Dr. Robotnik's Ring Racers - Promo (2024) 

one of the devs came to my bar just to show me this and I was so happy

"EGGA Channel Adapter, no subscription, and internet connection required for online play. This fake online play disclaimer jargon should be completely indecipherable with the VHS filter. If for whatever reason you can still manage to read this at all in spite of the abysmal bitrate, that's hilarious."

Can't wait to play some DRRR

YOU CANT JUST DROP THIS OUT OF NOWHERE MY POOR HEART

This wouldve went crazy in the 90's

Now that, THAT is a fun presentation. We're in for something special.

I literally had the most fun right now, doing the tutorial and winning a grand prix. I am so happy, and did not even know that I wanted or needed this game in my life. It filled a nostalgia for sonic and by design its retro feel and just amazing dialogue and interesting item pick ups. the mechanics to drift and boost. Its like.. one of the best fan games ever.

Huge!

I was wondering what's been the hold up with this only to be like "Wait, its released?!"

I love being bumped into fault the moment the race starts before I get to do anything

It´s the first time I see this fan game, and after contemplating every detail you´ve put in it I feel such sensation of joy that is almost undiscriptable. The amalgamation of the 90´s vibes, the maps, the musics and the secret characters such as Mecha Sonic/Ecco/Dynamite is so good that generated within me a satisfaction never felt before. From the deepest of my heart, thank you for your valuable efforts, Kart Krew Dev.

Shame that people are so split on this game. Coming here to say that I'm currently enjoying every second of it! Just finished playing the tracks on easy and I'm so excited to keep playing to slowly unlock the full achievement board! Love the presentation so much, I hope someone puts a full soundtrack playlist someday! Also, currently on time trials, I wish there was a tutorial that unlocked with the more complex mechanisms the CPU is using. Otherwise, I love the uniqueness of this game, one of the most complex kart racers I ever had the pleasure to play and I hope to keep improving at it! Thank you so much for this game ❤

Powered by Kart Crew, it’s Ring Racer! RIIIIIING RACER!!! Remember that one?

Nailed the VHS level fidelity on both mediums, that is my ish and you have my full attention.

SRB2 Kart was already an incredible Sonic kart racer. Can't wait to dive into this!

Well, I know my weekend plans now

grabbed the game two hours ago with barely any srb2kart experience the tutorial is very long but very cute i love it

SRB2 Kart was so good it got it’s own sequel.

This game tore my patience to bits. And I was on Normal.

Been playing this game for a couple of weeks now and I just wanted to shout out how amazing it is. This is, in my opinion, leagues better than other Sonic racing games and a huge step up from SRB2 Kart thanks to the new mechanics, local splitscreen, and single player content. And it’s never boring thanks to decent mods coming out almost daily. I know a lot of people hate on this game for being too complicated and chaotic, which I can understand if trying to play through the grand prix and unlock everything legitimately, but for casual playing and playing online it’s a blast and a fun challenge for people like myself who have mastered the more traditionally laid-back games in the kart racing genera like Mario Kart or Sonic & All Stars Racing

My spring break is becoming PEAK with this!!!

Ok, so it's like 4:30AM for me now, and I saw this video just before I planned to go to sleep... but of course I still insta-downloaded the game and gave it a shot. That being said, I've only had the opportunity to complete the tutorial and one race so far (the tutorial is very long, but don't worry, they don't make it boring). That being said, this already blew me away, and I didn't even know about this game beforehand. I literally just randomly got recommended this video. Honestly did a bit of a double take when I realised it's only been up for like an hour! 😅 --- only nitpicks so far: If you rebind any buttons, which you're encouraged to do before starting the tutorial, the buttons in the tutorial will still be the default which messed with my head once or twice when it would tell me the wrong buttons to break. Speaking of binds, there's one or two buttons I find questionable, but you can fix that with binds. Only thing you can't fix that way is very specific stuff like the fact I prefer to use B to break instead of X, but I can't bind break to B because holding break and accelerate is needed for some button combos, and it's a lot harder to hold A and B simultaneously while steering than A and X. Sounds small, but it just nags me 'cause now I keep accidentally hitting the look backwards button instead of the break button when I'm about to crash. The other nitpick is that while it was fun, I thought the drifting section where you had to outrun the bomb was a huge difficulty spike for me that I was stuck on for a good while - not even for the tight turns or underwater section, I actually first-tried those parts. It was just getting past the first 3 or so turns that took me like 50 tries because the track goes so straight for so long it's hard to get speed boosts from drifting to outrun the bomb without launching yourself into walls. --- Visually, this is a work of art. Honestly don't know if I've seen a game nail this style before so hard. Controls-wise, aside from aforementioned binding nitpicks, it feels great! Gameplay-wise, maybe a bit early for me to say having seen only the start, but I'm absolutely sold so far and looking forward to play more when I have the time. I really hope the online play for this game kicks off, because despite not typically being the kinda guy to be super into racing games, I feel like this could really have some staying power if the online's nice and active.

