Today they released AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! – A Reckless Disregard For Gravity on Steam, and I’d preordered it a while ago to take advantage of a discount. Yes, that is its full name.

It’s basically about jumping off of buildings and try to land in a ring at the bottom, scoring as much as you can along the way by ‘hugging’ and ‘kissing’ buildings (get near them once to tag it for a ‘kiss’, but stay close to it for a sustained period for a series of ‘hugs’), hitting glass score plates, flipping off protesters, and spraying graffiti (though I don’t think I’ve unlocked the latter two yet). It’s all about maximizing your score by trying to find the best routes and taking appropriate risks; swing wildly about and you can reach more buildings for kisses and hit more scoring spots, but you’re more likely to bounce or crash.

There’s been a decent variety to the levels so far, with some taking place on a mountain as well, where you have to make sure you keep enough lateral momentum not to crash into the mountainside while still keeping close enough to ‘hug’ it. They can get fairly hard too, with some taking me numerous attempts just to land safely at all, or only scoring one or two stars when I thought I’d done fairly well.

There’s also some kind of surreal dystopian twist to the world it takes place in, seen through things like news updates at the level select screen (reported by the most disinterested DJ ever) and ‘meditations’ you unlock, but that’s just background flavour so far.