What are the best racing games for speedrunning?
5 years ago
Hungary

Any recommendations? Personal favourites? Interesting videos/streams you can link? There might be some that will interest me, and then I can look into the game, the strats etc. Thanks!

Edited by the author 2 months ago
Aberdeen, Scotland

If you aren't looking for kart racing games I would recommend either a rally game (such as the Colin McRae Rally series or WRC games) or Need for Speed. In the nfs series I would recommend Carbon or The Run. Both are quite simple to learn games.

France
xDrHellx
He/Him, It/Its
5 years ago

Initial D games Mario Kart games

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Netherlands

Kirby Air Ride F-Zero games

Cumbria, England

Super Hang-On is very challenging!

Germany

Fast RMX, in case you already like F-Zero. It played very similarly to F-Zero GX for me casually, so it probably makes for a good speedgame as well.

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Valhalla

Gran Turismo series time attack

Texas, USA

Racing games by Namco. Pole Position, Final Lap, etc...

Edited by the author 5 years ago
France

SupertTuxKart has a small but nice speedrunning community : https://www.speedrun.com/stk/

United States

Sonic R. Even if you don’t have access to a GC, the leaderboards are very diverse and allow everything from Emulation to PC. It has a fairly steep learning curve though.

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Singapore

Trackmania also has a big community of runners and it is quite easy to play and submit runs to the leaderboards

United States

Trackmania is overrated because of Wirtual IMO, and can be difficult to get into. I suggest figuring out which racing genre you want to play (ex: simulation or arcade), sub genre (rally, circuit, kart, etc) and look for games based on that. The racing genre is very broad, and asking for vague suggestions will lead to games you probably don't care about (like asking for platformers and giving no further details).

Irrelevant to the user who started the thread but since someone bumped, why not.

Edited by the author 1 year ago
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Czech Republic

Excitebots: Trick Racing

Iowa, USA

That’s cool

https://imgur.com/a/KvIQEpY

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Texas, USA

Big Rigs

Arizona, USA

technically all games on src are racing games because you're racing against someone's time 🤓

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Belgium

I'm upping this to add POD : planet of death to the list.

Dystopic Sci-fi universe/design, great physics, Amazing level design and.... retro !

https://www.speedrun.com/pod_planet_of_death

You Can Do full game (championships) runs, or individual level runs.

Either 1 lap, 3 laps or Ghost mode.

Lots of vidéos and Ghosts on the page. Don't expect some casual timeattack though. POD is very demanding in term of skills and knowledge of the game...

King categories are individual levels, 1 lap and Ghost mode.

Edited by the author 6 months ago
Poland

If you have nothing against mobile racing games, then I'd suggest DATA WING. You'll quickly learn the basics of the steering, so it's just the matter of time you eventually start speedrunning it. Just to let you know, if you're going for Any% or for 100% runs, you'll also have to memorise the solutions to the binary quizzes.

Edited by the author 6 months ago