Sixteen tracks at the bottom of the world, six penguins, and one orca who wants the ice back. A late-'90s style low-poly kart racer: drift, boost, and race four bosses across Adventure, Cup, Time Trial and Battle modes, solo or in 4-player split-screen.
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Sixteen circuits at the bottom of the world. Six penguins. One orca who wants the ice back.
Penguin Kart Racer is an arcade kart racer in the low-poly, flat-shaded style of the late nineties. Hold the drift, bank the boost, and cash it in coming out of the corner.
Drive through four regions, each with its own hub world, its own sky, and its own gate to the next. Every one of the sixteen tracks tests you three ways:
Single Race: Beat the field. First place, nothing less.
Time Trial: Race the clock, and smash crates around the lap to win back seconds.
PKR Challenge: Collect the P, K and R letters and finish first. You need both.
That makes 48 awards to earn. Collect enough and each region's boss will race you: Skarn the skua, Blubberjaw the elephant seal, Vex the leopard seal, and Kaiser Kilo the orca. Beat all four, and something much larger rises from the water.
Race: Any track, any racer, no pressure.
Cup: Four tracks back to back with points at every finish line. The standings are what count.
Battle: Five arenas, from a shallow bowl to a yard with four ramped towers to a bare hill with nowhere to hide. Win cups to unlock them.
Split-screen: Up to four players on one screen.
Five standard pickups, plus a signature item for every racer. Emperor's Full Ahead is the fastest thing in the game but costs you most of your steering. Chinstrap drops a wall of three anchors. Blubberjaw spins out everyone within thirteen metres.
Then there's Rime, the guardian spirit. Rime only appears for whoever is in last place: it circles your kart, blocks one hit, and pushes you back into the race. Rime also explains each challenge and, after a loss, suggests which penguin best suits the track that beat you. Bosses carry their own mask: Erebus.
Adjust speed class, field size, lap count, CPU skill, item slots, item chaos, drift assist and a retro filter
Or skip the menus with Casual, Standard and Chaos presets
Three drift assist levels, including one that times your boost for you and one that handles drifting entirely
Full keyboard and Xbox controller support
Penguin Kart Racer costs $5.00 right now.
Based on Wish9's price records and IsThereAnyDeal history, the lowest price is $5.00.
The current price ($5.00) is at or very close to the lowest price on record. The next big Steam sale, the Steam Scream Fest, starts in 3 days. On US Steam it's $5.00 (about ₩6,622). Korea is 17% cheaper than the US. This is for reference, based on past price records, and doesn't guarantee future prices.
Recommended: Graphics card Intel UHD 630 or better, Processor Intel Core i3-8100 or better, Memory 8 GB RAM. Minimum: Graphics card OpenGL 3.3: Intel HD 4000, Radeon HD 7000, GeForce GTX 600, Processor Intel Core i5 3rd gen or AMD equivalent, Memory 4 GB RAM. Save your PC specs on Wish9 to compare them with this game instantly.
