I looove Super Woden GP 2, it's such a fun game and has a lot of customization too! Circuit Superstars is also great fun, hard to get online matches, but playing with a group of friends is a blast!
@@AndreaP76 the AI is challenging to get around, you can usually get around the back half of the field pretty easy, but you're really going to need to learn the tracks and lines to reach the top 3. It's definitely not easy mode, and there is no rubber banding of any sorts.
How does racing in a top down view like that usually work? I tried playing retro racing games like these before but I usually got confused by the awkward top down view.
Rush Rally 3 should be on the list. It's like Colin Mcrae Rally 2005 but with updated physics and customizable liveries. It has career mode and wheel supports too!
Just wanted onto the Horizon Chase 2 section. The game is developed by Aquiris, a Brazilian game studio, the main inspiration for the game is Top Gear, a series of racing videogames that started on the SNES and was made by the same developers behind the Lotus games. Top Gear was huge in South America, I played it all the time when I was a little kid on my SNES, Aquiris are so fond of those games that they actually got the same composer from the original game, Barry Leitch, to make the music for Horizon Chase 1 & 2. I played a lot of the first Horizon Chase back when it first released on Android, it's a great game, I have yet to try 2, but I'll definitely get it soon, sorry for the random tangent, I just wanted to yap a little bit about a childhood treasure of mine. Great video, I try to keep up with all the new racing games coming out but there was a few here I didn't know about, they're going straight to my wishlist.
I think the best thing about this video is you at the beginning saying "don't get me wrong, I absolutely love sim racing" as you are 5 seconds clear of former Champ Car and Le Mans driver Charles Zwolsman. :D
@@TraxionGG yess! for the first time in my life! If you try the rally Subaru in the Game and check the different liverys, it is there! I'm very very proud!!! 😍😍😍😍 big hugg Tom!!!
It just released into Early Access so it's not qualified for this list, but I highly recommend Aero GPX to anyone who misses the old F-Zero games. The handling is so responsive and feels great to play even though it's an Early Access title.
Also the WipEout series in general is very close in style and gameplay to F-Zero with high speed racing with anti-grav ships. The tracks can be super challenging too, and super satisfying to get right. I haven't personally played it, but BallisticNG aims to replicate the gameplay of WipEout, so that may be worth looking at for fans of F-Zero as well.
@@1mariomaniac I agree that WipEout and BallisticNG are great anti-grav racers. I would probably say BallisticNG is to WipEout what Aero GPX is to F-Zero. What makes Aero GPX more like F-Zero is the character design, the 30 racer grids, the track locations. It's all very clearly inspired by classic F-Zero, which has a little more cartoony of a feel than WipEout.
I appreciate the coverage of arcade racers. If there is a start line and a finish line and it can be timed, I'd probably enjoy it. That being said, I'm off to watch olympic sailboat racing.
+1 for Rush Rally 3. It left me super impressed on mobile. After I beat it I still wanted more like it and found it when I started playing CarX Rally. Surprisingly similar, but with more strategy and constructor type-stuff involved like having to buy your own tires.
I'm new here and this video made me subscribe to your channel. What I love about your video is how you go through explaining and giving vital info on each game. Aside from Horizon Chase Turbo and Circuit Superstars, the others I always skipped because other videos didn't really give enough info on them for me to know if I'd like them or not but your video does. Will be buying and trying out all the games you mentioned here that I haven't already got because they sound a lot better than I originally thought. Thank you for the awesome video and game reviewing!
Thanks so much for your comment and the sub, it’s really appreciated! We want to help people find the games they will love 😄 Hopefully we can make more videos in future that you can enjoy just as much 🙌🏼
Its not a racing game, or an indie game, but ive been putting in the hours on snowrunner for the past couple of weeks. Not everyones cup of tea but man is it addicting when you get it
These games are just perfect for the new handhelds Legion Go, Rog Ally etc, great to just pick up and play on the sofa or in bed! Played a few of these on them. Great list thanks 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
I lost most of the Spring to Rush Rally Origins - I love the diorama artstyle of the maps too but the handling is a joy. Still have to play Rock n Roll Racing far too frequently after all these years too!
There's an upcoming new take on Sega's classic Motorsport Manager called GT Manager. Looks like a cool little indie racing game to keep an eye one. I'm also eagerly awaiting the 1.0 release of Old School Rally and love the love letter to the World Rally Championship that is The Art of Rally.
Nice video 👏👏👏. I love this type of games to as a “stress relief “ after GT7 and F1 23 sessions 😂. I would say Horizon Chase 1 with Ayrton Senna’s DLC and the Rock N Roll racing remastered version, available on the consoles. Overall, Horizon Chase 1 and 2 are the ones that reminds me my childhood… on the 90s all Brazilian kids with a SNES, played Top Gear, it was a “fever” and we spent hours playing with friends.
