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HoverRace
HoverRace is a racing video game created by GrokkSoft in 1996.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-28.
“Very fun with friends!”
— a player, Steam review · 6 hrs playedLatest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
HoverRace is now in OpenGL!
HoverRace has been upgraded from its old DirectDraw renderer to OpenGL. This is one of the biggest technical updates we’ve made to the game so far, bringing major improvements to graphics quality, ren
Small Multi-Monitor Update
A small update is now live with improvements to windowed and fullscreen behavior. Window position and size are now saved and restored correctly across multiple monitors, including secondary displays a
Return of the Eon!
I’ve posted a small update for HoverRace that brings the Eon back, after a few requests to restore it. I’ve also fixed track compiling, so you should be able to create tracks again. I also fixed a spl
Update Notes for October 19
A small patch to fix an issue with split screen crashing when anyone finished the race. I have decided to include some other quality of life changes that were live in our develop branch. A fix has bee
Update Notes for Feb 26
In this patch we have added split times in the players list if you press F5. These are useful for sessions with friends where you are trying to set a best lap. You will be able to see if a player is a
Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-28.
| Genres | Racing |
| Player tags | Racing · Multiplayer · Arcade · Level Editor · 1990's · Old School · Combat Racing · PvP · 3D · First-Person · Split Screen · Third Person (Steam store community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · PvP · Online PvP · LAN PvP · Shared/Split Screen PvP · Shared/Split Screen · Stats |
| Languages | English |
| Official site | https://www.hoverrace.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 Processor: Any Memory: 64 MB RAM Graphics: Any Storage: 20 MB available space Sound Card: Any