As gatekeepers of extreme sports games, we’ve neglected our duty. Parcel Corps is a lighthearted bike courier sim set in a colorful totalitarian regime where the police want your game delivered on time or at all. Perhaps that’s why the game, which was supposed to arrive on Steam tomorrow, has been delayed indefinitely. No problem, half the news we write about seems to be about release delays. At least the developers announced the delay in a funny and thematically appropriate way.
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The delay announcement included a tongue-in-cheek use of a flyer that read “Sorry we couldn't see you” and said that the delay was due to developers “spending extra time setting everything up for the best possible launch”.
I enjoy using the recognisable flyer, even if the sight of these things in real life would send me into a fit of rage. (I was right here, Evri nee Hermes, you didn't even knock!) That's consistent with the game's gimmick, which has you cycling around for one of three profit-hungry courier companies, earning a “modest fee” and performing tricks to outrun the police and cut your delivery times. If any of this sounds too Jet-Set-Radio-ly for you, there's a demo on its Steam page.
Developers Billy Goat Entertainment are based in Northern Ireland and previously made the satirical sci-fi adventure Her Majesty's Spiffing. I must smell a slight whiff of bias here, because I too am a survivor of the Northern Irish wasteland, and I feel all warm and fuzzy when professional game studios rise from the crooked bricks of Belfast. Especially when we're – ahem – interesting history is the subject of games. For example, the police vehicles in Parcel Corps look a lot like the militarized Tangi Land Rovers that the cops sometimes use here. Ah, home sweet home.