Truck-kun is Supporting Me from Another World?! is Crazy Taxi imbued with the power of anime

Strange Scaffold is teeing up another off-beat banger.

As I once again found myself on the Steam Next Fest beat here at Shacknews, I knew right away there was one game I had to get my hands on. Unfortunately I had to wait until the day of the event to do so, but let me tell you folks, the wait was worth it. The latest bizarre joint from Strange Scaffold, Truck-kun is Supporting Me from Another World?! is the kind of game that speaks directly to me through its mix of razor-sharp parody, arcade influence, and genuine sense of good, old-fashioned video game fun.

Whether you’ve walked into the manga and/or light novel section of your local bookstore and seen a title like Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon and thought, “what the hell is this” or “I know what exactly the hell this is and it rules,” Truck-kun is the game for you. All you need to have is passing knowledge of what “isekai” means, and you’re good enough to be in on the joke. “Truck-kun” is the colloquial name for a recurring character in this genre, in which someone (usually a down on their luck Otaku type) gets hit by a vehicle and transported into another world, wherein they live a new life in a wish-fulfilling RPG-style fantasy land. This time, though, Truck-kun hits the wrong target: Carissa, a girlboss business grinder who finally got her big promotion. Now she’s an elf lady with big muscles and a sweet set of armor a bajillion miles away from the office and she’s pissed. Unfortunately for the guilt-ridden driver, Carissa has a direct line of psychic contact.

This sad sack now has the victim of his carelessness screeching in his ear, demanding he, well, bowl over as many pedestrians as he can, while avoiding arrest and self-destruction, in order to send monsters over for Carissa to defeat and get stronger. If she can defeat the Skeleton King, she can win the Scroll of Resurrection and bring herself, and all subsequent victims, back to normal. Probably. She’s pretty sure. During all this chaos, you still have to maintain your delivery job as well. Luckily, your driving abilities have skyrocketed, and you’re now able to drift in circles, hit sick jumps, sideswipe like a Speed Racer villain, and more. It’s like a mix between Crazy Taxi and Katamari Damacy, with a little Final Fantasy 5-style autobattler running in a little window of its own at the bottom of the screen.

This chaos is tons of fun, as all the limiters are off. You don’t have to worry about good or bad targets, or anything resembling doing the right thing. It’s all destruction, boosting, package delivering, and bodying the nuts and bolts out of any cop car that thinks it can get in the way. It’s a mad dash to complete as many objectives as possible in a run, while tracking down collectibles and other ways to extend the timer a bit. At the end you collect stars, and contribute to your current milestone objectives in order to continue the story. The Steam Next Fest June 2026 demo gives you a few sets of objectives to chase, and lets you do normal runs freely as much as you want. I encourage you to drop whatever you’re doing and download that demo ASAP.

There are a couple glitches and some jank here and there, but considering the time between when this thing was announced (just a couple months ago) and now, this thing is feeling quite polished, from its pitch-perfect CG illustrations to its very anime-flavored soundtrack from David Mason. I had a great time in my hour or so with Truck-kun, and am absolutely chomping at the bit to get a hold of the full game. Luckily the wait won’t be long, as Strange Scaffold has already confirmed a release date for later this summer. 

Truck-kun is Supporting Me from Another World?! will be available on July 29, 2026 for PC. This article is based on a publicly available demo for Steam Next Fest June 2026 edition.

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