There's an incredible F-zero like game called "GRIP: combat racing" I found a while back which was on sale, so I tried it out. The central mechanic revolves around how you can drive the car upside down, and I don't mean that in the way of driving on ceilings, even though you can, the cars are all designed with these huge tires, so they can still drive wen when flipped over. It's seriously fun, and I highly recommend you play it if you can.
I would honestly love Super Woden GP II but that isometric overhead view is an insane turnoff. Even with generic cars and tracks, if someone made a GT clone with license tests, maintenance features, and an in depth multi discipline career mode, I'd be all over it. At least, so long as it wasn't isometric top down.
Super Woden GP 2 looks phenomenal as a fan of classic GT titles, I just can't play it though, I've tried but I cannot get used to isometric racing games. Corners sneak up on me that'd otherwise be easy, and cornering in general isn't as simple due to the odd perspective. Wish they had a chase cam option. Edit: As does Superspec Rallycross, love rallycross racing.
Checkout night runners prologue, the official release is sometime in 2025 but the prologue is already excellent. It's gearing up to be a street racing masterpiece.
add Formula TOP to the list, great top down f1 game, 1.0 is coming later this year hopefully. I much prefer it to the alternatives. I can't stand the slidey Formula cars in CS. That's kinda what I wanted new star GP to be. I also prefer Rush Rally 3 over Origins (can use heli-cam in both)
It's early access so it doesn't qualify for this but Super Polygon Grand Prix on Steam is a love letter to all the Sega 90s racers and has the neat advantage of working bloody well on a Steam Deck already.
With iracing picking up the circuit superstars as well as the exocross release it's pretty obvious they are going to be releasing an RC racing game or sim with a driver stand/rostrum viewpoint
Love Rush Rally Origins! Also, and this is not a car racing game, if you like high speed racing while flying like iron man, "Xeno Runners" is pretty addicting. Only for the hardcore "try harder" as it's tough af. Seems shallow at first but has a lot of depth to it.
Super woden gp 2 is one of those games I`d be all over, if it weren`t for the top down/ isometric view.. I still added it to my wishlist, and will pick it up whenever it`s on sale for cheap enough. Also, I didn`t know until this video that Aquos had been purchased by epic and absorbed into Fortnite, and as someone who really likes the first horizon chase, and who thinks it`s one of only a few non puzzle /match 3 games that actually plays well on a touchscreen, I`m low key pissed at the news
i would like to suggest TRAIL OUT (flatout, wreckfestish racer) and YOU SUCK AT PARKING (more placing your vehicle in the right spot and being faster than everyone else at that, than really racing, but great car maneuvering fun nonetheless).
As a fan of RR Origins I’m very tempted by SWGP2 on Switch, never played the first but love the GT comparisons! Is it a great port, can I confidently buy at full price? Seems like it has gone under the radar somewhat. Advice from Switch players welcome! 🙂 Nice rundown btw and I totally agree, I love serious racers as much as the next person but there’s always room to chill with great (top down) indie racers!
I wanna play woden gp 2 so bad, but isometric driving drives me up the wall. I have Curcuit superstars and love it for 10 mins then just rage when i keep turning the wrong way when driving towards myself.
You didn't say anything about the actual driving and handling of New Star GP: All the other stuff can be read off of a store page. It's a shame about Super Woden GP as I like everything about it, except the driving view.
@@TillTheLightTakesUsyup.. 1.0 is coming later this year but you can do quick races and championships with pit stops, weather, tyre wear, mod support. AI is very fun to race against too. Many difficulties. Unlockable turbo game mode and tiny cars too. I just bought it on a whim a few days ago and already have 10 hours in it, haha
I wish Horizon Chase 2 had proper physics and wasnt so random. Something like the Outrun physics would've fitted the game amazingly. New Star GP has cool ideas but it lacks heavily in many spots making the game rather boring really quickly, also the fact that all cars sound the same is just - nahh, there's no excuse for that.
4:53 I'd have love to have put any of mine on the list (Meh, street R.I.C.E.r., S.U.R.G. One Track, or S.U.N. D.R.G.) but only one of those got anything close to a release (S.U.R.G One Track for OUYA), the rest are still born while I learn Godot, and honestly none of them even remotely look this good.
I looove Super Woden GP 2, it's such a fun game and has a lot of customization too! Circuit Superstars is also great fun, hard to get online matches, but playing with a group of friends is a blast!
Loved playing Circuit Superstars with you, even though I can't touch your speed. :)
How is the AI in Super Woden GP? Good? Challenging? Any rubberbanding ruining the experience?
@@AndreaP76 the AI is challenging to get around, you can usually get around the back half of the field pretty easy, but you're really going to need to learn the tracks and lines to reach the top 3. It's definitely not easy mode, and there is no rubber banding of any sorts.
