Easy Delivery Co. Review

Easy Delivery Co. opens with a retro-looking computer screen with a curved monitor, pixel font, and mouse cursor. The menu is set up like an old computer with options such as play.exe, settings.exe, controls.exe, and credits.exe. You take on the role of a delivery driver who works for a courier company located in a scenic mountain town. Driving an old Kei truck (a mini truck with a small cab and large truck bed), you transport items like plants and pizza to the residents in the area. The game is advertised as a “calming driving game with definitely no secrets”, so I couldn’t wait to see what mysteries awaited me.

You appear to be a cat driving a little white pickup truck, a valued Easy Co. delivery driver who is responsible for receiving merchandise from businesses in your area and delivering it to customers. Your first goal is to make a delivery: select which one you want to complete in the job selection menu and head to the pick-up location. That business will have its outer lights turned on so you know where to go.

Driving your truck in Easy Delivery Co. is quite simple: drive forwards and backwards, switch on your headlights, or have the radio on and change between the available stations. The part that is a little trickier is remembering that you need to open the truck’s tailgate before you can put something in the box. Once the item is placed, you must remember to close it again afterwards, or the game will alert you that it is still open.

Your first delivery has you picking up a plant from the flower shop and taking it down the street, barely a two-second drive, to the destination marked with a white square and arrow pointing down. The weather in this mountain town is dreadful: you hear the wind howling, and when you get out of the truck, the sides of the screen start to ice up to show that your delivery person is freezing. Once you have successfully delivered the package, you get your payment and select the next job you want to complete.

In the bottom left corner of the screen, it shows the in-game time and how much money you have collected so far... Our poor delivery driver is making less than minimum wage! There are multiple jobs available: you will see how far away the pick-up and delivery points are and how much they will pay. The larger the distance between the two locations, the more money you earn.

Our driver has a map to help navigate between the few areas, but it is not very detailed when you start. This can be remedied. By the flower shop, there is a dog named MK sitting by a campfire, singing — not K.K. Slider at all. When you speak with him, he tells you your map is missing some info and he can fix it, but you must buy an energy drink from the vending machine for him first. Once you have completed a couple of deliveries, you will have enough money to buy him the beverage he desires and get your upgraded map.

The residents of this remote mountain village are a little odd, as are the emails you get from the company you work for, which describe the horrible, freezing weather conditions as “beautiful”. To maintain peak operational efficiency, you are instructed to consume EZ-Energy drinks purchased from EasyCo vending machines. Our poor driver is forced to work insane hours to get all these deliveries completed. To make things even worse, when you are low on energy, your body temperature drops, so you freeze even faster outside of the truck.

The higher-paying jobs have you driving to Easton and Weston along treacherous roads with rickety bridges and steep drops if you fall off the sides. Beware of the snow piles: you can get stuck, slowing your truck down, and possibly flip it. If that happens, the package may fall out of the truck bed, so you will have to get out and put it back in.

Easy Delivery Co. looks like it was released for the PlayStation. The graphics aren’t very detailed, but they still do a good job of conveying the brutal weather and the quaint mountain villages. The soundtrack, like the visuals, is simplistic: all the radio stations offer relaxing, lo-fi-style tunes.

Easy Delivery Co. isn’t a long game. It only takes between three to five hours to complete, depending on how much exploring you decide to do. While playing, I had an issue where a package I was supposed to pick up never appeared, so I just switched to a different job instead. Besides that little hiccup, I didn’t encounter any other problems. This is a relaxing and mysterious game that was a lot of fun to play. Making deliveries and surviving on energy drinks for a minimal amount of money was quite the experience. The story is far more interesting than I expected from a driving simulator, and since it is fairly short, it doesn’t overstay its welcome.