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Fact sheet
| Title | SG Bumper Cars: Survive the Siao Traffic |
|---|---|
| Developer | Kopitiam Games (independent, self-funded) |
| Play | sg-bumpercars.app |
| Platforms | Any modern browser, desktop and mobile. Native iOS and Android apps built from the same game. |
| Price | Free. Ads between runs on web, optional in-app purchases on mobile. |
| Genre | Arcade, driving, survival |
| Content | 28-level campaign across 3 chapters, 3 boss fights, 5 bonus modes |
| Languages | English, with Singlish and Manglish dialogue. Fully voice acted. |
| Engine | Three.js and plain JavaScript. No download, no install. |
| Press contact | kopitiam.games@gmail.com |
| Channel | youtube.com/@KopitiamGames |
Boilerplate
One sentence
A free browser game about surviving Singapore's siao traffic, from the Yishun heartlands to the JB Run across the Causeway.
One paragraph
SG Bumper Cars is a free, Singapore-themed arcade driving-survival game. Every car on the road runs its own bad-driver brain: taxis that brake-check you, buses that pull out without signalling, PMD swarms, and rammers who aim. A Singlish taxi-uncle announcer commentates every near-miss. Read the road, thread the gaps, and survive a 28-level campaign across three chapters, three boss fights and five bonus modes. It plays free in any browser on desktop or mobile with nothing to install, and ships as native iOS and Android apps built from the same game.
The angle most writers take
Almost every level is a real Singapore news story: the record COE that starts the plot, the sixteen otters that stopped Orchard Road, the tank that hit a traffic light, the busiest land border on earth. Between runs the game shows real, sourced road-safety statistics, because the chaos is funny and the real cost is not. There is a full, sourced write-up on the real story page.
Key features
- 28 hand-tuned levels across three chapters, from Yishun to Johor, with a documented difficulty curve and deliberate breather levels.
- Traffic that behaves. Five NPC driver brains: cruiser, drifter, braker, speeder, rammer. Reading them on sight is the core skill.
- Three boss fights, each in three phases: DEXTER the ride-hailing driver, the Karang Guni King, and The Klon.
- Five bonus modes, including one that is secretly a road-safety lesson and one that debunks a real fuel-saving myth.
- Over a thousand baked Singlish voice lines, performed in character. Hear them on the cast page.
- No image files. Every model, texture, icon and share card is drawn in code at runtime.
- No install. It opens and plays. That is the whole pitch.
Screenshots
Free to use in coverage. All are 960x540 PNG, straight out of the game with no retouching. Right-click to save, or email us if you need a different size or a specific scene.
Video
Trailers, with full transcripts, are on the videos page, and go up on the YouTube channel as they land. Streamers and video makers are welcome to use game footage freely, monetised or not, with no permission needed.
Quotable lines
"Wah lau eh, this fella never check blind spot!"
Taxi Uncle, the announcerDEXTER: "Surge pricing applies to your FUNERAL."
DEXTER, Chapter 1 boss"Below three-quarter at the border, $500 fine. Above, you wasted cheap petrol. Cannot win one."
Taxi Uncle, Level 22The parody note
SG Bumper Cars is a work of satire. Place names, landmarks, incidents and cultural references are used affectionately for comic effect and do not imply any affiliation with, sponsorship by, or endorsement from any person, brand, company or government agency. Please keep that clear in coverage. Any resemblance is the joke, not a claim.
Contact
Review copies are not a thing here, because the game is free and takes no installing: just open sg-bumpercars.app. For interviews, specific assets, or anything else: kopitiam.games@gmail.com.