How does racing in a top down view like that usually work?
I tried playing retro racing games like these before but I usually got confused by the awkward top down view.
Super Woden GP II has as much customisation as any other game. Paint jobs and generic performance upgrades, that’s it.
I've been obsessed playing Circuit Superstars on my Switch and so just now finding out about Super Woden GP 2 is mind blowing....
Rush Rally 3 should be on the list. It's like Colin Mcrae Rally 2005 but with updated physics and customizable liveries. It has career mode and wheel supports too!
plus, you can play it with heli-cam too.. origins handling is pretty arcade
In SuperWoden GP 2 ..... If you used a gamepad push up on the right stick to zoom out the view and down to zoom out 😉
@@CiBi1968 great just keep zooming out till I see ants racing
@@mrshab 🤣
For anyone thinking about Super Woden GP 2, it's on sale right now on steam for 25% off.
Distance is such an underrated gem
I agree, played it back when i wasn't really into cars then revisited a few years ago and played it on my sim rig lol still a good game
Just wanted onto the Horizon Chase 2 section.
The game is developed by Aquiris, a Brazilian game studio, the main inspiration for the game is Top Gear, a series of racing videogames that started on the SNES and was made by the same developers behind the Lotus games. Top Gear was huge in South America, I played it all the time when I was a little kid on my SNES, Aquiris are so fond of those games that they actually got the same composer from the original game, Barry Leitch, to make the music for Horizon Chase 1 & 2.
I played a lot of the first Horizon Chase back when it first released on Android, it's a great game, I have yet to try 2, but I'll definitely get it soon, sorry for the random tangent, I just wanted to yap a little bit about a childhood treasure of mine.
Great video, I try to keep up with all the new racing games coming out but there was a few here I didn't know about, they're going straight to my wishlist.
i'm OBSESSED with New Star GP, it's such a fun little game with so much love put into it...
Shout out to RR Origins' older brother, Rush Rally 3 (which is also on Switch and Steam).
Yes, great game!
@@TraxionGG yup, the only mobile where you can drive up (not) Pikes Peak.
@@TraxionGG also curious, have you heard of a solo game developer by the name of Marcell Baranyai?
@@thehwguy4293 just got that game and I’m in love
Aero GPX early access just dropped if you're missing F-Zero GX vibes!
I really hope it comes to consoles
You made me buy New Starts GP honestly . Also considering some other games from the list !
Just picked up Super Woden and New Star GP - thanks for the recs!
I think the best thing about this video is you at the beginning saying "don't get me wrong, I absolutely love sim racing" as you are 5 seconds clear of former Champ Car and Le Mans driver Charles Zwolsman. :D
Great video. ! Don’t like top down racers !! But , rush rally origins looks great !! Plus it’s fast !!
Rush Rally Origins needs the Circular Car Sprite Boundary box made less visible ... once you have seen it you cannot unsee it 😢
These reviews are next level.
Thank you!
Never heard of Super Woden GP 2. Bought it immediately, thanks
Great stuff! Hope you are enjoying :)
ultimate 2d racing 2 is one game that does everything right
UR2D2 MENTIONED RAAHHHHHHHH🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Coming (soon): my own indie racing game!
@@OverJumpRally hell yeeeeeees
@@OverJumpRally on my wishlist 👌🏻
Rush Rally 1 is old
But Rush Rally Origins is the Remastered Version of it
I love rush rally 3 though
rush rally 3 heli cam is better than origins
@euphoreonz yea it is
I don't use it😂
SUPER WOODEN GP 2 is DA BEST!!! 😍😍 also is the first game to feature my real rally car! 🤘🤘🤘🤘 thnks Vijuda!
Your car is in it? That's so cool, hope you are well Guillem - Tom (THL)
@@TraxionGG yess! for the first time in my life! If you try the rally Subaru in the Game and check the different liverys, it is there! I'm very very proud!!! 😍😍😍😍 big hugg Tom!!!
@@GuillemSerna Amazing!!!!!!!
Superspec Rallycross is a great tip!
It’s great fun!
DISTANCE was one of my favorite indie games for a while.
Horror SciFi feels that's hard to describe.
It's unique, and brilliant!
Thank you for such a great video! A few days ago, I bought a steam deck, so this games for me a must buy. Subscribed, liked, commented)
Much appreciated! Enjoy your Steam deck, some great games here for that I’m sure 👌🏼😄
All great recommendations. Great content. You got a new sub .
Thank you!
It just released into Early Access so it's not qualified for this list, but I highly recommend Aero GPX to anyone who misses the old F-Zero games. The handling is so responsive and feels great to play even though it's an Early Access title.
