{"id":833992,"date":"2025-03-14T12:12:26","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T17:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/14\/haste-broken-worlds-is-silly-fast-momentum-based-fun-and-theres-a-demo-out-now\/"},"modified":"2025-03-14T12:12:26","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T17:12:26","slug":"haste-broken-worlds-is-silly-fast-momentum-based-fun-and-theres-a-demo-out-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/14\/haste-broken-worlds-is-silly-fast-momentum-based-fun-and-theres-a-demo-out-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Haste: Broken Worlds is silly-fast, momentum-based fun, and there\u2019s a demo out now"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-component=\"article-header\">\n<figure>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/Haste-Broken-Worlds-Wishlisted.jpg?width=1920&#038;height=1920&#038;fit=bounds&#038;quality=80&#038;format=jpg&#038;auto=webp\" target=\"_blank\" data-lightbox=\"true\"><br \/>\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/Haste-Broken-Worlds-Wishlisted.jpg?width=880&#038;quality=80&#038;format=jpg&#038;auto=webp\"  loading=\"eager\" alt=\"Speeding through a floating forest in the Haste: Broken Worlds demo.\" width=\"880\" height=\"495\" fetchpriority=\"high\"><br \/>\n  <\/a><figcaption>\n        <span><br \/>\nImage credit:          <cite>Rock Paper Shotgun\/Landfall<\/cite><br \/>\n        <\/span><br \/>\n      <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div data-component=\"article-content\">\n<p>I\u2019m sorry to announce that I am <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rockpapershotgun.com\/notes-from-the-tribes-3-rivals-playtest-its-fun-but-is-it-tribes\">yet<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rockpapershotgun.com\/ten-pc-games-i-could-have-played-in-full-during-the-time-i-spent-failing-to-connect-to-elden-ring-nightreign-on-ps5\">again<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rockpapershotgun.com\/titanfall-and-tribes-fans-dont-miss-skyfaring-shooter-echo-point-nova\">going<\/a> to speak highly of a game about going up and down hills, real quickly like. Haste: Broken Worlds, from <a data-keyword=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rockpapershotgun.com\/games\/clustertruck\">Clustertruck<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rockpapershotgun.com\/games\/totally-accurate-battlegrounds\">Totally Accurate Battlegrounds<\/a> devs Landfall, is very much about the haste first and the broken worlds second, sending you hurtling across the inclines of its cartoon gauntlets at what Chris Morris would call <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/D-RS_yEI7IM?si=7nerZEEVhVirx0_O&#038;t=31\">terrifying legspeeds<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div>\n<a aria-label=\"HASTE: Broken Worlds Teaser - Free demo out on Steam now!\" data-lightbox=\"false\" data-platform=\"youtube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/voVRktkV62A?autoplay=1\" onclick=\"((e) => { e.preventDefault(); e.currentTarget.closest(&#8216;.video_wrapper&#8217;).innerHTML = e.currentTarget.querySelector(&#8216;template&#8217;).innerHTML; enableElements(); })(event)&#8221; title=&#8221;Click to play video from YouTube&#8221;><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cover image for YouTube video\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/voVRktkV62A\/hqdefault.jpg\"><span>HASTE: Broken Worlds Teaser &#8211; Free demo out on Steam now!<\/span><br \/>\n<template><br \/>\n<iframe allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/voVRktkV62A?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/voVRktkV62A?autoplay=1\" title=\"HASTE: Broken Worlds Teaser - Free demo out on Steam now!\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe> <\/template><br \/>\n<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=voVRktkV62A\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/figure>\n<p>As per Tribes\/Tiny Wings convention, Haste is a game of momentum, where you\u2019ll need to build up speed on downwards slopes before launching yourself off the rises. Spend too long off the ground, though, and all that meddlesome air friction will slow you right down, thus encouraging a satisfyingly rapid-yet-graceful series of up-down manoeuvres. Like a dolphin, who\u2019s really good at <a data-keyword=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rockpapershotgun.com\/games\/exo-one\">Exo One<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While you don\u2019t do much <em>except<\/em> run forwards in Haste, it is keen to put up more of a challenge than just finding the perfect racing line. Randomised obstacles range from simple trees and spiked vines to giant lasers, rising lava pools that obscure all but a precious few slopes, and eventually, the rocket barrages of a hefty robot you defeat by faceplanting into at 120kph. <\/p>\n<p>Dodging all these while keeping your pace up does engage a sufficiently diverse selection of brain parts to feel worthwhile and satisfying, and fatigue is rarely an issue as each level takes less than a minute to clear. In between, you can select your next dash from a branching map, with occasional stops to refill your health or buy sprint-assisting gadgets using collected crystals.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<a data-lightbox=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/Haste-Broken-Worlds-boss.jpeg?width=1920&#038;height=1920&#038;fit=bounds&#038;quality=80&#038;format=jpg&#038;auto=webp\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dodging rockets from a boss robot in the Haste: Broken Worlds demo.\" height=\"388\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/Haste-Broken-Worlds-boss.jpeg?width=690&#038;quality=80&#038;format=jpg&#038;auto=webp\"  width=\"690\"> <\/a><figcaption><span>Image credit: <cite>Rock Paper Shotgun\/Landfall<\/cite><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Hang on a tic. Branching paths? Run-specific upgrades? Why, this is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rockpapershotgun.com\/games\/hades\">Hades<\/a> in unusually aerodynamic parachute pants, which I guess also means we\u2019re Wishlisting a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rockpapershotgun.com\/best-roguelike-games-pc\">roguelike<\/a> for about the fiftieth time this week. Sorry for that as well. Except, again, Haste doesn\u2019t really care about making you repeat yourself into finally achieving one ultimate, golden run. Upgrades are nice and all, but deep down it\u2019s still a test of speed, not builds \u2013 and with some effective application of the &#8216;glide downwards&#8217; key, there\u2019s an awful lot of speed to be had.<\/p>\n<p>At its best, Haste is thrillingly kinetic, repeatedly spiking you with the rush of near-missing deathtraps at Mach 1. Even the soundtrack eggs you on, its pounding electronica slowing down as you do; biff a landing or misjudge an obstacle and it starts to sound almost panicked in its haggardness, as if the music itself is begging you to spin back up the giant hamster wheel that powers its continued existence.<\/p>\n<p>Not everything is conducive to that delicious sense of forward velocity. One of the special stages merely has you painting the colour back into a monochrome island by running around it in circles, an incongruous non-challenge given the exceedingly generous time limit. As a longtime connoisseur of go-fast hill sliding games, however, I can say that for the most part, Haste: Broken Worlds is exactly my speed. You can see if it\u2019s yours as well with the <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/1796470\/HASTE_Broken_Worlds\/\">Steam demo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> James Archer<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rockpapershotgun.com\/haste-broken-worlds-is-silly-fast-momentum-based-fun-and-theres-a-demo-out-now\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image credit: Rock Paper Shotgun\/Landfall I\u2019m sorry to announce that I am yet again going to speak highly of a game about going up and down hills, real quickly like. Haste: Broken Worlds, from Clustertruck and Totally Accurate Battlegrounds devs Landfall, is very much about the haste first and the broken worlds second, sending you<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":833993,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1952,107571],"tags":[8663,142484],"class_list":{"0":"post-833992","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-broken","8":"category-haste","9":"tag-broken","10":"tag-haste"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=833992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/833993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}