Super Retro GP Steam Charts & Stats

[h1]I Regret Buying This[/h1] I picked this up last year as it looked great. There aren't too many indie arcade racing games that look this good, and it's obvious to anyone who's seen Virtua Racing what this solo developer is going for here. Unfortunately, it is a bit crap. As the late, great TotalBiscuit may have noted, Retro Arcade Racers are a desperation genre. There are so few options out there that people will praise any old slop, because the choice is between that or nothing. In brief the problems are… twitchy controls: not steering assistance/smoothing, oversensitive steering, and a poor suspension modelling that will see you skipping from bumps in the road and leaping into the air from collisions. The cars have a variety of stats that vary between models, rendering a lot of them inviable through lack of speed or acceleration, fragility or poor handling. Tracks: there are four, bolstered by reverse and mirrored configurations, so 16 total. Fun bug – when you reset your car on reverse tracks, you respawn facing the wrong way. Lastly, the camera is too low in bumper and cockpit views. The tracks are frequently undulating, and these low viewpoints mean you cannot see ahead. One viewpoint on the desert level even clips through the road surface allowing you to admire your underside. This game comes with a built in defence against criticism - it's Early Access, it's not finished yet. Well it's apparently finished enough to sell for £10, and apparently it's sister project DDI Rally Championship, which is also in Early Access, is finished enough to charge another £10 for, and I'm not supposed to notice that this [i][u]solo developer[/i][/u] is also working on another 7 games, Stock Car USA (presumably Daytona), Skid Race, DDI Touring Car Championship (TOCA?), Speedy 500, Edge Racer, Difficult Driving, and Futurally. Call me sceptical, but I don't see how multiple, feature rich, fun racing games are going to issue from Dirk in a timely manner given how much he's taken on simultaneously. It smacks of a child with mountains of food on his plate swearing that he will eat it all and not pass out sick. There is some fun to be had here, particularly the Birmingham track which is generally more chaotic that the others. In all though, this effort sucks. I quickly reached the point where I’d need to fine-tune the controls with Steam’s overrides and then spend ages getting sweaty to ‘unlock’ further fun with the game, and as it turned out I couldn’t be arsed. Gutted, I missed the refund window. And so, instead of this, check out New Star GP – it’s infinitely better. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2217580/New_Star_GP/