Do you like your open world driving games wet, neon-streaked, and positively drenched in the laid-back synthwave squelch of the 1980s? Then we should probably have a word about Transmission.
Transmission is the work of UK indie developer Sea Green Games and has, as far as I can tell, been in development since roughly February this year. It was originally unveiled to Twitter as “a ‘cosy’ game about driving on a motorway at night” (it quickly gained the delightful temporary title Cosy Taxi) and has since blossomed into hyper-chilled open-world courier experience, unfolding on a “rainy summer night in 1986”.
Sea Green describes Transmission as a blend of Euro Truck Simulator meets Jalopy, which would have been enough to sell me on the whole thing right there – but then I went and watched the trailer below and almost hammered Steam’s ‘wishlist’ button clean off the internet.
Source: Eurogamer Transmission is a rain-slicked open-world courier cruise through a neon-streaked 1980s