Routes
Each route is a real road in Sudan’s capital, with its traffic lights, speed bumps and landmarks. Drive close to a well-known landmark and a card pops up about it, like Al-Mogran, where the White Nile and the Blue Nile meet.
Nile Street to University Street, past Al-Fateh Tower.
Khartoum, Khartoum North (Bahri) and Omdurman, across three bridges.
Africa Street to Obeid Khatim Street.
Through central Khartoum, next to the Great Mosque: narrow streets, heavy traffic and crowds.
Game modes
- Free drive
- Drive as far as you can without crashing, and earn pounds for distance and near misses.
- Fares
- Pick up passengers by the road and take them to real landmarks. They ask “how much?” and you haggle: cheap, fair or pricey. Watch out for the grandmother with her bags, the student who will pay the rest tomorrow, and the man who gives directions: “turn right… no, no, I meant left”.
- Bus conductor
- Drive a Hiace minibus or a Coaster bus and stop at the bus stops. The conductor shouts the destination, people climb in, and each one pays.
- Beat the clock
- Reach the checkpoints before time runs out.
- Challenge me
- An online race with a friend. Pick the distance, send the link on WhatsApp, and you both start at the same moment.
Vehicles
- Rickshaw (raksha)
- Amjad minivan
- Yellow taxi
- Accent
- Boxer motorbike
- Hilux pickup
- Land Cruiser
- Hiace minibus
- Coaster bus
- Daffar truck
- Donkey cart (karo)
Buy them in the garage with the pounds you earn. The decorations shop has horns (the lorry horn, a zaghrouda ululation), curtains and lights for the rickshaw, bumper stickers, and roof signs: Al-Hilal, Al-Merrikh, or the flag of Sudan.
The Sudanese street as it is
- Tea ladies behind their charcoal stoves and jebena coffee pots, water jars (zeer) and rope beds under the neem trees.
- Goats and donkeys crossing the road, and a donkey that sometimes stops in the middle.
- Speed bumps: half of them painted yellow and black, the rest a surprise.
- Speed cameras and fines, and traffic lights at the real junctions.
- Petrol stations with attendants and queues, some of them real ones from the map.
- Quiet, busy or chaotic traffic, in the morning, at sunset, at night, or in a haboob dust storm.
Questions people ask
Is it free?
Yes. The pounds in the game are earned by driving and carrying passengers, and they buy vehicles and decorations.
What language is the game in?
Sudanese Arabic: the menus, the passengers and the bus conductor all speak it.
Does it work on a phone?
Yes, in the browser on Android, iPhone and computers. You can also add it to your home screen like an app.
Does it need the internet?
Only the first time. After that it runs offline, except Challenge me, which is an online race.
How do I play with a friend?
Open Challenge me, pick a distance (2, 5 or 10 km) and send your friend the link or the code. Both players need an account.
Where does the map come from?
From OpenStreetMap, the open map of the world that people everywhere build together. Google Maps is not used.