Overtake it!

 

Ideal for your phone: two buttons, one thumb each.

Just as good on desktop with keyboard or gamepad.

Driving at speed through traffic involves overtaking on a knife’s edge. A truck ahead, a bend coming up, maybe a car somewhere beyond the crest. You go now or you wait, and a few seconds later you find out which was right.

Two buttons, or the whole car

In two-button mode you only press go and back. The car does the steering: it pulls out when you go, tucks back in when there’s room, and drops into the gap behind when you back off. One thing it never does is decide whether it’s safe. That part is up to you.

If you want more, switch to full control and drive it yourself: steering, throttle, brake, and a manual gearbox if you like. On a phone you steer by tilting it like a wheel, or with a slider under your thumb.

The road

Tractors and trucks crawl up the hills with queues behind them. The cars in those queues want to get past as much as you do. They pull out when they think they can see far enough, sometimes right into your path. Oncoming drivers flash their lights, honk and swerve. Crests, bends, tree lines and fog banks hide what’s coming, and every crash costs ten seconds.

Each track is a stretch of countryside generated from its own seed: dunes along the sea, dykes above the river, pine forest, moorland, desert, foothills with a first short tunnel, and cliff roads above the coves. The sun keeps moving while you drive, so a race that starts in the afternoon can end with the headlights on. The engine you hear is synthesized live, cylinder by cylinder.

Ten tracks, three medals

Chapter 1, Country Roads, is free: ten tracks of 6 to 12 km. Each has a bronze, silver and gold time. Bronze opens the next track, and gold needs a run without a single crash. Or skip the career and pick any track in Free race.

After a run you can watch it back from the driver’s seat, a chase camera or the roadside, and save it as a video.

Later, in the full game

Wild Roads: mountain passes, hairpins, snow, storms and rush hour. Grand Tours: 30 to 50 km across the whole country. And a track designer to build your own roads and share them as a code.

Plays in the browser, nothing to install. Needs WebGL 2: iOS 15 or later, or any recent Android or desktop browser.