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEES! I'd heard this was being worked on. Very very excited to jump into this. Love the retro trailer. :D

This, it has become the biggest homage to the franchise for me.

i fucking LOVE tumble thank you devs

Can't wait to see the Jart livestreams again!

Bro the Tutorial is the Purgatory

I just realized the references to Dr. Robotnik’s Mean Bean Machine logo and the cranes from Knuckles Chaotix.

This has got to be the greatest shadow-drop of my life!

This feels like a legit 90s ad and I love it!

Good lord, I have stumbled across this unexpectedly, and now my curiosity has come to crave more.

I found this randomly and wow. After playing it I am absolutely floored at the quality and polish. This seriously feels like it could be a Sonic Mania situation. Deserves to get taken up by SEGA in the same way. Amazing work!!

this is what the video game 90s feel like

Best kart racer ive ever played

Damn thats some perfect good editing style.

The rebrand was a good idea since there are so many gameplay differences compared to SRB2Kart. First impressions however, it’s definitely way more Sonic-like, but the gameplay changes are gonna make this way more difficult for people to jump into and just play. I cannot recommend this to people like I do with Sonic Kart. Way too many hurdles to not only play the game normally, but to play online as well. So I can’t tell my friends “Here’s the game, here’s the character and map packs, here’s the IP/Discord invite, let’s play.” The ease of getting someone into this doesn’t seem to exist for Ring Riders, and that disappoints me.

Ok having taken a break and completed the tutorial (which was a little annoying, but whatevs I played SRB2K, so it wasn't that difficult either, just long.) Lemme hive my honest cents to this game. This game has phenomenal potential, I can see myself playing this game in the future, IF certain things get addressed. Let me begin with the things I LIKE about the game's added features. FastFall: I like this. Maybe others don't, but I do enjoy having the option to not be flung in the air and wait an eternity. Though I will say bind it to a more "natural" command. I'd like to press drift, brake or accelerate + down to fastfall. Just something more intuitive that exists on a more important button on my controller. Rainbow drifts: ok I'm with it. I'm a driftaholic, so that compliments the way I play the game. You can definitely have fun with new drift boosting mechanics and I give this a green light. Spindash: this is cool, just I rather it be like a 2 button combination rather than have it be it's own button. Have it be accelerate and brake. Simple. Less buttons = more friendly to players. Ok now that I stated what I liked... Here's the stuff I'm not pleased with.. Rings: Just don't... We already can barely process the game as it is lmao we got ADHD, don't make us micromanage more stuff, we just wanna race! Trick system: gut this thing. Throw it out. It causes somany more problems than it can ever hope to fix. If you approach bumpers at an angle you can just input a trick in the direction that sends you to your doom. This is not what you want. Locking of certain things: look i get it. You want ppl to play the content you worked hard on and i appreciate this, but this needs to be done right. How do you think ppl are gonna play this game? WORD OF MOUTH. The players who love this have to be able to reccomend this to normies lol and I don't know a single normie who is gonna sit through that tutorial and absorb all that info without a headache and just not wanting to see the game ever again. Make a story mode or something, so that when new players jump in and play online instantly and like the game, they can then dump hours playing that mode and BOOM happy gamers. Overall control of kart: idk what it is, but something about the controls feel very off compared to SRB2K. Like a wise AVGN once said, I'm either going slow as sh!t or fast as @$$. I just can't really tell what my speed is going to be, and I can't concentrate on it because I'm busy micromanaging my ring count and other things, but I cant focus on those things cuz I'm driving, and I cant drive cuz of frikkin obstacles, and i cant solve those obstacles immediately cuz I'm being driven crazy. Overall i think the game has promise, but it's just got toomuch going on. The item button has multiple functions, we now have an action and spin dash button as well, its overwhelming. Please just reduce the amount of buttons needed and make new mechanics more intuitive by slapping them into more instinctual button presses/combinations. I hope this gives some insight to the devs, cuz this game has sick content. Would love to see this game have a story mode or something. I'd definitely play that to unlock stuff!

Best. Sequel. Ever! KartKrew Rulez

Now I got TWO racing games to play with my friends that are free! SRB2K and DRRR! I’m so stoked for another funny racing experience! Thank you to the community and everyone at Kart Krew for all their support and hard work!

HOLY SH THIS IS AMAZING

Excellent work! We will feature this in the next issue of our retro gaming news roundup.

This looks out of this world. The background music was such a bop too. Tbh I haven’t played srb2 kart in a few months so I’ll get back into playing it now

The VHS recorded commercial aesthetic was masterfully done.

