I repurchased this game 27 months after my initial purchase to see the progress it has made. Sadly, it has not made much progress in these 27 months. YES there has been a slew of updates, YES there have been many fixes and stability/graphical and physics improvements, but NO the vehicle handling is not any more intuitive than it was in July of 2022. Steering with the controller is very twitchy just as I mentioned in the past review and there are no additional options added for handling customization. It's a shame really, because as mentioned before, the potential for this game in there, but the most important aspect in a racing game is the vehicle handling, and as it is markets as an arcade racer, controller support the the most important focus as well since that is what most people will be using.

I will once again reiterate that there needs to be interpolation added into the steering so that it is able to smooth the handling out when using a joystick, currently the wheel is locked at a 1:1 ratio to your joystick input, which in theory is fine, but in practice makes it extremely difficult to manage while in the heat of a race. You should be able to set how steering interpolation to your preference. Again, this game might work fantastic with a wheel and pedals, but this is not a sim, it is an arcade racer, so you can't expect people who buy this to have a sim setup to use with this.

I'm unfortunately going to have to change my recommendation from a yes, to a no (at least at this price), as it has taken way too long for progress to be made on this game since it was first put into early access. Maybe in another 2 years it will be in what I would consider a playable state. But until then, I'm going to recommend against buying this unless it is on sale for like $10 at most.

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Just picked up the game today.
Overall, pretty mixed on it's current state for the price, but has a lot of potential. Going to say yes and I have hope this will turn into something great once everything is finally polished!

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Track Editor - Literal unlimited game play potential by allowing the players to create and released their own tracks. Lots of official tracks in the game already made by the community, but custom tracks will also put a fun twist on things!

Graphics - It's not a "realistic" style game, definitely arcade, but everything looks really nice and as long as the track creator put the effort in to make the track look nice, it will.

Community, Mods & Dev - Very helpful, doing everything they can to make sure people are able to enjoy their early access. Helping with bugs, looking into suggestions and feedback, managing bad attitudes professionally!

Game Size - The game itself is only around 550MB download, which in and of itself is great! So many games these days are 50-100GB in size, so it is refreshing knowing this has a small footprint.

Leaderboard - Each track in game (seems custom or not) has it's own leaderboard which is great and allows a competitive environment no matter which track you're on. And the leaderboards look to be individual per each car.


Buggy Menu - Font is using a comic sans family style font, not very appeasing and doesn't scale well with different size ranges. Things seem to be in places that don't make a lot of sense, but you are able to find them if you look hard enough. Not exactly intuitive, but functional.

Keyboard, Controller & Wheel Support - Keyboard and Wheel seem to work good out of the box, Controller you need to make sure that ALL Steam Controller Configurations are disabled. If they are not, your controller is picked up as a keyboard and keybindings are all over the place. This may get fixed in the future, BUT not sure it could be just how it is.

Car Control for Controller & Keyboards - While there are a few options for adjusting the car handling, it still isn't where it should be yet and you can tell the game was designed with wheel/pedals in mind first. There is Steering Speed Sensitivity, Steering Smoothing and Countersteer Assist in the game at this time. With Steering Speed Sensitivity set to the lowest setting, the car still has very sensitive steering, setting the Smoothing to as high as it can go helps, but the number values next to these options need to be shown and allow the value to go much lower for a better customization experience. The option to adjust the Steering Linearity based on how fast you are going will help a lot. Thoughts on options for car handling below:

• Steering Deadzone (10% default [0%-100% range]) - Pretty self explanatory, but adjusts what percentage of the joystick is ignored before the wheels start turning.
  
• Steering Saturation (100% default [0%-100% range]) - How quickly or Slowly the controller reaches maximum steering input, this doesn't effect the Response Curve.
  
• Steering Sensitivity (0% by default [0%-100% range])- This adjusts the response curve. The higher the sensitivity, the more the wheels turn during the first degrees of turning the steering wheel.
  
• Steering Speed Sensitivity (50% by default [0%-100% range]) - Gradually limits the steering the higher the speed of the vehicle, making it less twitchy, increasing stability.
  
• Acceleration Saturation (100% by default [50%-150% range]) - How far you need to depress the analog trigger to reach 100% acceleration. Setting this value lower means you have to pull the trigger less, setting it higher prevents you from getting to full throttle.
  
• Brake Saturation (100% by default [50%-150% range]) - How far you need to depress the analog trigger to reach%] 100% braking. Setting this value lower means you have to pull the trigger less, setting it higher prevents you from getting to full brake.

No FOV setting for chase cam - While there is a FOV setting to adjust cockpit camera, there is no option for chase cam, being able to adjust this from its default value -20 degrees would be great.

Camera Stiffness - Not sure how this is calculated, but it didn't really seem how I set the camera, it seemed to move all over the place while turning. Made for some weird motion and I could see this giving people motion sickness if they're sensitive to it. Fully stiff should mean it is LOCKED in place with the rear of the vehicle.

Driving Line Assist - Looks good! But could look better. The colors could be Bright Red for heavy braking, yellow for slow and green for acceleration. Driving lines look to be static and not dynamic, so your speed has no change on what the driving line look like.

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While the game has a great foundation and is doing things that other larger companies need to be doing, it has also fallen short in terms of content for the price with how buggy it currently is. I would say that this needed to go through a public BETA first for 2 weeks, then a couple to few months later once the singular dev(props to him) gets everything smoothed out, then release it for $14.99 for the first 2 weeks and then raise the price up to $19.99 as it's standard.

DLC can always be used in the future to release new cars or livery/paint schemes for additional income if it is needed. The game has great potential and I want to like it, but it still needs more work. Early release as it may be, might be just a tad TOO early for this price tag.

Overall I will recommend this product, but I do hope the dev is able to work fast enough to keep people interested. Sometimes waiting a couple extra months is better than releasing too early, making people pay and then realizing how much work still needs to be done for an acceptable experience.