Dude Theft Auto

Dude Theft Auto is a sandbox crime game squeezed into a browser tab, and its ambitions are exactly as large as they can afford to be. It runs in the browser — no download, no account, no install.

The city is small but open, and the important thing is that you can move through it two ways: on foot, or in whatever car you happen to be standing next to. Shooting, driving and the physics connecting the two are all present, and the game does not spend much time telling you what to do with them — there are objectives if you want them and a lot of city if you do not.

Its reputation comes from the comedy rather than the crime. Characters ragdoll, cars crumple, and the whole thing has the feel of a playground where the developer left the good bugs in. Physics-driven chaos in a small open world is a combination that stays entertaining longer than a scripted mission would, because the funny outcomes are the ones you caused.

It is a mouse-and-keyboard game first, and it loads on mobile with on-screen controls.

On cool games spot this page is the index entry: cover, description, and search terms. The game itself is loaded from a third-party web build in an iframe on Play, so nothing is bundled into the site. It is filed under action and tagged car, so it appears alongside the rest of the car games in the catalog.

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