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Helluva Ride

By Schlomo, lazar-cvetkovic, mereditsu, tireks and xlu

View on ldjam.com

CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall4833.4832
Fun3723.4632
Innovation6702.8832
Theme4763.6332
Graphics3153.9033
Audio2693.6031
Mood2993.7933

Comments

urosh 2025-04-08 13:52

Excellent game! I adore the car model I love how it looks its just amazing. Driving feels nice, however i got stuck once and had to restart the whole game, but other than that it was great. Love the atmosphere and the music, but the look of the game (especially the car!) was very nice!

nonumbersgames 2025-04-08 13:59

Really cool looking game, love the feel of it. Audio a bit low though. Not touching the hearts was a harsh lesson to learn - temptations are real...

Gameplay felt fast and smooth until brushing up against walls - those stopped you a bit too abruptly.

Almost managed a skip in Heresy, landed near end but a bit too far out, and it bugged out the game :D

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basekeet 2025-04-08 14:03

Really liked the visuals and music. The controls felt nice most of the time, but the car's collider could use some tweaking — almost every time I touched an edge, it turned me straight into the wall. Maybe rounding the collider a bit would fix it :)

gquibao 2025-04-08 15:54

Great game! Loved it. It's pretty hard, I couldn't go past violence. The storytelling is cool, the ambience is amazing, graphics and sound design are awesome, the gameplay feels very polished and fluid. Amazing work, really. Congrats for everyone involved! Edit: Loved the level design as well. Challenging, but in a fun way.

headhog 2025-04-08 17:49

Overall, really good and complete game. Only few bumps on the road made me fall of the track. Music and artstyle are really nice, and storytelling is great. I liked thematical gameplay elements (you need to avoid burgers, hearts...). Also I managed to jump almost to end on one of the tracks with flames.

thereddevil 2025-04-08 18:43

Nice game, I love the car drifting (also secret ending ;D)

roxxorxx 2025-04-08 19:31

did not expect at all a racing game with this theme. Very good surprise. Cool aesthetics. UI is good but can be improved. Keep going ! GG

katjes13 2025-04-09 10:34

The car looks and feels very nice! Love the graphics and the soundtrack. Coudn't get past the third level, didn't get it :D

reuh 2025-04-09 11:14

Love the visuals and presentation. But the collisions with the walls are pretty frustrating. Took me a few tries to understand that I had to avoid the items, not collect them x)

tireks 2025-04-09 11:29

@katjes13 heyhey! :D so the burgers actually slow you down, that's the trick :D

maybeagoose 2025-04-09 16:25

I really liked the feeling of otherworldliness, I like that you don't need to pick up hearts and burgers don't restore HP. Just like in real life REALLY)

shadow-veil-society 2025-04-09 16:31

So much fun! Love the art direction and sound design. The burgers slowing you down is such a fun mechanic too haha really great work!

lllarso 2025-04-09 16:41

Fun racing game! The style is very good. Starting with the title menue (the effects on the start button are nice) and continuing with the game graphics. I really adore the fire sprites with its 2D-effect. The level design is good. You've put a lot of variety into the game, although the burger part was too slow for my taste. I get the message behind it, but it felt too much for me. The jumping level on the other side was very cool.

Instead of having three lives and starting all over again, I think it would be more motivating if each track would have a timer, where you have to reach certain time goals (and if you have a very good lap, you get a gold medal on this track).

The controls felt very good! I had a lot of fun driving the car. :)

kseon 2025-04-09 19:14

I really liked the graphics, and once again I was convinced that driving is not my thing.

jachymthegoat 2025-04-09 19:46

cool stuff!

cure 2025-04-09 20:24

I'm sure I'm just bad at the game, but constantly getting stuck on the walls was very frustrating. I am not sure whether that is a bad thing yet, I'll have to think about it. Cool idea though!

monogatari 2025-04-09 20:27

really fun racing game, good pace and the car is somewhat pleasant to drive hahaha. I love the aesthetics and the music. The gimmick on each level is smart, well done !

3deimos 2025-04-09 20:29

Good graphic and vibes. Car behaves very well to.

icks 2025-04-09 20:36

Sick soundtrack

thomas-bringer 2025-04-09 20:50

Really cool game, i loved the theming, the game feel and the music!

mizaless 2025-04-09 20:51

That's a great idea. I like racing and the locations and controls are very cool here. I want a little more drive, the ability to accelerate all the way and not slow down. There are a lot of places where you can fly off the highway. Great job)

joyceisdrawing 2025-04-10 05:46

Im really bad at racing games so I struggled a lot to steer the car straight lol. I still had a ton of fun and love the style of this game!

x2shadow 2025-04-14 10:33

Very cool driving soundtrack, also incredible style, each level is slightly different both visually and gameplay-wise. I would only like the car to be a little more controllable and to be able to replay from the level, and not the whole game from the beginning, because I completed the game only on the third try, losing twice on the 6th. Excellent game! In terms of visuals and style, probably the coolest for me so far :)

silkworm-sweatshop 2025-04-14 16:03

I got softlocked once when part of my car was over the edge but other than that it played fine and the car is pretty fun to control. I like the dantes inferno theme and the graphics that went with it for example the abstract shapes in lust that still look suggestive. I tried to grab the hearts in lust which was a mistake and I obviously ignored all the warnings throughout the levels (for my first run anyway :sweat_smile:). Music was nice and fitting too!