 Ladies and gentlemen, my name is Matt Rogers and welcome to Rides With Strangers. Now I've got a bit of a creepy one here today. Haven't played it yet, but it's a little concept demo that's been out for a bit over a year now. And they're just about to release the full game. But before they do, thought I'd give the concept demo a go and see if I like it. And then we'll go from there, I suppose. But look at this dude on the front page here. Not looking too family friendly. You are a Laura and you're on your way to a very important job interview in the morning across state. You get in your car late and start heading towards the destination. Unfortunately your car breaks down and no cabs are around to pick you up. You must hitchhike with complete strangers to make it through to your destination. Be careful though, never know what's out there. I'm scared guys, I am actually scared. This does not sound good. Hitch mode, a lot of reading. While you're in hitch mode, you must flag down cars to give you a ride. Fair enough, WASD moves you around. E to trigger a zoom, got it? Shift key to run. Okay, that silhouette represents a car is coming. Zoom mode is being in, represents the driver sees you. When a car is coming, you must stand by the road to make sure the driver can see you. Once the driver can see you, zoom in and place the I icon on the car. The I icon turns fully white. I can't read today. It will enter hitch mode. Here you must press the space key once the white I turns green. Jeez, okay. The car will pull over. You must go to the passenger door and press the zoom inspect key which is E. And decide whether to hitch a ride or not. Jeez, ride mode. You must survive the ride in order to make it to your destination. Okay, so it's a survival horror game. Sounds good. Look around the car with WASD. Subactions click left and right. Sketch meter. While in ride mode, you must keep an eye on the stranger. Do this by simply pressing the A key to look left. Looking at the stranger will prevent them from attacking you. Every time you look at the stranger, it will fill the sketch meter. Oh, I get it. Sketch means sketchy. So if you're just staring at him the whole time, then he's going to get sketchy and things are going to go bad. Okay, I get it. Once the sketch meter is full, you can no longer look at the stranger so it balances well. Answering the questions correct of its questions will reduce the rate of the stranger attacking you. Rolling down the window will give you some fresh air and help you calm down. At any time, you can tuck and roll the bail out of the car to re-enter itch mode and keep your distance progress. If you tuck and roll more than twice, you will be sent back to the first spawn. If you roll the window down, answer times are cut in half. Hit the escape key at any time to quit the game. Oh geez, I feel like I might need to remember that. Good luck. Thanks. Press space flight, press enter to suicide mode. Okay, let's play first before we go doing anything suicide. Here we go. I'm scared. Okay, let's do this. Yes, hello. How are you? All right. Oh geez, getting some slender man vibes, guys. What's this? Have you seen her? Great start. Okay. Here we go. Oh, the frame rate. I'm sorry, guys, the frame rate's terrible. My computer has a CPU of a moist noodle. Let's see how we go. Oh, there's a car coming already. Quick, quick. Stand on the arrow. Here we go. Look for the car. I found the car. Looking at the car. Here we go. Looking. I am looking. Oh, geez, this frame rate's awful. Place eye icon on car. Doing it. Doing it. Doing it. Doing it. Doing it. I'm doing it. What? Well, fine. I guess I'll wait for the next one. Here we go. Here we go. Looking at the car. Let me in. He sees me. He seems to the watch. Silhouettes turned on. I have. Oh, what's happening? Hit the space bar. Much success. Yes. Oh my gosh, she's coming. Oh no. I don't realize what I'm doing. I actually didn't want her to come pick me up. Oh my gosh. Hello, how are you? Happy browsing. Thank you. You don't need a hand. Thank you. How do I look at E? Oh, no. No. Oh gosh, I can't. Sorry, guys. My computer is just dying. Good evening, child. What are you doing out there? Here. Take a seat and let me give you a ride. Is that a Bible? Oh my gosh. Guys, should I do it? This guy looks super creepy. I super shouldn't get in, so I'm going to get in. Yes, yes. Please sit. Oh my gosh. Guys, I'm in his car. Oh my gosh. Turn radio on. It's busted. Open the love box. It's locked. Oh. I'm... This is a dangerous place to be hitchhiking. What is a precious young thing such as yourself doing out there? I'm the infamous love box thief. Maybe you've heard of me. Oh, oh. I can take over myself. It's a dangerous place to be hitchhiking. Why isn't it... I'm a lost sheep who's sailing through a... Oh no, I missed it. I'm sorry. I did want to answer you. I promise I did. I promise I did. Can we turn on the radio? I want to listen to some experimental jazz to calm me down. Oh my gosh. How do I look at him? Hello. How are you? Is he drunk? Well, we have quite a ways ahead of us. Yes, we do. May I ask, where is it you are? Okay, I'm ready to answer. Where are we travelling to? Home, yourself. I lost a friend who was a ranger. Home, yourself. I just needed to get away. He needed to get away? From what? The police? He had a holy Bible on his... Oh, Eric! Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God. What just happened? What did I do wrong? I didn't look at you too much today. Is it because I opened your love box? I'm sorry. I'm actually sorry. I am so sorry for what I did. This is a dangerous place to be hitchhiking. Here we go. What is a precious young thing such as yourself doing out there? I'll tell you what I'm doing out here. I am a lost sheep and who's going through the burden of life. The Lord has brought you to me for a reason then. And we shall discover it. Um, rather not. Thank you, though. Nice of you to pick me up, but I'm not wanting to discover anything with you. Thank you so much for that. There's nothing in the back seat. Oh, what's that? No, nothing. Well, we have quite a ways ahead of us. Oh my God, okay. May I ask, where is it you are traveling to? Where am I traveling to? I'm just away from home alive, everyone. Yeah. I mean... Frankie, go away. I'm very stressed out. Sorry, my cat Frankie is trying to play too. I'm riding with strangers, Frankie. Stranger danger. Be careful. All right, here we go. Oh, go faster. Go faster. You're distracted the trauma. Please go faster. I can tell by the way you're dressed and present yourself. You have ones that love you. I was forsaken at birth by my mother. That is so sad. Raised by fathers who are with your family say if they knew you were hitchhiking. This isn't my first time. What a word, precocious. I love it. So, the weather was nice today. Let me have a look here. The weather was nice today. Can you put both hands on the wheel, please? Now this world is how God has set this path in front of me. You see, I have this itch. This itch I can't control. Ah, what itch? I tried to run away from it, but it just brings me to you. Please tell me this itch is on your neck and not something to do with me. Are you familiar with it? Don't think I know that one. It's a beautiful parable about how it is difficult to act against one's nature. I've strongly advised that you do act against your nature. For the sake of awkwardness in this car trip, can I read you a Bible? Please? No? Okay. I'll just look at the road. Jeez. Tough crowd. I have made a vow with God to purge the heretics. Oh, heretics are the worst. He suppresses the itch. So it has come time to ask. I am a God terrified woman. Yes, Father, pray unto Jesus. Amen. Hallelujah. Testify. Oh, oh, sorry. Oh, I'm looking at you. You can't attack me when I'm looking at you. You can't attack me when I'm looking at you. Don't you dare. My sus mate is getting up, but you better not bloody look at me because I can't handle another jump scare like that. I can't do it. I'm going to tuck and roll. That's it, guys. I'm bailing. Here we go. Roll window down. Tuck and roll. I'm out of here. Well, that was dramatic. Oh, no. What is that? What is? What is that? I don't want to be doing this right now. What is that? Oh, it's a rock. What? What is this? Oh, wow. Graphics are great. Look at those 10 pixels that make a fire. Okay. Back to the ride. Oh, my gosh. Am I heading the right way? Oh, my gosh. I do not like this at all. Oh, God is coming. God is coming. I am so ready to be picked up. Anything to get away from this fire? Here we go. Okay. Can you see me yet? Yoo-hoo. Okay. Here we go. Here we go. This is it, guys. Who's this? No way. Are you kidding me? Good evening, Charlie. Yes. Hello again. What are you doing out there? No way. It's the same guy. Take a seat and let me give you a ride. Fine. I'll get him. Please sit. Here we go again. All right. We're back. Is your radio still broken? Yes. Is your goggles still broken? Yes. This is a dangerous place to be hitchhiking. Just the same thing all over again. What is a precious young thing such as yourself doing out there? Let's say something different. Listen, number three. Be a bit rude. I will pray for you. I'm being a bit daring this time. I don't care. He's going to get me to my destination whether he likes it or not. Oh, no! Stop it. Ladies and gentlemen. That was actually a good game. I am impressed and I feel that once there's more strangers in there, it will be an absolutely horrifying game. It's a Kickstarter at the moment. They've already hit their goal. So as I said, they're going to be releasing the full game. As soon as this month, they said so. They've already got a list of strangers that they've already put into the game. So from the read-up on the Kickstarter, it's going to be interesting to see what happens with the full game. I probably will give it a play though. As terrified as I am, I do see the potential here. So that's it for this episode. Thanks so much for hanging out. If you had a good time, then spank that like button. This is Matthew Rogers, signing off.