{"id":1361968,"date":"2025-10-18T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/HWNVhofciwT7cPvkwJXBAL"},"modified":"2025-10-18T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T12:00:00","slug":"drive-a-truck-filled-with-explosives-across-horrible-terrain-in-this-gnarly-mix-of-snowrunner-and-baby-steps-inspired-by-one-of-hollywoods-most-misunderstood-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/drive-a-truck-filled-with-explosives-across-horrible-terrain-in-this-gnarly-mix-of-snowrunner-and-baby-steps-inspired-by-one-of-hollywoods-most-misunderstood-films\/","title":{"rendered":"Drive a truck filled with explosives across horrible terrain in this gnarly mix of Snowrunner and Baby Steps\u2014inspired by one of Hollywood’s most misunderstood films"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Film sickos will instantly recognise the inspiration behind Nitroglyerine!<\/a> which sees you drive a truck filled with volatile explosives across terrain more rugged than Glen Powell’s chin. Its rough and ready demo oozes with the same the lo-fi tension of William Friedkin’s Sorcerer<\/a>, a nihilistic thriller that was critically panned and buried at the box office by the runaway success of Star Wars, but has been (rightly) reappraised in subsequent years.<\/p>\n

If you haven’t seen Sorcerer, I strongly recommend you check it out. But in the meantime, you can think of Nitroglycerine! as a mix of Snowrunner<\/a> and Baby Steps<\/a>. The playable demo skips the surprisingly long setup of Friedkin’s film, planting your straight in the cabin of a snorting, grunting ’70s flatbed loaded with a single crate of pure liquid concussion. You’re then tasked with navigating a twisting morass of slippery, crumbling dirt tracks with nothing but a crude map and nerves of steel.<\/p>\n

You get three trucks and three opportunities with which to complete the journey, while gas stations you pass serve as checkpoints. In my initial run, I only reached the first checkpoint before blowing all three trucks to kingdom come. The challenge partly comes down to the fact that your driver has foolishly neglected to secure his load for the journey. This means the crate slides around the flatbed like a bar of soap, creaking and cracking with each nudge and jostle until the deadly bottles contained within are exposed to the open air.<\/p>\n

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