$19.99TRAIL OUT Wreck first, win later
Race through tracks that fall apart around you, turning every crash into comedy and every finish into a small miracle.
Is TRAIL OUT worth it?
TRAIL OUT is worth it if…
- you miss the old-school arcade racers full of destruction and nitro
- you want a couch game for up to four friends, no lobby required
- you like cars that fall apart piece by piece and drivers who fly out the window
- you enjoy silly stories, parodies and jokes that do not take themselves seriously
- you would rather bowl with a ragdoll driver than with a ball
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Racing where everything breaks
The tracks are stuffed with things that explode, splinter and fly. Barriers shatter on the first lap and stay broken on the second, so by lap three the road is littered with your own wreckage. Ramming rivals earns nitro, which means the fastest way forward is also the most violent one. Cars crumple in real detail: wheels tear off, doors fly open, and in a bad enough crash the driver goes through the windshield. You can lose a race because you clipped a gas pump near the finish and it cooked your car. That is the kind of game this is, and it is glorious.
A festival with a story
You play Mihalych, a racer working his way up a Blacklist of bosses, each one holding a piece of the road to the festival's main cup. Beat them on their home turf, first in a race, then in a derby where they bring friends. Between events there are in-game cutscenes telling a simple, knowingly silly story, packed with jokes and references to other games and films. The voice acting is rough, and somehow that makes it funnier. The campaign runs around twelve hours, short enough to finish and fun enough to redo.
Eight ways to wreck
Racing is only the start. There are derbies where the last car standing wins, and point-based ones where you score by hitting people. Cross races throw oncoming traffic at you halfway through. In Escape, an armed aircraft keeps destroying whoever is in last place, so the race becomes a panic to not be that person. Hunter casts you as the cop taking out street racers. Then there are the stunts: mini-games where you launch the driver out of the car to bowl strikes or hit darts. And Dead Out sends you into an open map to mow down zombies. No two events feel the same.
Built for the couch
That makes it an easy pick for a games night: pick a mode, hand out controllers, and within a minute someone's car is upside down and everyone is arguing about whose fault it is. There is no online multiplayer, so this is strictly a same-room game, but the chaos lands better with people next to you anyway. Set a lap time or a destruction record on the world leaderboards and dare the others to beat it.
