Your hand’s on the wheel, your head’s lolling back on your headrest as you take in the skies ahead, and you’re just trying to steer to the rhythm. Which is a bit harder than your relaxed position implies.
Overpass sets you down the street on a variety of road trips, your eyes always on the skyline. This kind of distracted driving makes for some lovely visuals, but you need to concentrate on the road to some extent. Luckily, some industrious person has marked all of the changes in direction on the objects that pass overhead. As long as you tap the right buttons and drift in the right directions indicated, you’ll be able to stay on the road and keep up with the beat of the chill songs.
The trouble is, these pretty views can be a bit distracting. It’s easy to get caught up watching the world slide by your car and lose track of where the next direction is marked on the landscape, forcing you to continually scan for your next command to keep up with the beat. It captures that sensation of getting lost in the beauty of a view when you really have something else you should be doing, often bringing you crashing back until you get the flow of the music down for yourself.
Once you get comfortable with the music, you can start to explore a little bit in Overpass. Branching paths will let you guide the soundtrack to the game, allowing you to shape the view and musical narrative. Just try not to get too distracted, lest your soothing soundtrack turn into angry horns and the crunching of metal. You really ought to pay attention to the road.
Overpass is available now on Steam.
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