So I Tried… Dodgy Deliveries

Each edition of So I Tried… I will try a game that I have never played before. Will I find something new to love? Will I find something new to despise? I'll take a full half hour, no matter how bad it gets or how badly I do, to see if this is the game for me. This time, I played the free Dodgy Deliveries, from developer Deliver Games.

Well, technically, we played Dodgy Deliveries. Recently, I and a few others in the GrinCast tried and failed to make deliveries on Twitch!

What I Thought It Was

From the title and the focus on bikes, it seemed as though Dodgy Deliveries would involve delivering things to people while on bikes! Shocking, I know. However, with “Dodgy” being part of that title too, it was clear that a big part of this was going to be lots of wacky circumstances and maybe purposefully difficult controls in order to supplement many epic failures.

What It Actually Is

Dodgy Deliveries is mostly the same as I thought: you race around a city on your bike to pick up food and other items and deliver them to different houses and flats. However, the controls are mostly pretty decent, though crashing is indeed hard to avoid. Plus, it’s multiplayer! The game is designed around having four players to work with, with two-to-three bike riders racing around and one-to-two back at the office accepting new orders and directing the others to where they need to go. It was a bit hard to get into accepting the directions because there wasn’t a clear, consistent way to refer to directions beyond left and right from the riders’ perspectives, or at least, none that I saw. There’s also a voice chat in the game itself with proximity chat, but we were just using Discord, so no comments there.

I also somehow missed the horror aspects, where, once night falls, monsters roam the city and kill you if you can’t escape them, like Content Warning or Phasmophobia. It was very surprising the first time I got murderised!

Oh, and you can dance. 10/10 game.

Will I Keep Playing?

Maybe? It has achievements, which I always love to collect, and it could be a decent time with friends. However, this genre isn’t usually my favourite, so I’ll likely only play Dodgy Deliveries if my friends would like to do so with me, and I doubt I’ll nominate it myself. It’s certainly not bad, even if it could use some more polish — more audio design all around would be nice, for instance. Even a simple soundtrack could help. I mean, the game also seems to be getting a very frequent spread of updates as well (sometimes multiple in a single day), so Dodgy Deliveries might get that polish in the blink of an eye. However, by the same token, I don’t think I’d turn down a few rounds of this if it came up!