The racing genre is saved.

Genki, you are awesome. 18 years out and the TXR experience is the same as ever.

Buy. This. Game. And support Genki making the game even better.

What if we took a great game from 2003, and just updated the graphics for 2025?
The answer is you have a great game. Fantastic highway racer, best arcade racing game for a good 15 years. Will likely be my GOTY.

I've been an avid fan of this franchise for the better part of my life, starting in 2004 when I was gifted a copy of Tokyo Xtreme Racer Zero for the PS2.

Even though the mid 2000s was the peak of arcade racing games and I also had access to some of the NFS games, or the Burnout games, I always found myself coming back to Zero.

As the decades wore on, more and more racing franchises fell due to a variety of factors. Tokyo Xtreme Racer and by association Genki, was no exception.

By the time the PS4 and Xbox One generation ended, there was almost nothing left.

I had almost given up hope that arcade racing was going to be relegated to broken, always online titles, or festival racers. Occasionally lifted up by solo, indie efforts from time to time, but mainly a niche genre, only beloved by people who are nostalgic of times long past gone.

...until today. Because Genki has absolutely delivered a love letter to arcade racing fans everywhere with TXR 2025.

- No always online
- No DRM
- Solid, single player arcade racing
- Beloved gameplay
- Almost bug free, for an early access title. That's unheard of in most cases.
- Amazing OST, made up of remixed tracks from previous games
- Insanely optimized game. They are using UE5 and yet you can run this game on a GTX 550ti. Dead serious.
- Steam Deck support + bindings
- So much, much, more.

It's absolutely incredible what they have delivered here, and it should be celebrated. We need more arcade racers that forgo toxic, modern gaming trends and just stick to what is fun, because games were made to be fun. Not to grind out a battle pass, or be a retention statistic, or how to grind the most money out of someone through lootboxes and MTX.

So again, this game is a must purchase, even in its Early Access state.

Thank you Genki. What you have accomplished is nothing short of incredible.