Sonic fan game Dr. Robotnik’s Ring Racers gets a big upgrade

Dr. Robotnik’s Ring Racers is a thoroughly great kart racing game made by fans of the Sonic universe, and a big new upgrade makes it better than ever. While SEGA are busy putting out predatory microtransaction junk, the community delivers.

A game made for people who love a challenge, this kart racer is definitely not one you can just instantly pick up and expect to be good in it. You need to master tense combat, resource management, and taking risks under pressure. It's inspired in parts by anti-gravity racers, fighting games and classic kart racers.

The highlights of what's new:

• Race and battle with proximity voice chat online.
• Play as a team in Race or Battle, or duel one-on-one in a new tug-of-war race.
• No more nervous guesswork: see your opponents’ items, even in Race.
• Amps reward aggressive item hits with on-demand boost power.
• Ring Bail for a final push of do-or-die speed!
• Checkpoints and EXP boost comeback odds for early leaders.
• Sharper, more flexible handling, especially for heavyweights.
• No more self-damage! Snatch your items back for a second chance.
• Challenge all-new staff ghosts, with faster restarts, improved balance, and realtime splits.
• A fresh new offensive toolbox: rebalanced, redesigned, and all-new items.
• Get straight to online racing with skippable tutorials, or sharpen your skills with new tutorials and practice maps.
• Take a low-pressure drive in the redesigned Relaxed mode…or challenge brutal CPUs in the toughest Master mode yet!
• Rebalanced maps, from Ring counts and Item Capsule spots to brand new layouts.
• Countless fixes, refinements, and quality-of-life updates, including modern control prompts.
• Expanded addon capabilities and limits; load over 1000 addon characters at once!

See their crazy promo video from last year:

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You can grab it free from the official site.