Slowdrive

I really like it!! It reminds me of the first Trackmania, when the series had shorter levels that we're more about "solving" levels (finding the optimal route, that often involved finding shortcuts) than just going super fast and doing crazy stunts. "Solving" the tracks was what I loved about the first Trackmania, and Slowdrive really brings back this feeling. Another great thing is that a lot of the tracks are split in 3 sections, that you each race separately, before racing them one final time, all connected into a longer track. What's great about this is that combining the three tracks together presents them in a new way, the shortcuts you found on the short tracks might not be optimal for the longer track, so you revisit tracks you've already completed, but you need to race them differently. It took me about 15 hours to get all the medals (also taking time to climb up the ranks! I'm currently 7th in the overall leaderboard). Some of the medals are pretty challenging to get, but they're all doable! All of the tracks are pretty small, most taking between 10 and 50 seconds to complete. One great thing is that, not only there is a leaderboard for each track, but there is also a global leaderboard for all the tracks combined! And the leaderboards are accessible directly on Steam. It's the first game I see that uses Steam's leaderboard feature. I see some people complain about the physics, but honestly I think they're great, I haven't had any problems with it. I think people simply need to learn that if you do a jump with a car, it's not a good idea to land with your wheels already turned to the side and the gas pedal all the way down because of course you will lose control, but that's not a bug, it's just how cars work. I found two small bugs, but nothing game breaking. The acceleration at the start of a level isn't always constant if you wait at the start of a level before pressing the gas pedal, but simply hitting the gas before hitting the retry button fixes it, so it's not really a problem (but it would still be nice if it was fixed though). Also, you can customize your car, but for some reason the decal pattern you select doesn't get saved when you quit the game. Other than those small glitches, I'm having a blast! I highly recommend it if you miss the smaller, more puzzlely tracks from the first Trackmania!