It's the dystopian future. Civilization has collapsed. Food, water, and fuel are scarce. Cannibals roam the countryside, bandits raid from the hills, and everyone is always on the brink of backstabbing everyone else out of just sheer survival instinct. And UPS *STILL* expects you to work 16 hour days with no breaks.
From What I’ve played now that it’s out not taking breaks catches up. Had a crew mate set the fuel tank on fire blowing the truck up.( was already low from previous battle)
Some Info on the game's development history: Wasteland Express (废土快递) is a Chinese game launched on Steam as early access in September 2022 and fully released a month later, which had a big roadmap and a very promising start. According to the roadmap the base game was just a starting chapter and they initially planned to release a number of later chapters of the game as paid DLCs. Unfortunately they suffered from limited sales and lack of funding, which led to the project being terminated after releasing one free DLC. They did show their love for this game by actively pushing out bug fixes and the event editor, even though they had moved on to their next project named Cavalry Girls released in Oct 2023. They said they might come back to remake the game and release a sequel when they had accumulated enough budgets. So now I just found that they region-locked their original title to Chinese region only and released this international version called Dustland Delivery (should be pretty much the same as the original title, probably with improved localization) as a new game that's correspondingly locked out of Chinese region. It could be the copyright issue of the game's English name as mentioned in other comments.
Thanks for the info. Crazy that between the American style semi and the landscape it looks like the American southwest or maybe Australia, I never would have expected a Chinese dev
@@turtolelegs6831by chinese, it usually means either PRC mainland or Taiwan. Remember that Taiwanese also called themselves Chinese. Its a bunch of you know stuff with politics.
It's a very polite apocalypse all things considered. You buy your truck at a dealership, you let purple ahead in trade, you can work out deals with struggling towns, it doesn't seem all that bad.
No more regulations that say what's the length of your truck must be, but a lot of demand for a more sturdy and easy to repair trucks ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@theshyboy regulations are a thing. Most of the world uses cab over engine as the length of the train is regulated as a whole while in US it is only the length of the trailer that is regulated and thus semi itself can have longer wheel base ie there is no need to make shorter semi anymore.
In europe and china they favour cab-over designs due to limited maximum length regulations of trucks. North America doesn't have those regulations so you get the long-hood design.
yeah, I think they renamed it. its a chinese studio. trying to track down the developer and check between the two is... rough. unless you know chinese perhaps.. I see neutron star mentioned in some wasteland express pages though. so I think there is a connection, that confirms is the same people.
I need a dad game in my life. A chill trading game sounds ideal. If the combat just broke off into a separate tactical map with a turn based combat, or even realtime, I'd be pleased.
@@luridus584 I recall Convoy being more about resource management where you're always on the bleeding-edge of disaster, much like FTL in that regard. It's far more combat heavy and stressful than this.
Technically... ATS/ETS2 are a chill "trading" games with trucks. More like hauling, but still. Always recommend it as a Zen Game. That said - I really cant wait for Dustland Delivery now, it scratches the itch for the type of games long gone. As some mentioned - feels OregonTrail-ish
"You have arrived in Valleyville. A large city in the central Dustlands. A lawful place with abundant resources and well-built amenities." Wow, that's pretty good! "After a bad first impression, Runner (You) has begun to dislike Valleyville." 🤔 Uh... isn't this where you're from?
I liked the part where it said, "You sold ALL your worldly possessions to buy a truck" and then when you get the truck it says, "Now go pick up the rest of your belongings".
The whole buying and selling thing reminds me of Elite. And I mean the Old School Elite with vector graphics that ran on machines with less then 50k of RAM, like the BBC Micro and the ZX Spectrum 48K. Fly to an Agri World and buy Food, fly to a Factory World to sell the Food and buy Luxuries, fly to a Tech World that was Rich to sell Luxuries and and buy their Tech to sell to... You get the idea. Many notes on bits of paper.
Dude stop it. Stop showing me awesome games that I have to buy. Seriously though, your channel is awesome. Thanks for exposing me to some awesome games that I never would have heard of. It doesn’t hurt that all your micro preferences and feedback match mine to a T.
Westland Express Delivery Service is a board game from 2017 which is similar concept and idea than this video game. I don't know which one was first so the video game might had to change name because it is same than the board game?
