Fit check
Is Synthwave Racers worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Racing fans who want exaggerated gravity-based tracks rather than conventional circuits
- Solo players who prefer a fixed 32-level campaign with time trials
- Groups seeking online races, battles, or asynchronous ghost competition
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking an open-ended campaign rather than a 32-level linear structure
- Racers who want a broad multiplayer course selection, since the game lists 8 multiplayer courses
- Players looking for local multiplayer co-op, which is listed as a planned post-release feature
Our take on Synthwave Racers
The store emphasizes extreme speed, customization, and online play, while the current structure is more specifically defined: 32 linear campaign levels and 8 multiplayer courses. Local co-op, a level editor, and cross-platform play are presented as post-release plans rather than current features.
What is Synthwave Racers?
Synthwave Racers is a high-speed racing game with a 32-level single-player campaign and 8 multiplayer courses.
Its custom gravity-based physics supports loops, corkscrews, gravity changes, and a time-stopping powerup. Solo play includes time trials that record fastest laps and full-course times; asynchronous races let players download friends’ time-trial data and race against their ghosts. Online Race and Battle modes support up to 8 players, with AI racers filling open server places.
Completing courses and campaign levels, along with leveling up, awards loot tokens for customization items such as skins, bikes, karts, engines, wheels, colors, effects, and horns. The game has over 20 synthwave music tracks, Steam achievements, and keyboard, mouse, and Xbox controller support. Local multiplayer co-op and other additions are listed as planned post-release features.
How Synthwave Racers plays
- 01Gravity-based tracks
- Courses include loops, corkscrews, altered-gravity sections, and a time-stopping powerup.
- 02Online race modes
- Race and Battle matches support up to 8 players, with AI racers filling open places.
- 03Asynchronous races
- Players can download friends’ time-trial records and race against their ghost data.
- 04Customizable riders
- Challenges and hidden unlockables provide skins, bikes, karts, engines, wheels, colors, effects, and horns.
- 05Time trial records
- The record system tracks fastest laps and complete-course times.
- 06Synthwave music
- The soundtrack contains over 20 tracks made for the game.
Synthwave Racers compared to similar games
GRIP: Combat Racing is described as combining racing with heavy weapons and wheeled or airborne vehicles. Synthwave Racers centers on gravity-based courses, time trials, ghost races, and rider and vehicle customization.
Synthwave Racers: platforms & release
Is Synthwave Racers worth it?
It is worth it if: racing fans who want exaggerated gravity-based tracks rather than conventional circuits. Skip it if: players seeking an open-ended campaign rather than a 32-level linear structure.
Where can I download Synthwave Racers?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Synthwave Racers's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Synthwave Racers on?
Windows only.
