Remedy Entertainment

Native Windows port of Remedy Entertainment's DOS combat racing game.

The "revised remake" of the 1996 top-down racer was a huge hit on iOS. Although developed by Remedy, it shares so little DNA with its classic ancestor that it was met with a cold shoulder on our platform of choice.

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