23:01 "If it's not long pig, they're not interested". Can't believe Splat missed this casual reference to cannibalism. Actually never mind, I can believe it because he misses a lot of things. Like when the game told him to equip his gun right at the start, and he didn't. And then later said, "I need to get a gun" when he already had one. Or the fact that the Bandit he hired was a guy, and he kept calling him a girl for the whole video.
Wasteland Express Delivery Service was a tremendous pick up & delivery/resource management boardgame made a good 7 or so years ago. The Chinese game was likely derivative of that concept, and this one looks like an RPG driven version of the same concept. Looks neat, but damn... do I love that board game
What a coincidence. Just watched furiosa and fury road back to back, the latter probably my favourite ever. Opening youtube this video appears right at the top of my feed.
Dammit just once I’d like to come across a cool sounding game and not have it be early access. That just means, best case, it clogs up my wishlist for five or ten years and _just maybe_ I’ll see it there at the end of that time and notice it in the discoint and see that it was finally finished (though I’ll have utterly forgotten what it is and why it’s on my wishlist by then)
I will have to check this out. It reminds me a lot of a game I used to play on my Apple iie back in the mid to late 80s. In that game it was post apocalypse, and you would fit your car with weapons, then drive from city to city fighting in arenas, as well as fighting off bandits between cities, and looting for new weapons and materials. I loved that game, but for the life of me cannot remember what it was called.
@@vwlssnvwls3262Yep Autoduel, loved that game.. surprising depth in the car customization. Based off the pen and paper game "Car Wars" by Steve Jackson games.
This whole game looks like it was set up to be a shitty time waster mobile game with mtx. I mean it looks good and all but I don't see any actual gameplay here just clicking on stuff to manage resources.
Dear solat, your singing is kind of nasal. If you sing as if your sighing you'll see instant improvement, please try it you have a good voice for singing
I don't know if it's been said amongst all the comments here, but why are there no wheels on the back of the rig (the truck itself)? Wheels at the front of the rig, and wheels on the trailer... Something is missing...
The population has greatly decreased And now the odds have greatly increased That I may someday have a chance To kiss your lips I thank The Lord each day for the apocalypse Folks are mostly disfigured or dead But, sugar, I won’t let it go to my head My Momma's face has dripped down into the dirt But I’m still chasing chitlins, whiskey and skirt
Im glad you found this game, def one of the best of the last Next Fest. However, there is another game that is similar with more retro look called Dust Courier, a lot more shallow, but still just as fun.
It's the dystopian future. Civilization has collapsed. Food, water, and fuel are scarce. Cannibals roam the countryside, bandits raid from the hills, and everyone is always on the brink of backstabbing everyone else out of just sheer survival instinct.
And UPS *STILL* expects you to work 16 hour days with no breaks.
Still sounds more interesting than the shambles that was Broken Roads.
From
What I’ve played now that it’s out not taking breaks catches up. Had a crew mate set the fuel tank on fire blowing the truck up.( was already low from previous battle)
Respect who have worked for UPS for more than a year.
At least you can take a leak more often.
Only 16?
Some Info on the game's development history:
Wasteland Express (废土快递) is a Chinese game launched on Steam as early access in September 2022 and fully released a month later, which had a big roadmap and a very promising start. According to the roadmap the base game was just a starting chapter and they initially planned to release a number of later chapters of the game as paid DLCs. Unfortunately they suffered from limited sales and lack of funding, which led to the project being terminated after releasing one free DLC. They did show their love for this game by actively pushing out bug fixes and the event editor, even though they had moved on to their next project named Cavalry Girls released in Oct 2023. They said they might come back to remake the game and release a sequel when they had accumulated enough budgets.
So now I just found that they region-locked their original title to Chinese region only and released this international version called Dustland Delivery (should be pretty much the same as the original title, probably with improved localization) as a new game that's correspondingly locked out of Chinese region. It could be the copyright issue of the game's English name as mentioned in other comments.
They did say they made some gameplay improvements over the original one, based on feedback from their international players of the original.
Didn't realise they did Calvary Girls as well.
how did someone from china get access to steam?
Thanks for the info. Crazy that between the American style semi and the landscape it looks like the American southwest or maybe Australia, I never would have expected a Chinese dev
@@turtolelegs6831by chinese, it usually means either PRC mainland or Taiwan. Remember that Taiwanese also called themselves Chinese. Its a bunch of you know stuff with politics.
