After arriving on Steam Early Access in 2024, arcade combat racer Cyber Clutch: Hot Import Nights launches for the PC via Steam and Epic Games stores, with cross-play coming when the Xbox Series X|S version launches on July 30th, 2025, along with the PlayStation 5. Racing against PS5 owners will potentially happen at a later date.
It’s published by Current Games, and developed by Gunpowder Games and Focuspoint Studios, with up to eight players racing in ranked or private multiplayer, or the option of a single player career mode with championship events. You can pick from a range of light, medium and heavy vehicles with different abilities to suit the range of tracks, and weapons to use against your opponents.
As you’d imagine from an arcade combat racer set in a neon future, it looks a lot like various similar games in the past, with a suitably dystopian background to circuits like Neon Nihon Bay. From the trailer, it looks fairly fast paced as you try and avoid hazards and attacks. And a lot depends on how fun the handling and combat will be, along with whether enough players are around to build a viable community.
Personally, I enjoy the occasional bit of combat racing, but having seen similar titles in the past struggle, it’ll be a case of whether enough people are racing regularly to make the multiplayer fun. If you’re more enthusiastic, you can find Cyber Clutch: Hot Import Nights on Steam and the Epic Game Store, with a small launch discount and the option of the Overdrive Edition which includes two exclusive cars, 12 parts per vehicle and seven unique rims which can be used on any car.
Obviously, the developers have put plenty of hard work into Cyber Clutch: Hot Import Nights, the cars and environments look fairly good, and maybe it’ll be the one arcade combat racer to build a big following since Wipeout, which peaked with the first two games in the series, succeeding with cars where Pacer, Redout 2 and more have somewhat failed.
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