BAFL - Brakes Are For Losers

No option to save champoinship progress mid-term, no warning given if you return to main menu, all championship progress lost.

Excellent game for 1-8 Local Couch PVP Players! Absolutely worth $10. Game is very responsive and polished. Can't hit ESC (Start on Xbox controller) and will instantly allow return to Main Menu. <GAME OPTIONS> Challenges: 1 Player Only Races: Chose 2, 4, 6, or 8 players with or w/o AI Bots Championship: Chose 2, 4, 6, or 8 players with or w/o AI Bots Custom Game: Chose 2, 4, 6, or 8 players with or w/o AI Bots Quick Race: Chose 2, 4, 6, or 8 players with or w/o AI Bots <1 Player Controls> [A] Nitro [B] Honk [LS] Steering <2-8 Players Controls> [LB] or [RB] Honk [LT] or [RT] Nitro [LS] or [RS] Steering I was able to do Local Couch COOP with an Xbox Core Controller + an 8BitDo Pro 2.

BAFL - Brakes Are For Losers is a fast, chaotic, and deliberately unorthodox arcade racer developed by Oudidon and published by Dear Villagers that embraces simplicity as both a design philosophy and a source of constant tension. At its core, the game revolves around a single bold idea: cars have no brakes. This one decision fundamentally reshapes every race, turning even the smallest corner into a gamble and every straightaway into a test of nerve. Rather than aiming for realism or simulation, BAFL channels the spirit of classic top-down arcade racers, delivering an experience that feels immediately familiar yet refreshingly unpredictable. The moment-to-moment gameplay is built around momentum management and spatial awareness rather than precise control. With braking completely removed from the equation, players must learn to anticipate corners well in advance, drifting wide, bouncing off track edges, or using rivals as unintentional buffers to maintain speed without spinning out. The controls are simple enough to grasp within minutes, but the physics-driven handling ensures that true mastery takes time. Each vehicle feels slightly different, and learning how to exploit its quirk…

Game is fun. You won't play it for very long time as there's not lot of content, but it does great job as being entertaining with friends. I recommand it if discounted.

NOT RECOMMENDED. The technical setup is incomplete. There is no way to specify screen resolution or detail levels and the 'windowed' mode is just the fullscreen res with a window wrapped around it. The game runs choppy as hell. When it comes to the game play, some tracks are impossible to run without hitting the walls constantly because the turning radius is a way big. Turning is a weird guessing game of when to turn and how much and probably gets boring once you figure out due to the lacking complexity of acceleration variation. The CPU seems to not be as affected by the item hazards as the player is that is completely screwed over by a mere control reverse effect that you cannot just shrug off like the CPU does. It does not seem fair at all. This game seems to have a lot of core polish and design issues like that. Yet another game that I was not worth the little I spent on it. It is so half-baked it is pointless.

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