RD Racing

You start the game as the best driver in the world, and you’re about to enter your final race to win it all. But then your team betrays you. Your car explodes, and all the reputation you built goes up in smoke along with it. This forces you to return to where you started, to your old mentor and a low-performance league with weak cars. Races are selected from a map, and the requirement to unlock and play them is your level. This increases with each race you complete and is shown on an experience bar, along with a number indicating your current level. Since the number of races available at your level is limited, you have to replay them several times to earn enough experience. You also have to win races to progress. Levels grant skill points that allow you to permanently improve your stats. These are divided into driving, with options such as acceleration and top speed, weapons, with damage and ammo capacity, and useful perks that increase money and experience gains. Each stat increases only by a small percentage, and you can upgrade each one up to five times, but the improvements are still helpful. The driving is arcade-like and quite floaty, so expectations should be kept in chec…

As someone who doesn't play a lot of racing games, I'm having a good time with RD Racing so far. The gameplay and the graphics both kind of remind me of Lego Racers for the Nintendo 64. It's very casual-friendly. One of my favorite things about the game is the track design. I'm only about halfway through all the tracks, but the volcano one is super cool. Absolutely loving the guns and mines too. One of my favorite things to do at the start of races is hit the brakes, wait for the other cars to pass, then open fire and eliminate some of the competition early on.

Strongly recommend, the game has the exact chaotic vibe that I love in these kind of racing games, the controls are both smooth and chaotic, the story while simple, keeps you engaged, the designs of the cars and the tracks, that low-poly aesthetic just brings back nostalgic memories of playing Playstation 1 racing games. And even the controls remind me of OG Lego Racers, paired up with the destruction and even destructible environments? Uh, yes! Get this game. Note: Played the game for 2 hours live, but I will be finishing the game in my own time.