That menacing key hole is certainly intimidating

WE'RE RING RACING WITH THIS ONE BOYS!! 🗣🗣

A really convoluted, slippery srb2kart with too many mechanics and immense visual clutter! YESSSSSSS!!!

Awesome

You can't just hit us with a 90's style commercial like that, lolz. I just found this game today, and I'm enjoying every second of it!

day 1 and its less srb2k and more kirby's tilt n tumble

I'm sorry, as someone who absolutely loved SRB2Kart, I feel like Ring Racers is trying to be different for the sake of being different. That can be a good thing, but at the same time, there's nothing wrong with a good old Mario Kart clone.

I appreciate the amount of effort that was clearly put into this game, and for trying to stand out with the mechanics, but everything doesn't really come together to make a fun kart racer. The ring spending mechanic just seems like a worse version of Mario Kart's coins, or TSR's rings. Nobody wants to spend rings during a race to build speed, especially when having rings makes getting hit less punishing. It also means that if you already have an item, and you want to spend rings to build up speed getting up a slope or something, you need to throw away your item first. It's very clunky. Just have it where collecting rings slowly builds up your top speed/acceleration, and from there either go the Mario Kart route and make the amount of rings you can collect limited, or go the TSR route and have no limit. The insta-whip is a very silly name considering it's an attack you need to charge first. Maybe make it weaker, but come out as soon as you hit the button, or make it where tapping it does a weak hit, but charging it makes it strong. Either that, or just remove it, it feels a bit unnecessary. No complaints about the spindash, but the fast drop or whatever it's called is a bit annoying, considering you can't see right below you. The trick system is ass. Why is the recommended direction shown on signs that can very easily be missed or obscured, and not just displayed on the UI? There's probably a lot more I'm forgetting, since this game is loaded with way too many mechanics to remember. The tutorial needs to be drastically shortened. A kart racer should not have a 30-60 minute long, unskippable tutorial. Custom colors, online play, and add-ons being locked behind gameplay is also incredibly dumb. SRB2K was popular because it was easy to pick up and play, while also having enough depth to keep people hooked. It had it's own problems (item knockback being the big one for me), but it was overall a very solid and fun kart racer. DRRR feels like it was designed not understanding any of that, and it's a damn shame, because there was clearly a lot of love put into this game. The presentation is phenomenal, but the bloated mechanics and stupid decisions drag the whole experience down.

Daytime has come to balloon panic And he has woken up...

If you squint your eyes "ring racers" in the logo kinda looks like it says pingas

Awesome stuff! Thank you, devs for creating this!

This genuinely looks awesome

WOOOOOOOOOWWW

And when the world needed them the most... They came back !

My first day playing this was filled with pure hatred with the mechanics and controls Now it became my favorite kart game

I'm absolutely stoked ! And I love the name choice ! Always appreciated the "Dr. Robotnik" games, specifically Mean Bean Machine (I think that's the only one). This is a very fitting name ! Playing it ASAP

So this is SRB2Kart 2

I don't know if this is the place to put in suggestions to the devs for future updates, but i'll go for it anyway, since I love to see this game grow: - AI opponents using different colors and followers as an option, just like the player does, to make the AI racers/bots more unique! - Customizing the racing grid, where you randomize or handpick characters and their cosmetics, and allow duplicate characters to race as or against! I'm a sucker for features like these for even more replay value! The tutorial race is an example, since your opponents are eggman robots with different colors. - Separating colors of the characters and their kart, EX: Blue Sonic driving a Yellow kart, and vice versa. - Custom grand prix cups, choose how many tracks in the grand prix, the tracks, and let it rip! - Choose how many laps you want in a single race! - Weather options for some select tracks, mostly outdoors! - AI drift behavior, for more animations of them. Good luck on future updates, since I love a fun fan-made racing game with cool graphics and tons of content!

Holy-moly, it's been two years since Robo Blast 2 Kart?! Hope y'all have been well, and thank you for this wonderful surprise!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA THE ENERGY IS UNREAL!!!!!!!!!!!

Stopped playing the game for tonight. Easily my all time FAVEORITE kart racer, and it doesn’t even feel like a standard one either! Its way more akin to an obstacle course in some of these stages, and I think thats what makes this game stand out from the very safe kart racers like Mario Kart. It’s like you put Sonic characters in go-karts and plopped them into Sonic stages and said “Yeah go race, I guess. Also watch out for the obstacles or whatever.” The 5 year wait and long absence of information was 100% worth it and I’m so excited to play more tomorrow. Thank you, Kart Krew, for an amazing game.

After playing it I can confirm that this game is so unbelievably good. It's tougher than your standard Mario Kart but holy crap is it fun.

this is such a good video and the game itself is great too

I didn't even know this existed til today, but I'm glad it does!

