Press kit

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Everything on this page may be used in coverage of Rowdy Neighbors Games, Aisle Be Back and Thrust Roadster. For questions, interviews or test builds, email hello@rowdyneighborsgames.com.

Fact sheet

Developer

Rowdy Neighbors Games, LLC, an independent game studio

Based in

Olathe, Kansas, USA

Website

rowdyneighborsgames.com

Press contact

hello@rowdyneighborsgames.com

Social

X (@RowdyNbrsGames), YouTube, itch.io, Twitch

Games

Aisle Be Back: Windows PC, on Steam. Coming soon; the release date and price haven't been announced.

Thrust Roadster: Android, on Google Play. In testing ahead of release. Free, with one banner ad and no real-money purchases.

Description

Rowdy Neighbors Games is an independent game studio in Olathe, Kansas, making Aisle Be Back for PC on Steam, where you restock a 70,786-item big-box store after its robot goes rogue, and Thrust Roadster for Android on Google Play, an endless highway runner in a thruster-powered electric car.

Aisle Be Back

Platform: Windows PC, on Steam
Release: Coming soon. The release date and price haven't been announced.
Players: Single-player
Input: Keyboard & mouse, or a controller with full support. Button prompts switch between Xbox, PlayStation and keyboard.
Language: English
Requirements: Windows 10 / 11, 64-bit. Vulkan-capable GPU (GTX 1660, RTX 3050 or RX 5600 class for 1080p). 8 GB RAM. About 250 MB. From the current playtest build, subject to change.

In one line

A rogue robot flung 70,786 products across a big-box hardware store and locked you in. Restock it all, or you're fired.

In a paragraph

You're the only one on the overnight shift at Hammer & Hearth Home Center. At 2:14 AM, corporate pushed a firmware update to STOCKBOT, the store's new restocking robot, in the middle of a thunderstorm. It decided the most efficient place for every product was everywhere. Then STOCKBOT's security module slammed the steel shutters down: STORE LOCKDOWN until inventory reconciles to 100%. The district manager arrives for the Grand Reopening at 7 AM, and she has made it very clear: restock it all, or you're fired.

Features

Finish product lines. Every copy of one product in one size makes a line. Finish it for Hearth Rewards points, and clear a whole aisle for a bonus.
Big goods are big. Fridges, water heaters, wheelbarrows and doors can take up several cart slots. You'll need a bigger Flatbed Cart before you can haul a full-size fridge.
Sale tags fix the wreck. Finish yellow sale-tagged lines to clear STOCKBOT's mess piece by piece: cartons, broken pallets, runaway carts. The last one puts the forklift back on its wheels.
Piles act like piles. Loose stock heaps up in real piles that slide and settle. Pull an item out of the middle and the rest shifts down.
The mess is real. In the opening cutscene STOCKBOT tears through the front of the store flinging real stock, and every piece it throws lands exactly where you'll find it when your shift starts.
One very big box store. 70,786 items, 272 different products each modeled in-house, 12,240 shelf slots, 24 departments in 8 color-coded zones and 13 aisles across two floors.
Employee gear. 12 pieces with 50 upgrade levels between them, from a bigger Flatbed Cart to rebooted StockBot drones that shelve for you.
Pick your shift. Easy, Normal and Hardcore, plus Speedrun against the clock. No countdown and no game over in Regular Play.
Eight original in-store songs over the PA, from lounge and bossa nova to a country two-step and 80s synth-pop, with a chime before every song.

All brands and products in the store are fictional.

Thrust Roadster

Platform: Android, on Google Play
Release: In testing ahead of its Google Play release. The release date hasn't been announced.
Price: Free, with one banner ad along the bottom of the screen. No video ads and no real-money purchases.
Players: Single-player
Input: Touch: swipes, taps and a double-tap

In one line

An endless highway runner in a thruster-powered electric car. Swipe through traffic, kickflip the cones and keep the battery alive.

In a paragraph

An endless three-lane highway runner for Android. You drive a thruster-powered electric roadster: dodge traffic, kickflip over cones, dive under barriers, ride the ramps onto semi trucks, and grab battery charges before the battery runs dry. Every 1,500 m the scenery changes and the road gets 10% faster, each stage with its own music: Desert Highway, Coastal Road, Neon City and Launch Site.

Features

Five moves, one thumb. Swipe left or right to change lane, up to kickflip over cones, down to dive or skid under barriers, and double-tap to hover over the traffic when the meter says READY. Swipes chain without lifting your finger.
The battery is the clock. Grab charges to keep rolling. A head-on crash costs a third of your battery; with a third or less left, it ends the run.
Boosts and power-ups. Boost packs make you faster and untouchable. Shield, Coin Magnet and Sky Thrust turn up along the way.
A fair road. Every row of obstacles is checked against your speed, so there's always a way through that a real swipe can make in time.
The Garage. Spend the coins you collect on paint, wheels, thruster colours and drivers. Looks only: nothing changes how the car drives.
Missions and upgrades. Three missions at a time, a daily reward, and upgrades that make every power-up last longer.
Smooth on budget phones. If your phone starts to struggle, the game steps its graphics down by itself and keeps the stage art.
A guided first run that teaches each move on a real obstacle.