Parking Garage Rally Circuit Review (Steam)

Parking Garage Rally Circuit offers a nostalgic trip back to the era of 32-bit graphics, with its beautiful visuals and a compact download size of 231.51MB. The game supports Steam achievements and full controller compatibility, enhancing the overall gaming experience. It provides a wide array of visual settings, including monitor options, window styles, and various graphical setups like original hardware, modern emulator, modern handheld, and PC port. Players can also adjust the game aspect ratio, draw distance, game scaling, frame rate limit, resolution, and other visual effects such as bilinear filtering, v-sync, CRT scan lines, CRT warp, and chromatic aberration. The inclusion of a cheat code entry system, deadzone and sensitivity sliders, and the ability to remap controls for both keyboard and controller adds to the game’s customization options.

The game features two modes: single-player and multiplayer. In single-player mode, players can engage in three different championships—light, heavy, and ultra—while racing around multi-story car parks. The gameplay is challenging, with tutorial pop-ups to guide new players. However, the game only offers one car per car type, and the hit detection can be overly sensitive, sometimes causing a minor tap on a barrier to flip the car. The game is difficult and doesn’t offer a wide variety of game types, which might limit its appeal to some players. Additionally, the music sometimes feels out of place, and the settings can be quite niche, potentially confusing players who are not familiar with them.

Despite these drawbacks, Parking Garage Rally Circuit is well-presented and highly nostalgic, with an arcade-style presentation and soundtrack. Every car can be customized with different colors, paint schemes, liveries, and car numbers. The game includes two race modes: race and endurance. Drifting around corners provides a speed boost, and the controls are tight, allowing for smooth drifting and precise handling. Players race against the clock, with ghosts representing Bronze, Silver, and Gold opponents, and the ability to tweak how these ghosts are displayed. The game is highly addictive, with fantastic track design and a speed boost available if players time their starting acceleration correctly. Multiplayer mode supports up to eight players and offers public, friends, and private options.

In summary, Parking Garage Rally Circuit is a visually appealing and nostalgic racing game with a variety of customization options and tight controls. While it has some drawbacks, such as limited game types and overly sensitive hit detection, its addictive gameplay and fantastic track design make it a worthwhile experience for fans of retro racing games.