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Retrocycles

Retrocycles

Race. Do not crash. Trap your enemies. Enter the maze. Dominate the zone. DO NOT CRASH.

Released Jul 22, 2020 Developer Manuel Moos Platforms Windows · Mac · Linux ActionIndieSportsRacingMultiplayer
View on Steam ↗ Free (US · as of 2026-05-14)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-02 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-14.

95.2%positive459 reviews

What reviewers agree on

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Bar length = how many of the 103 reviews raise the point On criticised points, the pale part = reviewers who still recommend the game Select a point to see the exact counts and what reviewers wrote.

Counted across 103 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 95.2% positive rating · as of 2026-05-14

Recommended · 11 found this helpful

“The light cycle scene from the original TRON was my favorite part in the entire movie and having a game of it is absolutely amazing. 10/10”

— a player, Steam review · 8 hrs played
Recommended · 7 found this helpful

“Wow this is such a nostalgia hit - I actually first played this game somewhere around 2003ish on a linux laptop as a little kid. I spent so many hours on this - so cool to stumble across it on Steam after all these years! This is one of those titles that I really adore.…”

— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs played
Recommended · 6 found this helpful

“Its criminal that this game is free. it should at least be 2 bucks. if creator makes a paid sequel ill probably buy it”

— a player, Steam review · 5 hrs played
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Player activity

Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-07 via SteamCharts.

146all-time peak
0 25 50 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 No data collected for this period No data collected for this period No data collected for this period No data collected for this period No data collected for this period No data collected for this period 46 avg · Apr 2026

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Apr 18, 2026
0.2.9.3.0 Released

The main reason for this release is that the default installation of libxml removed http fetch functions we were using, and that starts appearing in mainstream Linux distributions now, such as Ubuntu

Dec 14, 2025
Small bugfix build 0.2.9.2.5

0.2.9.2.5 adds a tiny initialization fix, sometimes the Linux version would freeze into a nasty state on startup.

Mar 19, 2024
0.2.9.2.3 released

macOS builds are now considered stable. Any still open macOS specific issues can be viewed on our tracker . In case you are wondering about the .3 at the end, that is because the first three attempts

Aug 11, 2023
0.2.9.1.1 released

This is just a small update that works around a crash bug in some recent Linux distributions. Confirmed affected were Manjaro users. Very likely, Arch and current Debian users were affected as well. A

Dec 01, 2020
0.2.9.1.0 released

to be frank, also the old, regular widescreen overlords. All this time, the game had been optimized for 4:3 or 5:4 screens, with menu text and HUD elements getting stretched to the side for widescreen

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Screenshots

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Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-14.

GenresAction, Indie, Racing, Sports
Player tagsAction · Indie · Sports · Racing · Multiplayer · Competitive · Free to Play (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesMulti-player · PvP · Online PvP · LAN PvP · Shared/Split Screen PvP · Shared/Split Screen · Cross-Platform Multiplayer · Remote Play Together
LanguagesEnglish, German
Official sitehttp://www.armagetronad.org/
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 Processor: 1 GHz Memory: 1 GB RAM Storage: 40 MB available space