this post was submitted on 08 May 2024
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I'm surprised Horizon Chase Turbo wasn't mentioned. It's very arcady, but it runs great on the Steam Deck and is a great game for short sessions. The game also has a great soundtrack.
What I love about Horizon Chase Turbo is that it celebrates old school racing games made during a time that it was simply impossible to create a realistic driving physics engine (I mean nowadays Wreckfest runs like butter on most modern smartphones which kind of breaks my brain a little). Horizon Chase recognizes this genre of arcade racing for how it should be seen from the perspective of modern driving physics engines, not as a curious but obsolete historical oddity but as an expression of what racing games can be outside of a narrow continuum with racing sims on one end and GTA or Forza style arcade style racing games on the other.... that are mainly focused on sanding off rough edges to the game mechanics implications of driving sim physics rather than treating the departure from semi-realistic physics as a creative opportunity.
(I suppose there are cart racers that arent really on that continuum but they arent really concerned with evolving the racing genre for the most part)