I still remember waking up on Saturday mornings, free from the burdens of school attendance, and booting up one game or another on my PlayStation 1 for a day of gaming and little else. Easy Delivery Company is a game that sparks that nostalgia so absolutely that it will take your breath away. 

Easy Delivery Company, developed by Sam C, is set for release on September 18, and it combines those retro graphics with a secret-filled story line that will immediately have you hooked. I’ve been lucky enough to play through it ahead of release, and here’s why I think you should become a package-delivering cat once this gorgeous little indie drops. 

The loop and the side loop

In Easy Delivery Company, you’re tasked with picking up deliveries and dropping them off at a designated location using your flatbed truck. That’s the core gameplay loop, and it’s (mostly) wildly relaxing. As the type of person who spends hours mindlessly driving in any game that allows me to drive a car, Easy Delivery Company is a game that has me in a choke hold. 

But there’s also more to it than that. Alongside these deliveries are ‘goals’, which mostly consist of buying new items with the money you make to further the story and unlock new areas, and therefore, more deliveries to be completed and new NPCs to meet. The goals are the main story content, although you can almost ignore them completely if you want to simply drive, and they add a sense of accomplishment on top of that mind-numbing (in the best way) driving content. 

Now, why did I say ‘(mostly) wildly relaxing’? Well, some deliveries are easier than others, and certain areas are more treacherous to navigate. Picking up a heavy item makes your truck much easier to crash or spin out on tight corners, so you need to watch your speed and not make any sudden turns. If you drop part of your load (which is all too easy when it’s multiple boxes piled on top of each other), things get a little stressful. 

That’s not a bad thing, though it is a bit of a shocking twist when you go flying off a mountain because you’ve taken a corner too quickly with a heavy package, and you go fishtailing off a cliff. It keeps you on your toes and snaps you out of any driving-induced trance that you may have entered. 

There’s something weird going on

As you drive around Mountain Town, Snowy Peaks, and all of the other areas in Easy Delivery Company, you’ll encounter a lot of store clerks and NPCs who all seem intent on telling you that you remind them of Seb. From what I can gather, Seb is the previous delivery guy, and you are the spitting image of him. 

Now, I haven’t reached a point where I have even a small chance of figuring out the true reason that I look like Seb, but I do have a few conspiracy theories, the main one being that I AM Seb, but I’m suffering from some kind of memory loss or some timey-wimey nonsense. That might be a bit of a stretch, but I would not be surprised; there’s a touch of eeriness to Easy Delivery Company that’s as captivating as it is hard to ignore. 

All of that is without mentioning the NPCs themselves. They sound like distorted Animal Crossing characters, which feels slightly unsettling when juxtaposed with how cute they are. All of them say some very strange things, or act in a way that just seems ‘off’, and it adds to the mystery and appeal that is this lovable indie game. 

Directions are difficult

I’ve never claimed to be good with directions. I get lost very easily, because I have all the directional ability of a beached whale. So, navigating around the surprisingly large maps of Easy Delivery Company was a bit of a challenge, especially when entering a new area where I hadn’t built up any muscle memory or committed any of the landmarks to memory just yet. 

You can open the map while driving, but it doesn’t show where you are on the map. The retro vibes of the game clearly stretch to a time before Google Maps and other GPS apps, showing you just the delivery location without showing your own. So I ended up opening the map every five seconds to check I was going the right way and what necessary turns were coming up. 

Checking a map while you’re driving is a huge distraction, and I ended up crashing or spilling half of my delivery goods. Far more often than I care to admit, actually. You also can’t look at the map if you don’t have an active delivery, which makes navigating towards those goals a little bit difficult.

So, with that in mind, I did something that is ultimately nerdy and, in my eyes, absolutely brilliant: I printed the maps. I felt like a genius with my paper maps on my lap so that I could look down and check as I drove. Admittedly, taking your eyes off the road is never recommended, but it means my driving wasn’t disturbed by opening the map constantly, which was the lesser of two evils. 

Smooth, nostalgic gameplay

Whether you’re focused on making as much money through deliveries as you can, or you’re hammering out the main story to find out the secret behind Seb and the other NPCs, Easy Delivery Company is an incredible feat of nostalgia-inducing gameplay. The graphics alone will make you feel 12 again, playing games on your beaten-up PS1, and everything else just piles on the bonus points. 

By default, the game has a CRT effect filter on it, which really boosts the retro vibes. However, it can be a little hard to get used to (especially if you weren’t around to get used to it all those years ago). If that’s the case, you can turn the filter down or off completely in the settings. 

Either way, the gameplay is flawless, at least as far as I can tell, and so utterly charming that you’ll fall in love with Easy Delivery Company easily. 

Easy Delivery Company will be releasing in full on September 18, 2025, and it’s well worth picking up for any fan of PS1 graphics, slightly off-the-wall gameplay, or intriguing stories. If you can’t wait that long, the demo will be available through Steam right up until release.