Does not Commute

Does Not Commute combines clever game design with a humorously haunting story to create a standout mobile application. You control poorly-handling cars trying to drive across the neighborhood. Once you've successfully transported one car, your perspective shifts to another, only this time your drive is impeded by the car you just drove taking the exact path you just did. You're essentially playing against both yourself, as you swerve to avoid the cars you controlled just seconds ago, and the clock, as you must complete all the routes in sixty seconds. This time can be increased by collecting disks on the road, but doing that means potentially running into the cars you drove earlier. It's challenging and compelling, made all the more so with the narrative. Every new car you drive brings with it a sentence or two about its driver. Through these vignettes, the game goes from innocent to strange to dark in a hurry. Mediocre have created a fantastic gaming experience in Does Not Commute, and if you enjoy the challenging gameplay, this app will quickly become one of your favorites.

First off I love how this game is very challenging yet fun. Also I didn't buy the premium at all and I beat it in two days. I wish the story was a bit longer because like I said it took me two days to beat. I have no idea how I did it but I'm in the top 200 for the final score at 212...also I only failed once! There are lots of hidden extra time disks which I think is what got me to a final score of 212. Also in the second city area at the very top right corner there's a secret area that gives you 40 extra seconds! I have to warn you the last level is very hard! I had 300 or so going in but ended up losing 90 seconds even after grabbing all the extra time disks! If you pay attention to the story it makes it more fun, but the last part is very confusing. Anyway now that I've beaten the game there's still lots to do like discovering the hidden secrets and improving your score! Good luck!

I beat the game in about 2 hours while on a long car ride, although it was (most definitely) not my first attempt. It's quite fun to maneuver the cars to their destinations and quite satisfying to watch them barely pass by each other at the end of each level. Does Not Commute is fun to play in short time intervals and long ones alike. If you have premium, you can enjoy the benefits of not having to restart the whole story each time you lose or close the game. I did not find the need for premium however, I just tried to beat the whole game each time I took it out. Was worth it in the end. The gameplay was nice but what really caught my attention once I beat the game was the story. I hadn't really payed too much attention to the story until the uh... 'time and space' picked up, to put it in other words. Upon passing the last level, I replayed each level to read each character's lines. Man I gotta say, this game's story is very well thought out. Although quite quirky, most of it makes sense at the end. It's like a weird confusing movie which at the end explains all the weird stuff you've been seeing. It was also very creative, as I've never heard of such weird characters ever in my life. All in all, a very solid game which actually becomes more fun as you play and understand the story.

Imagine a top-down driving game with a variation on Groundhog Day. You're given a destination and an open-ended neighborhood to drive through, but every subsequent character you control in a set of levels has to drive around your previous cars as you drove them. If you drove like a maniac, you'll have to navigate around that until you move to the next set of levels. This is made much more fun from how crazy the story is, where a marriage disintegrating over an unhealthy Yorkshire Terrier obsession is probably the least outlandish thing that happens, and the cavalcade of increasingly ridiculous plots is glorious to behold. You're on a timer until the end of the game, which even persists between level sets, and you can earn time boosts by exploring. You will need them. You can also use optional modifiers for how your car performs (each car is different), and you can eventually practice without running the clock down. You can't crash into other cars in practice mode, which has benefits and drawbacks if you forget where a car is coming from in a real run. You can buy certain privileges to make finishing the game easier, but you don't have to. If you like this model and you also like pinball, I highly recommend PinOut by the same developers.

Good thing real driving is not like this. Very interesting and amusing. It's a devilish, very clever game. There are hidden time bubbles. Also, if you have the premium upgrade, there is a practice button which you earn in the amusement area, level 3. This enables you to test out a run without a time penalty as many times as you wish. This additional feature helps in this challenging game. I don't understand the reviewers who criticize the developers for charging a few dollars for the premium upgrade. Why shouldn't they be entitled to make a financial return for all the thought and work that went into making this exceptional game? I finally completed the last level, and when I did, a gold colored box showed up on the screen with the disks for each level. The box included the time remaining after the last level and a name for that score. Initially I had a score of 3 (seconds remaining) and was called a Road Hog. Since then I improved my score all the way to 49 and now am called a Motorist. This gives the player an incentive to continue even after "defeating the game". The developers think of everything. This is a must have for those who like a real challenging driving game. If you are easily frustrated, it might not be for you.