AYOO!? Dropping this out of nowhere along with 80s-90s feel trailer!? ABSOLUTE GODSEND!!

😅, Wow. For a minute there I thought this was some kind of lost media on a old VHS tape.

THIS IS GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

It's fun sure but unless it is also compatable with SRB2Kart mods I prefer the original SRB2Kart.

Hard to believe it's finally here, very happy it's out Looking forward to giving it a go

HYPE! Also, did he say two HUNDRED courses!? :o

Can't express in words Only joy is in my head

I really love this game!!

BRO!!!!! YOU FREAKING SHADOW DROPPED THE NEW SRB2 KART UPDATE!!!!

I'm so happy to see this game come out. It feels like not too long ago I heard of it releasing n stuff, and I just played through it with some friends. It was amazing! I cant wait for kart creator and more stuff to come out soon!

NO WAY!!!!!!! THIS LOOKS SO GOOD!

90's CRT Filter damn it it feels like a time machine lol

All that's missing is text at the end reading WELCOMETOTHENEXTLEVEL and someone to shout SEGA!

I’d love to have one of these for my game.

EVERYONE THIS IS THE VERS 2 OVERHAUL

Sonic Robo Blast 3 has finally been set up...

not sure if any of the devs will read this but an option for playstation button prompts would be nice 🙂

It's happening! I'm sure I'll love it, congrats on release, everyone!

Excited to play this!

I still really like SRB2Kart, but Ring Racers is a much more complete game, it's more like a racing game because we now got a proper grandprix mode that has a lot of new awesome and memorable tracks, and some excellent remakes of srb2 kart levels, lots of unlockable characters, etc. Battle mode is cool and i really liked the new special stages even though they are very difficult, and That's a lot of content for a game made for free. I do like the simplicity of srb2 kart but there was something missing about it y'know, the vanilla experience was very lacking, only a time attack mode, with 5 character's, though it had a decent amount of tracks, but then again it was missing something, more detail. I do love some of the new mechanics of ring racers such as the ring system, new itens, choose which item you want, spin dash, fast fall bounce, even the trick system. The game's Graphics and Art direction is amazing, it's like a mix between Sonic 3 and Sonic Mania, It's also different and unique in relation to many Racing games. The bad parts of the game were: The tutorial that didn't explain in more depth about several other very important mechanics like sliptide/wavedash, it didn't talk much about the game's items and what each one can do, and it can be a little confusing. After 14 cups and 14 special stages and many levels i was hoping for a better ending, I don't know, some reward for getting all the emeralds, like a super sonic or something. The game's bots are very unfair, they always receive the best items and it's shocking sometimes when you're doing well on the last lap, the bot ends up using a super powerful item and you end up falling far behind in 8th place which is shocking. These errors aside, you can still have a lot of fun with this game, if you can, play it, it has a vast list of more than 230 racing tracks and battle arenas. Many modes like Time Attack, Match Race, SPB chase mode, etc. There's a lot of good content waiting for you in Dr. Robotnik's Ring Racers. 8.8/10 [A] RANK Congratulations to the Developers for making a game as incredible, innovative and fun as this one. 🎉🎉🎉👏👏👏

I hope I can get enough friends together to play it with

Ayo ayo ayo Eggman pinball is back let's fucking go! 🔥🔥🔥

As of this comment, the game has seen an update. The tutorial now has MULTIPLE opt out points. The AI has been rebalanced to be a bit less rubberband-y, Online and Addons unlock very early at the same time. The game's folder has a PASSWORDS txt file with all the cheatcodes that unlock a vast majority of the game's content and all modes with no strings attached.

Now this is how you do an advertisement, consider me sold!

I just hoped for another SRB2 Kart update… I needed it!

Anyone else having controller issues. My Xbox controllers buttons aren't being read except the triggers.

I hope the splitscreen works well, I had some problems in srb2k

Look, i love this game. Having online be an unlockable is understandable, but mod support?

I'm gonna try to keep a positive attitude but first impressions are not good lmao. That tutorial has so many layers it feels like a parody or some sort of social experiment, couple that with forced color unlocks (lol cmon now) and forced grandprix and it's just all super clunky. Anybody could jump in and play srbk, but I don't stand a chance at convincing any of my not-already-autistic-about-sonic friends to hop in to Ring Racers.

SRB2 2.0: Super Srb2 Kart Z, Srb2 Riders SRB2 2.1: Srb2 Kart SRB2 2.2: Dr Robotnik's Ring Racers

Indubitably one of the best and craziest games of the kart genre, and I can't believe it came back with probably the most amazing changes imaginable, thank you for creating the most fun one can have in a racing game

The day's been restless since you dropped this

This will be awesome on my Steam Genesis Megadrive Deck