Parking Slide strips away the layered strategy of classic slide puzzles like Rush Hour, asking only that you identify which car can exit the lot next. You click and drag vehicles horizontally or vertically to clear a path, but each car either leaves completely or the move fails—there's little middle ground between success and restarting. Those seeking genuine puzzle depth may find the straightforward sequencing tedious, though control inconsistencies and occasional collision glitches make even simple solutions frustrating.
About this game
Parking Slide is a puzzle game where the player must remove all the cars from the parking lot without colliding. For this, you can click on the car and drag horizontally or vertically.
What players are saying
▼ Not recommended0 hrs
If you've ever played one of the "Rush Hour"-like puzzle slide games, you'll be disappointed with this. Cars have no intermediary state; one slide removes them completely, or the move fails you. Therefore, you only need to look for a piece that can leave unimpeded, then the next, then the next. It's never more complicated than that.
You can fail by sliding a car in the wrong direction (an issue that wouldn't matter if the hitboxes for grabbing cars weren't so slippery), or by sliding a car out into another car while it's exiting the lot (doesn't really add a degree of challenge, just wait a moment and THEN slide the piece out. Why was this even added in? Cars can still easily clip through each other, just not while exiting the lot.)
Finally, cars orientated vertically in the leftmost column can potentially slide directly up, into the grass and tree stump, and then they will exit normally. This visually-unsuggested path simplifies a handful of puzzles beyond their original simplicity.
It's a very simple puzzle game with the Next Move being a matter of process of elimination and occasionally some pointless waiting. Recommended for children ages 6-10. I'd refund it, but I've already beaten the game's small number of levels and it was purchased at a discount. Not worth the trouble.
Got this game in a bundle. At a glance it looked kinda fun, but the concept and difficulty go basically nowhere. It controls very poorly (telling cars to move is wildly inconsistent and rather frustrating), doesn't appear to have any sort of options menu for audio or graphics or anything, and has its fair share of glitches (including one where cars occasionally "bounce" and crash into stuff, failing the level regardless of whether your move was correct or not). If you're looking purely for steam achievements or puzzle game "collection", it might be worth it. Took 24 minutes for me to beat. If you're looking for something to kill half an hour or to entertain a kid, go for it. If you're looking for an actual puzzle game, sadly I can't recommend this. The concept has potential, but as it stands the sluggish gameplay, control issues, bugs, and complete lack of difficulty or variety make it simply unenjoyable, at least for me.
It took me a total of 31 minutes to complete the current 48 levels - It probably would have been faster if I didn't keep failing levels because I was a little too impatient at telling cars to go. I also had a couple of times where I tried telling a second car to move and instead it just made the first car reverse and crash into a wall which made me restart the level.
I feel this game would actually be far more interesting if they told you which order the cars needed to leave the exit. At times you had about 6 cars you could move, and this would make you decide which to go for first. It could also add an increased level of challenge - For example, you might have a green car blocked in by a red car, but need the green car to leave first. To solve this you'd have to send the red car the long way around, and then sneak the green car out quickly so that it arrived at the exit ahead of the red car.
An okay puzzle game for the £0.56 I paid, but nothing unique or interesting about the gameplay. None of the puzzles were at all difficult or required me to think - just a casual game to waste a bit of time on.