How to Play

Rhett's Route Patrol

Controls

• Desktop: SPACE to fire (both cannons), ↑ or W to jump, ←/→ to dodge, R to retry, ESC for menu.
• Mobile: on-screen control bar — left/right arrows to dodge, up arrow to jump, FIRE button for both cannons.
• Pressing fire shoots both the forward chaingun and the upward angle cannon. One fire press = one fire event.

Enemies

• Floating hazards (toilets, furnaces, breaker panels, water heaters) — shoot them to kill. Most go down in one hit; some return fire.
• Bobcat dozers — ground enemies you can either shoot OR jump on top of to crush. Either way you get the kill.
• Priuses — bullet-proof. Bullets ping off (PING!). You must jump them or land on top to crush. Don't waste fire — those misses hurt your combo.

Bosses

Each level ends with a boss fight. Bosses take many hits — keep firing while dodging their patterns. Bosses 2–4 shoot back; the L1 boss doesn't.

• L1 — Mega Toilet: chill warm-up. No return fire.
• L2 — Furnace Mothership: rapid bolts from multiple hatches.
• L3 — Breaker Mainframe: shielded by four outlets. Shoot the outlets first to drop the shield, then hit the main body. Outlets respawn after a window.
• L4 — Permit Inspector: drone descends, then a pudgy inspector rappels down on a rope and starts throwing rolls of red tape. Tape on the ground costs you points if you don't jump it. Kill the inspector to win.

Powerups

• Coffee Cup (green Starbucks-style cup with +) — grants 15 seconds of invincibility. Your truck transforms into a lifted monster truck with bigger tires and a cyan aura. Two of these appear during a run.
• Ghost Truck (cyan ghostly mini-truck with +) — extra life. Spawns once, after the L2 boss.

Scoring & Accuracy

• Score climbs passively for every unit of distance the truck travels.
• Kills add a bonus multiplied by your combo (up to 4×). The combo grows on hits and drops by 1 on every missed fire event.
• A fire event counts as a HIT if either bullet (forward or angle) actually damages a hazard. Pinging off Priuses or shielded targets doesn't count.
• Mash the fire button and most of your shots will miss → low accuracy, broken combo, low score. Aimed bursts are how you climb the leaderboard.
• Red tape rolls on the ground deduct -1,500 points if you walk through them. Jump over them.

Lives & Checkpoints

• Start with 5 lives. Take damage → lose 1.
• Beating a boss saves a checkpoint. Dying after a checkpoint respawns you at the start of the current level with your score rolled back to the checkpoint snapshot.
• Running out of lives is game over — your final score is what gets submitted to the leaderboard.

Run Length

A clean run takes about 4–5 minutes. Each level is roughly 30–45 seconds of approach plus the boss fight. Length, density, and enemy aggression scale with each level.