Roadblock Rodeo // Raven Iron Games

The Chase

One city at night. Every light in it is looking for you.

Roadblock Rodeo is a stylised low-poly crime-and-pursuit game in the spirit of the top-down classics, in 3D, with the camera down at street level behind your car. You are the one in the stolen car, and the police want a word.

Every crime raises your Heat, and the police answer harder: patrol cars first, then interceptors and roadblocks across the road ahead. Break their line of sight, dump the hot car for a civilian one, or pay for a respray, and you might just disappear.

A chase takes a few minutes. If it goes wrong, you are back in it in seconds.

Quick Chase. Drop into a solo chase against police AI.
Heat. A five-pip meter that climbs while you cause trouble and the police escalate with it.
Gadgets. Turbo to run, spike strips to drop behind you.
Car stealing. Pull up beside a car and press the button on the prompt to take it. Ditch the hot car for a civilian one.
Pay ’n’ Spray. A fresh coat of paint, and a cooler head.
Bounty. The longer you run, the more it is worth. Only if you get away.

Coming: online play, racers against cops, four to six players. It is not in this version.

Features

What you get in the box.

Neon-noir night city. Lit windows, neon signs over the shopfronts, streetlight pools and red and blue siren light thrown across the road. Low-poly, flat-shaded, bold colours.
Wet streets. The road is dark, glossy and wet, and the neon shows in it.
The chase camera. Down at street level behind your car, with the whole street ahead of you. Tilted top-down and straight top-down are one button away.
Steal any car. Pull up slowly beside a car and a prompt shows the button. Press it, and you are in a new car. If the police did not see it, they are looking for the wrong one.
Heat levels 1 to 5. Patrol cruisers, then interceptors, roadblocks, a helicopter and SUV rammers, and finally heavy units and a city lockdown.
Gadgets. Turbo to run, spike strips to drop behind you.
Pay ’n’ Spray and hideouts. Drive into a Pay ’n’ Spray to change your paint and your luck; the safehouse and the garages are places to break the police’s line of sight.
Gamepad, keyboard and touch. Xbox, PlayStation, Switch and generic pads with their own button names on screen; a keyboard; three touch steering schemes on a phone.
A real soundtrack. A composed synthwave score that climbs with your Heat, engines, sirens and tyres made for the game.
Free to try, then $8.99. The whole game is in the free download, with 8 free chases. Buy it on itch.io when you want to keep playing.
Coming: online. Racers against cops, four to six players, one device each. Not in this version.

Three Cameras

Switch between them at any time, in the middle of a chase: the VIEW button or D-pad up on a pad, C on a keyboard.

The chase camera behind the player's red car, an orange car beside it, and a long night street of lit windows ahead. — **1Chase**The default. Behind the car at street level, for when you want to feel it.

The tilted top-down camera: a red car chased by an orange one down a night street, between lit apartment blocks, with a cyan ring under the player's car. — **2Tilted top-down**The whole street ahead of you, and the roadblocks too.

The straight top-down camera: the same chase seen from directly above, the cars small between pale crossings and rooftops. — **3Straight top-down**The pure map view. Plan your route like a general.

Pictures

Straight from the game.

A night street seen from behind the player's red car, an orange car close beside it, a teal one ahead with its headlights on, and windows lit cyan, amber and magenta up both sides. — **Night run**Headlights, neon windows and the street ahead.

A city block seen from above and at an angle, with a magenta-lit building among grey-blue ones and streetlight pools on the road. — **Pay ’n’ Spray**The magenta one. Drive in hot, drive out clean.

A junction at night seen from above, with a green ring marking a safehouse beside two apartment blocks, and lit crossings. — **Safehouse**Landmarks glow so you can read them at speed.

Every picture here is a frame of the current build. The game is early, and its look is still being worked on, so expect these to change.

Where to Play

Out now on itch.io.

WindowsOut nowKeyboard or gamepad
LinuxOut nowKeyboard or gamepad
AndroidOut nowTouch (three steering schemes) or gamepad

Try it first. The download is free to try, with 8 free chases. When you want to keep playing, buy the game on itch.io for $8.99 and enter your download key in the game to unlock it.

Buy on itch.io

The game keeps your settings and progress on your own device. It has no ads, no accounts and no analytics. The details are in the privacy notes and the terms.

Credits

Who made it, and with what.

The Raven Iron Games hallmark: an iron raven with spread wings over a runic shield. — Raven Iron Games

The A Thorium Wubarrk Production hallmark: a glowing cyan wolf in a ring of runes. — A Thorium Wubarrk Production

An original game by Raven Iron Games. The music, the sound, the world and the words are the studio’s own: a composed synthwave score, and engines, sirens, tyres and impacts all synthesised for the game.

The score is rendered through the MuseScore_General soundfont (MIT licence); its notices travel with the game. Typefaces on this site: Bungee, by The Bungee Project Authors, and Barlow, by The Barlow Project Authors, under the SIL Open Font License, version 1.1: Bungee licence, Barlow licence.

Made with Unity. Roadblock Rodeo is not sponsored by or affiliated with Unity Technologies or its affiliates. Unity is a trademark or registered trademark of Unity Technologies or its affiliates in the U.S. and elsewhere.

Questions: techsupp@ravenirongames.com