Make Way (2023)

• Playtime: 11 minutes (finished 1 race)

• Played: 2026

• Context: I played Moonshine Racers and Wacky Wheels as a kid and i liked other racing games like Dirt and Grid.

Review

This is an arcadey racing game. You pick a car and set up a race against AI because online is dead. At the start of the race each player picks a piece of track and places it how and when they want unless another player is faster. This is a neat idea but does mean there are no set tracks (or i didn't see any).

The racing itself is horrible. Your car feels a bit floaty, there are constant screen shakes from AI falling off the track, they seemingly respawn at every checkpoint (??), each checkpoint looks like a finish line and -worst of all- you can barely see where you are going because there is no minimap and the camera is truly awful.

The game does have stunts, shortcuts, hazards, etc. but you have to level up to unlock those. LOL.

PS: Oh yeah, i forgot to mention that game does show a mouse cursor but doesn't let you use the mouse. Huh?

(Played a lot via Remote Play)

Make Way is a simple Toy car racing game in which you can build your own track.

You start with some basic pieces like corners and ramps. Each player grabs a piece and connects it to the track.

Then you race, earn points for passing the checkpoints and finishing the race and then the track is expanded. After someone is declared winner, everything resets again, and a new game is started.

Every time you race or build tracks, you earn XP. These experience points are used to fill up a bar. With each full bar a new piece of track, or a new obstacle or gadget is unlocked. You can also unlock new cars.

The music and sound are generic and not worth talking about.

The graphics are simple and basic but work for a simple game like this. The camera angles however can be terrible. You fall of the track; the camera goes haywire and then you realize that you dropped on the track below you and you are still in the race. The controls in Make Way are horrendous. You constantly have the feeling that you are driving on ice, covered in grease, after being lubricated by an eel. It is almost impossible. When you get hit once, you better have a parachute at hand, because you will go down my friend.

While racing, you can pick up various power ups to hinder the other players/bots. These include a sideway shotgun to blast someone of the tracks, filthy slime traps that send your already uncontrollable car spinning and flying into the abys and a freaking hammer to beat the living sh!t out of someone else.

In the end, I liked Make Way and would recommend it.