HTR+ Slot Car Simulation

[h1] Slot cars are more fun in real life where you build your own tracks and collect sets. Plays like quick reaction game where you release acceleration on corners or after loops. To be honest not the worst hobby. Anyways for simulation game it's rather boring I guess. Missing features like more complex customization or unlocking new cars or sets for winning but at least you can build your own tracks. Not recommended - boring to play. [/h1]

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HTR+ Slot Car Simulation. All of the frustration of REAL slot car racing, with none of the fun. Poor physics, poor UI, poor viewing angles, poor...well...you can see where this is going so it will be easier to list the positives. Ummm...the exit button works and the game uninstalls just fine. Seriously, don't waste your money. Watching a video of slot car racing would be infinitely more fun than playing this. So would watching paint dry. Watching grass grow. Watching rain fall. Watching ice melt.

This game is all flash, and absolutely no substance. The only advantage HTR+ has over Virtual SlotCars (the other slot car sim on Steam) is the graphics, which do look nice. However, Virtual SlotCars is superior in every other aspect, including physics, progression, customization, and play value. The physics are abysmal in HTR+, particularly when it comes to stunt jumps and loop-de-loops; regardless of your skill or speed, it's a 50/50 crapshoot whether you crash/deslot when performing these maneuvers. Progression is gated behind a paywall of ingame currency which can only be earned the very first time you win a track, and then only when you clock a record lap time on that track (there is a cheesy way around this in which you can download a simple player-created map and incrementally achiever faster and faster record laps for payouts each time, then delete the map and redownload, rinse and repeat). This game punishes you for upgrading your car beyond a certain speed, and higher-level body shells make your car impossible to race. I can't imagine how difficult and frustrating this game must have been prior to the implementation of gamepad trigger compatibility. The camera angl…

somelanes on the champ tracks are unraceable....... As a slot car racer myself this is nothing like Slot racing

4/10 - Nostalgic, but also very buggy