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Among The Sleep studio’s next game lets you run a food truck for anthropomorphic animalsFruitbus' open-world road trip looks delightful
Fruitbus' open-world road trip looks delightful
Image credit:Krillbite Studios
Image credit:Krillbite Studios
Krillbite Studio are good at making unsettling games, from the toddler-horrorAmong The Sleepto the eerie corporate follow-upMosaic. But the team have announced their next project and - surprise - they’re putting on a happy face withFruitbus, a joyful open world game about running a food truck. Yummy food and seemingly friendly animals? That’s good vibes. Get a taste below.
Fruitbus | PC & Console Announcement TrailerWatch on YouTube
Fruitbus | PC & Console Announcement Trailer
From a first-person perspective, you’ll drive the titular truck, gear stick included, across a colourful archipelago, looking for ingredients like fruit or literal sludge from the trash along the way. Then you’ll invent recipes and sell them to customers - such as Strawberry Trash Smoothies that the badger above went absolutelyferalover. Though entrepreneurs can, in fairness, sell literal trash and also convince people to like it.
I’m in a committed food relationship with my local kebab boss and am therefore forbidden from ordering a chicken shish wrap anywhere else. Fruitbus works on the same logic since you can gain a customer’s loyalty through certain recipes that unlock memories or elicit feelings for them, further strengthening that relationship. Kinda like theRatatouilleflashback scene, but without the restaurant’s shutdown after.
More customers means more coin, though, useful for customising the Fruitbus’s insides and outsides. The truck’s custom paint job can attract more hungry animals, meanwhile, the interior can be outfitted with cooking devices that will probably let you make increasingly complex dishes.
That’s quite an eclectic roster and I’m excited to see the studio marinate in another totally different vibe with Fruitbus. The game is due to release next year, and you can wishlist iton Steam.
