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Does Not Commute combines clever game design with a humorously haunting story to create a standout mobile application. You control poorly-handling cars trying to drive across the neighborhood. Once you've successfully transported one car, your perspective shifts to another, only this time your drive is impeded by the car you just drove taking the exact path you just did. You're essentially playing against both yourself, as you swerve to avoid the cars you controlled just seconds ago, and the clock, as you must complete all the routes in sixty seconds. This time can be increased by collecting disks on the road, but doing that means potentially running into the cars you drove earlier. It's challenging and compelling, made all the more so with the narrative. Every new car you drive brings with it a sentence or two about its driver. Through these vignettes, the game goes from innocent to strange to dark in a hurry. Mediocre have created a fantastic gaming experience in Does Not Commute, and if you enjoy the challenging gameplay, this app will quickly become one of your favorites.

First off I love how this game is very challenging yet fun. Also I didn't buy the premium at all and I beat it in two days. I wish the story was a bit longer because like I said it took me two days to beat. I have no idea how I did it but I'm in the top 200 for the final score at 212...also I only failed once! There are lots of hidden extra time disks which I think is what got me to a final score of 212. Also in the second city area at the very top right corner there's a secret area that gives you 40 extra seconds! I have to warn you the last level is very hard! I had 300 or so going in but ended up losing 90 seconds even after grabbing all the extra time disks! If you pay attention to the story it makes it more fun, but the last part is very confusing. Anyway now that I've beaten the game there's still lots to do like discovering the hidden secrets and improving your score! Good luck!

I beat the game in about 2 hours while on a long car ride, although it was (most definitely) not my first attempt. It's quite fun to maneuver the cars to their destinations and quite satisfying to watch them barely pass by each other at the end of each level. Does Not Commute is fun to play in short time intervals and long ones alike. If you have premium, you can enjoy the benefits of not having to restart the whole story each time you lose or close the game. I did not find the need for premium however, I just tried to beat the whole game each time I took it out. Was worth it in the end. The gameplay was nice but what really caught my attention once I beat the game was the story. I hadn't really payed too much attention to the story until the uh... 'time and space' picked up, to put it in other words. Upon passing the last level, I replayed each level to read each character's lines. Man I gotta say, this game's story is very well thought out. Although quite quirky, most of it makes sense at the end. It's like a weird confusing movie which at the end explains all the weird stuff you've been seeing. It was also very creative, as I've never heard of such weird characters ever in my life. All in all, a very solid game which actually becomes more fun as you play and understand the story.

Imagine a top-down driving game with a variation on Groundhog Day. You're given a destination and an open-ended neighborhood to drive through, but every subsequent character you control in a set of levels has to drive around your previous cars as you drove them. If you drove like a maniac, you'll have to navigate around that until you move to the next set of levels. This is made much more fun from how crazy the story is, where a marriage disintegrating over an unhealthy Yorkshire Terrier obsession is probably the least outlandish thing that happens, and the cavalcade of increasingly ridiculous plots is glorious to behold. You're on a timer until the end of the game, which even persists between level sets, and you can earn time boosts by exploring. You will need them. You can also use optional modifiers for how your car performs (each car is different), and you can eventually practice without running the clock down. You can't crash into other cars in practice mode, which has benefits and drawbacks if you forget where a car is coming from in a real run. You can buy certain privileges to make finishing the game easier, but you don't have to. If you like this model and you also like pinball, I highly recommend PinOut by the same developers.

Good thing real driving is not like this. Very interesting and amusing. It's a devilish, very clever game. There are hidden time bubbles. Also, if you have the premium upgrade, there is a practice button which you earn in the amusement area, level 3. This enables you to test out a run without a time penalty as many times as you wish. This additional feature helps in this challenging game. I don't understand the reviewers who criticize the developers for charging a few dollars for the premium upgrade. Why shouldn't they be entitled to make a financial return for all the thought and work that went into making this exceptional game? I finally completed the last level, and when I did, a gold colored box showed up on the screen with the disks for each level. The box included the time remaining after the last level and a name for that score. Initially I had a score of 3 (seconds remaining) and was called a Road Hog. Since then I improved my score all the way to 49 and now am called a Motorist. This gives the player an incentive to continue even after "defeating the game". The developers think of everything. This is a must have for those who like a real challenging driving game. If you are easily frustrated, it might not be for you.

