Nightmare Kart (2024)

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, I do enjoy getting free games. I'm not stealing or hacking, the game was completely free on Steam by default. I am going to review Nightmare Kart, this PS1 retro style kart racing game. Honestly, it was a little better than expected. I actually wanna see this game grow to become something big.

Nightmare Kart (2024)

This game heavily plays on nostalgia of PS1 as well as classic kart racing games. There's a rather interesting story behind it's creation. The team behind this released an unofficial Bloodbourne game recreated in PS1 style graphics. The actual company sent a copy strike notice to them. This led to changing the spin off game following that concept into more of it's own thing.

Nightmare Kart is deeply inspired by Bloodbourne. Although it strikingly does look like Nightmare Creatures in several aspects. When I first found out about the game I mistaken the inspiration for that. I started using my keyboard with some confusing controls. I figured a way to get my controller to work. It's works decent for a game not supported of game controllers right Steam?

There's a few modes as expected of these style racing game. You get a few characters with a handful of hidden characters mostly the bosses. You also can unlock more vehicles that are all strangely interesting yet unique in their own right. The difficulty spike isn't bad in most modes. But some later sections of the story mode might need to get tone down a little bit.

I did like the story mode that has two endings. The game nice enough to ask which ending you wanted. At the time of this review I chosen the Refuse Ending. You also can see classic Mario Kart series reference a few ways. Mostly in the audio department yes I kept noticing em. I felt the tracks were all interesting with some being tricker than others to memorize.

I do have a major complaint towards the game. A lot of power ups you pick works just fine. There's stuff that requires collecting more power ups in order to use. But this also plays into your additional boost usage as well. This means you got to quickly decide if you wanna speed up or use those weapons. Considering chainsaw among them, I instantly was reminded of Cel Damage HD.

Which also had some similar characters to this. Nightmare Kart does offer a variety what you do in the story mode. Honestly, playing these tracks reminded me of tracks based on The House of the Dead series. Of course I'm referencing those tracks from Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing series. I love I can keep comparing stuff like this during an review.

I felt they done an amazing job attempting to recreate an PS1 style game. I previously owned Crash Team Racing on that console. I personally prefer the updated version way better. Nightmare Kart does work wonders for a free kart racing game on Steam. Nostalgia could be surprisingly strong like for me or barely none for newer gamers.

Nightmare Kart is very true to it's name. It's almost like Nightmare Creatures but as a kart racing game. To me that's exactly what this felt like the entire time. Despite difficulty spikes in story mode, it's well designed game. I hope they plan to add more of this in the near future. I actually wanna recommend it because you would be missing out on a surprisingly decent kart racing game otherwise.