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Easy Delivery Co. Review
- Taylor Rioux
- Mar 26
- 5 min read
I love the snow. There’s just something magical about the way it feels when it melts on your skin. Something satisfying about the way it crunches under your feet at certain temperatures. I love the way it shimmers in the sunlight, and the silence you get when there’s heavy snowfall. But snow in video games can't really give you any of that.
In most games, snow exists solely as rugged terrain or adverse weather — a challenge to be overcome or otherwise avoided. In some respects, this is what drew me to Easy Delivery Co. in the first place. Surely, a game that is centered around snow would show it as something more than a thing to be avoided.
Publisher: Oro Interactive Developer: Sam C. Platform: Played on PS5 Availability: Released September 18, 2025 for PC (Steam), and March 26th, 2026 for PS5, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch, iOS, and Android. |
You’ll probably be shocked to learn that this is not the case! Playing as an Animal Crossing-like cat, you’re tasked with delivering goods, using your Kei truck to trudge through a perpetual blizzard. No explanation is given — you’re just set off to your work with very little direction and comfort. Of course, here in the frozen wasteland, the snow makes driving difficult, and spending too much time outside leads to a quick death (or at least something like it).
Thankfully, driving down the winding mountain roads and through the massive snow drifts is fun. Good thing too — it’s just about the only thing you’ll be doing for most of the game. The mechanics of driving are very simple, with only a single button for gas, another for brake and reverse, and a final one for changing perspective into first-person. Annoyingly, the camera does not offer full control, with the game forcing specific perspectives in many areas while driving or walking.
But you can still get the jobs done. There’s a heft to the objects you’re delivering, with each object jostling in the truck bed in different ways depending upon weight, shape, and stacking. A good delivery driver would ensure all the packages arrive intact, but this is of no concern to our feline friend. As long as even one part of the package arrives at its destination, you’ll get paid.
And so the quiet trek through the hillside continues, the light noise of the engine offering a sort of hypnotic droning to lose yourself in. There’s a radio too, but it also feels just a bit like noise. The trips aren’t long, usually, but going back and forth between parts of town or even over to a new area does feel meditative. Nothing is here, nobody goes outside — it's just you and the truck and the package, and that’s all it really needs to be.
But you do have to leave the truck, eventually. Dropping off packages is the biggest reason you’d abandon your sanctuary, escaping the biting cold and blinding whiteness of the world into warmer temps, but dreary environs. Shops are generally dark, and shopkeepers are a bit confused about who you are and even fewer care. Still, many will have something to take with you, whether that’s a new package or some coffee to help keep your body going. Earn enough money through deliveries, and you can even buy reusable tools to assist your journey.
Shops and deliveries aren’t the only time you’ll leave the safety of your cab, either. At certain points, you’ll need to make journeys on foot, staving off the freezing temps using a lighter or by lighting a fire. Food helps keep you warm, too, with soups and coffee offering some reprieve from those biting winter winds. Failure to keep warm doesn't lead to game-ending states, however. For a brief moment in time, you simply exist in this dark, sort of liminal space. There seem to be no entry points or exits; you kind of just run around until you wake up in the real world by your truck once more.
Much of what is happening is unexplained. There is a story, make no mistake, but everything that transpires through Easy Delivery Co. up to the climax can sort of feel like background noise if you’re not really looking for it. The little exposition given is most often delivered by MK, the dog you meet at campfires through various stages of the game. He’ll give you new objectives to complete along the way, like upgrading your vehicle or opening up new doors, but can also point you toward some side objectives, too.
Those side objectives are mostly just there to ease things for you, steering you toward tools that can help you make food and beverages, or drive in snowy terrain more easily. Truthfully, there aren’t many things you can do aside from driving, but there is a fishing mini-game that allows you to catch fish and cook them into soups, whose aforementioned warming properties are essential for some quests. Unfortunately, the fishing itself is not very involved, and fails to capture any long-term attention, despite being the only real distraction afforded to us.
Simple design married with simple visuals — Easy Delivery Co. looks and feels like it is from a simpler time.
The one thing I dislike the most after playing any game or seeing any film is the feeling that I missed something. That there was meant to be more to it than I got out of it, and it was a failure on my part that prevented me from seeing the full picture and enjoying it to the fullest. I think that’s equal parts true and untrue here. I have only completed a single ending, and I don't know if I plan to go back to round up the last bits of playing. I know there is more to this game, but I am content to let it lie. While the driving does have its own calming properties, there wasn't really anything about the gameplay that drew me in further.
As I write, it’s snowing outside — the last remnants of winter in its dying days. It’s a shame, really. Despite the discomfort of the cold, snow presents an opportunity to explore without worry of ticks, other bugs, or mud. When it snows, my dogs plod through the yard and roll around to play, my son watches excitedly through the window, shouting “It’s a winter wonderland!” before we head outside and he tries to catch the flakes on his tongue. Yes, the temperatures here can become frigid, deadly perhaps, but there’s beauty to be found in even the worst circumstances. I think I’ll take a walk.
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