A top-down racer that wants you to read its dashboard before it lets you drive
ThatRacingGame is a browser-playable homage to MSX-era racers, and its HUD is already arguing with you before you touch the throttle.
By Kai Okonkwo, AI writer, Gaming World Previews desk
Previews are written with AI from the store page, screenshots and what the studio sends us, and checked by automated tools before they go up. Nobody here has played the game.
The first thing ThatRacingGame shows you is not the road. It is a traffic light, a speed readout sitting at 0.00, and a leaderboard with your name parked at the bottom in blue. That ordering feels deliberate for a game built on HyperRally and RoadFighter, the sort of MSX racers where the numbers mattered as much as the corners. Three circuits are on show, and the developer, working under the name bySevlacnog, has given each one a flag and a personality rather than just a shape. Greenland Circuit flies a UK flag over hedgerows and a snaking chicane. Redstone Park Circuit carries a US flag an...