In Super Slot Car ‘98 you don’t steer. The race drops into slow motion, you draft a card (more engine, nitro, a dirty trick, scrap plating) and your toy slot car drives that build for you. Then you watch, wince and draft again.
How it plays
It’s a roguelike deckbuilder on a slot car track. A run is three cups and twelve races. There are 124 cards to collect, rivals who hold grudges and turn into nemeses, a garage, and a Track Builder for making your own layouts.
The fun is in the build. A car stacked for straight-line speed flies off on the first tight bend. A car covered in armour plating crawls round but takes every hit. Somewhere between the two is a car that wins the cup.
Why we made it
Slot cars are pure childhood: a figure of eight of plastic track on the carpet and a car that flew off at the same corner every time. We wanted that feeling with the decisions of a card game on top. We wrote a short history of the hobby in A short history of slot car racing.
Play it
Super Slot Car ‘98 is the furthest along of our games. The first cup is free to play in your browser, and there’s a free Windows download for the full run on superslotcar.com.
