Weekend Game Picks: Truck-kun Is Supporting Me From Another World and Scarlet Deer Inn

Two games worth your time this weekend — a comedic arcade romp built around the isekai truck trope, and a handcrafted adventure with a genuinely unsettling story hiding behind its cozy art style.

Truck-kun Is Supporting Me From Another World?! leans hard into the anime isekai cliché where protagonists get hit by a delivery truck before waking up in a fantasy world. Here you play as the truck driver — a character the genre never bothers to characterize — whose latest victim is a woman who was about to get a big raise. She survives in the other world, stays in contact, and is furious. Her demand: mow down as many people as possible with your truck to send reinforcements her way and eventually bring her home. The closest gameplay comparison is Crazy Taxi — short time windows, a compact city, package deliveries, and as many pedestrian collisions as you can manage. It's arcade-y, loud, and funny. The reviewer notes some performance issues on Steam Machine and suspects the game may need a few updates to run cleanly on Steam's new platform. It's also available on Xbox.

Scarlet Deer Inn takes a completely different approach. Its standout feature is its art direction — every character frame was literally stitched into fabric and then animated, giving the game a look that's as labor-intensive as it is distinctive. You play as Elise, a widowed innkeeper in a medieval village whose two children go missing. The search pulls the game in a darker direction than its embroidered aesthetic suggests. The reviewer flags that exploring the town can feel confusing and tedious, and the platforming and combat are basic, but the underlying mystery is compelling enough to keep things moving.

Both games are out now. If you want something loud and stupid-fun, Truck-kun delivers exactly what it promises. If you're after something quieter with a genuinely surprising dark turn, Scarlet Deer Inn is worth a look despite its rough edges.