Redout - Back to Earth Pack (DLC)

If you've already sunk time into Redout and its punishing, exhilarating brand of anti-gravity racing, the Back to Earth Pack is the obvious next question: is there enough here to justify coming back? The short answer is yes, with some caveats. This DLC expands the base game's roster of environments and events, giving you more tracks to master and more reasons to keep chasing those fractional lap-time improvements that make Redout so addictive in the first place. Redout is not a casual racing game. It sits closer to WipEout or F-Zero than it does to something like Mario Kart, and the Back to Earth Pack does nothing to soften that edge. You're still managing airbrake steering, boosting through corners at speeds that make your brain momentarily disconnect from your hands, and memorising track layouts with the kind of devotion usually reserved for Dark Souls boss patterns. The DLC slots neatly into that same loop. If you've been playing with a controller, full controller support carries over without any fuss. Wheel and HOTAS setups are less relevant here than in a sim racer, but the gamepad feel is tight and responsive. For the multiplayer crowd, Redout already supports online PvP and Remote Play Together, which is a genuinely underrated feature for a racing game at this speed tier. Getting four friends into a Remote Play Together session is chaotic and absolutely worth doing at least once, even if the game's skill ceiling means someone is going to be lapped repeatedly. The Back to Earth Pack adds more content to rotate through in those sessions, which keeps things fresher longer. Split-screen on PC is not part of the picture here, so local couch racing isn't an option, but Remote Play Together fills some of that gap if you're creative with your setup. The honest caveat: this is DLC for a game with no current Metacritic score and no Steam review data available, which makes it harder to gauge community consensus right now. What we can say is that 34BigThings built a genuinely distinctive racing engine in Redout, one that rewards repetition and punishes complacency. The Back to Earth Pack is for people who have hit the wall on the base content and want more of exactly the same thing. If you're on the fence about the base game itself, start there first and work backwards to the DLC. Bottom line for the Saturday night crew: this is a single-player-first expansion that happens to have multiplayer hooks. It's not the pack you buy to impress newcomers at a party, but if your group already has Redout running hot, it's a solid excuse to put in another few weekends of online racing. Riley, Scout Team