.61

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.64

Hey there! Welcome to "Wasteland Express"! You'll be playing as a delivery service, delivering stuff to five groups of customers: cowboys, bikers, aliens, robots, and mutants.

Remember, the world's gone to heck and your customers depend on you to keep them happy. You gotta collect resources from different spots and transport them quick. If you're too slow, they'll get unhappy and you'll lose.

For each successful delivery you make, you'll earn some cash. Spend it to improve your delivery service. Hire more staff or make 'em go faster.

Ready to rock and roll? Come play and show us if you're the ultimate delivery service in the wasteland!

Comments31

MarkovAlex1 May 2023, 15:26

Awesome!

Brandon Campbell1 May 2023, 16:44

This is a very good entry! I was confused at first because there's a lot going on, but after I figure it out it got really fun and satisfying. It's a really creative concept. The sounds and graphics fit well together.

Valmontechno1 May 2023, 16:55

Really nice, the scenery is beautiful. However, I'm having a hard time understanding what to do.

Calcopod1 May 2023, 16:56

Very nice!

Albeit I was slightly in the dark at first about how to ... do anything due to the information overload, once I got past that I was left with a very pleasant and fun experience.

While the sound effects were really nice, I found the main theme song to be a bit repetitive and annoying after a bit, but nothing major.

Overall a great concept and good entry!

Kerri1 May 2023, 16:59

What a great game! I found myself missing a lot of orders at the start, especially while trying to take everything in the first game but got the hang of it quick enough. Would be nice to have the not enough in inventory flash on the order you tried to fill, since otherwise its hard to notice on the other side of the screen. Overall really nicely done! It's fun when you upgrade the number of staff and can send a bunch of them out at once :smiley:

rhewid1 May 2023, 17:00

That was fun. Quickly figured it out. I like the artstyle. It would maybe help to highlight specific stuff even more. Also the win condition was not clear to me until the end, haha :D

EvoGenGames1 May 2023, 17:01

This was surprisingly fun xD

The busy background made it a bit hard to notice almost run out but that made it a bit more challenging :-)
Thank you for the game!

LDJam user 2997571 May 2023, 17:07

Quite enjoyed this fast paced kingdom management and I love the art. Good game!

Maskrosen1 May 2023, 17:13

This game was cool and fun to play. I like the art style. It took a few minutes to get what to do but after that it was a fun experience. I only managed to deliver 21/25 deliveries so far in my two tries. Great job on this one!

Krash1 May 2023, 17:22

This game was really interesting! I really like the art and music. It took me a minute to figure out what was going on as there is a lot of elements on the screen. Great work!

Nathan Franck1 May 2023, 20:15

This was really hard to initially understand, but with enough clicking, I figured it out! It was incredibly hard to distinguish between game-critical stuff and background stuff, as well as resources-sources/customers/base areas. Not to say I didn't eventually figure it out! 25/25 delivered 🥇 ez gg

DreamEaterAlex1 May 2023, 21:27

Забавная игра. Был страх запороть всё и проиграть, но к счастью здесь можно только выиграть. Рисовка и прочее - топ)

ThomasVenner1 May 2023, 21:42

Really hard to understand at first because the graphics are not readable enough in my opinion, but once you get into it, the game is actually quite fun

Enver Arco1 May 2023, 22:06

Hard to understand what to do at first. But the music and graphics are charming

LDJam user 2643901 May 2023, 22:15

Super fun, at first I was a bit confused but caught on pretty fast, the music is really good and fitting, and I was really in the groove when it told me I won, wish it had a way to just keep going!

ecmjohnson2 May 2023, 01:48

Very addictive game! The art style is very chaotic and I like it. The difficulty is well-tuned and I enjoyed struggling to keep up with these demanding customers. The tutorial at the beginning is very appreciated in onboarding, but I missed that I had multiple people until a while through my first run. On my second run, I encountered a bug where my people disappeared and I only had a single person running all the errands. You delivered a great game!

llenollume2 May 2023, 07:50

Прошел два раза, запорол первые три. Когда прокачивается база, и становится много курьеров, веселуха лютая, хотелось бы даже подлиннее, только вошел во вкус!

Super addictive, wish there was a way to continue, or to choose the number of deliveries to win!

hotaloca2 May 2023, 09:12

This is a very fun little game. 25/25 deliveries nailed :) I really liked the art style and audio matched it. It was cooled that the different people talked and had different styles - like the UFO one best... Also the different deliveries were cool like the poisoned fish etc. Congratulations very nice entry overall
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LDJam user 1396682 May 2023, 09:56

Hey! Seems like you are having the same name of game as we are :D

Despite your variation on that name lucks of shooting, you made a quite fun management game! Liked it

PotatoCouch2 May 2023, 11:34

It was a bit hard to see thing because everything is so saturated, but overall I think the game was great. I managed to nearly beat it without buying a single upgrade (mostly because I didn't know about their existence until 23 packages in). I enjoyed playing this, it was really fun.

Dylan H2 May 2023, 12:00

Wow, great scoping and polish on this one. Genuinely stressful! Fun twist on the restaurant genre, with excellent art and tense gameplay loop.

Also, I thought the subtle tutorial was very clever--no words, no real explanation of what's happening, but just enough that you can figure it out quickly when the real game starts.

LDJam user 2054793 May 2023, 06:21

Love it! I played several times. I had to reload the page because pressing Restart left me with 0 people, but I had a great time anyways. Excellent graphics, hilarious audio, and lots of fun. Nice job!

fizzbark3 May 2023, 11:23

Nice game, love all the little fallout easter eggs in the graphics. It took me a couple minutes to figure out what was going on, the graphical elements are all great on their own but together there is a lot of visual noise. Quite fun when I got into it, good job.

CaptAndrey3 May 2023, 12:33

good art, fun and challenging! i can't get enough of it =)

merdeboi3 May 2023, 14:53

Quite short and fun, fits the theme, great art. Well done.

Diego Escalante3 May 2023, 19:37

I am a delivery master! The games visuals are conflicting to me. Because on one hand they seem very busy and I couldn't easily "read" the game. But on the other hand, they were colorful, pretty, and so detailed that they made the game feel alive. In general, I like the concept and the simplicity of just picking the game up and clicking around. The voice acting was a nice touch too. Once I noticed I could upgrade my base things really started to take off! Great effort on this game, good job!

HoloLight174 May 2023, 12:44

Good one. Really intence sometimes, but completable in first run

BslRqs4 May 2023, 20:17

Loved it! Nice learning curve, good balancing and super fun :)

riley97 May 2023, 13:23

i was hooked within the first few seconds! it wasn't too difficult for me and still i felt rewarded all the time =D i think this is was also due to the sounds and cool graphics !!

LeGromp17 May 2023, 21:22

Death stranding + fallout

Fluburbio20 May 2023, 00:28

Awesome art style! Excellent take on the theme, too 🙂