Shadeburn Racer

Demolition racing for Apple Silicon Macs. Eight cars, a new track every race, and cars that break.

Buy on itch.ioUSD 5 · Mac Mac App StoreComing soon

Mac with Apple Silicon (M1 or newer), macOS 13 Ventura or later.

Trailer: two cars colliding in the derby arena

Watch the trailer on YouTube (opens youtube.com).

What it is

Get to the line first, or be the last car still running. Every race builds a new track from a seed — ovals, twisty knots, figure eights and circuits with bridges — through farmland, desert dunes, mountain passes, an old town, a neon downtown, a container port and the snowbound tundra. Cars dent, lose doors and bonnets, and drive worse when they are hurt.

Screenshots

Features

Circuit races with 8 cars, demolition derbies with 6
A championship of three cups, with points and prize money
A garage: 9 upgrade parts with 4 levels each
Endless tracks in 5 classes; save the ones you like
7 locations and 8 kinds of weather, from dust storms to the aurora
A destructible world, and animals that do not like cars
Multiplayer for up to 8 players, on your network or online
Keyboard or game controller
A soundtrack of rock and folk, composed by the game as you play
No account, no ads, no tracking

Made differently

There is no game engine inside. Shadeburn Racer is written in Free Pascal and draws with Apple's Metal directly; the cars, tracks, towns and music are made by code. The whole game is a 9 MB download.

Requirements

A Mac with Apple Silicon (M1, M2, M3, M4 or newer)
macOS 13 Ventura or later
Intel Macs are not supported