Stick Shift (video game)

Stick Shift is a 2015 video game by independent developer Robert Yang. Described by Yang as "an autoerotic night-driving game", the game is an erotic video game and art game in which players "pleasure a gay car". Created following the development of games featuring more "uncanny" characters, Yang aimed to create a game that explored eroticism through the facial expressions of a player character, using the "humorously masculine" innuendo of manual driving as a metaphor. Upon release, Stick Shift received positive attention, with some critics expressing amuseument and bewilderment at the game's absurd and erotic concept, and others praising the game's uniqueness, with several drawing comparisons to the themes of the J.G. Ballard novel Crash.