Race Arcade Reviews

No option to adjust laps per race :-/ This could become a great game if it would be possible to mod it a bit and to create custom races with more than 4 laps. Also pitstops are missing. Nice base, but it's limiting its own success in my view.

Hey Racer Fans, I'm a huge fan of Top Down Racers like and come from the Micro Machines Area. Of course Race Online is not like Micro Machines, but I was looking for a good Top Down Racer. First I thought that that game is kind of fun racer with power ups etc. But I was wrong. That game is quite realistic and is fair/ hard. You feel the difference between the cars and surfaces. If you screw up it was your fault, but the races are always fair. I just finished the first two saisons and got this game in sale for €6,00 I can totally recommend it. I don't play the online mode (yeah I know the game is called Race Online) but I prefer single player games sometimes. So everyone who is in good single player racers with lot's of content (tracks + editor, unlockables etc.) should go for it. Cheers.

Top-down or isometric racers are a rarety nowaday. Even rarer are the ones that really nail the look and feel of old retro acrade racers. Race Arcade looks and feels absolutely lovely, the controls are tight, the levels are full with details and lovely crafted. Every corner feels predictable, every race is tight battle for laptimes and a good position and not a random outcome of powerups, oil slicks, rubber banding and explosions. Race Arcade is clearly loveletter to retro top down racing games or Rush Rush Rally Racing! If you love the gerne or look for a fun and enjoyable skill-based couch party game, then you should definitely pick this game up!

My feelings are mixed about this game but overall It is ok , you can have fun I do not know what are you looking for in an arcade racing game I am sure that this game can cover your needs tho . Good steering and physics with nice textures and races but the AI is bad ...

The Good: Amazing looking game, lots of racetracks. You have forest biomes, desert biomes, and arctic biomes. Whatever color you pick for your car, the opponents will pick other colors to make all cars colorful. The Bad: The cars handle terrible. I unlocked new cars, and even those handle terrible. I even play on an XBOX One gamepad/controller use brakes and decelerate, but its not enough. Your car keeps sliding out of the track or doesn't turn enough and crashes outside the track. The best way to win races in this game is to crash at the opponents while they are turning a corner so that your car takes the corner easier and pushes them out. There are only 4 types of cars and 1 extra vehicle. The track editor is very difficult to use if you're not a developer. Overall: The negatives outweigh the cons. Would not recommended.

Well, basically a good nice little 2d arcade racing game with good gameplay and lots of potential. But it is abandoned by its developers... leaving a lot of bugs and room for improvements. Online Multiplayer would be fun... but is dead. Would appreciate an open source version of this game. For the current price of 12€ i can not recommend to buy this game!

Race Arcade is a fun top-down racer but with some more polishing it could have been a much greater game! On the plus side is nice old school graphics (if you like that sort of thing), car handling, lots of tracks and a track editor. The down side is that the main game element, the carrer mode, doesn't last long at all. I finished the carrer mode in just over one hour. Once you've finished carrer mode, you only have single races, time trials and online mode. Single races and time trials can be pretty fun but are far less engaging compared to the carrer mode. I can't say much about the online mode since I never found anyone to race against. Note that the AI is pretty weak and the entire carrer mode is easily won using the standard car. In my mind the game would have been so much better if the developers had just put some more effort into it. E.g. * Configurable single races, like number of laps and number of opponents * More carrer races, like randomized cup races (just randomize what tracks to include in the cup) * Car mods to improve your car, like in the old game Indy Heat Overall I recommend this game if you like the top-down genre especially if you can pick it up at a sale.

Neat little top down retro racer, with a lot of variety and a track editor. The soundtrack gets you in the mood for racing as well with a good number of uptempo tunes. Takes some skill as the AI is fairly unforgiving and quite aggressive. The cars have solid physics also. Watch those drifts, a drunk driving simulator this isn't!! A better than decent time waster and a really playable product considering it's early access. In fact, looks not too far off from being finished to me, Very polished. Can only get better with time, Especially once multiplayer is in place. For now, im going to score this a well deserved 8/10.

Race Online is a nice looking retro racer from top down perspective and is somewhat fun to play but if you're looking similar gameplay than in legendary Slicks 'n' Slide or Turbosliders you will be disappointed. The car handling is quite different and isn't what you would expect for a car as they move and handle like solid blocks, get stuck easily and you can't reverse you way out. There's not much difference between how cars (sports car, formula, tractor, etc.) handle and move. Also seems that track obstacle's or car's collision model isn't quite what the graphics show. Overall the game feels ready and I didn't experience any bugs although the game crashed couple of times. The tracks are a mixed bunch, some are nice to race but often tracks are a bit annoying (due AI & collision model) and track profile isn't "professional" style. Some tracks look unfinished. The career mode is quite easy as the only difficulty is to get pass the AI cars after start and not to get stuck to them or pushed. Even on harder difficulty levels the difficulty comes from getting stuck to obstacles as the track is narrow and you can't pass or you crash to AI cars which are stuck. Also the grinding part of getting new cars and upgrading their parts feels artificial. The game ran quite nicely on my Macbook Pro (late 2013). As the game is still in early access I hope the developers will enhance car physics and model before the release. They could take some example from e.g. Turbosliders which is fun to play but still competitive. Or maybe developers have played Turbosliders as the graphics and some of the tracks look similar. Will be interesting to see how the multiplayer works when it's released. In this development state I can't recommend this game. I hope the game gets better but I doubt it as the car physics are a big issue for games like these to change later on.

No. Competition is stiff and there is still the grand ol daddy of Slicks'n'Slide that shows how this is done. I was hoping this could be a modern day replacement for it but alas it is not to be. To start with the bugs need to be addressed. ex. multiplayer problems, campaigns finishing prematurely which leads to player unlocking everything by doing just one race which finishes the season. So this game gets close to being a decent light version of the old fun games but bugs prevent it from reaching that. Game looks better on video and screenshots so unless something changes it's a narrow 'No' for me.