Games Like Quarter Mile

Two buttons. A quarter mile. Three-tenths of a second between you and the other car.

Hold the throttle. Watch the tree — three ambers, then green. Leave a hair early and it is a red light and the run is over. Leave late and you have given away the race before you have moved a foot. Then it is just the shifts. Every engine has a band where the next gear starts pulling harder than the one you are in, and the light on your tacho is pointing at it. Take it there and the car keeps pulling. Take it early or hold it too long and you pay, every time, on the clock.

The car is doing something under all that

Grip is not a number that gets added to your speed. The tyres have a real slip curve, the clutch is a torque capacity that can overwhelm them, and weight moves onto the rear axle as you pull — which is why a drag car hooks harder the harder it pulls, and why lighting the tyres off the line costs you the run. You will feel it before you read about it: too many revs on the line and the car goes up in smoke, too few and it bogs. Somewhere between is your best sixty-foot, and it is different for every car you own.

Earn it, spend it, go faster

A weekly run, against yourself

A spec car on a spec track, chosen by the week. Your rival is your own best ghost from that week — the exact run you made, played back beside you. It resets every Monday and it is generated from the calendar, so there is no server to go dark and nothing to log in to.

What is not in it

No online. No in-game currency you can buy. No daily login, no season pass, no timers, nothing that pings you. You buy it, you own it, and it works on a plane.

Built for it