Throttle Trace Press Kit

Description

Slot cars meets simulation racing. Master grip, timing, and race strategy using only throttle and brake. Push to the limit, outsmart rivals, and fight for every corner in intense wheel-to-wheel competition.

Throttle Trace reimagines racing controls without sacrificing depth. There's no steering - just throttle and brake. Every corner becomes a test of timing, precision, and nerve as you balance on the edge of grip. Beneath its minimalist inputs lies a serious racing simulation, where tire wear, heat, fuel load, dirty air, and car balance all shape your decisions.

History

Alex Taber is a solo developer based in Brooklyn, NY, and founder of Unordered Game. His quarantine hobby was sim racing (complete with steering wheel/pedals monopolizing the living room).

In 2024, Alex released his award winning debut game, Vroomies, to capture the satisfaction of racing in pocket size.

Alex is now bringing his penchant for unique racing games to PC with Throttle Trace, published by MicroProse Software and available in Early Access on Steam since September 15, 2026.

Features

A Unique Control Model

Car control is consolidated entirely into throttle and brake inputs. Instead of steering, an innovative auto-lane system creates exciting wheel-to-wheel action!

This allows unprecedented precision for Controller/Keyboard players. The skill of running consistent laps and cleanly navigating traffic requires minutes rather than days to learn, while eking out those final milliseconds remains as challenging and engrossing as ever.

A Serious Racing Simulation

Tire heat + wear, ERS, DRS, collisions, damage, slip angle, weight distribution, slip stream/dirty air, wheel spin, track surface evolution, fuel weight.

It’s all there, and designed towards creating interesting decision points during every race. Each decision is an opportunity to gain an advantage over the competition. Do you have the racing savvy to come out on top?

Immersive AI

Each AI driver has their own internal stats for:

• Pace
• Aggression
• Mistake Avoidance
• Racecraft
• Tire Management

These stats are never shown to the player, but you’ll quickly get acquainted with which drivers are fast, which are aggressive, and which are both!

Because AI only needs to be programmed in one dimension, it is exponentially easier to create interesting, human-like behaviors that are consistent across tracks. There’s no “AI Line” or track-specific AI behaviors. They are beholden to the exact same physics parameters as the player, make mistakes, crash into each other, hold grudges etc.

A Compelling Career Mode

• Start from the back and earn your seat with a top team
• Robust reputation system where your Safety Rating matters just as much as your Performance Rank
• Build a rich history, with detailed stat tracking for every Race, Driver, Team and Series
• After you retire/lose your seat in Vroomula 1, start a new career within the same universe with a new driver to preserve the history of your save

More Ways to Race

• Time Trial mode with online leaderboards
• Multiplayer racing
• Lesson-based Driving School for onboarding
• In-game Track Editor and Database Editor
• Steam Workshop support to create or find databases of Teams, Cars, and Drivers to race against in your career
• 15+ circuits

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Monetization Permission

Unordered Games allows for the contents of Throttle Trace to be published through video broadcasting services for any commercial or non-commercial purposes. Monetization of videos created containing assets from Throttle Trace is legally & explicitly allowed by Unordered Games.

Contact

Email
alextaber@unorderedgames.com

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