Cube Racer Build the traps, win the race

Each round, everyone races to the finish line on the same map. Your trap slows down your rivals, but you have to pass it too, so every placement is a calculated risk. The map keeps growing round after round, getting harder, weirder and more interesting as it goes. You can also drop boosters instead of hazards, so a clever player can help themselves while hurting nobody. Points come from fast finishes and good placements, and the player with the most at the end wins. Nobody gets a head start: every round begins with everyone on equal footing.

There are 300 different obstacles to work with, from simple blockers to boosters and potentially deadly contraptions. You do not start with all of them: playing races earns you credits, which unlock new obstacle types over time. Credits also upgrade the ones you own, making them bigger, stronger or otherwise more suited to your plans. Before a match starts, you pick which obstacles to bring, so every online game has its own character depending on what everyone packed. That choice is where the strategy lives: do you build a wall of doom, or a booster line that flatters you into the lead?

Multiplayer is the heart of it, online or locally, and a dedicated server lets you set up your own Cube Racer server for regular rounds with friends, LAN party included. Racing is supported on controller. If you would rather race solo, there is a campaign-like singleplayer with handcrafted maps and predefined obstacles, made for chasing your own fastest times.