With each passing year, Strange Scaffold has cemented its place as a must-watch (or play, in this case) developer because it makes what I’d like to call video game-ass video games. After all, they’re the same indie publisher/studio that gave us the Max Payne-esque El Paso, Elsewhere, the Hardcore Henry-like first-person shooter I Am Your Beast, and the austere hotel-chair horror oddity that is Clickolding. That is to say, their creative engine is made of the same stuff that gave rise to bacon-flavored ice cream. Its upcoming title sets anime fans behind the steering wheel of a kei truck, isekai-ing bystanders to another world. During Steam Next Fest (which, to unversed gamers, is basically Valve’s seasonal demo disc event), Strange Scaffold gave players a taste of Truck-kun Is Supporting Me From Another World?! As if I needed any more paranoia about whether the developer has my house bugged, the fast-paced 3D platformer-racing game fuses Katamari Damacy, Crazy Taxi, and Denshattack!—my favorite silly video games—with anime mayhem serving as the fuel that makes it run. While I was trepidatious that the fuel powering the appropriately sentence-long-named video game was the unled version of isekai, my least favorite genre taking over anime, against all odds, it’s managed to charm me for how it takes the piss out of the category and, in turn, allowed me to blow off steam from my frustration with isekai’s oversaturation by letting me be the perpetual inciting incident behind its madcap adventures.