June 2025 Game Recommendations Thread

[Zed Clampet]

Wooh! Game buying being completely out of control pays off! I decided I wanted a new top-down racing game and found a curator that specialized in that. As I was going through their list, I came across a game that I already owned but had never played:

Little Racers STREET on Steam

Little Racers STREET fuses the fun-oriented simplicity of top-down racing games with the excitement of street racing, and the results couldn't be better!

store.steampowered.com

It's from 2014 but plays like it could have been released yesterday. So much fun. I wish I had checked when I bought it before I started playing (the date starts as the purchase date but switches to the last time played after you play it).

It's great arcade driving that actually takes some skill (but not a ton; it's easy to get into). One thing that I like about it is that it shows enough of the track (plus maybe slower racing speeds, although you wouldn't notice that) that there is no need for a mini-map. Amazing amount of content. Tons of cars and tracks. You can upgrade your cars and paint them. Has racing divided by classes starting at "E". Very fun single-player career, and it isn't too stingy with winning money. Probably won't try multiplayer, but it's available (you'd have to have a friend because no one is playing this anymore).

A fairly detailed user review from someone with about 700 hours in the game:

Let's just put it out there. Little Street Racers is just awesome and is the pinnacle of a genre that has sorely lacked any incarnation of excellence. This literally little racer sports two imaginary cities in which 60 routes are spliced from and similar in design to Project Gotham Racing. This is a polished piece of software sporting fluid frame rates, weather, varied environments, day and night racing, an online mode for up to 12 players, a single player campaign, multiple skill levels, a well designed AI, a damage model, time trial challenges with ghosts, multiple camera angles which include in track views, 6 performance tiers featuring cars with weight, a fun handling model, upgrades, paint jobs, nice graphics, achievements, a sense of speed, time trials, over 300 leaderboards (one for each class and track), trading cards ... and I'm sure the kitchen sink is to be found as well. I'm floored and so is the gas pedal. Easily one of the best indie products on the store.