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Gloaming Drift in play

Gloaming Drift

Slide a rally buggy through a dusk-banded canyon road. Hold the drift to grow a glowing ribbon, bank it for extra clock, and share your best run as a ghost code.

Year
1993
Era
16-Bit
Genre
Racing / Time Attack
Play Gloaming Drift

Free, no sign-up. Keyboard, touch or gamepad.

How to play

  • Arrows/WASD steer, hold Space/Z/Up to drift, Down to brake.
  • Touch: < > to steer, hold DRIFT.
  • Gamepad supported.

On touch

  • Hold the arrow buttons to steer and hold DRIFT to slide and grow the ribbon.

Every run starts on the title screen. Pause any time with P or the pause button; calm mode removes flashes and screen shake.

Designer’s note

Early 3D racers faked depth with a stack of road slices and a lot of nerve, and we did the same on purpose. The drift ribbon turns a risk into a number you can watch growing, and banking it is the whole game. Every run is recorded as a short ghost code, so a friend can race the line you drove.

The 16-Bit era, 1990–1996

Dithered sunsets, parallax hills and more colours than anyone knew what to do with.

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High scores

The top ten runs are saved in this browser with your three initials. Nothing is uploaded, so clearing site data clears the table.