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Honestly, I'm amazed games like Horizon Chase Turbo [Official Site] are still made. A retro-inspired racer that's not only super smooth, but damn fun too.

Developed by Aquiris Game Studio, the same studio that gave us the online FPS Ballistic Overkill, Horizon Chase Turbo is inspired by the likes of Out Run, Lotus Turbo Challenge and more. The inspiration is extremely clear while playing it, but that doesn't detract from the experience, if anything it's made me enjoy it even more. It's like Aquiris reached into my mind and plucked out parts of racers I liked when I was younger.

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It includes modern touches of course, like leaderboards to enable you to see how amazing you are compared to your friends and the world. There's also has split-screen support for up to four players. It even includes some tunes by none other than Barry Leitch, a well-known video game music composer who worked on quite a lot of classic titles.

In terms of content, there's surprisingly quite a bit. Not just in terms of tracks, of which there's 109, but there's a healthy dose of 31 cars to unlock as well. There's even upgrades for your cars, so there's a lot to appreciate.

The Linux version runs beautifully, although to get the Steam Controller to work properly you do need to manually pick it in the options menu. Select your player, then hover over "Input Device", hit a button and you're good to go. It will detect it as a generic controller and show keyboard prompts in some places, but it works fine. It works before then to be fair, but it doesn't give you any controller prompts until you do so.

You can find Horizon Chase Turbo on Steam now. Honestly, it's a little gem.

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omer666 May 15, 2018
Quoting: Salvatos
Quoting: tuubiWhaaat? Am I really the only one who lost interest in the NFS series after they introduced police chases in the third installment?
Police chases are about the only thing that can still make me interested in racing games for more than a few minutes, so vastly different experience here :)

That said, I don't think I've seen any other game that does it, so I don't actually own any racing game at the moment.

That's because people shifted to GTA for their police chasing fix. Saints Row can offer really fun police chases if you can get past the open worldliness and the overall tone of the game.
psy-q May 15, 2018
Quoting: GuestI’m listening to the music of Utopia by Barry Leitch (or remixes of it) almost every day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7RGtHOj8pM

He also released the Horizon Chase soundtrack, maybe useful for those who don't feel sure about the game but dig the music:

https://barryleitch.bandcamp.com/album/horizon-chase-official-soundtrack-remixes

Now also combined with Top Gear:

https://barryleitch.bandcamp.com/album/top-gear-horizon-chase
evergreen May 15, 2018
Already in my library! It’s a funny casual game for my weekly thursday’s son session. have to buy a second copy for him!


Last edited by evergreen on 15 May 2018 at 7:48 pm UTC
ElectricPrism May 15, 2018
Anyone here from Crusin the USA and Crusin the World that bought, has played and likes this?
Whitewolfe80 May 16, 2018
Quoting: GuestI hope we can play this in lower resolution, so it would be true retro, heheh.
lol well you can go retro all the way down to 1028X768 that would be early 00's premium resolution
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