Underplayed Gems

Race The Sun (2013)

Race The Sun cover
Developer
Flippfly LLC
Platforms
Windows, macOS, Linux
Genres
Action, Indie, Racing
Rating
4.7 of 5, 6,350 player ratings
Typical playtime
about 3.2 hours
Where to get it
Steam

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How it feels

You race a solar craft at breakneck speed while the sun sets as a death timer, creating a tense and futile struggle to maintain speed and stay in light.

tensefast-pacedarcadedifficultrepetitiveatmosphericpunishingfutile

What players say

Players say the game was a great daily challenge with leaderboards, but the servers no longer work, locking players into a single world and breaking the core loop. Some find the early levels repetitive, while others praise its skill-based simplicity and performance on low-end machines. The developer is widely considered to have abandoned the Steam version.

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