r/racinggames 1d ago

Mods 🏁 What Are You Playing This Week?

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Welcome to this week's racing game discussion thread.

What are you playing? What game surprised you recently ? Share screenshots, stories, progress and recommendations.


r/racinggames 12h ago

News Thanks to your feedback, my simcade combat racer is better than ever. Now I need even more feedback!

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Hello again r/racinggames!

This community had great interest in DIVEBOMB: Weaponized Racing and after my last post about the demo release, you have provided lots of valuable feedback about the game and I am very grateful. I have released Demo Version 1.0 (10) which I believe provides some of the polish the demo lacked in version 0.95.

Feedback Changes:

  • Many of you stated that the UI was crowded, distracting and hard to read, so I have overhauled the UI to make it more readable, less distracting while still trying to keep the Hologram AR style you have liked.
  • The camera movement was criticized for being too rigid and not appropriate for the physics of the game. I have overhauled the camera rig completely, now the camera has a less active, more natural feel that is more fitting with the simcade physics.
  • Many of you emphasized how at least sound settings should be accessible through the pause menu so I have added sound settings and a few more settings to the pause menu UI.
  • You have stated that the marketing assets (Steam Capsule Art etc.) have made the game look more like a tarmac supercar racer, so I have remade the capsule art and marketing material to reflect the nature of the game.
  • I have added AI use disclaimer as one of you stated I should. (No Gen AI art anywhere, only AI assisted tools for image editing and coding support)

Important Bug Fixes:

  • I found a physics bug that caused cars to have almost double the torque they should have which caused a chain of other issues that I was compensating using handling tweaks, but now it is fixed and the cars feel much better to drive and much more predictable.
  • I have tweaked the gear ratios of every car, basing them on similar specification cars from real life now that the torque calculations are correct which leads to much more closer racing and road cars that do not feel like race cars.
  • NPC Cars would pin the player in front and continue sliding the player across the track with no way to get unstuck easily. I have updated the NPC behaviour to prevent such cases. I also tweaked the NPC behaviour to make them more competitive without making them unfair.
  • The shockwave mine, when hit from certain angles would cause unpredictable launches. With a better, more physically accurate approach to force calculations, the shockwave mine now acts more like a shockwave instead of a launch platform.

Thank you all for your time and support throughout this demo launch, your feedback and your interest continue to motivate me. If you have the time I would really like to hear your new feedback for the demo.


r/racinggames 11h ago

News RUMOR: Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds May Be Coming to Apple Arcade as Mobile Evidence Starts Piling Up

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r/racinggames 5h ago

Discussion [Academic] Toxic behavior in online multiplayer games (18+, online multiplayer gamers)

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Hi! I'm a university student doing a short research project about toxic behavior in online multiplayer games.

I'm interested in whether experiences with toxic behavior differ between different game genres.

If you're 18+ and play online multiplayer games, I'd appreciate it if you took part. It takes about 5-10 minutes.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScDnu8M62oSDwFF-Bf6Bzzbz7jNQNMl8zewIdfVvgokRaUBMw/viewform?usp=dialog

Thanks! :)


r/racinggames 14h ago

Arcade Racing Arcade Racer Super Night Riders S1 now fully released on Steam!

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After 3 months in Early Access, my SEGA Super Hang-On inspired arcade racer Super Night Riders S1 is now fully released on Steam!

I've been working on this series since 2011, with 4 releases so far.

S1 is a reboot as Seasons, the first one features pro racer Alice. S2 is already in the works and will feature the same gameplay but with a different protagonist, stages, music etc. 10

Please check it out on Steam! Thanks for your support:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1836660


r/racinggames 8h ago

Arcade Racing 5-Star Taxi - Official Announcement Trailer

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r/racinggames 10h ago

Discussion 7 Retro Racers with Great Multiplayer

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r/racinggames 23h ago

Arcade Racing Pole Position!

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1982 and 1983 were great years for racing games! Arcade Pole Position 1 & 2, with a precise analogue wheel like this, is my overall favorite video game racing experience. Truly love this thing
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r/racinggames 1d ago

Arcade Racing Less Summer more Car

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"BeaterCore is an arcade racing game for those who prefer cheap rusty beaters over specialized sports cars. Buy, repair, restore, and race your dream project car"

Game : BeaterCore "release 9 Sep, 2026"

Link : https://store.steampowered.com/app/3711050/BeaterCore/app_reviews_hash

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r/racinggames 2d ago

Discussion Who else doesn't like drift events in car games?

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To be fair, I'm not great at drifting in car games, and I’m not interested in improving either. What really annoys me is being forced to do drift events just to progress in career mode (Gran Turismo 7, Forza Horizon, The Crew Motorfest…).Am I the only one who feels this way?

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r/racinggames 2d ago

News UPDATE: NFS Rivals Multiplayer / Canary Services is now RivalsNET (Unofficial Community Initiative)

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r/racinggames 2d ago

Recommendation Sonic racing crossworlds or forza horizon 5?

