Virtual SlotCars
PraGames · 2017 · Racing, Simulation, Early Access, Indie, Moddable
PC
Mostly Positive80% · 59
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About Virtual SlotCars
Virtual SlotCars (VSC) is a game in which you build and race slot cars. You will be tweaking your car components, testing them on track, setting your throttle controls, and finally racing your chosen car to earn coin and gain experience which will be used to unlock and buy higher level components for your car, enabling it to handle better and go even faster, or track parts to construct any of the 26 tracks with up to 8 lanes or create your very own custom made tracks from scratch.
Before you do anythingPlease read the Throttle set up section in the manual. VSC offers a unique configurable 3 key solution to control your car throttle. Understanding how it works, practising in a practise session, per lane, per track, and configuring it using the interface causes your settings to be recorded. These settings will then be used during a race, and are paramount for obtaining the best slot car experience. Soon VSC will further offer complete custom key binding which will enhance this feature even more.
Single PlayerAt the start you will be provided with a basic car and set of track parts which will allow you to practise and compete in entry level races. As you get familiar with car handling and maintenance you will soon be winning races and gaining experience and coin. Before you know it you will be able to challenge the next level of AI opponents on longer tracks with more lanes at even faster speeds, as you work towards the ultimate level of Ace, racing at potential speeds well in excess of 70 km/h. Alternatively, you can spend your time and coin creating new elaborate custom tracks in the track editor. The options are endless.
MultiplayerRace against friends in Multiplayer with your own personalised car. Host custom track circuits that you made, with your own set of racing rules and car configuration limits. Create your own car body mods and import them into the game for your friends to see and race against. While VSC offers its own track-set parts, it also offers full modding support allowing you to create your very own blue-print to track-set solution, to create any specific track you can dream of. If you find you do not have the track or car body you want to race with, and you are not a modder, the option to obtain your perfect car or track will be made available through the community of modders.
- Player levels: Beginner, Regular, Advanced, Pro, Ace. AI opponent car quality and speed increases each level, or can be set to match players car, either fully or partially.
- Configurable Throttle: 3 keys, configurable per track per lane, enables max speed! Or MS compatible game-pad trigger.
- Perspective: 3D first person controller / car / top / chase camera views – all adjustable..
- Augmented Camera: Automatically sets zoom to maintain player car size in frame.
- Self maintaining AI: AI opponents will repair their cars on the go, in their pit-stop.
- Car maintenance: Wear and tear genuinely represented for all car parts and scaled for best gameplay. Centre of gravity can even be changed by adding weights.
- Track creation: Using in-game editor.
- Car body painting: Using in-game colour picker.
- Audio: Rigel's proprietary 3d audio engine using Microsoft® XAudio2 library.
- Detailed Physics: Made using physics based on the Bullet library.
- Modding Car bodies: Accepts Blender / 3d Max / Maya, import of *.OBJ & *.FBX files using proprietary Asset Builder.
- Modding track-sets: Using simple text editor to create and configure.
- Multiplayer: Race against your friends, 8 players, with custom cars and custom tracks.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Love the game, there's a good sense of progression, you can tune your car to your liking, controls are easy to understand, there's definitely a technique to how you drive the car. The track creator is a little confusing at first but it gets easy quickly. The only reason I'm not recommending this is because the game has been abandoned since 2019 but the dev didn't officially announce it, they just stopped posting or responding...10 found this helpful
Abandoned by the dev's sadly7 found this helpful
A year ago, I wouldn't have given this game a second thought, but since receiving a Carerra Digital slot car set for Christmas, slot car racing has become one of my favorite pastimes. It was mere coincidence that I even stumbled across this game on Steam, but it has rapidly become my favorite video game, full stop. Pros: This game simulates the look, the feel, and the physics of slot car racing to a very high degree of realism, allowing players to race on elaborate and lengthy tracks they would otherwise never be able to afford in the real world. The same is true for car customization, and it's all here; chassis architecture, gear ratios, motor speeds, tire materials, wear and tear. The in-game currency rewarded for participating in races allows you to purchase new parts, new tracks and scenery, and to keep your cars in working condition. And the track designer is actually superior to any track designing software that slot car racers pay an arm and a leg for. Cons: The kickstarter for this game never reached its funding goal, so this may be as far as it's ever developed (but you still have a complete game here). There is a limited amount of music in the game, and it gets very rep…3 found this helpful
Just purchased the game during the 2025 spring sale and a quick five minute single player game on the Steam Deck worked well. Will put some time into this in the coming months
This game is good, but it feels VERY VERY unfinished, and the documentation reflects this. There's no explanation of what car upgrades are or do. The game is functional. The physics are good. It works. But it's definitely not finished. In order to earn car parts for upgrading cars and track parts for building tracks, or even racing on new tracks, requires winning races and earning coins and other currency. That's the only way to access additional content. And I doubt we can expect any improvement in any of these areas as this game looks to be VERY VERY abandoned by it's developers. The developer's site doesn't even seem to exit. Clicking the link here on Steam just takes you to a missing web page. There's a couple of facebook groups. One looks to be the official facebook group for the game and that one is completely dead. The other one looks to have custom tracks and stuff, but that one appears dead too. I tried to join it weeks ago and no one has approved my request to join. So the only conclusion I have is that the Facebook page for custom tracks is also dead. All in all... this is a VERY dead and abandoned game. It works. It's fun for the cost. But it's…
steam deck compatibility please
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