Plough

The bus is coming. The road isn't open.

Plough is a cosy low-poly game about driving a snowplough through an Alpine village. It's snowing, it won't stop, and everyone needs their road.

Snow doesn't vanish. It moves.

Your blade doesn't remove anything. Snow curls off the end, builds into a bank and stays where you left it. Push it across Frau Huber's freshly shovelled driveway and she'll come out and tell you about it.

• Angle the blade and the snow goes to one side, which may wall in a neighbour.

• Lift the blade to spare a driveway, and leave snow on the road.

• Go straight and push a growing heap to somewhere better.

A board full of jobs

Pick a job at the depot. Each has its own goals, and pays for the ones you haven't met yet.

• New to the job: Mira talks you through the truck one control at a time, with no clock.

• Light snow, First snow, Storm and Night run: get the Postbus through at first light, at dusk, in a whiteout and with only your headlights.

• Market day: clear eight plots between the lanterns on the Oberdorf green so the Christmas market can go up, and keep the bus running down in the village.

• The tree: hitch the trailer, let Herr Rauch load the spruce he felled in his meadow, and bring it up to the green without a bump.

• Into the woods: plough up the forest track, wait while a fallen spruce is sawn through, make the timber lorry room to turn and lead it down before dark.

• Power cut: the village went dark at eleven. Find five switch boxes under the night's snow with Jonas riding along.

• Lights on: thousands of coloured bulbs, five circuits, and Resi in the cab to plug each one in before the whole village walks down to the square.

• Free plough: no job. Pick the time and the weather and just plough.

Eight machines

A salt plough, a rotary that throws snow fourteen metres, a jet blower, two V-ploughs, a wing plough, a tow plough and a sweeper. Each one puts the snow somewhere else. Up on the pass, only the rotary gets through.

A village that answers back

Sixteen neighbours with names, faces and voices. Bury a driveway and the snow comes flying back. Children turn your heaps into sledging hills. The farm dog races you along his fence while Lini cheers him on, two cows at their stable doors follow you past and moo back at your horn, and if you stand still long enough a sparrow lands on your mirror. The washing on the line is frozen solid.

K-ALP 98.4 in the cab

The valley's own radio station: a DJ, country songs written for the game, ads, news about how your last morning went, and villagers phoning in.

Every hour, every weather

Morning, midday, dusk and night, with street lamps that come on one by one, lit windows on the snow, lanterns that swing in a storm and a beacon you see before anything else. Past the village there's the Oberdorf, a forest and the pass, with a small ski resort at its end.

Built with our players

We add new jobs every week, and many of them start as something a player asked for. Tell us which job you want next.

Features

• Ten jobs and Free plough, with new jobs added every week

• Eight machines that each move snow differently

• Snow that stays where you push it

• Sixteen villagers with voices

• An in-game radio station

• Full controller support

• Settings for camera shake and whiteouts