Unlike what you’re set up to expect, you do not control all vehicles simultaneously, but each vehicle goes after the other under a diminishing time. Given the far reaching goals of the game (an early mistake in managing time might ruin a run, or at least make it less forgiving) it’s very fun yet fairly short, even if it takes you several days to get through it. Surprisingly it’s fun enough to look over the unforgiving aspects of the game, such as having you start from the beginning for fully closing the app. The story itself is deep enough for you to need pen and paper to track, but it won’t stop you from playing and enjoying the game if you look over a few details.

This game is most definitely NOT short. If you think you have beaten this game in a few hours or even a few days, you are mistaken. You may have gotten to the end, but that’s NOT the end of the fun. This game is deep, deep, DEEP! There are more ways to improve your times than you will EVER find. Can you run every vehicle on turbo - without crashing? Do you know some vehicles can "fly"? Do you know the best way to get the hidden 10-second time bonus on the first level? Oh, you didn't know there was a hidden 10-second time bonus on the first level?? There are two. Search FB and you'll find lots of hints, tips & tricks you never imagined. You have _months_ of driving fun ahead of you!

I got this game before i went on a long plane ride, to distract myself so I wouldn't be bored. This game definitely lived up to the reviews and my expectations! It did take me a bunch of times to figure out how to steer and control the cars. I am now stuck on level six- i always get up to the 16th car and run out of time! Now, I can't seem to stop playing!! This game also makes me see life in a whole new perspective- who knows what's going on in other people's lives? That's why we shouldn't judge people blindly, until we know the full story. Thank you, mediocre! As usual, your game was well thought out and i can see the effort and the sheer genius you put into your game, as always.

By now, everyone has commented on the cool temporal puzzles where you essentially have to solve the problems you just finished creating. I love the mechanic, and I have thoroughly enjoyed "solving" them. I will say that the premium add-ons are virtually necessary unless you plan to start from the beginning a whole lot, but the game is easily worth the price. What I also like is that it is a well done package. It invokes the 70's accurate, with great music, sound effects, visuals, etc. Even the skeumorphism of the interface hits the nail on the head. I haven't quite finished it yet (I am one area away from the last), but I can already tell this is going to be one of my favorites.

I have played hours and hours of a game from this publisher that involves breaking glass. Don’t know if I’m allowed to talk about other games. I’ve been getting increasingly annoyed with being made to sit through ads in other games and I figured I ought to look at what else these folks have done. Saw the reviews of this and figured it was worth a look. This is a lot of fun, both in game mechanics and the story. I’m not through the whole game, but I can already say it has replay value. There is skill and strategy involved. And the money I paid? No ads! Happy to give them the money. Will watch to see what they do next.

Does not Commute is unlike most types of games out there. You drive a number of vehicles across a city map in sequence with every previous vehicle you navigated replayed simultaneously. You have a set amount of time to complete all vehicle routes, with the opportunity to collect bonus time along the way. You must avoid crashing into your previous vehicles, and can choose to use a turbo, traction control or armor upgrade. The game does get quite challenging quickly. The graphics are smooth, the vignettes for the different drivers humorous and the music is perfect adventure driving music

The game has a very good feeling and design, with a great color palette. The controls are simple and easy to use. The game at first seems extremely easy to complete, until realizing you have to swerve past all the cars you previously drove, resulting in some pretty hilarious moments. This can also be combined with various power ups that will make it easier or harder for you later on. The game provides a short 1-4 sentences of backstory and dialogue for the drivers, which results in some pretty crazy, hilarious and (spoiler: dark) storytelling, intentional or not. For example, in the first town one line is “Postwoman Betty is very efficient, so she always has time to stop and see Mr. Beck. A second line is, “Mrs. Beck is on her way home. She forgot her keycard to the office. How Clumsy!” And then the final line is “The ambulance is on its way to the Beck’s house. There’s been an accident.” Regardless if this was made intentional, it really made my day. Overall a perfect mix of all necessities for a good game, with unique mechanics.

This is an AMAZINGLY good game! It’s very clever when it comes to mechanics, and it looks great with interesting stories for each driver BUT does anyone else find it annoying to run a few courses on low time but they are short on time pickups so u run out of time easily and go all the way back to the start, now for my last statement I am also curious if people have come across a moment where because of how they drove previously they can’t get past an area I have not had this moment but I feel like I’ve gotten close to that but other than that it’s an amazing game and I recommend it

It's not what you expect, but you quickly get into the groove of it (or, that's at least how it went for me). It's hard to put down! It is challenging in a fun, creative way, not an invite-all-of-your-pals way. I just about never make in-app (or even app) purchases, but I even found it worth it to get the premium booster. I wish there was a better system for selecting power-ups and starting, because the app sometimes gets confused about which one I'm trying to do, but it is otherwise worth playing.