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Traffic Buster is a frantic arcade game about managing a busy intersection

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Traffic Buster is a frantic arcade game about managing a busy intersection
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In Traffic Buster, one wrong gesture could mean the difference between a peaceful traffic stop and a series of exploding school buses.

I feel like the conductor for some kind of horrible, twisted metal symphony of destruction playing this game. It's actually a lot of fun.

Traffic Buster puts you in charge of a four-way intersection.

As cars come from all directions, your job is to either tap on individual vehicles to force them to brake momentarily, or swipe to make them speed up.

Failure means any kind of accident, from a low-speed fender-bender to a multiple car pile-up resulting in devastating explosions and debris.

The destruction keeps piling up too, as long as you don't tap out to start again.

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All the swiping, quick thinking, fast reflexes, and almost puzzle-like management of a chaotic situation makes for a fun, frantic arcade-style game.

Three difficulty modes let you change up the pace too.

There are occasional ads, but you can either pay to have them removed or watch three videos in a row to disable ads for an hour, the latter being a kind of neat feature.

Traffic Buster is free for Android and comes from Djinnworks, the studio behind Rope 'n' Fly and the Bronze Award-winning Stickman Tennis.

Download it from Google Play.

Chloi Rad
Chloi Rad
Chloi games, and Chloi writes, and at some point she made the dangerous decision of merging the two. Now she spends her time formulating words about weird games she finds, playing Dark Souls, and also playing Dark Souls.