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This game really is great I love it. I always look for simple racing games that involve times and racing against other real people. This one does it amazingly!

There’s just one smaaalllll racing mechanic that I can’t stand. Sometimes when I’m turning around some corner, I’ll get really close to the corner. This is so that I can get around it as quick as possible. But when the front of your car gets to within a certain distance of an object, the car will actually brake and slow down a little bit. I guess it’s a safety mechanic so that you have less of a chance of running into something? But there have been countless times when I’m in the lead and I’m trying to cut the corner just fine, but because I’m too close to the corner the car will slow for half a second and that’s more than enough of time for the racer behind me to pass me up.

I know it’s a small mechanic but it actually happens way more times than you’d think. And if this small thing were to be removed or improved somehow, this would really be the perfect iOS racing game

River Peak ruins the late game. Skill matters for the first ranks, but late rank winners are determined by who can glitch the other first. car stats are ballpark estimates. I absolutely loved this game until I hit later leagues (I’m league 16). Once I made it past league 10 or so, I noticed the game was less about how well you could race on the track and more about how many times you can hit the other person or crash them into a wall. Since bumping the other car significantly slows them down and hitting a wall will either slow you, or glitch you and bring you to a stop, late leagues turned into bumper cars. Whoever can glitch the other car first will be the winner, no matter how skilled of a racer you may be. This is a major issue on river peak, since the controls are not optimized well enough for that track, and in later leagues you will race on river peak 1 out of every 3 races guaranteed. As a minor issue, car stats are not accurate at all. My lvl6 ghost tops at 277, but it runs to HIGH 280s. Same with my lvl6 satin. All this together killed the game for me because I loved how heavily skill based the racing is early on, but skill won’t actually end up making a difference if you start to progress through the ranks. This doesn’t affect time trials of course, but it makes the ranked races frustrating and not worth the attempt.

It’s a good game, fun, looks good and doesn’t overwhelm you with ads.. when there are ads to watch it usually comes with a bonus, like car parts or tokens..
But through the progression, around league 09 for me, you’ll notice it harder to beat players or progress unless your willing to drop money on car packs and part packs which is really hit or miss because the packs award car upgrades variability, not for any specific car you’d want and part packs are random.. this would encourage you to buy the Racer Pass which includes multiple car and part packs plus gems to access other crates when you need.. at 3 US dollars a week, it’s not horrible, but it ain’t free either..
I’d like there to be a way to save your progress in the ranks of races won and allow you to move up without penalty of going down in rank due to loss of races.. if you don’t win consistently you just slide further and further down the ranks until you end up playing against beginners but it’s also quite difficult to get ahead past league 11, for myself without spending real dollars..
Props to the devs for making an awesome game tho, I keep coming back and crying for more so they’re doing something right..