My admiration for David Lynch began when an older sibling of a friend halted a 13th birthday festivity to demand we watch Eraserhead. This kind of introduction to a classic horror film is typical—often experienced in a friend’s basement, through unauthorized viewings, or via a recommendation from a laid-back sibling. Similarly, my first encounter with Easy Delivery Co. involved a friend urging me to stop everything because there’s a game where you play as a cat driving a kei truck.

Admittedly, these two experiences seem unrelated at first glance. However, Lynch’s influence, especially from Twin Peaks, is evident in Sam Cameron’s creation, described on Steam as “a relaxing driving game, with definitely no secrets.”

In Easy Delivery Co., your journey begins softly. You assume the role of an unnamed black cat, depicted in a style reminiscent of Animal Crossing on the GameCube, employed as a delivery driver in a tranquil mountain town. Day and night, you transport goods between stores and businesses buried under a relentless blizzard. Like in real-life delivery jobs, resting isn’t an option. Instead, you rely on energy drinks and coffee to fend off the icy chill threatening as soon as you step out of your snug kei truck cabin.

The frigid air is likely your first clue of the underlying mystery. Failing to fend off the cold while heading to a vending machine or delaying in closing your truck’s tailgate briefly whisks you to a shadowy, seemingly infinite maze, before you awaken to continue your deliveries. As you explore further towns, you’ll notice all the shopkeepers curiously look the same. Then there’s MK, the lone character encountered outdoors—and the sole dog in town—who guides you away from the monotonous deliveries to uncover the mountain’s secrets.

Easy Delivery Co. isn’t intricate. You drive, collect items, and use your earnings to facilitate more deliveries. This low-poly blend of Lake and Silent Hill offers a captivating premise, though the narrative can feel disjointed as it shifts from a series of seemingly random tasks to its climactic storyline.

There are a few rough spots, too. Among some minor glitches, dropping cargo—which happens frequently on slippery roads—can occasionally leave you unable to pick it up, despite it being right in front of you. However, these issues aren’t game-breaking. The specific bug can be resolved by abandoning the task and selecting another, as Easy Delivery Co. is forgiving, with minimal penalties for leaving tasks or having a bumpy ride.

Driving, the thing you’ll do the most in this game, is relaxing without being passive, a hard balance to strike. Setting Easy Delivery Co. in a snowy tangle of mountain roads, delivering a variety of items that impact how your truck handles, is a smart turn. You can zone out somewhat, but not completely, as you have to adjust for the conditions and loads. This is something you’ll become accustomed to after you careen off the road and roll down the mountain a few times — something I did a little more often for playing with the perfectly manageable keyboard controls, rather than a controller. None of that is frustrating. In fact, more than once a mistake led to an accidental shortcut, achieved mostly by somehow surviving a lengthy cartwheel down an incline with my cargo intact.

If I have one glaring issue with Easy Delivery Co., it’s the balance between direction and freedom. Many mechanics in-game are found in readable tutorials but also able to be puzzled out. For instance, I appreciated being able to ignore guidance and work out how to make coffee myself or that my lighter will let me stay out in the cold for longer. Being ushered through the game’s main quest by MK, I found myself — oddly for someone usually allergic to obfuscation — wishing there was more of the central mystery to discover independently, more secrets beyond the odd collectible to solve myself. Though that, I think, comes from a desire to spend more time in Easy Delivery Co.’s eerier side. Either that or I’m just a cat person.

It’s a sign of how versatile Easy Delivery Co. can be, however. You can, if you’re inclined, race through the game’s main story with minimal deliveries in the space of a few hours. You can also completely ignore it — and MK — and stay frozen in a sequence of deliveries, basking in the low-poly, nostalgic environment and listening to catchy jingles through the radio.

My favorite way to play was to make Easy Delivery Co. small in the corner of my screen, where it remained perfectly visible and playable, while watching YouTube or TV… which may have contributed to how much time I spent off-road. I might be biased, if only because Easy Delivery Co. feels like it’s been developed from a Venn diagram of my specific interests (especially adorably proportioned motor vehicles). But one of my gaming holy grails is something I can play and enjoy while watching something else to pass tired hours — in Easy Delivery Co. I’ve finally found that.

_{Easy Delivery Co. is available now on Steam.}