Premature Evaluation is the weekly column in which Steve Hogarty explores the wilds of early access. This week Steve has been overseeing a tube station in Overcrowd: A Commute ‘Em Up.
Developer: SquarePlay Games
Publisher: SquarePlay Games
Release: Out now (early access)
On: Windows
From: Steam
For: 13, $17, 14
Commuting is the biggest self-inflicted wound in human history. Whole cities are designed around countless dead-eyed souls expending enormous amounts of physical and mental energy ferrying themselves between their bedrooms and the place where their employment happens, flushing in and out every morning and evening like fleshy clockwork, like turds on the tides. When the great revolution comes and we are freed of the shackles of capitalism, commuting will be a long dead nightmare told to frighten unruly children. You ll never have to walk more than fifty feet to get where you want to be in my new and perfect socialist utopia, in which there are no modern contrivances like motorways or hospitals, and we simply trade Pogs, Nintendo DS cartridges and doodles of cool dogs for food and shelter.