If you like extreme challenges, blood, violence, and "Tirulipa" on a bicycle, Short Ride is the recommendation we saved especially for you if you want to spend the end of the year playing and enjoying a series of broken bones and compound fractures in a “ride” filled with highly random and deadly obstacles.
Short Ride is not the best-looking game. In fact, I believe its characters and environments are intentionally quite “poor” because of the idea and style of play it provides. It is far from simple, but we can say that everything has its touch of ugliness.
The game's style is very different from games for people who just want to pass the time. After all, it was not made for everyone, but for people who are not faint of heart, because if the player fails amid the obstacles, they will certainly see blood everywhere. This makes the game suitable for a very select audience, not only by age, since it is for people over 16, but also among people not accustomed to seeing graphic scenes in a browser game, as most of those games tend to target a calmer, more casual audience.
The game's difficulty is fairly moderate, not only because of the challenges the player may encounter throughout the environment, but also because character control is very sensitive. In other words, if players do not control their characters properly, they can kill them in the silliest possible way—for example, simply by tripping and hitting their head badly.
In the first levels, the character can continue the ride on a bicycle or even on foot—speaking from experience, haha—until reaching the finish line and thereby unlocking the other levels, which become increasingly difficult. You can unlock not only other levels but also other characters who can be massacred if you fail.
If the player is not satisfied with the levels offered by the game, they can make their own environments through the “Editor” menu. The only thing that bothered me about this mode is that the controls are somewhat “stiff” when positioning objects, whether placing them in position or increasing and decreasing their size.
With more than 50,000 downloads on Google Play since December 12, Short Ride is available for Android phones and browsers.
