An orange and a blue coupé racing side by side under a bridge at sunset

thecar game

Build the car. Build the track.
Race your friends.

A racing game where every car is simulated down to the tyres, and every car and every track can be your own.

Trailer

See it move

Features

A racing game you can take apart

Physics

Every car is simulated, down to the tyres

Suspension, tyre grip, weight transfer and a full drivetrain run in a fixed-step simulation, so a car behaves the same on every lap and on every screen. Shift by hand or leave it to the gearbox, hold launch control off the line, and switch ABS and traction control off when you're ready.

  • Manual, automatic and CVT
  • ABS and traction control
  • Keyboard, gamepad or racing wheel

Multiplayer

Race your friends online

Host a lobby or join one from the open list, pick the cars and the track, and line up. Rollback netcode keeps every screen in step, so close racing stays fair even when the connection isn't perfect. Duel head to head on two parallel roads, or fill the rest of the grid with AI drivers.

  • Open lobby list
  • Rollback netcode
  • Head-to-head duels

Garage

Build the car you want to drive

Set up the engine, gearbox, suspension and tyres in the car editor. Shape the body in the Shape Lab, with windows and a cabin behind them, lamps, grilles and body kits, or import your own 3D model. Then paint it: decals, colour areas, paint finishes, race numbers and real-size licence plates.

  • Shape Lab bodies
  • glTF, FBX and OBJ import
  • Livery painter

Build your own tracks

Lay roads with the spline editor and shape the land around them: bridges and crossings, terrain, biomes, trees, houses and grandstands. Press T to test-drive the spot you're editing.

Weather and time of day

Race in sun, rain, snow or fog, with leaves blowing across the road. Snow takes the grip away. At dusk the headlights, brake lights and turn signals light up the track.

Full grids, real race formats

Lap races with a results screen, head-to-head duels and checkpoint time attack. Fill the grid with AI rivals, 24 cars and more, and pick your view: cockpit, bonnet or chase.

Replay director

Save a race and play it back. Pause, slow it down, fly a free camera and keyframe camera paths. The key art on this page was filmed that way. Share a replay as a picture that carries the whole race inside.

Platforms
Windows · Linux
Players
Single player · Online
Controls
Keyboard · Gamepad · Wheel
Languages
English · Čeština · Deutsch
Status
In development

Support

Help build the game

The Car Game is made independently by DeznekCZ. A wishlist on Steam helps more than you'd think. If you'd like to chip in, every coffee on Ko-Fi goes into development.