Draw the Road

How to play Draw the Road

1. Drag to draw the missing road. Your line becomes solid asphalt the moment you lift: bridges across gaps, ramps up to a ledge, dips under a crane.
2. Press Drive (Space). The van drives itself at a steady speed: climbs slow it down, a climb steeper than about 40° stalls it, and a downhill builds speed for a jump.
3. Stop on the drop point by the house to deliver. Water, a fall, a crusher, flipping over or stalling ends the run, and the card tells you which.
4. Earn a star for delivering, one for every package along the way, and one for using ink at or under the star mark on the ink bar. Three stars open a Rush hour time to beat.
5. Missed? Edit road brings your road back with the van's last path dotted in. Tap or click a road to select it, then Delete it; Undo removes the last one and Clear starts over.
6. Later districts add water, drawbridges and lifts on a cycle, crushers, boost strips, no-ink zones and a van that drives left. Read the dashed outlines: that is where a moving part will be.

About this game

Draw the Road is a physics puzzle about one simple job: get the delivery van home. Every street at dusk is missing a piece, and the only tool you have is a limited supply of ink. Whatever you draw becomes real asphalt with a dashed centre line, and when you press Drive the van takes it at a steady cruising speed while the physics engine decides what happens. Gentle ramps climb, anything steeper than about 40 degrees stalls, a downhill builds the speed you need to jump a gap, and a sharp kink can tip the van over. Thirty-two handmade levels across four districts each bring something new: the Suburb teaches bridges, hills and drops; the Harbour adds water that ends the run, cranes you cannot draw through and drawbridges on a timer; the Works adds crushers, boost strips and steam vents; and Uptown sends you across rooftops, through lift shafts and down a tower block with a van that drives the other way. Each level has three stars for delivering, collecting every package and saving ink, and a Rush hour time to beat once you have all three. A new Daily route is generated every day and checked to be solvable, with a streak to keep, and five van liveries unlock as you go. Your progress stays in this browser, and a reload brings back the level you were on with your road still drawn.

Controls

• DragDraw a road (mouse)
• ClickSelect a road you drew
• SpaceEnterDrive, then Next on the result card
• ZDeleteUndo the last road, or delete the selected one
• CClear the road
• RStop the van and edit the road
• PEscPause and resume
• MCity map
• DDaily route (on the map)

On a phone or tablet: Draw with a finger: a magnifier above your finger shows exactly where the road goes. Drive, Undo and Clear are the big buttons under the street when upright and beside it when sideways; tap a road to select it and Undo turns into Delete. Pause and the city map sit at the top. Left-handed and Vibrate are in the pause menu.