Factsheet
- Developer
- Jocyf Games (Julian Oliden & Raúl López)
- Based in
- San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain
- Release date
- Coming soon
- Price
- TBA
- Platforms
- PC (Steam), Android
- Genre
- Arcade, driving, casual, indie
- Steam Next Fest
- February 22, 2027
- Content
- 4 worlds of 5 levels each, plus 2 bonus levels
- Demo
- Free on Steam: the complete first world (5 levels plus an unlockable bonus level)
- Android
- Google Play
- Languages
- English (full audio), French, Spanish (Spain), Simplified Chinese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Basque
- Controls
- Keyboard, mouse, gamepad (touch gestures on Android)
- Engine
- Unity
- Website
- jocyf.com/mow.html
- Press contact
- jocyf@jocyf.com
About the game
A minimalist top-down arcade driving game where the fastest way to win is to follow the rules of the road.
Most driving games reward you for going fast. MOW rewards you for driving well. Brake at crossings, respect speed limits, watch for pedestrians and read the signs. Break the rules and you lose points from your driving licence, and when the points run out, it's game over.
You start relaxed. You end up sweating. The first worlds are fluid, almost meditative, with music crafted level by level. Then the game changes face: cliffs, floods and landslides, with no margin for error.
MOW is built entirely from road signs and asphalt markings. It's a tense, clean arcade game about discipline at the wheel.
Trailer
Features
- Traffic laws are real. Red lights, speed limits, zebra and level crossings, pedestrians. Driving carefully is how you get through each level.
- A driving licence instead of lives. Every infraction costs you a licence point. No points, game over.
- Your car breaks. For real. No health bar: every hit degrades the brakes, the speed or the steering. A badly damaged car can be finished off by a single bush.
- Perfection has its reward. Finish a level without infractions to earn a Perfect and an extra licence point. Complete a whole world in Perfect to unlock bonus levels, including a retro-polygonal tribute to Asteroids.
- A slot machine between levels. Spend the coins you collect on the road and take what comes up: repairs, fuel, licence points or rocket mode. No microtransactions.
- Minimalist visual style. Icon-based menus and almost no text, so the game reads at a glance in any language.
Almost a decade on the road
MOW started with a simple question: what if a driving game made obeying the traffic rules the winning strategy, instead of speed? The answer became a tense, fast arcade game where braking at the right moment matters more than flooring it.
It was first released on mobile (iOS and Android) in 2017 by Zeus Software. That year it was a finalist for Best Basque Videogame at AZPlay and was selected for the Nordic Game Discovery Contest. Its two creators kept it alive and updated for almost a decade. Over the last year they rebuilt it for PC, adapting it to landscape screens, adding gamepad support and making it available in seven languages, including Basque. The Steam version is the result: the definitive version of a game that has been growing for years.
MOW is catalogued in Tabakalera's archive of Basque video game history.
Team
Raúl López, design and graphics
One half of Zeus Software, the San Sebastián studio behind Hundra (1988), Risky Woods (1992, published internationally by Electronic Arts) and the Gaelco arcade Biomechanical Toy (1995).
Julian Oliden (Jocyf), programming
Unity developer with 15 years of experience. He works as a freelance XR developer for clients such as Meta, Netflix and Deloitte, and publishes his own games as Jocyf Games.
Screenshots
Characters
Logo and press assets
Logos, icons, Steam capsules, character art, screenshots and GIFs in one file.
Download press assets (ZIP, 470 MB)Key art
Press quotes
From reviews of the original mobile release.
"The driving game that requires you to respect the rules of the road... MOW, or initiation to good driving."
iphon.fr (translated from French)
"The whole game feels like an art piece to me… it's been a unique experience that will be hard to replicate."
Snappzilla (2017)
"A retro and arcade oriented game that will challenge you constantly."
Actualidad iPhone (translated from Spanish)
"A video game with a totally retro aesthetic… if you're an old-school video game lover, you'll like it. A lot."
Actualidad Gadget (translated from Spanish)
Awards and recognition
- Finalist, Best Basque Videogame, AZPlay 2017
- Selected, Nordic Game Discovery Contest 2017
Streamers and content creators
You're welcome to record, stream and publish videos of MOW, including monetized ones. No permission needed. If you cover the game, we'd love to see it: jocyf@jocyf.com.
Contact
For keys, interviews or additional assets, write to jocyf@jocyf.com.