Drive the rank
A top-down minibus-taxi game set in the real city centres of South Africa. It's the streets, the ranks and the hustle of the daily commute — turned into a game.
You drive a 15-seater minibus taxi for one of the local associations. Pull in slow at a rank and the commuters climb aboard — the rankmaster takes his cut, and you're loaded for wherever they're headed. Drop them at the right rank for cash and points, then do it again, faster, before the day runs out and your boss wants his daily Target. Miss the Target too many times and the finance man tows your van away.
It's easy to pick up and hard to master: the streets are thick with rival taxis fighting for the same passengers, pirate operators poaching your load, Metro police watching for an overloaded van or an expired permit, and a maintenance meter that will strand you in traffic if you never service the engine. Bank enough to kit the taxi out in the garage — a stronger engine, better brakes, a bull bar, a sound system that pulls commuters to your door.
Load & drop
Pick up commuters at ranks and street corners, drop them where they're going, earn cash and points across a timed day.
Mind the Walls
Every rank belongs to a crew. Poach from a rival's turf and it escalates — a warning, then enforcers, then somebody makes a phone call.
Upgrade & rank up
Spend your takings in the garage and climb from Gaatjie to Lahnee. Hit the points to unlock the next city.
Three real city centres
The maps are built from the actual streets and taxi ranks of three South African CBDs. Start in Durban; earn your way to the rest.
Durban · Warwick Junction
Nine markets and nearly half a million people a day. Load at Berea Station, Brook Street, Warwick Avenue and the Workshop, up and down Julius Nyerere and Monty Naicker. Open from the start.
Johannesburg · CBD
Bree (Lilian Ngoyi), MTN Noord, Wanderers and Park Station ranks, through Eloff, Rissik and Pritchard. Unlocks as you climb the ranks.
Cape Town · CBD
The Station Deck, Grand Parade and Golden Acre off Adderley and Strand, under the mountain. The reward for going the distance.
Pick your crew
Each city runs on three associations. Your choice sets your colours, your home garage, and whose lanes you have to respect.
The old money of the rank. Their ranks are your safe harbour — and everyone else's Wall.
Deadpan, fatalist, funny. They run their lanes by a book that isn't written down anywhere you can read it.
Proverbs as threats and subwoofers louder than the seats. Cross them twice and somebody makes a phone call.
How to play
One thumb on a phone, or the keyboard on a computer. You'll be loading passengers in about ten seconds.
- Move: on a phone, push the floating joystick the way you want to go — direction steers, how far you push sets your speed. On a computer, use the arrow keys or WASD.
- Load: slow down next to commuters waiting at a rank or on the pavement and they'll climb in, up to fifteen.
- Drop: drive to the rank they want and they get off — cash and points land in your pocket.
- Survive the day: make your Target, service the van in the garage (the 🔧 button at your home rank), renew your permit, and keep clear of rival lanes.
Read up before you drive
More on the game and the world it's built from.
Strategy guide
Loading, dropping, the Walls, Targets, Metro, upgrades and how to climb from Gaatjie to Lahnee.
The real ranks
The public geography behind the maps: Warwick Junction, the Joburg CBD grid, and the Cape Town foreshore.
Words at the rank
A plain-language glossary of the taxi-rank terms the game runs on.
About the Walls
StopStop is about the Walls — the invisible boundaries between one crew's turf and the next. Nobody can show you where they are, and everybody can tell you who got warned for crossing one. In the game, every rank belongs to a crew, and loading in the wrong lane is how the day goes wrong.
It's a game about the daily hustle of the commute: making your Target, keeping the van running, and reading the streets. Quick to pick up, and just mean enough to keep you coming back.