Neo Cab
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Games | Surprise Attack Pty Ltd | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
Meet people. Learn their stories. Stay human!
From the Neo Cab app, you’ll choose your passengers and navigate the city grid. Connect and converse with them as you drive to their destination. You’ll need to maintain your perfect rating to stay on the road. Balance your monetary needs and the needs of your passengers with your own emotional wellbeing. What’s more important: your mental health or your star rating?
Connect with your pax: Find ways to connect with passengers. Each has their own story to tell.
Uncover the secrets of Los Ojos: Lina’s best course for survival is to to keep driving. Piece together what has happened to Savy as you help Lina navigate the city grid.
Balance your own emotional needs with that of your pax: Each passenger interaction will affect Lina’s mood and it’s up to you to manage their emotional wellbeing. Balance Lina’s monetary needs, the necessity for a five-star rating, and the needs of pax with what feels right.
Find your own route: Neo Cab features a branching narrative with pax stories written by Leigh Alexander, Kim Belair, Bruno Dias, Duncan Fyfe, Paula Rogers & Robin Sloan.
Reviews
a waste of a sunday
sekaifilm
i have to start off by saying this: i appreciate the world building and the graphics, style, and animation of this visual novel. it could have been an amazing experience. i appreciated the diverse array of characters, especially that the main character was a woman of color with agency and that a non binary person was at the center of a political movement. neo cab had so much promise. the effort that was put into each part of the background of this game alone makes the end result even more disappointing. it’s beautiful and obviously created with care, and i appreciate the hard work that it must have taken. i loved allie and azul and carlos wong, oona, liam, and even the potential lina had. i would have even loved to continue taking rides with people without savy in my life, maybe pursued all my potential friendships. maybe liam laying out that he was only in town for a short amount of time should have been a giveaway for the skeleton of a plotline. i’ve been reading other reviews, and i understand that savy is meant to be the problem in lina’s life. i understood that as soon as she started texting lina and couldn’t stand her. i wanted to use the options given to me to be upset with how she was treating me: a capricious white girl using and ditching her so-called best friend of color to pull herself higher because of the activist role she wanted to play that week. i felt the most immense dissatisfaction i’ve ever felt with a game/visual novel/whatever today. why give me the option to walk out on her or be upset with her, only to force me to give in to her? i wanted to feel empathy for savy as lina forced herself to, but i really couldn’t. clearly from what i see of other reviews, being in a different mood did not actually affect the choices i could take. in another circumstance (another timeline? sorry it had to turn out this way oona), this could have been a cool concept. the way it made me feel jerked around and frustrated? not at all cool. i don’t even care about the mechanics of the game, or the fact that other people found it mundane or monotonous: if it had been a good game, i would have come to it strictly for that mundaness and that monotony. even the quick ending would have mattered less to me. why was i stuck bailing this woman out over and over again when i didn’t want to? and given the illusion that i could’ve walked away and been happier or more satisfied with myself? i want to be excited to see what else this studio comes out with, but it’s safe to say i’ll be a lot more cautious with it in the future. especially if it’s under a paid service like apple arcade.
Good and can be better
Crozz19
The game is truly original and very enjoyable but has some minor issues, first the game never shows a saving promt so I’m always scared it hasn’t saved the last thing i did (happened before) also i can quit before completing a ride taking the risk factor of the decisions away and finally the controls becomen a bit off when using the map
this is the best game i’ve ever played.
girlwithLion
ever. i think because it touched some very significant things that happened to me in my life...at first, i was just engaged in the story. i love to read and i especially loved choose-your-own-adventure books back in the day. so it felt like a modernized version of a CYOA book and i was really loving it. then i got sucked into the concept of trying to get my rating to be a full five stars. but then...then it got to the near-end (i don’t want to spoil anything)...and it was suddenly familiar. so familiar. and i “got it.” on a few different levels. that was neat. and then the ending i chose was SO. SATISFYING. it was perfect. and, somehow, this game brought some closure and some anchoring in regard to some things i’ve gone through. and that was really neat and healing. so. i don’t know how many people would experience this game to the level that i did, but i highly recommend it. it’s the best game i’ve ever played because it touched me. and i hope it touches others, too.
AMAZING
Anime game critic
This game is beyond me. I love the stories that each different character has. I wished that we could’ve gone deeper with the characters and went on dates. Adding more to the story and making it longer would’ve been incredible. I highly recommend!!!
Terribly Boring
Hbot32
This game is really just a drag to play. It takes too long to have a conversation with a passenger and the fact that the characters don’t move their lips is extremely annoying. This game should just be called. Reading. Reading different speech bubbles.
my favorite arcade game
symbiote2
this is my favorite video game i have ever played on mobile. the colors, the character design, the world! i loved it all. it kept me hooked and i played it so much i finished it in only a couple days. i definitely will play if again in attempts to get different endings. i'm also absolutely in love with the soundtrack, i will for sure be listening to it even outside of the game! i absolutely loved it and reccommend it to anyone who has arcade!
It’s a good story line but...
sandmate
Great visuals and story line, but as the story goes a long it’s obvious the character can’t really choose what to say/feel/do. It basically only leads to 1 ending which isn’t much of a storyline.
Good game play, story needed work
thebeeskeys
Loved the themes of this game and the way it looked. Would like to play more like this! The last portion of the game was grueling dialogue and had me acting against my will. Super frustrating and ruined the experience for me.
