Parking Garage Rally Circuit Review (Steam)

by Jim Smale · Published September 25, 2024 · Updated October 1, 2024

Parking Garage Rally Circuit Review, Retro Arcade Rally Racing… in Parking Garages?!? Precision driving with tight simple controls and arcade physics, all in a Sega Saturn-style presentation. The “Parking Garage Rally Circuit” tour comes into a city, selects a parking garage, and temporarily turns it into an exciting rally course for a week-long competition. Each track in the game is styled as a unique parking garage that has been turned into a race course.

Parking Garage Rally Circuit Review Pros:

Beautiful 32-bit graphics.
231.51MB download size.
Steam achievements.
Full controller support.
Visual settings – monitor, window style, graphics quick setup (original hardware/modern emulator/modern handheld/PC port), game aspect (4:3/16:10/16:9), draw distance (Sega Saturn close/arcade far/PC port infinite), game scaling (pixel perfect/fill space), frame rate limit (30/60/unlimited), resolution (default/high res), bilinear filtering, v-sync, CRT scan lines, CRT warp, and chromatic aberration.
Cheat code entry system.
Deadzone and sensitivity sliders.
Can remap the controls for both the keyboard and the controller.
Two modes – single-player and multiplayer.
Racing gameplay.
Tutorial pop-ups as you play.
You are racing around multi-story car parks.
The single-player has three championships – light, heavy, and ultra.
So nostalgic and well-presented.
Arcade presentation and soundtrack.
Every car can be customized with colors, paint scheme, livery, and car number.
Two race mode types – race or endurance.
Drifting round corners gives a sped boost, how long you drift depends on how much of a boss you get.
The controls are very tight, the drifting feels really good and lets you pull off these tight corners whilst drifting with no issue.
You are racing against the clock predominantly but there are ghosts for the Bronze, Silver, and Gold opponents. You can tweak how ghosts show.
Very addictive.
Fantastic track design.
The speed boost is available if you time your starting acceleration.
Multiplayer has three options – public, friends, and private. Online supports up to 8 players.

Parking Garage Rally Circuit Review Cons:

Only one car per car type.
Hit detection can go a bit over the top like tapping a barrier will flip you.
Difficult game.
The game doesn’t offer a lot of game types.
At times the music doesn’t always feel like it fits.
The settings are very niche, there will be players out there who have no idea what they all mean.

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