NIGHT-RUNNERS™ PROLOGUE

About this game

DESCEND INTO THE UNDERWORLD OF JAPANESE STREET RACING

Set in an unknown time between 1990-2009, you will navigate through the corrupt and shady power struggles of local street racing crews, all competing for control of their regions and to top the crew rankings.

• Extremely detailed customization, including Exterior, Interior, Wheels, Engine, and Handling

• Dynamic character dialogue; other racers will comment on your car, your recent races, new local records and your progression

• Full Photomode with VHS, old camera effects and motion blur

• Freely walk around your garage and the car meet (Parking Area) between races

• Adjustable screenshake and camera FOV

• Procedural game event scripting, high replay value

Inspired by the real life Japanese used car auctions, you will purchase your first vehicle by visiting the used car auctions and leaving with any decrepit car you can afford.


Walk around your safehouse and view all your hard-earned cars; change their oil, repair their engines and view their stats. Good maintenance will help your engine last longer after a long night of abuse and overheating.


Take parts off your cars, place them into storage and sell them for some extra cash or transfer them onto another vehicle you own. When you have some spare cash, take a trip to "Top Garage" to buy some new parts for your exterior, interior, wheels, engine and/or handling.


Progress through the underworld by entering a "PA"(Parking Area) and start negotiating wagers with any local crew members who care to race you. You are free to walk around any "PA" and bask in the thick atmosphere of smog and secondhand cigarette smoke.


The local racers are not impressed with newcomers and will make their disdain known. Impress them by winning and they will change their tone.


Earn cash by beating racers in 1vs1 wagers but be warned; these are real wagers and you will lose the money you bet if you lose the race! Some racers will take pity on you and give you a chance to win your money back by suggesting a 'double or nothing' race. It's your choice if you want to take that risk.

Latest news

• Patch Notes·5 May 2024Official

  Patch v1.3 (Car Launch Bug Fix, New Songs, Chassis Rake, +more)

  FIXES: - Fixed car launch/kickflip bug - Added 2 new Dazegxd songs; "way 2 good(idc)" and "won't tell nobody" - Increased AI speed - Added red neon - Increased car paint reflection brightness and improved how it reacts to light - Added Ride Height and Front/Rear Camber into wheel adjustments - Added Chassis Rake handling category adjustment - Fixed 'Wildfire Prototype' having mismatched end plates - Fixed Switchblade circuit dash gauges not appearing in UI - Fixed lay-by wall collider - Added "SPEKTER" bodykit
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• Patch Notes·18 Apr 2024Official

  Patch v1.0611 (Better Car Paint, More Music FX Settings, Less Pop-in, +more)

  FIXES: - Car paint improvements - Increased brightness - Made brightness settings look better and work better - Fixed handbrake input being activated during phone calls on certain input maps - Fixed bug where you if ran out of fuel and then ended the night you'd get stuck - Fixed UVs being wrong on certain rims - Improved RAM usage a bit - Added buildings to reflections on "ultra" graphics setting mode and during photomode on other graphics settings - Increased chunk size for less pop-in - Increased difficulty slightly - Added more variants to 'MUSIC FX' settings and made 'full off' louder - Added steering input deadzone - Added remove camera tilt option - Improved accuracy of reset point and direction - Fixed being able to buy extra parts even if you don't have enough cash
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• Patch Notes·29 Mar 2024Official

  Patch v1.023 (Reshade, Remappable Controls, Lowered AI grip/weight, +more)

  FIXES: - New Reshade in driving area and Tatsumi PA - Added remappable controls - Fixed fast travel not stopping speed sometimes - Lowered AI grip/weight - Increased AI 'player avoid' - Improved Handling (less understeer at high speed, more oversteer at low speed) - Removed camera crash effect that would make the camera clip out of bounds - Improved player livery memory management - Made loading screens faster - Buffed Drag Tires launch when they are hot - Added language/region filter for main menu date, which was causing crashes for certain regions (mostly S.E.A languages) - Nerfed small wheels speed advantage - Added fix for tunnel entry launch bug - Fixed being able to quit a Crew Challenge race - Fixed bug where player could remove engine part mesh - Fixed bug where car auction selected car would continue driving - Removed tape noise from loading screen - Added tweaks to how car paint looks - Fixed storage money glitch - Fixed Camshaft upgrade effects on redline and top speed - Fixed chassis roll being wrong when reversing - Fixed ETC toll light not appearing on car - Increased FOV in cockpit camera when at 0 speed - Fixed streetlight flares getting 'out of sync' with actual streetlight after freeroaming for a long time - Changed how headlight flares and streetlight flares look - Mini-map GPS will show automatically when you have a GPS target - Added headlight beam fog on med+high light settings - Added option to turn off speed blur - Fixed lens flares showing through 3rd brake light and rear view mirror - Lowered AI difficulty of Tomoika ETC Toll booth - Fixed some number plate formatting inaccuracies - Fixed AI spin out on 'Koto City East Loop' - Reduced wait time at race start for pausing/opening GPS
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• Patch Notes·4 Mar 2024Official

  PATCH v0.9995 (GPS Navigation, New Handling, Difficulty Slider, +more)

  FIXES: - New livery Import system that should fix windows 11 crash - Added cheat to change crew ownership -> pause game when in PA, press 'EnterLocation' button(Y,TRIANGLE, F). Crew will change when you leave the PA. - Added GPS path that shows in mini-map - Added race path that shows in mini-map - Added zoom to mini-map GPS with arrow keys/Dpad up and down - Added more torque to low powered cars - Added AI difficulty in SETTINGS -> GAME - Added option to hide the new blue location icons in SETTINGS -> GAME - Added Midnight Club inspired drafting visual aid - Added more FOV to car camera when not moving - Added fix for game not launching when using certain windows regional formats - Added option to hide photomode preview UI for steam screenshots - Added fix for g-company not changing after beating the boss - Added "Domin8r - GUM.MP3" to the garage music playlist - Increased torque floor on all cars - Automatic gearbox will downshift sooner - Lowered grip and reduced understeer - Added manual clutch shifting to Stock and Street Transmissions -> Faster shift when use clutch than sequential - Shortened race win flyby sequence - Increased walk speed after a period of time, mostly in Tatsumi PA - Sped up customization fading to/from black during UI - Fixed AI de-spawning sometimes when far in front of player - Fixed tire marks sometimes floating - Fixed some street tires being invisible - Fixed headlight flares on Sykina AI car - Changed pause game key to "ESC" - Added scroll bars to some option menus - If player finishes race before AI, in final summary AI will get estimated time instead of "DNF" - If race loss is coming out of betting cash, race final cinematic will show it - Lowered noise level in driving scene - Hidden checkpoints in photomode - Added cheat to manually change crew ownership -> pause game when in PA, press 'EnterLocation' button(Y/TRIANGLE, F). Crew will change when you leave the PA.
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• Patch Notes·26 Feb 2024Official

  Mini Patch v0.9981

  Small fix patch just for the crew attack bug and some of the new settings not saving correctly. Bigger patch coming in
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