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Race indie-game characters across retro pixel and low-poly tracks, drifting, using weapons, and competing in cups or local multiplayer.
Released 06 May 2015
Race Indie Game Characters
Launch Fruit-Based Weapons
Battle In Kart Arenas
Super Indie Karts is a classic retro 16 to 64-bit style karting game, with Time Trials, Grand Prix, Splitscreen GP, Mission Mania, and Battle Mania! Featuring 48 racetracks, with many more coming soon. You don't have to wait until completion though as you can join the race now with Early Access!
Developed by One Legged Seagull · Published by One Legged Seagull
Super Indie Karts is a kart racer featuring characters and themed tracks drawn from indie games. Its visuals draw on retro 16-bit pixel art and low-poly 64-bit styles.
Race around tracks by steering, drifting, and using boosts and weapons to disrupt rivals. The game includes four speed classes and mirror mode, with tracks featuring hazards and items to collect.
Choose from Grand Prix, Time Trials, Quick Race, Mission Mania, and Battle modes. Grand Prix supports local split-screen for two to four players, and the game includes character and track unlocks.
Players who enjoy the game often praise its retro pixel and low-poly presentation, its lineup of indie-game characters, and the variety of themed tracks. Some also enjoy racing locally with friends and find the courses engaging to learn. Critical reviews repeatedly point to slippery or awkward handling and drifting; several also describe track layouts as cluttered or hard to read. Other complaints include controller setup, the lack of online multiplayer, and the game's long-running Early Access status.
Super Indie Karts is a classic retro '90s style karting game featuring a large curation of Indiegame karts and Indiegame themed race tracks, in both the 16-bit flat Super style and the 64-bit low poly Ultra style. With Time Trials, Grand Prix, Splitscreen GP, Quick Race, Mission Mania, and a few Battle Modes.. there's plenty of ways to tackle the tracks!
Indie Crossovers so far include: - Nitromeland - Mission In Snowdriftland - Clive'N'Wrench - ToeJam & Earl: Back In The Groove - Burrito Bison - Mutant Mudds - Runbow - Freedom Planet - Teslagrad - Fist Of Awesome - Read Only Memories 2064 - Canabalt - Duck Game - Toto Temple Deluxe - Knightmare Tower - Aegis Defenders - Shutshimi - Cross Code - Guacamelee! - and many more to come! With over 48 tracks currently ready to race on, in 4 speed classes, plus mirror mode, there'll also be plenty of achievements and unlocks to keep you drifting and burning pixel rubber 'till the pixelated billboard sun goes down!
With one foot firmly in the past, witness authentic '90s hardware limitations such as:
Super Style
shockingly bad draw distance!
fast, incredibly small, almost claustrophobic, tracks!
trees and obstacles that pop up 5 yards in front of you!
Ultra Update
increased draw distance and track area size!
large open anti-gravity racetracks that corkscrew and loop-de-loop into the skies!
more cranked up than a joypad with a double wedgie!
Retro Sensibilities
World leading watermelon physics engine! (featuring Watermelon Blast Processing!)
1992 style screen curvature and motion blur! (optional)
Indie Game crossovers you know and love, and some you don't yet know you love!
More info on the final game:
Play as some super Indie Game characters, coming to battle it out in some super Indie Game themed tracks! It might get a little bumpy out there as there are plenty of weapons on the track to spin you out: Meloons, Exploding Pangapples, Slippy Gelatos, Heat Seeking Loconuts, Giant Halloween Pumpkings, Mutant Tomms, Beeta Blockas, and 3 different strength Chilli Boosts!
The game was KickStarted late in 2014 and is aimed for completion in 202x. You don't have to wait until completion though as you can join in now with Early Access! The EA game currently boasts over 30 characters, with 32 Super tracks, 12 Ultra (64) tracks, and 4 Advanced tracks, 48 in total, with 16 more tracks to come, to play Single Player or 2/3/4 Player Splitscreen in Grand Prix mode (and in Mirror Mode), in Time Trials, and 9 arenas in Battle Mania which recently went through a serious overhaul. More characters, tracks, and features will be added as the Early Access months drift on by.
| Platforms | Windows, macOS, Linux |
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| Controller support | Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
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