While we’re still waiting for more news on Sega’s Crazy Taxi reboot since it was announced in 2023, there’s a new arcade taxi driving game on the horizon. Publisher Current Games has announced a surprise sequel to the 2021 taxi driving game, Taxi Chaos, currently in development by Focuspoint Studios.
Like Crazy Taxi, Taxi Chaos 2 sees you racing around a fictional city picking up passengers and delivering them to their destinations as quickly as possible. You play as Vinny, a returning cabbie from the original game, working in the fictional city of San Valeda.
In addition to picking up passengers, some jobs require you to deliver “fragile cargo, hazardous routes, or oversized loads,” with the extra weight from large loads affecting vehicle handling.
Whereas the first game was unshamedly a Crazy Taxi clone, the sequel has a surprise twist. In Taxi Chaos 2, the city is ruled by aggressive “automated TaxiBots,” which ram you off the road, block routes and steal your passengers in designated zones.
While the premise sounds like science fiction, it’s not entirely removed from reality. Real-world companies like Waymo are currently trialling self-driving taxis on public roads, albeit with human drivers behind the wheel ready to intervene if necessary. Meanwhile, Uber will be trialling so-called robotaxis without human safety drivers in London next spring.
In terms of game modes, Taxi Chaos 2 will feature a traditional arcade mode with leaderboards as well as a chapter-based story mode. No online or local multiplayer modes were announced, however.
Vehicles are also customiseable, with screenshots showcasing cars with front spoilers and outlandish paint jobs.
There’s no release date yet, but Taxi Chaos 2 will be making a stop on PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and Nintendo Switch in winter 2025. There doesn’t appear to be any plans for a native Nintendo Switch 2 version, but the original Switch game should run on Nintendo’s new console.
Released in 2021 and developed by Team6 Studios, the original Taxi Chaos was billed as a spiritual successor to Crazy Taxi but panned by critics for its lack of originality, with a 42 Metascore on Metacritic. At least the sequel is attempting to steer the series in a different direction.
Since then, Team6 was closed in 2024 and renamed Focuspoint Studios, which co-developed the combat racer Cyber Clutch: Hot Import Nights, which released on consoles last month.
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