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Radial-G: Racing Revolved

2016 video game

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ23762918
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Radial-G: Racing Revolved is an indie racing game, which was developed by Tammeka Games and was released on March 28, 2016, for the Oculus Rift. HTC Vive and Razer OSVR support via the Steam version was released April 5, 2016 and is going to be released on Sony PlayStation VR on September 12, 2017 for EU regions with U.S. dates to be announced.

Gameplay

Radial-G is a game where the player races a spaceship around a futuristic race track, It has single-player and multi-player modes. There are nine different tracks, which are all of a tubular design, and include open twisty sections, tunnel sections, inverted sections and jumps. There are seven different spaceships which can be unlocked by playing the single and multi-player versions of the game. The single-player mode allows racing against up to fifteen A.I. controlled opponents. The Multi-player mode enables up to a sixteen players to race against each other. The racing mainly revolves around the player attempting to align their spaceship with the green gates which give the spaceship a large speed boost. The player must avoid red gates as these greatly slow down the ship. There are twenty background music tracks which are played throughout the game.

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