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A top-down rally game about driving a road you cannot see yet. Your co-driver calls each corner ahead — left four, tightens, don't cut — and you commit to it on gravel, snow and sand that never quite hold. Twelve point-to-point stages, a stored ghost of your best run and a twelve-stage championship against six rivals.

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Genre: Rally racing
Controls: Touch
Mouse
Keyboard
Devices: Desktop
Tablet
Mobile
Released: 2026

Rally Dust

Rally Dust is a rally game rather than a racing game: there is nobody beside you on the road, only the clock, the surface and a voice telling you what is coming. The strip along the top of the screen is your co-driver. Each corner arrives as an icon and a number on the old rally scale — one is a hairpin, six is barely a kink — with the modifiers that matter written underneath: tightens, long, crest, don't cut. Read them early and you can commit to a corner you have not seen. Ignore them and the forest arrives very quickly.

The car is a boxy four-door with a roof lamp pod, rally stripes and a coat of mud that thickens as the stage goes on. It is deliberately not a circuit car. On gravel and snow the tyres let go on turn-in, so the nose is pointing somewhere the car is not going for most of every corner; braking loads the front and helps the tail come round; and the handbrake breaks the rear away completely, which is the only way a hairpin gets taken tidily. Short stretches of tarmac grip properly and feel like a different vehicle for ten seconds. Leave the road and the trees, the snow wall or a rock will cost you the stage time it takes to be craned back on; clip a spectator tape and it only slows you down, though the crowd behind it will let you know.

Twelve stages run point to point across three surfaces: gravel roads through autumn forest, a snow pass with ploughed banks and blue shadow, and open desert with cacti, wadis and stone arches. Every one has a jump crest, a water splash, a narrow bridge or a rock on the inside to plan around. Time Trial runs a single stage with three split times and a translucent ghost of your best run. Championship takes all twelve in order against six rival times at Easy, Normal or Sharp, with a standings table after every stage. Quick Stage picks one at random. Arrow keys or WASD with space for the handbrake; on a phone there are steer, throttle, brake and handbrake buttons, or drag a thumb to steer. Best times, ghosts and championship results are kept on your own device.