GRIDBORN: Retro Car Racing

GRIDBORN – From Rookie to Legend

An offline car racing game in retro pixel art: drive an open-wheel race car from a top-down view, win races and take Luca Serra from his family’s workshop to the Apex World Series, the world championship of single-seater racing.

A touch-friendly arcade racing game: braking zones, racing lines, overtakes and slides to catch on closed circuits, with a driver career built one race at a time. Real car racing, a real story and no connection needed.

RACING CAREER AND STORY
• A tutorial and 30 races across five chapters: Valleys Club Trophy, Coastal Regional Championship, National Single-Seater Series, Continental Cup and Apex World Series.
• To reach the Apex World Series you must win all of the first 24 races.
• A complete story with a prologue, scenes before and after every event, and an ending.
• Nine choices that shape your relationships with Clara, Enzo, Nico and Maya, and how the story ends.
• Long-time rivals with stories of their own: Dario, Giulia, Tommaso, Henrik, Amaya and Kenji, with profiles and head-to-head records in the diary.
• Every scene can be skipped and read again in the diary.
• 15 optional special events on the circuits driven in reverse: extra races and time trials against the clock, to earn more and sharpen your driving.

31 ORIGINAL RACE TRACKS
• Farmland, harbours, salt flats, pine forests, mountain passes, deserts, cities and night races.
• Every circuit has its own shape, rhythm and widths, and the venues grow busier with every series: grandstands, pits, marshals, floodlights.
• Weather that changes the driving: rain, snow, ice, desert sand, dusk and night cut grip, braking and visibility.
• Hazards arrive one at a time: hay bales, oil slicks, puddles, black ice, sand drifts and gravel traps, always signposted and always avoidable.
• Optional qualifying: one timed lap sets the grid.
• 3 to 11 rivals who brake, choose their lines and try to pass you, under the same physics as your car.

GARAGE AND UPGRADES
• Six components: engine, transmission, tyres, brakes, suspension and aerodynamics.
• Four levels per component, unlocked as you move up the categories.
• Every purchase has a real, measurable effect: top speed, 0–100 km/h, braking distance, grip and stability.
• Each promotion gives you the new category’s chassis for free, and you keep your upgrades.
• A small-team economy: every race costs an entry fee plus the fuel you choose to load, and prizes are tight.
• Fuel is managed in the race: more fuel means a heavier car; run dry and you can refuel in the pits, for a fee.
• Rivals get faster race after race
• One free practice race per chapter, always repeatable, for when you are broke.
• Currency is earned by racing only: no in-app purchases, no energy.

TOUCH CONTROLS
• Button steering and a brake that is always within reach.
• Auto-accelerate or manual throttle.
• Left-handed layout, adjustable steering sensitivity and switchable vibration.

LOCAL RECORDS
• Best lap and best race time for every circuit, kept separate per chassis and assists.
• Optional world leaderboards via Google Play Games; signing in is never required.

OFFLINE GAME AND ADS
• The whole game, career included, plays offline.
• It is free and contains ads: a banner in the menus and, sometimes, a full-screen ad after you tap “Continue” at the end of a race.
• Optional reward videos: instead of the practice race you can watch a short video to get credits (up to 5 a day).
• No ads while driving or paused, and you never need to watch an ad to progress.

GRIDBORN is an original work. Drivers, teams, sponsors, championships and circuits are fictional and are not affiliated with any existing championship or brand.