New Star GP Brings Retro-Inspired Racing To Switch Later This Year

My kind of racer!! Yup yup yup!!

İf there is different race places it can be fun.

this looks awesome but i think ive had my fill of "retro inspired racers" for one console.

@John_Deacon

Myriad = 10,000 events 😎

Looks nice but I wish we had F1 23 on Switch. Would be nice to have it portable. At least I can get my F1 fix on Xcloud.

Looks pretty nice. I like it when games look like games and don't try to go semi-realistic.

Looks cool, but I do have 2 complaints. Those "recommended race lines" or whatever the hell they call them need to go, I find them incredibly distracting and demeaning, second I donno if its just the video but this definitely needs some music.

Racing games on the Switch suck because the trigger buttons are pressure sensitive. You're either full throttle or none. It works for Mario Kart because no one ever brakes on that but other racers suck. I wish Nintendo would use proper triggers because this game looks pretty decent and it's a shame to miss it

Day one on either Switch or PS5.

@Expa0 I agree, I hope the recommended race lines can be turned off. If so, this could be pretty cool. I kind of wish it was more than 10 racers as well. 16 would be nice. If this was on sale for $10 it was be an automatic purchase from me. I'm not saying it isn't worth more, but I'm just not into racing games that much, but this reminds me of the old school games.

Hopefully it will be like Hotshot Racing but without the rubber banding.

Thank goodness we're finally racing against the CPU vehicles this time instead of the timer. Glad there's no check points in this, I was never a fan of any racing games that use check points so glad that this one doesn't had any.

@NinjaNicky While that is true for simulation and street racing games, arcade style racers like this doesn't need precision trigger to race. This game is inspired by late 80s and early 90s arcade racing games where none of those things matter. It will still be a fine game to play on Switch. PlayStation doesn't even had analog triggers until the PS3 and them modern racing games on PS1 and PS2 works just fine.

Omg YES PLEASE…
This is an instabuy from me so as long as there is no rubber-banding.

That killed some of the other recent games in this style for me.

For as happy as I am, I’m still waiting for that San Francisco Rush-inspired racer to come out, whoever you are… I want to collect Mountain Dew cans off roofs and deploy wings to make my car flip around and spin on the air and I want to go off massive jumps and explode. I want basic cars like “default sedan 1” and I want to choose my color and I want crazy tracks like Alcatraz, Area 51, and London. Even a Beetle Adventure Racing-inspired racer would be cool.
You catch my drift…
Anyway, this looks phenomenal! Adding to my wishlist

Looks like a lot of fun. Graphics are a bit generic though but I like the way it (appears) to handle. Definitely one to watch. Hope to gets a physical release.

@NinjaNicky Yeah that's why sim racers generally don't work on Switch. You need to heavily rely upon traction control and ABS in order to have anything drivable really. Arcade racers can work fine because they are designed for more simple control methods.

@Serpenterror Arcade and Sim racers on PS2 used the pressure sensitive buttons on the ps2. Dreamcast, Xbox, PC, and Gamecube used analog triggers for racing games. Nintendo is just being cheap by not having analog triggers on their systems.

Arcade racers do need analog triggers like Daytona USA or something like the new Grid games.

@NinjaNicky this works for ultimate racing 2d. On that game there is no analogue input for brake and throttle even on pc etc. its my favourite racing game on switch.

More retro racers the better, day one

This is the same developer that made Retro Goal, and Retro Bowl

Tempting…….tho I’ll await some reviews.

Love New Star Games (and the original top-down incarnation of New Star GP!), but sadly I can see this one struggling to stand out all the other great low poly racers around these days.

@ReinforcingSteam95 I've never had a problem using the right analog stick for accelerate and brake, and most decent racing games support that.

Just got the Early Access on Steam, and I can safely say it's my favourite racing game in an absolute AGE. Awesome controls, loads of content already, brilliant music and tonnes of depth for an arcade racer.

It's not a straight-up arcade style racer like Daytona or anything like that, it's like an arcade take on Formula 1 with definite 90s vibes. Pit stops are actually fun, and there's definitely some strategy to the racing, but it's all super light-hearted and really well implemented.

I absolutely love it. It's so polished already, I can't imagine how they could improve it.