Driving Rogue

This is a neat game. Hands down, bar none. Waited 'til I beat #1 to review this. I'm well versed in roguelites/roguelikes, and 2000's/2010's racing games. This scratches both of those itches. I'll break it down like this. Pros: ----- Racing game + Rougelite is an instant win from me, personally. Love how you can add your own music (via mp3 or ogg files, etc.), and it lets you customize it in-game EA Trax style to be menu only, race only, or all. I have added about 100 tracks into it and customized each one to where it plays. Really love this option. Added my favorite NFSU, Burnout, and other songs to my game. Extra immersion if you add the tags to the music files for artist and track name so it displays properly when it comes up in-game. The base soundtrack itself is pretty good as well. The core gameplay feels so nice. Its a nice arcade-y experience. Hitting a slipstream while drifting feels so good just to keep chaining your combo. So many references to racing games/culture. Whether it be NFS, Initial D, or otherwise. Cons (and I use this term lightly): ----- At the moment, the track variety seems pretty limited. It's a sprint race from point A to point B. Sometimes really short, sometimes a little longer. Would be cool to see if special events could come into play, ala circuit tracks, drift events, or drag races. Once you learn how to drift in this game and weave through traffic, things seem to become a bit trivial. Nevertheless fun, but y'know. The bosses in this game didn't really seem to be unique, at least to me. Some just seemed to jump off the start faster than the others. It was just a matter of 'could I get in front of them' that was a battle in and of itself, which 7.5 times out of 10 I did. After that I felt like I had the run in the bag. Maybe I just had some lucky runs? I dunno. Suggestions: ----- Adding part cards that are affected by your previous race grade. Risk/reward. So far other than your coin gain it doesn't seem like there's a whole lot riding on how you perform as long as you get a D. I never seemed to have a problem building through my many runs. Different types of races (as I have stated earlier). Circuit races, drift events, drag races. This formula has a good potential for it. Love the variety in the way you can build your vehicle but at the present moment, to me, it feels like drift-or-die. ----- All-in-all, definitely worth your money. I've enjoyed this game so much. Send your love, try it out. This is a love letter to racing games and you can feel it once you peel off the starting line.

Super fun racing roguelite game that you can hop on, do a run listening to the games music or your own without worrying about a story. There's several cars with different traits that you can build into during your runs and you have a player trait you can add to give you a small edge in a certain aspect of your car/build. There's plenty of builds and different cards to unlock throughout your runs so no run ever feels like a complete waste of time. Handling and physics feel great and are simple enough to enjoy but can definitely be mastered and must be if you want to try the endless mode where small mistakes ends a run. This also brings me to my personal pain point of the game which can be considered a skill issue if completely intentional. Towards stages 8-10 on a endless run even when there's not a traffic modifier the traffic can feel absolutely insane and downright unfair especially when facing a boss where you come towards a hairpin and there are cars in every lane and even changing lanes which results in either crashing into them or slowing down so much that you lose your combo. Overall this game is worth the money with the current content in the game and I truly hope it gets more overtime as it's such a simple yet addicting concept