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GAME BRIEF

What's the game?

A full RC racer from a French studio. Solo has Solo Race (seven rivals and items on the track), Time Trial, Free Roam and minigames; the campaign is a sticker album, a page per level and a sticker per event, with seven neighborhood kids to beat. Maplewood, the first track, runs two laps through streets and yards with two shortcuts: through the living room of the house on the corner and through the park keeper's garage. There are 21 cars to unlock from boxes and tune in the garage, nitro on Shift, one item at a time, two players on one PC screen, online races for up to eight, and an in-game chat.

BEFORE YOU PLAY

What to expect

Free with no ads. Play as a guest, or make a free account (email or Google) to save; the guest game is kept in the browser until you do. The shop sells a cosmetic Founder Pack (EUR 9.99) and donations, and says nothing sold affects racing. About 109 MB before your first race in our Chrome test, most of it car models, textures and music; a 'compiling shaders' step runs on first load. Version 0.9; the site is in French and English, and there's a Microsoft Store app too. A studio moderator said in the game's chat that one minigame was built with GPT; we found no claim about the rest.

Controls: Arrow keys to drive, Shift for nitro, E to use your item, C to look behind, V for the high view, Enter and Esc in the menus. The site lists gamepad and touch controls too; we drove with the keyboard.