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Patricio Marin · Published by Patricio Marin
Positive — 93% positive (42 reviews)
Last updated 27 Sept 2026
An old school top-down racer with split-screen multiplayer.
DJCTQ lPvPFull Controller Support
£4.29
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3 Sept 2026Lowest: £4.29 · Highest: £4.297 Oct 2026
Racing · 2023 · More under £5 games
Dive into Pretend Cars Racing, a high-speed racing experience from Patricio Marin where you can race against friends through classic top-down tracks in split-screen mode.
About this game
Pretend Cars Racing is an old school top-down racer, featuring split-screen multiplayer, 6 car classes and 30 tracks inspired from real venues.
Its driving model has the right mix between arcade and simulation. You will be having fun in no time but with its high skill ceiling, you will spend hours chasing your best possible lap time.
Race against three levels of AI difficulty, challenge friends via split-screen or remote play and chase the top spot in the leaderboards in hot-lap mode were you can race against your own ghost.
Road cars, GTs, prototypes, open-wheelers and overpowered classics bring diversity and challenge to tackle more than 20 international tracks.
It runs great in the Steam Deck!
Its driving model has the right mix between arcade and simulation. You will be having fun in no time but with its high skill ceiling, you will spend hours chasing your best possible lap time.
Race against three levels of AI difficulty, challenge friends via split-screen or remote play and chase the top spot in the leaderboards in hot-lap mode were you can race against your own ghost.
Road cars, GTs, prototypes, open-wheelers and overpowered classics bring diversity and challenge to tackle more than 20 international tracks.
It runs great in the Steam Deck!
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
Minimum:
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: Windows 7 and above
- Processor: 1.2 GHz
- Memory: 4000 MB RAM
- Storage: 100 MB available space
Recommended
Recommended:
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
Supported Languages
English*, Spanish - Spain, Spanish - Latin America
*languages with full audio support
*languages with full audio support
Latest news
Patch NotesOfficial
Update notes for May 24th
Long time no see : ) This is a small update to fix the pause menu being too small in 4K resolution. Now, lets go back finishing PCR2!Read full article on Community Announcements (MisterAkuma)Patch NotesOfficial
Controller settings
I just published a small update that let's you turn off controller rumble and change the stick's deadzone. You can access both this settings through the options menu.Read full article on Community Announcements (MisterAkuma)Patch NotesOfficial
New Liveries for Formula Pretend
https://gamercronico.com/galleries/pcr/devlogs-20240215.png Pretend Cars Racing is receiving new liveries for the Formula Pretend 2024 inspired by the new Formula 1 season!Read full article on Community Announcements (MisterAkuma)Patch NotesOfficial
Ghost cars transparency
One user mentioned in the forums that it was a little bit confusing when driving very near of a ghost car, so I decided to make a slight change to their behaviour. Now ghosts change transparency according to distance from the player instead of a fixed value.Read full article on Community Announcements (MisterAkuma)Patch NotesOfficial
Update 8/8/2023
This is a small update to correct a couple of small bugs. - Fixed spacing of columns in the leaderboards (for positions >99) - Tweaked the phrasing in a couple of spanish translations to make the shorter - Added a checkpoint to Kingsdown to prevent track-cuttingRead full article on Community Announcements (MisterAkuma)
