tinyBuild Announces Road To Jukai, A Night-Shift Taxi Horror Game
Road to Jukai is the second tinyBuild title to surface in a year of genre moves, and its shift from the working title Silent Road to a first-person taxi horror premise puts a small developer on a showcase stage next to a Hypnohead follow-up.
Reporting from 1 source: Denfaminicogamer.
tinyBuild announced Road to Jukai at its tinyBuild Connect showcase on September 15. The single-player horror game, developed by Endflame and set for a Steam release in 2027, casts the player as a night-shift taxi driver in a remote region of Japan, picking up passengers who are not necessarily what they appear to be. It supports nine languages and a new playtest is underway.
The game was previously in development under the title Silent Road, and the premise has stayed in the mountains: small towns surrounded by a vast cursed forest, connected by night roads the player drives for hire.
The story runs across six nights and is non-linear. Passengers picked up after sunset grow more eerie as the nights pass, and the taxi's back seat is as much a source of tension as the road. Endflame developed it, and tinyBuild puts the release on Steam in 2027.
- Road to Jukai: First-person psychological horror taxi-driving game from Endflame, set for Steam in 2027
- The Crab is Walking: Roguelite kingdom-building and auto-battler from Hypnohead, built atop a giant walking crab
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