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Distance is an atmospheric racing platformer. Fusing futuristic arcade racing with parkour, survive a deadly, mysterious, neon-drenched city by jumping, rotating, and flying.
Distance is a racing, great soundtrack and futuristic game
developed and published by Refract.
Released on September 18th 2018 is available in English on Windows, MacOS and Linux.
It has received 7,144 reviews of which 6,608 were positive and 536 were negative resulting in a rating of 9.0 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 20.99€ on Steam.
The Steam community has classified Distance into these genres:
System requirements
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Windows
- OS *: Windows 7
- Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.3 GHz or AMD Athlon X2 2.5 GHz
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT or AMD Radeon HD 3830
- DirectX: Version 9.0c
- Storage: 5 GB available space
- VR Support: SteamVR or Oculus PC. Keyboard or gamepad required
- Additional Notes: Spec will be revised continually during Early Access
MacOS
- OS: OS X 10.7 (Lion)
- Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.3 GHz
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA Geforce 640M or ATI Radeon HD 3870
- Storage: 5 GB available space
- Additional Notes: Spec will be revised continually during Early Access
Linux
- OS: Ubuntu 12.04
- Processor: Intel Dual-Core 2.3 GHz or AMD Dual-Core Athlon 2.5 GHz
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT or AMD Radeon HD 3830
- Storage: 5 GB available space
- Additional Notes: Spec will be revised continually during Early Access
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Distance is a "Time Attack" racing game. While you can join multiplayer lobbies and race against others, the primary focus is achieving faster times on the Global leaderboards (or your friends list, if you have friends). The game is centered around a Neo-Dystopian futuristic cyber city aesthetic, with many of the Campaign levels taking on a dark/horror aesthetic. The soundtrack is a variety of EDM tracks, from heavy and gritty, to bouncy and whimsical. There are no microtransactions and no season pass. You unlock new cars (which you can color to your liking), by completing in-game achievements. When you buy the game, you get the whole game. What makes Distance unique is the sheer freedom of movement. You're not bound to the road, or the ground for that matter. You have jet thrusters, wings, jumping, and wall magnetism. You can explore (almost) every inch of (almost) every map. A large appeal to the gameplay is going off-course, and finding shortcuts, skip routes, and hidden teleporters to achieve better times on the leaderboards. By virtue of this, there are many secrets to find in many levels. The real meat and potatoes of Distance exists through the custom level editor. It's one of the most robust editors I've ever seen for any video game. There are thousands of player-made custom maps to play, and still many more being created. The editor is so powerful and diverse, people have made custom cutscenes for their tracks, rpg adventures, jet-ski levels, puzzle maps, whack-a-mole, fishing, roleplay playgrounds, a 30 day (real time) jail cell, and every variety of racing track you can imagine. The community, as it stands now, is a small, but dedicated group of (mostly) lovely individuals that reside on the games official Discord server. No matter how new or inexperienced you are with Distance, they are happy to invite you in and be a part of the fun. They have so much to offer in terms of friendliness and technical knowledge. Distance quickly became one of my favorite games, but the warm and inviting community cemented it as the game I come back to every single day. There are two annual community events, centered around Halloween and Christmas. But if you are interested, and dedicated enough, you can host an event for any season. I would love to see more community investment. The game, unfortunately, only has one active developer. Their presence is sparse (I've never seen a developer active since I've started playing). But according to others, they are present during the Christmas event. And they did release the 1.5 update just one week before I found the game. So they are active, but not present. Overall, Distance is a fantastic hidden gem. You won't regret buying this game. I bought a second copy just to support the developers. It runs well on lower end machines. It's better experienced with a controller (in my opinion). And the official Discord server is the place to be, so go join it! Edit: 500 hours later, I still love it!
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Alright Who was it that put extremely good and compelling psychological horror in MY vroom vroom car parkour game?
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If you are looking for some Hot Wheels Accelerator game this is the closes thing to it. i have been playing this game casual from time to time when i get bored from other games and to be fair it never disappoints, from all amazing track(easy and hard) to all of the workshop track there is hours upon hours of fun. I recommend the game and 100%
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Strap in you babies this is a video game where they not only allow but expect you to hold down the boost button continuously, where your car can jump and has wings but once you become a big boy you learn you don't even need the wings because your car is so bristling with rocket thrusters that you can glide by holding down boost and flipping upside-down. There is a plot. Three plots. There is no plot. There is only the music and the speed and the rocket spaceship laser beams and the music and the music and a whole lot of really cool sick flips you can do. There is no skill ceiling. You can go off-road onto the side of any visible skyscraper, and explore anywhere you want. I loved the original Nitronic Rush, and I love this. Good video game. Makes me feel like a gamer.
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I must've picked this up almost a decade ago, in early access. Finally got around to it in the ever-growing backlog, and I have to say I am loving what I have played. Distance is a solid track traversal / racing game combining the joys of non-stop boosting, 3D tracks and a banging soundtrack to give you an engaging and enjoyable experience. Definitely worth getting, even more so on a sale. Highly recommend.
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Distance is currently priced at 20.99€ on Steam.
Distance is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 20.99€ on Steam.
Distance received 6,608 positive votes out of a total of 7,144 achieving a rating of 8.96.
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Distance was developed and published by Refract.
Distance is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Distance is playable and fully supported on MacOS.
Distance is playable and fully supported on Linux.
Distance offers both single-player and multi-player modes.
Distance offers both Co-op and PvP modes.
There is a DLC available for Distance. Explore additional content available for Distance on Steam.
Distance is fully integrated with Steam Workshop. Visit Steam Workshop.
Distance supports Remote Play Together. Discover more about Steam Remote Play.
Distance is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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Game modes
Multiplayer
Features
Online players
19
Developer
Refract
Publisher
Refract
Release
18 Sep 2018
VR
VR Supported
Platforms
Remote Play