Vast Racing
Ride the fire.
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About
Vast Racing is an open-world desert game on a rocket bike with a huge exhaust flame. Hold the throttle and the speed climbs asymptotically, half the remaining gap to top speed every 8 seconds, up to dozens of bike lengths per second. The flame grows with your speed, and it burns whatever follows too closely.
Crash-land on the Vast as the falcon pilot Falk Kestrel, bolt your ship engine onto a bike in the oasis town Last Pump, and take on the Dust Jackals across a network of vanished highways. Twelve missions, no two alike in a row: beacon runs, pursuits, canyon jumps, a sandstorm escape, a fuel-tanker heist, a duel race, stealth on foot and a boss fight on a crawler fortress. Get off the bike to talk, sneak and use things with your hands. The story branches, and free roam opens after the ending.
- Asymptotic acceleration with a half-life of about 8 seconds
- Open desert with a web of highways, dirt tracks, canyons and salt flats
- A giant procedural flame behind the bike
- Splat characters, swappable in the hangar
- A multilinear twelve-mission story
- Keyboard, gamepad and touch
Tutorial
Controls
W/D/A/S: throttle, steer right, steer left, brake. On foot the same keys walk.Space: boost. It fills the heat gauge, and a full gauge stalls the engine.E: get on or off the bike, talk, use.- Mouse or arrow keys: camera.
Esc: pause. - Gamepad: left stick steers, right trigger throttle, left trigger brake,
Aboost,Xuse, right stick camera,Startpause.
Riding
Roads are fast and sand is slow. Stay on the road, take wide curves flat out, and keep the throttle down: it takes about 30 seconds of clean road to get near top speed, and a crash throws that away. Hitting a rock, ruin or wall above 40 m/s is a crash.
Your flame is hot. Raiders, beacon pyres and fuel cans heat up and burn inside it, so getting ahead of someone is one way to win a fight.
The game saves in your browser. Add #mute to the address to start without sound.