*whistles in thick Aussie accent" "Two days ago I saw a vehicle that'll haul that tanka'. If you wanna get outta here-- you talk to me..."
translation for non aussies: Tew doyz ago uh suw a vehikel that'll holl that tankuh. If yew wanna git awta heeyuh, yew talk t'may.
"look at ya. u can barely stand"
@@sylvan429 *translation for non humies
YOU CAN RUN! BUT YOU CANT HIDE!
The lord humngus will not be pleased
It's a very polite apocalypse all things considered. You buy your truck at a dealership, you let purple ahead in trade, you can work out deals with struggling towns, it doesn't seem all that bad.
Interesting to see a very asian setting but with american style long-hood trucks.
dust to the end is similar, its a chinesse game.
No more regulations that say what's the length of your truck must be, but a lot of demand for a more sturdy and easy to repair trucks ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Are big rigs not a world wide thing?
@@theshyboy regulations are a thing. Most of the world uses cab over engine as the length of the train is regulated as a whole while in US it is only the length of the trailer that is regulated and thus semi itself can have longer wheel base ie there is no need to make shorter semi anymore.
In europe and china they favour cab-over designs due to limited maximum length regulations of trucks. North America doesn't have those regulations so you get the long-hood design.
11:00 Splat not seeing the “Infected” stat for the Bandit had me worried the entire video 😂
Lot lizards carry different kinds of infections.😂
@@nazaxprime I’ll be damned if you’re not right 😂
It looks *exactly* the same as Wasteland Express, and that game has disappeared from Steam (the OST is still there though).
Maybe they had copyright issues, as there is a board game from 2017, called "Wasteland Express: Delivery Service."
yeah, I think they renamed it. its a chinese studio. trying to track down the developer and check between the two is... rough. unless you know chinese perhaps.. I see neutron star mentioned in some wasteland express pages though. so I think there is a connection, that confirms is the same people.
It's the same game with a different name.
@@Cassandra112 Yeah it's the same studio. Neutron star is a direct translation. Perhaps they want to localize it for English
wasteland express did not disappear - it just got region locked to china only
Post apocalyptic Oregon Trail, got it.
have you seen the movie "The Postman" with Kevin Costner ?
@@skapunker1986good shout
That exists too, it's called Organ Trail.
I need a dad game in my life. A chill trading game sounds ideal.
If the combat just broke off into a separate tactical map with a turn based combat, or even realtime, I'd be pleased.
Convoy. You're looking for Convoy
Edit: even if You're not just play it trust me
@@luridus584 I recall Convoy being more about resource management where you're always on the bleeding-edge of disaster, much like FTL in that regard. It's far more combat heavy and stressful than this.
Technically... ATS/ETS2 are a chill "trading" games with trucks. More like hauling, but still. Always recommend it as a Zen Game. That said - I really cant wait for Dustland Delivery now, it scratches the itch for the type of games long gone. As some mentioned - feels OregonTrail-ish
Star Traders: Frontiers
@@tylerstewart4553 This!
"You have arrived in Valleyville. A large city in the central Dustlands. A lawful place with abundant resources and well-built amenities."
Wow, that's pretty good!
"After a bad first impression, Runner (You) has begun to dislike Valleyville."
🤔 Uh... isn't this where you're from?
A PLACE OF ABUNDANCE?
I liked the part where it said, "You sold ALL your worldly possessions to buy a truck" and then when you get the truck it says, "Now go pick up the rest of your belongings".
@@PvtHudson MY LIPS. DEMENTUS' EAR!
@@MarkDeSade100 Well all you pickup is cash, so your remaining posessions are whatever money you got left over
@@MarkDeSade100 must be "otherworldly" possessions
The whole buying and selling thing reminds me of Elite. And I mean the Old School Elite with vector graphics that ran on machines with less then 50k of RAM, like the BBC Micro and the ZX Spectrum 48K. Fly to an Agri World and buy Food, fly to a Factory World to sell the Food and buy Luxuries, fly to a Tech World that was Rich to sell Luxuries and and buy their Tech to sell to... You get the idea. Many notes on bits of paper.
I played a lot of it, can´t remember whether it was on the C64 or the Amiga.
