JellyCar Worlds

JellyCar Worlds is the long-awaited modern entry in solo developer Walaber's JellyCar series, returning more than a decade after the last entry to a property that started on early mobile devices and accumulated a small cult following before the long hiatus. The game's central conceit is the same as the originals: your car is made of jelly, the world is made of jelly, and the resulting soft-body physics produce a driving-platforming hybrid that doesn't feel quite like anything else in the genre.

The toolkit covers a variety of abilities triggered as you progress through the worlds — Grow makes your car larger, Balloon makes it lighter, Sticky Tires let you climb surfaces normal grip can't manage, Rocket propels you in unhelpful directions, and several more. Each ability changes how the level around you responds, and most stages have a secret exit alongside multiple optional challenges that demand specific ability combinations to find.

Eight themed worlds make up the main campaign, each with its own theme and gameplay mechanics. Beyond the main content, a fully-featured level editor lets you build and share your own squishy playgrounds, and classic levels from earlier games in the series have been restored and bundled in for long-time fans. Drawing your own car designs with an in-game paint tool and even recording your own sound effects to replace the in-game audio give the customisation surface unusual reach, and the sounds and visuals combine to give the experience the texture of a flipbook animation that's quietly come to life.