Drift Stage

I forgot I backed up this disgrace off Kickstarter or whatever. Something that had potential, now or has been a turd since. What a waste of money.

I'm not one to normally write scathing reviews, and let me begin by saying I feel very much for the sole remaining developer on this project. If you read what happened in his community notes, it's not his fault. And, for full disclosure, I was a kickstarter backer on this. But seeing as it's still being sold on steam for $10, I have to let people know to avoid this at all costs. It's not a game. It's no where near complete, it's not even really functional. There are no opponents. The music is messed up. The audio and sound effects are completely wrong, the stuttering sound of the engine noise being spammed is way too loud and completely drowns out everything else. The menus are bare bones and look like place holders. Manual transmission doesn't work, you can't down shift. The titular drifting mechanic is broken. There are only 3 tracks, and they're incredibly unfinished. The first track will have you racing straight forward in a line for huge stretches with absolutely nothing to do. Since there's no time trials or opponents, and you can't drift, there's literally nothing to do in the track. The game really shouldn't be sold on steam, it's not a real release and the full version wil…

didn't this game used to have actual decent drifting physics? the cars are so slow and the maps are so big i can barely find anywhere to actually drift now... not to mention fighting with frame caps just to not have the world's most buggy audio imaginable... edit: the only map with any driftable corners is the original eventide highway track. also the dev abandoned the project yet again under the excuse of "looking for publisher"

I cannot in good conscience recommend this game anymore, too little updates on top of severe mismanagement for what would be a fairly simple racing game, the driving physics rewrite wasn't even necessary. I do wish to have my mind changed, but for now this game really is a product of its time as many of the squandered Kickstarter projects of its era.

Honestly the game is just a joke at this point. 11 years since kickstarter original date and it's not only still in developement, but it worse in every aspect than the first demo. How is this possible is beyond me

I'm gonna Stay Positive Was this one of the games that made me stop backing projects and early access games, Yes. It has been over 10 years.... I .... am a man now. I do not wish to to say "We got GTA VI before Drift Stage" But I'd be happy with just Drift Stage. This game is cool I look forward to the updates