$21.99Breakout Garage Tune it, race it, break it
Fix up tired old American cars part by part, then take them out for drag, oval and drift racing in a small Texas town.
Is Breakout Garage worth it?
Breakout Garage is worth it if…
- you love old American cars and want to tune one properly, not just bolt on parts
- you would rather spend an hour on timing and tire pressure than watch a cutscene
- you enjoy buying a wreck, fixing it up and flipping it for profit
- you like games that are still growing, made by two developers who answer quickly
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Build and tune the engine, down to the timing
Every part changes how the car behaves: weight, aerodynamics, center of mass, compression ratio, displacement. You set air-to-fuel ratio and ignition timing, and the results shift with compression, boost and fuel octane. Pick your gas, 87 or E85, and tune around it. You back the timing off, the pinging quiets down, and the old engine settles into a smoother idle. Parts wear out with use and tell you about it: lifter tick, rod knock, squealing belts. There is a dyno graph to see what your changes did, an in-game wiki to explain the mechanics, and engine swaps when the original motor just is not enough.
Drag strips, ovals and drift events
Racing comes in several shapes. Accurate 1/4 and 1/8 mile drag racing, with prep or no prep, standard tree or pro tree, and leaderboards to climb. There are street drags, official drags and oval racing, plus simple drift events, time trials and endurance races against AI. The cars are old, heavy and floaty, and that is the point: a high compression V8 in a rusty pickup walking away from a stock six is a feeling worth the hours of tuning. Driving aids like traction control and ABS can be toggled, so you decide how raw the experience gets. Wheel and shifter support is there if you want it.
Small town car life: dealers, deliveries and cops
The used car dealer stocks an endless supply of randomly generated beaters, and you can inspect each one before buying. Fix it up, keep it as a cruiser, drag car or drift brick, or restore it and sell for a profit. Paint fades, rust creeps in at the edges, and patina is a look you can keep. Fitment matters too: stretched, straight or meaty tires on your wheels of choice. Between projects there are delivery jobs with payouts that depend on load, distance and time, and a simple police pursuit system that escalates with your wanted level. Money comes slowly at first, so early on you pick your projects with care.
Can you play with friends?
Can you play with friends?
Yes. Breakout Garage has peer-to-peer multiplayer: you host or join a server with an in-server race lobby system and challenge other players directly. The rest of the game, the tuning, the dealer, the deliveries, is singleplayer.
Do you have to be a car expert to enjoy it?
No. The in-game wiki explains the mechanics, and driving aids like traction control and anti-lock brakes can be turned on to make the cars easier to handle. If you want to learn what air-to-fuel ratio actually does, this is a friendly place to find out.
How do you control the car?
Either way you like. The game supports a wheel and shifter for the full sim setup, and a controller works too, with adjustments available. First-person and third-person views are both in, plus a first-person mechanic mode for working under the hood.
What can you do besides racing?
Plenty of the game happens off the track. You hunt through the used car dealer for a bargain, repair and restore cars to sell at a profit, take delivery jobs across the open world for random payouts, and dodge the police when a pursuit starts. There is also a photo mode for capturing your finished builds.
