Distance is a modern iteration of a rarely-seen genre: The Racer-Platformer. Most of your time in the single-player campaigns will consist of driving fast, jumping, and trying to land cleanly on other sections of road. There are obstacles aplenty, gorgeous visuals, and great music.

The biggest problem is, the more you die, the less fun it is. You can really see the developers struggle with this in the first campaign, where there are significant stretches of time with minimal difficulty. The bonus campaign, Return to Echoes, feels much more like the difficulty that veterans of the free prequel, Nitronic Rush, will be expecting. In Return to Echoes, just keeping track of which way is down can be a challenge.

Once you've finished the main campaign, the Steam Workshop compatible Level Editor provides endless additional content. I highly recommend you try at least a few of the most popular tracks. I'm very surprised that there's no Steam Cloud saving yet; it could be in the pipeline.

All in all, this is a solid game with lots of love and lots of polish. Recommended.

[h1]Rush 2049 meets Super Meat Boy[/h1] [b]Distance is a modern iteration of a rarely-seen genre: The Racer-Platformer.[/b] Most of your time in the single-player campaigns will consist of driving fast, jumping, and trying to land cleanly on other sections of road. There are obstacles aplenty, gorgeous visuals, and great music. [b]The biggest problem is, the more you die, the less fun it is.[/b] You can really see the developers struggle with this in the first campaign, where there are significant stretches of time with minimal difficulty. The bonus campaign, Return to Echoes, feels much more like the difficulty that veterans of the free prequel, [i]Nitronic Rush[/i], will be expecting. In Return to Echoes, just keeping track of which way is down can be a challenge. [b]Once you've finished the main campaign, the Steam Workshop compatible Level Editor provides endless additional content.[/b] I highly recommend you try at least a few of the most popular tracks. I'm very surprised that there's no Steam Cloud saving yet; it could be in the pipeline. All in all, this is a solid game with lots of love and lots of polish. Recommended.