Cyberline Racing

I went in expecting a budget Twisted Metal clone and got something a bit more structured than that, though not without some serious caveats you should hear first. Cyberline Racing is a top-down-style combat racer ported up from mobile, set in a post-apocalyptic cyberpunk world where a megacorp called Cyberline Corp runs death races as live weapons testing. That premise is better than nothing, and the career mode does push you through a roster of 15 opponents with brief backstories and 1v1 boss duels gating your progression to the next tier. It's thin on narrative weight but functional as a pacing mechanism. The mechanical pitch is straightforward: three weapon slots per car, a permanent chaingun as your baseline, and 11 swappable weapon units pulled from a pool of 24 total types - rocket launchers, mines, machine guns, and more scattered on the track. Each of the 12 cars has a hardwired special weapon tied to its identity, which gives roster selection some actual meaning beyond stat numbers. Modes span standard racing, Survival (last-place elimination every 35 seconds), and Time Trial across 8 tracks. The weapon pickup loop has rhythm to it, and survival mode in particular keeps the chaos honest. What doesn't hold up is the gamepad steering sensitivity - players have flagged it as hair-trigger to the point where stick deflection translates almost immediately to wall contact, and there's no dead zone adjustment baked in. On KB+M you fare better but the game was clearly designed around touch input first. Here's the part that actually matters if you're hoping to play online: the concurrent player count sits at or near single digits on any given day. The all-time Steam peak was under 200. Online PvP exists in the code but finding a live match in 2025 without coordinating a lobby yourself is basically luck. Premium currency server errors have been reported in the Steam community for years with no resolution. The online rankings the marketing leans on are functionally a ghost town. If you're buying this for PvP, adjust expectations hard. Career solo is where the honest value lives. The blueprint-based car unlock system and spare parts upgrade loop give you something to grind toward, and the game does get its hooks in for a few hours once you commit to building out a car. It never pretends to be more than an arcade time-killer, and at sub-dollar pricing the failure mode is low. Mac users on Catalina or above get nothing at all - compatibility was dropped and never patched. Windows players on anything modern run it fine. Bottom line from me: treat it like a single-player arcade curio with some PvP wiring that no longer fires. The 12-car roster, 24-weapon sandbox, and survival race mode give it just enough texture for a weekend romp through career mode. Nobody is waiting for you in ranked. Fred, Scout Team