Review: Neo Cab (Steam)
Play as Lina, the last human driver-for hire searching for her missing friend in the neon streets of Los Ojos. In this interactive story, you’ll meet unique passengers during your nightly shifts, each with their own clues and secrets, if you can get them to share.
Pros:
- Nice hand-drawn graphic style.
- Steam achievements.
- 586mb download size.
- Lush neon aesthetic.
- Conversation simulator gameplay.
- Game-pick up people and drop that at a location (taxi driver) and interact with them.
- Main and side stories.
- Branching choose your own interactions.
- The story is well written and paced.
- Relatable situations.
- Interesting characters.
- Energy-used to power your electric car. You pay to recharge it and use it up getting to locations.
- City map-choose your own jobs/progress. You can see brief descriptions of the potential customers’ demeanor.
- Earn cash and rep from jobs and is dictated on how you both get on with the conversation.
- Chilled slow pace to it all.
- Controller support after a lot of faff.
- Thought-provoking.
- Perfect lazy afternoon game session.
Cons:
- Can’t always have your choice within a conversation and instead get told what to say.
- No voice work at all.
- Slow pace.
- Short game clocking in under 5 hours.
- Little replayability.
- The controller is really fiddly.
- Minimum graphics settings.
