June 18, 2023 - Day 169 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 187

Game: Table Top Racing: World Tour

Platform: Steam
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Library Date: Mar 13, 2018
Unplayed: 1923d (5y3m5d)
Playtime: 24m

Table Top Racing: World Tour takes iconic cars, shrinks them down to matchbox-sized caricatures, and sets you racing around landscapes built in kitchens and... something else, I guess. I never got out of the sushi kitchen.

If it sounds like I've played this game before, it's because it's fundamentally the same conceit as Toybox Turbos that I reviewed back in March.

To me, the most important thing about arcade racing games is that the cars handle well. Unfortunately the cars in TTR:WT handle like a bar of soap.

However, if you grind away for a few races, you can pick up some coin, which will allow you to fully upgrade the car, at which point it handles like a faster bar of soap.

The game design is cute, the track I raced on repeatedly was fun (a sushi kitchen), the soundtrack was banging, but the racing itself wasn't.

Maybe as you grind through, later cars you can buy might handle better, but there's just not enough to keep me pushing through to find out.

I spent an hour watching John Romero play a Doom 2 custom WAD this afternoon, and it was more fun than this.

Table Top Racing: World Tour is:

2: Meh

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