AFTERPAD

Updated: Trigger on the Road and Real Parking 3D

Clius recently updated a few of their driving games to support MFi game controllers.

Real Parking 3D is one of a growing genre of “parking simulator” games that seem to have popped up over the past few years. The goal is to park your car as well as possible in a series of increasingly difficult levels. As far as I can tell, this genre grew out of software originally designed to help educate teens about how to park, and quickly took on a life of it’s own as a legitimate genre. There are no shortage of parking sims on iOS, but this is the first with controller support.

Trigger on the Road is a more traditional driving-platformer game, with outlandish platforming levels across interesting backdrops. It controls identically to Real Parking, but due to the level design, it plays more like a game than a simulation.

Both games are entertaining enough top-down driving games, for fans of that genre. I strongly prefer the more free-form gameplay and level design of Trigger to Real Parking, but parking game fans might prefer the former. Both games are free to try, so if either seem intriguing, give them a shot.