📟 Unreview: The Joyride Everlasting
Oct. 12th, 2025 10:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
solo_knightFirst and Last impressions The Joyride Everlasting
What is it?
It’s a…. a thing with basically mecha pilots. Who have scenes. Apparently.
Is it playable out of the box?
First, you need 2-4 other people. This was in a solo RPG bundle, so I was expecting it to be a solo RPG. Next you need a degree in translating cryptic to game mechanics. And then you need to somehow make sense of the vague instructions, how the scene prompts turn into gameplay, and what all of that has to do with the characters and setup and ‘Expressions/Engines’ you made up out of cobwebs earlier.
I’m not drunk enough to even guess.
Amendments:
I didn’t even bother. I did not have enough information to create a character, let alone three, and this seems to be the kind of social game where you need *different* people to ‘play’ because there’s no random mechanic to resolve anything, it’s all about talking to other people and maybe role playing, and who the fuck knows because the four pages of text don’t tell you.
Tools
1d6. And several other people. And a shit ton of imagination, because the instructions do not help you at all.
Price:
$1 at itch.io, currently $0.
Verdict
📟 Not a game. Seriously. I have no idea what one is supposed to do with this.
This is an experience I have had with indie games, video edition, (or writers, self-published) before: sometimes a creator comes up with something half-baked that makes perfect sense to them, and it works for them because they hold the other half in their heads.
Third parties will feel baffled, because this is paper thin and in shreds.
So maybe someone with an anime/superhero/mecha background can make something out of this; I cannot.
What is it?
It’s a…. a thing with basically mecha pilots. Who have scenes. Apparently.
Is it playable out of the box?
First, you need 2-4 other people. This was in a solo RPG bundle, so I was expecting it to be a solo RPG. Next you need a degree in translating cryptic to game mechanics. And then you need to somehow make sense of the vague instructions, how the scene prompts turn into gameplay, and what all of that has to do with the characters and setup and ‘Expressions/Engines’ you made up out of cobwebs earlier.
I’m not drunk enough to even guess.
Amendments:
I didn’t even bother. I did not have enough information to create a character, let alone three, and this seems to be the kind of social game where you need *different* people to ‘play’ because there’s no random mechanic to resolve anything, it’s all about talking to other people and maybe role playing, and who the fuck knows because the four pages of text don’t tell you.
Tools
1d6. And several other people. And a shit ton of imagination, because the instructions do not help you at all.
Price:
$1 at itch.io, currently $0.
Verdict
📟 Not a game. Seriously. I have no idea what one is supposed to do with this.
This is an experience I have had with indie games, video edition, (or writers, self-published) before: sometimes a creator comes up with something half-baked that makes perfect sense to them, and it works for them because they hold the other half in their heads.
Third parties will feel baffled, because this is paper thin and in shreds.
So maybe someone with an anime/superhero/mecha background can make something out of this; I cannot.
