I run people over with a truck because my muscle fairy wants it that way

A new game tempts MeinMMO demon Cortyn. Because a fairy wants her to kill – and “isekai” people directly.

If a game seems too silly, too absurd, or too bizarre, I particularly enjoy looking into it. You know: Games like “Pony Island”, where I outsmart a cursed slot machine that wants to steal my soul, or Sucker for Love, where I set up a date with C’thulhu and other cosmic tentacle monsters. I just love that kind of stuff.

That’s exactly why I often get links thrown at me in the editorial office with little comment. Often to strange Steam games, sometimes to random YouTube shorts and memes that poke fun at games.

That was also the case this time when Lydia showed me a short clip of a game she apparently thought: “This is just Cortyn’s thing.”

And what can I say? She was right. It’s about anime, about isekai, about a murderous truck, a dominant fairy, and of course an absurd title for the game.

So let’s talk about this upcoming combination of all absurdities: “Truck-kun is Supporting Me from Another World?!”

The story is simple: Carissa Ward has sacrificed everything for her career. Her hobbies, her anime collection, all her free time. But today is finally the day she gets the promotion that will set her up as the marketing head of her company. Well, until the moment she dies. Because she gets hit by a delivery truck and is immediately dead.

But just before the truck driver can decide whether to simply flee the scene and leave, a muscular fairy appears in his thoughts – Carissa, whom he has just transported to a fantasy world through the kill.

Truck-Kun must help his fairy – and we are the driver

As an anime nerd, Carissa already knows something like this. But she doesn’t have the time and energy to follow some long story now, assemble a hero team, and defeat the demon king in months-long quests to finally return to the real world. So she convinces the nameless truck driver of another idea:

The truck driver should run over more people so that they can be revived as enemies in the fantasy world, which Carissa can then beat up to gain a lot of XP. The more people Truck-Kun runs over, the faster she levels up.

The delivery truck is, of course, a reference to a long-standing joke in the anime community. In many isekai series, it is common for the protagonist to die because they are hit by a truck, thus entering the fantasy world. The community has mockingly regarded this for years – yet even new series increasingly returned to this idea, leading to the birth of the concept of “Truck-Kun”: A quasi-protagonist who indiscriminately kills people – but does “good” with it because he sends people into exciting fantasy worlds.

This very idea is the heart of “Truck-Kun is Supporting Me from Another World?!”

If you want to check it out yourself: The demo is available for free on Steam. Will you check out the game?

The gameplay is simple yet hectic. Because you’re not only trying to comply with Carissa’s wish for new opponents – that is, to give more bystanders a new life in the fantasy world by running them over – but you also have to take care of other needs. Ramming objects charges up Carissa’s special attacks that you can trigger manually.

But that’s not all: Because you are essentially a package delivery person and also need to pick up and deliver orders.

Alongside this, there’s also the police trying to slow you down because hitting people is, for some reason, not considered lawful. They probably haven’t watched enough anime.

In practice, this mix results in quite a frenzy. Because you’re constantly looking for ways to give Carissa a little boost, evade the police, or deliver one or two packages. Many objectives that all take time and where you have to make quick decisions.

Of course. The game won’t be a big game of the year, but for the short demo time, it was surprisingly fun. It’s a silly anime joke, just thought a bit further and cast into an amusing, short-lived game. I will definitely take a look at the full version as soon as it’s available at the end of July. Whether I will finish the game, I can’t say yet – but just for the silly joke, “Truck-kun is Supporting me from Another World?!” was worth a closer look.