High On Racing

I'll be straight with you: I spent time going through every corner of the internet looking for someone who had genuinely good things to say about High On Racing, and the results were thin. With a Mostly Negative rating across 13 Steam reviews, this one sits in territory where I'd normally tell you to keep scrolling, but let's unpack what you're actually getting before you make that call. High On Racing is a solo, score-chasing arcade runner that takes place in the sky. The core loop is stripped right down: you slide left and right to collect hidden red diamonds scattered across each stage, hit ground plates to turn, jump, or redirect your flight path, and try to survive whatever trap or obstacle is waiting around the corner. There are 15 stages (called Maces in the game), each supposedly hiding secrets and escalating difficulty. The "tactical" label in the marketing is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. What it really means is that the movement options are limited and deliberate rather than fast and freeform, which means sloppy players will get punished quickly. From a hardware and accessibility standpoint, there is nothing here that demands a wheel, a HOTAS, or even a decent gamepad. The left-right slide control scheme is as minimal as racing games get. That might sound friendly for newcomers, but the extreme simplicity cuts both ways. There is no car selection, no class system, no competitive AI to race against, no multiplayer of any kind, split-screen or otherwise. If your Saturday night crew is looking for a couch co-op racing night, this is firmly not it. It is purely a one-player, beat-your-own-time affair. The retro visual style is genuine rather than cynical, which is one of the few things working in its favour. SilentFuture clearly built this as a passion project in the spirit of old-school arcade score chasers. The Steam Leaderboards support does mean there is at least a thin competitive layer for players who want to chase global times, and 15 achievements give completionists something to tick off. But the lack of any meaningful content depth, absent community engagement, and the game's very rough overall reception make it hard to recommend outside of a very specific scenario: you enjoy bare-bones score-attack games, you want something to boot up for five-minute sessions, and the price is basically nothing. Riley, Scout Team

Runs flawlessly on Linux out of the box. Based on 3 ProtonDB community reports.

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