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there Both racing games but Sonic is a Mario kart like racing game while forza horizon 5 is more realistic but if anybody played any of these games then tell me which is better

which game is more worth it and has More mods maybe over 10


r/racinggames 2d ago

Discussion Console game recommendations for a specific niche?

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I just rewatched the first Fast and Furious movie from 2001. It is so dated but I loved it omg. The builds, the Ja Rule and Limp Bizkit, really the general aesthetic of the movie and the era. I immediately turned on my PS2 and played NFS most wanted and that game also has a similar aesthetic.

Does anyone have any recommendations for modern street racing games I can buy on a next gen console? 10


r/racinggames 2d ago

Arcade Racing Turbo Turbo continues where M.A.S.K. prototype left off!

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Steam | Announcement-Trailer | Kickstarter | M.A.S.K. prototype-Trailer

I proposed a videogame for the 80's M.A.S.K. cartoon to Hasbro a while ago. Seems I failed to convince them to turn it into reality.

Since I can't make M.A.S.K. without a license, I'm now trying to turn this into a more over the top co-op arcade experience that fuses the precision of on-rails shooters with the rush of retro racing. Or imagine Outrun meets House of the Dead. (*10)


r/racinggames 2d ago

Sim Racing Aven Racing Nürburgring Endurance Championship – Registrations Open

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r/racinggames 3d ago

Video Parking Garage Rally Circuit has you drifting across parking garages all over the U.S. Check out my review of it here!

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r/racinggames 3d ago

Help [Pc] [2000-2006] Rally Racing Style Game , up to 4 players in split screen

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Looking for this old game's name , i keep reminiscing on it and want to play it one more time with my cousins just how we used to when we're 10 years old .


r/racinggames 3d ago

Video come watch my first video where I yap ab this kart racer that plays like a fighting game :)

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r/racinggames 3d ago

Discussion I built a free browser game about surviving a racing career — start in karting at 8, manage budget, sponsors and contracts, try to reach the top. No signup, no ads, ~20 min per career

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Racing Driver Simulator is a text-based career sim I originally built for the Polish market (where it blew up on Twitter — 5k+ players on day one), now fully in English.

You start as an 8-year-old in karting. Some guy sells his old wagon to fund your first season. From there it's budget vs talent: pay-to-drive fees, sponsor contracts with real conditions, a driver market that actually reacts to your results, mid-race decisions, injuries, sackings, and a ladder from karting to the top single-seater series.

One career takes ~20 minutes. When it ends you get a career card to share. There's also a Daily Career mode — same seed for everyone, leaderboard resets at midnight.

Free, no account, no ads, works on your phone: https://racingdriversim.com/

There's also a Daily Career mode — same seed for everyone, top-10 leaderboard resets at midnight.

It's balance-tested with Monte Carlo sims (every build runs 1600+ simulated careers before release), but you lot will find things the bots didn't — genuinely keen on feedback, especially anything that makes no sporting sense.

Transparency: this game is AI-assisted through and through — Claude writes most of the code under my direction, and the minimal art (helmet liveries, pixel assets) is AI-generated too. What's mine: the game design, rules, balance and economy, tuned through hundreds of hours of playtesting and Monte Carlo simulation.


r/racinggames 3d ago

Sim Racing P1 to P2 in BRUTAL Conditions! | Porsche 992 GT3 R POV | ACC Nurburgring 24H

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r/racinggames 3d ago

Discussion Does iRacing really need a Career Mode?

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10 For me it's an absolute yes.


r/racinggames 3d ago

Recommendation Drift Race Custom GTA PS5

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r/racinggames 3d ago

Help How to start a race fast in Driveclub

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I just got Driveclub VR on PS4 lately and i am having a trouble in starting fast,so I'm always the last in rank. No matter how i tried to start the race i still get stuck in the back every time. Can anyone help me about that?10


r/racinggames 3d ago

Sim Racing StashBox Racing

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IMPORTANT INFORMATION: THE STASHBOX DISCORD SERVER IS A 21+ 420 FRIENDLY SERVER WITH ID VERIFICATION THAT IS NOT SPECIFICALLY RACING GAME FOCUSED, I AM TRYING TO START A LEAGUE WITHIN IT, I AM SORRY IF THAT IS A DETERRENT

Just starting a brand new league, no members yet, (one but on the forza wing) in GT7 we will be running events of all types is the plan, ive personally noticed a lack of organized racing using the road cars so i intend to run alot of multiclass races with a custom bop primarily focused on power to weight ratio and fuel efficiency, we'll also be running the gt cars as well as leman prototypes, i want to embrace the freedom i feel gran turismo allows for custom events so if that sounds up your alley give us a join, we also run dirt rally 2.0 and are setting up a spec series on forza horizon 6, stewardship shall be handled by people not involved in the races/series being ran to avoid bias

StashBox Racing

Unsure why but it says i need to include a 10 in the post body, so there


r/racinggames 5d ago

Arcade Racing Guess waht is this game

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