Slipstream Demo

Slipstream is a racing game that’s built to recreate the look and feel of some old-school racing games. It resembles the Sega OutRun, although there’s no blonde in the passenger seat of your car, but to me, it brings back the Lotus III series. Good old MS-DOS days.

Slipstream isn’t the only arcade racing game that has surfaced and aimed to bring back or reconstruct the 80s and 90s vibes. However, it’s one that manages to be very accurate. From the gameplay to the graphics, it’s spot on line one of the early arcaders that were consumed by the gaming audience of two decades ago.

The audio follows up quite nicely although it’s not exactly chiptunes, but it still sounds pretty good. It does manage to put you in the vibe as you’re speeding through traffic across some retro nice urban and natural landscapes. One thing that’s missing, thankfully, is the low fps gameplay; Slipstream runs very smooth, and that makes it totally enjoyable.

In Slipstream, racing is how you would expect it to be. The controls are a bit clunky at first, and distance perception is a bit off. That is until you get familiar with the controls and how the car handles.

Once you’ve begun to master the controls, the game becomes a real treat if you’re into old’school games. There are no opponents to race against, it’s just you and the clock. And for what it’s worth, you need to be, or get, really good at it to finish a race. Not that the traffic is unpredictable, or the tracks hard to navigate, but one little mistake costs you precious time, and there’s not much of that in the first place.

It’s still in the works but once it’s done, and hopefully with some extra content, Slipstream will turn out to be a really nice game. For now, download the demo and give it a spin.