Steam is repeatedly a repository of various gaming highlights, which thousands of players simultaneously rush to. That a group of chain-smoking fathers on a camping trip can be turned into a successful game was probably something no one expected.
What game is it? In “RV There Yet?” we take on a very unusual role: We are a smoking, beer-drinking, camping-loving Boomer. And as a group of men, we have just one goal: to get our RV home.
The concept seems to work: Just on the first weekend after release, “RV There Yet?” reached 100,000 concurrent players (Source: SteamDB) and was received with a “very positive” rating on Steam.
Especially developer Nuggets Entertainment expresses being overwhelmed by the success of their originally just eight-week Game Jam project and thanks the rapidly growing community in the patch notes on Steam.
Players want to take their friends’ licenses away directly
How does RV There Yet? play? According to the community, it is mainly chaotic and funny. In the co-op physics simulation, up to four players try to maneuver an aging RV over daring bridges and narrow mountain paths – while bears, cliffs, and their own clumsiness constantly lead to disasters. One gamer sums it up in his Steam review as follows:
In this game, it is about drinking beer, driving cars with friends, and smoking cigarettes. Sometimes, it is about running after the RV when your friends decide to leave without you. Ultimately, it is about staying on the road.
Another user particularly highlights that the words “Vehicle Destroyed” will eventually “trigger you forever”. You can’t help but yell at your teammates and wonder, “whether some friends should even drive”.
For €7 you can currently go on a camping vacation on Steam and test your friends’ stress levels. However, “RV There Yet?” is not the first quirky community hit this year. Just in August, a completely different idea won the hearts of gamers: A co-op game is currently a hit on Steam, creator says now: Better steal my game than support terrible microtransactions.
