DethKarz

One of the greatest racing games of all time. Legendary music, artwork, and game play mechanics that are still fun and clean in 2026. (Works on Linux, with maximum performance, use proton 9.X)

One of the best!

One of the best combat racing games! Nice music, tracks and cars as well as really good driving physics. Although it's old it still is very fun to play if you like racing games. Defeitely recommend!

Dethkarz, it's the best.

Just no nonsense, pure fun racing. Whenever i play this i feel a sort of warmth and comfiness wash over me in great waves that no other game can replicate. Based Ziggurat.

Incredible game for it's time, when you consider this game was made in the late 90s you realise that it had solid graphics for a game back then and the driving mechanics are still fairly comfortable even in modern terms, for $10 it's an absolute steal if you played it back in the day and will find plenty of nostalgic enjoyment. I've found many hours on this game through speed-running it and submitting times on a small leaderboard on speedrun.com. However if you've never played it before you might find it difficult to enjoy to the dated graphics (though the cars still hold up pretty well), but the thing that has aged horribly was the AI. This is what I'll base my review around as people who've previously played it know what they're buying. Just like many games of its time the AI are poorly designed and very centred around the player (partly for technical reasons of the time). Initially they seem very difficult, especially on hard difficulty. Without any knowledge the Hard difficulty takes into account shortcuts (though not all are developer-intended) and will drive much faster on certain maps (specifically The Pole (Medium) is the most noticeable). Once you know all these shortcuts the AI don't really pose much of a challenge aside from the constant rubberbanding which is more annoying than challenging. A developer oversight causes the AI to accelerate at double the speed on 60 FPS (their max speed remains the same), meaning that 60 FPS is harder than 30 FPS. Aside from the AI, my second biggest complaint is the Red Planet tracks, the Short version isn't too bad but the Medium and Long versions are so crudely made, bumping on what appears to be non-existent bumps, constantly sliding around because the cars don't have much traction, these issues become more prominent with the fact that the Red Planet tracks are by far the longest as well. Apart from these two issues however, the game has aged mostly okay and is quite enjoyable, providing a unique twist to racing games through the use of futuristic weapons and tracks, if anyone was to base a modern racing game around this, I feel like it would be quite a successful racing game if they executed it right and it was a damn shame the sequel to this game got cancelled

This was one of my favourite racing games when I was a kid, I spent countless hours playing it. Even after all these years, it’s still great fun :) Thank you guys, 10/10.