From Press Release:
MicroProse and Unordered Games are excited to announce that Throttle Trace will launch on PC via Steam in Early Access, on September 15, 2026.
To mark the announcement, the developer has released an extensive new gameplay showcase designed to answer the most important question about Throttle Trace: what does it actually feel like to race?
Rather than a traditional trailer, the new video takes viewers through a complete racing weekend, with the developer behind the wheel and explaining the decisions, mechanics, and simulation systems that define the experience. From learning the circuit in practice and chasing the perfect qualifying lap to fighting through a full race, the showcase offers the most detailed look yet at Throttle Trace in action.
Throttle Trace is easy to pick up, but beneath its immediate approach to racing lies a deep simulation built around the decisions that separate a fast lap from a great one.
Every corner is a decision.
How much speed can you carry? How hard can you push the tires? Do you sacrifice the entry to maximize your exit? Is now the moment to attack, or will patience create a better opportunity one corner later? And when the weather changes, an incident brings out the safety car, or damage ruins the strategy you started with, how quickly can you adapt?
The new gameplay showcase puts those questions at the center, demonstrating how Throttle Trace turns the fundamentals of racing into an accessible but deeply competitive experience.
Build the Circuit, Then Race It
Arriving alongside the release date announcement is Throttle Trace’s biggest update yet, introducing a new in-game Track Editor.
The same tools now used to recreate all of the circuits available in the demo are being put directly into players’ hands, opening the door to designing and racing entirely new tracks from within the game.
The update also introduces a new car model alongside improved landscape and track-surface textures, continuing the game’s substantial visual evolution ahead of its September launch.
Key Features
- Every Corner Is a Decision – Focus on throttle, braking, grip, momentum, and timing as you search for the fastest way through every section of the circuit.
- Design Your Own Circuits – Use the in-game Track Editor to create circuits using the same system behind the game’s own tracks.
- Build a Racing Career – Take on complete race weekends and build your results across events through Throttle Trace’s career experience.
- Dynamic Wheel-to-Wheel Racing – Battle AI drivers using a flexible positioning system designed to create natural overtakes, defenses, and side-by-side racing
- Race, Improve, Compete – Chase faster laps in Time Attack, compare yourself against global times and ghosts, and put your skills to the test against other players in multiplayer.
- Dynamic Weather & Race Strategy – Rain, track wetness, air and track temperatures affect grip, tire behavior, and strategy throughout a session. AI competitors and your race engineer continually reassess their plans as conditions, incidents, safety cars, and damage reshape the race.
- Real Racing Consequences – Physics-driven collisions and individual component damage mean contact can have consequences that last far beyond the corner where it happened.
- Circuits with Their Own Character – Different track climates create distinct challenges, from cold conditions that make keeping tires up to temperature difficult to tropical circuits where overheating and sudden storms can transform a race.
- Relive Every Battle – Replay Mode lets you revisit the moments that decided the race, whether it’s a last-lap pass, a costly mistake, or an incident that deserves another look.
The Throttle Trace demo is available now on Steam, offering players the opportunity to get behind the wheel ahead of launch.
Watch the new developer gameplay showcase, play the demo, and wishlist Throttle Trace on Steam ahead of its September 15 release.
Throttle Trace launches September 15, 2026, in Early Access, on PC via Steam.