Dude stop it. Stop showing me awesome games that I have to buy. Seriously though, your channel is awesome. Thanks for exposing me to some awesome games that I never would have heard of. It doesn’t hurt that all your micro preferences and feedback match mine to a T.
Right at the very end he got me with "quintessential dad game"
Westland Express Delivery Service is a board game from 2017 which is similar concept and idea than this video game. I don't know which one was first so the video game might had to change name because it is same than the board game?
I was gonna suggest this as a possible reason as well. ✌️
"her" with male icon next to portrait
brother just got trapped
I didn’t even notice until you mentioned it, I thought he was a she too!
Damn you Splattercatgaming, for I always add 1 more game to my backlog because of you
23:01 "If it's not long pig, they're not interested". Can't believe Splat missed this casual reference to cannibalism. Actually never mind, I can believe it because he misses a lot of things. Like when the game told him to equip his gun right at the start, and he didn't. And then later said, "I need to get a gun" when he already had one. Or the fact that the Bandit he hired was a guy, and he kept calling him a girl for the whole video.
That's his ADD lol
9:58 - You got 1294 instead of 19XX, a significant drop.
Profit of 494 instead of 1198. Also when purchasing, it displayed the price at 801, but deducted 800.
This feels like a way more complex version of the games I’d play on dial up bulletin boards back in the 90s.
According to the devs on Steam discussions, this is indeed a localization/tweaked version of the Chinese game.
How do you not know the male sign? You didn't employ a woman there, that's a man. 😆
Probably named Haku or Bridget or something.
Very first impressions, this looks similar to Caravan 2, which if it is holy shit I found my next obsession. That game is DOPE.
I had always wished the dude made Caravaneer 3, but I guess there were limits on what they could do on Flash.
18:00 I'm fairly certain that the very first tip of the game is that you've got weapons in your inventory, they're just unequipped
Mad Max Truck Simulator is an untapped market, someone get on that
This games like perfect my only wish is that you start of in a small truck and work your way up like hard truck apocalypse.
Ahhh that was a good game
This art style reminds me of Full Throttle from the 90s.
Wasteland Express Delivery Service was a tremendous pick up & delivery/resource management boardgame made a good 7 or so years ago. The Chinese game was likely derivative of that concept, and this one looks like an RPG driven version of the same concept.
Looks neat, but damn... do I love that board game
The truck started smoking like way before Splat noticed😂
I suddenly want to play a game like Star Trucker but in a Fallout 4 like setting. First person, 3D, vehicle as home base, scavenging, etc.
Splat screaming outlander made me laugh so much
I would had tried to change the name of the main character to "Smokey"... 😃
That game scratches an itch, I wasn't aware existed.
"outlander" just gave me flashbacks
You didn't show any combat... I kept waiting, thinking to myself there was no way you wouldn't show it.
Basically the flash game 'Frontier' with a truck instead of horses
Haha that song at the beginning reminded me of the Glonky guy 😂 thanks for the video man
Imagine being able to modify your semi until it looks like the War Rig from Fury Road
Splattercat, this game is incredible. I already bought it and I'm loving it. Thanks for introducing us to this masterpiece
What a coincidence. Just watched furiosa and fury road back to back, the latter probably my favourite ever. Opening youtube this video appears right at the top of my feed.
"Let's upgrade her crafting" upgrades cooking* if it isn't a goofup it isn't this channel
The game looks great, but how come they are always upcoming games and are never out yet!
Mad Max Oregon Trail looks awesome!
Oh, What a day! What a lovely day!!!
Dammit just once I’d like to come across a cool sounding game and not have it be early access.
That just means, best case, it clogs up my wishlist for five or ten years and _just maybe_ I’ll see it there at the end of that time and notice it in the discoint and see that it was finally finished (though I’ll have utterly forgotten what it is and why it’s on my wishlist by then)
wishlisted and waiting for release. This game seems really fun. Thanks again Splat for ligthening my wallet.
Trading games are a rarity these days, especially ones that aren't space sims, so I am all the way down for this one.
Looks super promising!! reminds me of oregon trail fr
I will have to check this out. It reminds me a lot of a game I used to play on my Apple iie back in the mid to late 80s. In that game it was post apocalypse, and you would fit your car with weapons, then drive from city to city fighting in arenas, as well as fighting off bandits between cities, and looting for new weapons and materials. I loved that game, but for the life of me cannot remember what it was called.
