Insurance Hunter

Insurance Hunter was one of those odd, simple games that felt right at home in the Flash era. You'd find it on a portal site, load it up in your browser, and be playing in seconds. It had that specific kind of low-stakes, slightly absurd premise that made those games so easy to pick up and just as easy to forget.

You control a small, top-down car from an overhead view. Your job is to cause as much vehicular damage as possible. You drive into traffic, ramming other cars to rack up a monetary total for the repairs. The arrow keys handle your movement, while the space bar activates a temporary weapon, like a brief speed boost or a ramming ability, to help you hit harder. The game moves quickly; traffic is constant, and avoiding a crash for too long feels impossible, which is sort of the point. It creates a hectic, destructive loop where you're just trying to cause one more pile-up before your own car gives out. The whole thing feels like controlled, silly chaos.