Parking Garage Rally circuit is a well-designed game of drifting with graphics from the PS1 era and ska music that gets straight into your veins.

Parking Garage Rally Circuit didn't meet my expectations. I really like the PS1 graphics (or Sega Saturn, as Steam suggests) style. They are charming, nostalgic and pleasing to the eyes. It's also very trendy at the moment. This means that there's no guarantee a game based on them will be interesting.

Parking Garage Rally circuit (which I will start calling PGRC to keep my sanity intact) is actually quite good. It's a stripped-down racing game: There are eight tracks that you can cycle through three times using the three weight classes you can unlock. You have three buttons: an accelerator, a break, and a 'drift' button. This is the game.

How you use these tools is what I started to feel after only an hour of blasting my way through it. You can drift by niggling left or right, and pressing the drift button. You can then choose from three options: turn inwards to make a sharper, larger turn or let ska drive the car (the game features a ska-inspired soundtrack). You can adjust the drift mid-drift, if you wish.

PGRC then dangles a stick with a carrot in front of you. See, if you maintain a drift for long enough, it will give you a speed boost. You can increase your MPH by a little bit. You can fly if you combine these drifts. Your car can literally fly off slopes, as it starts yeeting dangerously.

You can also ride the lightning if you start a drift just before your tires hit the concrete. If I've played your game for less that an hour and have already discovered hidden tech, that's a good sign. It also helps that PGRC has excellent controls. Everything felt responsive and snappy. Any time I lost control of the vehicle, it was usually my fault.

The game does have multiplayer lobbies but I was unable to find a match. Given the scope of PGRC, I wouldn't expect a huge competitive scene, but it is there if you'd like to race with your friends. You'll be racing ghosts instead of other cars in the single-player campaign.

The game automatically saves your run if you earn gold. The next time you start up that track, PGRC downloads the replay of the person who is justahead on that leaderboard. This means, theoretically, that you can race an infinite number phantoms until you are the best at this particular circuit.

The parking garage theme is the only real complaint. The game does a great job of switching things up, making you dodge snowplows and throwing debris from Mt. While the game has some nice visuals, such as a tribute to Rainbow Road and a Rushmore-inspired ode, parking garages are not exactly the most interesting. It's not a dealbreaker but I would have liked to see a forest.

There's nothing else to say about PGRC. I don't believe it's a title that will keep you occupied for hours on end, but at a price of $10/PS8.50 it doesn't need to be. Parking Garage Rally circuit is now available.