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Race solo against the clock through city parking garages, chaining precision drifts into boosts across tight rally circuits.
Released 20 Sep 2024
Race Parking Garages
Drift-Chain Boosts
Chase Racing Ghosts
Retro Arcade Rally Racing... in Parking Garages?!? Precision driving with tight simple controls and arcade physics, all in a Sega Saturn style presentation
Developed by Walaber Entertainment LLC · Published by Walaber Entertainment LLC
Parking Garage Rally Circuit turns repurposed city parking garages into compact rally courses. You race alone against the clock, taking multiple laps through tight circuits rather than competing in a pack of racers.
The arcade controls focus on accelerating, reversing, steering and drifting. Drifts build speed boosts that you can chain together, while ramps and narrow turns make it important to balance speed with control.
The campaign challenges you to earn gold times across three car classes. Leaderboards and downloadable rival ghosts offer more times to chase, while multiplayer includes online races for up to eight players and local split-screen for two to four. Steam Workshop support adds community-made tracks.
Players often praise the responsive drifting and boost-chaining, which make short time trials satisfying to replay and optimize. The retro visuals, garage-course designs and ska soundtrack also stand out in positive reviews. Some players find the physics unpredictable, especially around jumps and collisions, and mention the limited track selection or quiet online multiplayer.
Retro Arcade-style Rally Racing in repurposed Parking Garages in big cities across the USA
The “Parking Garage Rally Circuit” tour comes into a city, selects a parking garage, and temporarily turns it into an exciting rally course for a week-long competition. Each track in the game is styled as a unique parking garage that has been turned into a race course.
This is a hybrid of Rally and circuit racing. From rally it draws the jumps and “one racer at a time against the clock” time-trial format. However, the tracks are similar to circuit racing, with each race consisting of multiple laps around the same track (the track may change slightly from lap to lap, however) Controls are very tight, simple and arcadey, similar to Mario Kart (accelerate, reverse, steer, drift), but with a bit more dynamic “smash into things” physics.
After beating the gold trophy for a course, ghosts from other players just barely ahead of you on the leaderboard are automatically downloaded to race against, getting you into that "just one more" flow as you chase down rivals. Limiting the auto-download rivals to Steam friends only is also an option.
Create or join a lobby of up to 8 players for realtime peer-to-peer non-contact racing!
Connect some controllers and relive the glory days of split-screen multiplayer for 2-4 players with contact and non-contact options.
Designed to look and feel like a long lost Sega Saturn game that could have been released in ~1998. This includes low-resolution, low-poly, chunky textures of course, but also extends to the audio, simple interface, and streamlined game scope. Oh, and CHEAT CODES too!
| Platforms | Windows, macOS, Linux |
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| Achievements | 15 |
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| Controller support | PlayStation, Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 3 listed on Steam |
| Content notices |
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| Website | Official website |
