Redout 2

“As a sequel to the original Redout, it expands the scale, customization, and mechanical depth of its predecessor while doubling down on the franchise’s commitment to blistering pace.”

“The progression structure pushes players to refine both driving skill and vehicle setup, often requiring mastery of particular mechanics to advance.”

“The sense of speed is unparalleled, the amount of control you have over the craft both on and off track is great, the boost/overheat mechanic feels both risky but also really rewarding if used right... overall, the game's mechanics all feel fantastic, and have a lot of depth to them.”

“The visuals are stunning—runs like a dream on my Steam Deck, and looks jaw-dropping on my RTX 4070 rig.”

“Graphics are beautiful, tracks are quality, mechanics immaculate and very satisfying.”

“Beautiful graphics and optimization that makes it run like butter on even lower-end hardware.”

“Players can select from multiple chassis types and fine-tune numerous performance components, including engines, stabilizers, wings, and propulsion systems.”

“I love how each upgrade not only boosts performance but affects your race score, forcing you to fine-tune your setup to nail that perfect balance.”

“The devs find the sweet spot between arcade & hard sim everywhere it matters -- controls are deep but forgiving; garage is complex & key to performance enough to have to pay attention to your decisions, but simple enough to avoid choice paralysis; career lets you find a balance between pushing your parts to the limit on the way up to the fastest event classes & coming back through for upgrades.”

“All the while rewarding the player with a rich backstory about the possible future of humanity.”

“Redout 2 is an amazing sequel with major improvements on handling, difficulty curve, storytelling, and builds greatly on the first game.”

“Unlike Redout 1, this game has voice overs, and attempts to tell a story that goes beyond just racing.”

“It's polished, the flight model seems refined, the controls are responsive, there seems to be a good variety of tracks and content, and it runs great on the Steam Deck (with a few options turned down).”

“The devs find the sweet spot between arcade and hard sim everywhere it matters – controls are deep but forgiving; garage is complex and key to performance enough to require attention to decisions, but simple enough to avoid choice paralysis; career lets you balance pushing parts to the limit on the way up to the fastest event classes and coming back through for upgrades; the focus on high effects and shaders paired with low-poly models looks beautiful and runs great even on older hardware.”

“The visuals are very pleasing and the game is basically bug free.”

“It spans dozens of events across multiple track environments, each featuring forward and reverse layouts that significantly expand replay value.”

“With expansive career content, high replay value, and striking audiovisual design, it successfully revitalizes the anti-gravity racing formula while carving out its own modern identity.”

“And the content, just the singleplayer alone has hundreds of races and unlocks with great replayability due to its progression system encouraging you to return to past events to get more stars.”

“It lends the track a surreal atmosphere, transforming an already gorgeous track into something so remarkable that I honestly can’t remember something like it.”

“Track designs are top notch with cool sets and environments that also can impact your race such as gravity types, surface temps, and even atmosphere settings.”

“Every single zone is unique and varied to have its own style of driving and track design with different environmental modifications to fit each location, like the atmosphere being set to 'dense' in the Mariana Trench since you race underwater there, causing more drag to be generated losing you speed faster than normal.”

“Whether they dropped on my Twitch kindly feeding me advice, or on their Discord server with people always ready to watch you, provide feedback, and talk, whether it is from other players or the devs themselves, the Redout 2 community made me feel supported and at home, and I owe them a huge lot of thanks.”

“Re: a lot of the comments on difficulty -- the game does a great job with rewarding the player for learning the system and not ignoring mechanics that seem too complex, not ignoring cars or stats that seem uninteresting to the player's own comfort zone. For example, you might skip a track because you don't want to deal with a bunch of jumps or hairpins that you can't quite nail and just want to go fast, but you'll eventually need to come back for the points or upgrades, and can tune the car for the track in a way that will let you drift through the hairpins at full throttle without touching the wall, boost to a certain speed you need to hit for a challenge criterion, etc.”

“I gradually went from crashing into the wall in each corner to often touching walls to almost never touching walls.”

“Some races also want you to complete a qualifying lap which is hilarious because you only gain 100m from first to last place in the starting grid where multiple kilometers of difference are normal; gladly, you can skip them though.”

“It is hilarious when it happens to the AI though.”

“However, when I set the difficulty one notch higher to 'redout' I will pull pretty far ahead during the first half of a race, but then the AI gets hilariously rubber-bandy and whips past me, putting me all the way to last place with no hope to compete.”