Roadwar 2000
@@paulsirias1877 No, but I looked it up and found it. The game was called Autoduel. Thank you for the reply though. :)
@@vwlssnvwls3262Yep Autoduel, loved that game.. surprising depth in the car customization. Based off the pen and paper game "Car Wars" by Steve Jackson games.
@@paulsirias1877 that game was awesome too
Can we get the Splatt doo-wop background music DLC? Yes, I know. Most of you will need to look that one up, but it fits.
Neo scavenger, in a madmax truck ?? Look awsome ! Thanks to sharing this splattercat.
Hard Truck Apocalypse from 2005.
I love trading games! This looks like it was custom made for me!
ExMachina the sidescroller
Nothing beats old game, HARD TRUCK APOCALYPSE, by Targem games
Looks like something for my itch. Gonna look it up.
Reminds me Star Traders: Frontiers a bit.
This whole game looks like it was set up to be a shitty time waster mobile game with mtx. I mean it looks good and all but I don't see any actual gameplay here just clicking on stuff to manage resources.
Looks like somebody tried to copy Oregon Trail with an even weirder game.
So esentially like caravaneer 2 but with another style....hopefully someday it will be as good as that, for now at least is interesting.
There is a woeful lack of open world vehicle based post apocalyptic games. I blame the government.
Love it
That's awesome! I actually had an idea for a similar game and was going to call it Mother Trucker. :)
Dear solat, your singing is kind of nasal. If you sing as if your sighing you'll see instant improvement, please try it you have a good voice for singing
reminds me of dust to the end.
THE MAKERS OF AMERICAN TRUCK SIMULATOR NEEDS TO MAKE A MAD MAX TRUCK SIMULATOR 😊😊😊😊😊
At quick glance I’m getting some “new grounds” vibes with this gsme
This game is great, I brought just to try it and I have to say it has great depth you run a settle and a crew with truck
Yes and thank you.
Who made Hard Truck Apocalypse in 2D?
A game reminds me about Hard Truck Apocalypse
neato
by the end of this video i am quite into watching this game. you gunna twitch stream it?
I'll buy it if it has a translation into Portuguese - Brazilian
But can you die historical for the Immortan Joe?! Witness!
I've been looking for a gameto scratch the Caravaneer itch!
I don't know if it's been said amongst all the comments here, but why are there no wheels on the back of the rig (the truck itself)? Wheels at the front of the rig, and wheels on the trailer... Something is missing...
If you decoupled the truck and the trailer, the truck would be useless. Yes or yes?
Looks pretty good for an $8 (EA price) game.
Looks interesting but cant play demo on steam:(
The population has greatly decreased
And now the odds have greatly increased
That I may someday have a chance
To kiss your lips
I thank The Lord each day for the apocalypse
Folks are mostly disfigured or dead
But, sugar, I won’t let it go to my head
My Momma's face has dripped down into the dirt
But I’m still chasing chitlins, whiskey and skirt
This needs to be a physics-based proper simulator ala ETS/ATS/Snowrunner/Mudrunner/BeamNG.
First thought this was a sequel to Dust to the End
They likely aren’t calling it wasteland express because that is the name of a boardgame of the same theme
Just gonna like and comment real quick, brb gotta watch this.
it reminds me of caravaneer a flash game from the 2000
I have to say, this game looks beautiful.
Im glad you found this game, def one of the best of the last Next Fest. However, there is another game that is similar with more retro look called Dust Courier, a lot more shallow, but still just as fun.
Witnessed!
There is an old "kongregate" flash game called Caravaneer (1 and 2) this is what it reminds me of, the difference is that it had combat in it.
is it just me or can i not hear this video like, at all
🖤
this is nice to play after watching furiosa :))
It's like a highly advanced version of Caravan by Daedalic
I love the art style in these types of games!
I need more. as is, all we really got was the trading aspect. Very curious to learn more.
Wait a minute right at the end does it say if it ain't long pig Bandit ain't interested? Has Bandit been a cannibal this whole time?
Reminds me of death road to Canada
any chance this will be on twitch?
Thats the best outro i have ever seen
23:01 BANDIT IS A CANNIBAL??
Caravaneer 2 on truck and with zombies.
Since Caravaneer 2 I was expecting a game like this!