Food Truck Simulator review – real-world sim forgets about fun

PC; Drago Entertainment
Glitchy and laboured, operating this pretend catering van feels too much like hard work

There are few thing more frustrating than playing a broken game: perhaps only playing a broken game with a promising premise. Food Truck Simulator, from the title alone, seems as if it should be a riot. Other cooking-themed titles such as Overcooked, or the long running Cooking Mama series, have a high-paced spirit, undercut with silliness or charm. Food Truck Simulator, however, before it even presents us with glitchy technical issues, has a strangely heavy tone.

Our protagonist inherits the titular food truck after the death of his father, and receives guidance from an almost-maternal figure called Carol, who talks you through a long and humourless introduction. Coupled with the realistic graphics - which had the potential to be impressive - it's a little like running a burger truck in some unnamed drag of Grand Theft Auto's Los Santos. The driving of the truck from location to location is unsteady and occasionally glitches jarringly: with a little more polish this could have been a delightful mechanic.