Last Ride Home

Created for the Game Design MFA, NYU-Tisch Narrative Studio Class

Amber - https://oldzombie14.itch.io/

David - https://davidli.itch.io/

Hansong - https://hootcakel.itch.io/

Controls: Mouse clicking

Last Ride Home is a game about chance encounters – meeting strangers, sharing conversations, and uncovering the stories behind each character.

Every night, you ride the A Line bus from its first stop downtown to its last stop at the edge of the city. But tonight is different. Due to budget cuts, this is the last time the route will ever run. This is the last ride for everyone aboard. On this one last ride, who will you talk to? What will you ask? And what will you learn before the bus reaches its final stop?

This project is inspired by contemporary life being increasingly characterized by speed and constant movement, where individuals are perpetually transitioning from one place to another. Within this rhythm, moments of stillness are often experienced as unease rather than rest, producing a subtle sense of emptiness or anxiety when one is not actively occupied. 

Therefore, we want this project to respond to that condition by inviting players to slow down and inhabit a quiet, uninterrupted ride, with an experience that foregrounds the act of travel itself and encourages engagement with strangers who are typically overlooked or avoided in everyday life.