Great call! We also want to do a video covering early access specifically, so will keep this in mind 😊
Also the WipEout series in general is very close in style and gameplay to F-Zero with high speed racing with anti-grav ships. The tracks can be super challenging too, and super satisfying to get right. I haven't personally played it, but BallisticNG aims to replicate the gameplay of WipEout, so that may be worth looking at for fans of F-Zero as well.
@@1mariomaniac I agree that WipEout and BallisticNG are great anti-grav racers. I would probably say BallisticNG is to WipEout what Aero GPX is to F-Zero.
What makes Aero GPX more like F-Zero is the character design, the 30 racer grids, the track locations. It's all very clearly inspired by classic F-Zero, which has a little more cartoony of a feel than WipEout.
I appreciate the coverage of arcade racers. If there is a start line and a finish line and it can be timed, I'd probably enjoy it.
That being said, I'm off to watch olympic sailboat racing.
👌😂
Great shout out to Super Woden GP. Victor has done a great job on those titles & New Star GP is great fun too
Both superb games for racing game fans. And totally different as well!
+1 for Rush Rally 3. It left me super impressed on mobile.
After I beat it I still wanted more like it and found it when I started playing CarX Rally. Surprisingly similar, but with more strategy and constructor type-stuff involved like having to buy your own tires.
I'm new here and this video made me subscribe to your channel. What I love about your video is how you go through explaining and giving vital info on each game. Aside from Horizon Chase Turbo and Circuit Superstars, the others I always skipped because other videos didn't really give enough info on them for me to know if I'd like them or not but your video does. Will be buying and trying out all the games you mentioned here that I haven't already got because they sound a lot better than I originally thought. Thank you for the awesome video and game reviewing!
Thanks so much for your comment and the sub, it’s really appreciated! We want to help people find the games they will love 😄 Hopefully we can make more videos in future that you can enjoy just as much 🙌🏼
Supet Woden gp2 deserves a lot of love. Rally races were my favourites
Its not a racing game, or an indie game, but ive been putting in the hours on snowrunner for the past couple of weeks. Not everyones cup of tea but man is it addicting when you get it
Playing Rush Rally 3 and it's awesome. On Mobile, and the graphics are crazy
Great!
These games are just perfect for the new handhelds Legion Go, Rog Ally etc, great to just pick up and play on the sofa or in bed! Played a few of these on them. Great list thanks 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Glad you enjoyed!
All of those titles look like solid games worth a try! Going to start trying them out, thanks!
Love me some NewStar GP. My only issue is when playing 4 player local there is a good amount of frame drops.
Can’t wait until this is fixed
I lost most of the Spring to Rush Rally Origins - I love the diorama artstyle of the maps too but the handling is a joy.
Still have to play Rock n Roll Racing far too frequently after all these years too!
Rock n Roll Racing… Great shout! I remember that game every so often, always makes me smile😂
We need a new chase HQ game
New Star GP went STRAIGHT to my wishlist for the next time i want a racing game to dive into
There's an upcoming new take on Sega's classic Motorsport Manager called GT Manager. Looks like a cool little indie racing game to keep an eye one. I'm also eagerly awaiting the 1.0 release of Old School Rally and love the love letter to the World Rally Championship that is The Art of Rally.
Bro Karting Superstars is underrated af. I wish it had people on multiplayer but I've been having fun on singleplayer.
Old school rally it's a really nice game made by a indie studio, maybe next time is gonna be on the list 😀
We are our keeping our eye on this one! Didn’t make this list as it’s in early access rather than a full release at this stage. 😊
Nice video 👏👏👏. I love this type of games to as a “stress relief “ after GT7 and F1 23 sessions 😂.
I would say Horizon Chase 1 with Ayrton Senna’s DLC and the Rock N Roll racing remastered version, available on the consoles.
Overall, Horizon Chase 1 and 2 are the ones that reminds me my childhood… on the 90s all Brazilian kids with a SNES, played Top Gear, it was a “fever” and we spent hours playing with friends.
Great shout! And thanks for your comment :)
super woden 2 is a blast! so many cool cars, love the iso style. gran turismo should take notes😊
It's great fun!
There's an incredible F-zero like game called "GRIP: combat racing" I found a while back which was on sale, so I tried it out. The central mechanic revolves around how you can drive the car upside down, and I don't mean that in the way of driving on ceilings, even though you can, the cars are all designed with these huge tires, so they can still drive wen when flipped over.
It's seriously fun, and I highly recommend you play it if you can.
Star Drift Evolution!
Circuit Superstars, trust me
I would honestly love Super Woden GP II but that isometric overhead view is an insane turnoff. Even with generic cars and tracks, if someone made a GT clone with license tests, maintenance features, and an in depth multi discipline career mode, I'd be all over it. At least, so long as it wasn't isometric top down.
That's a shame :(
I just bought Rush Rally Origins for my Android Tablet and its really good, only a fiver as well
Great to hear!
Try Victory Heat Rally, really nice for short fun session. Feels like just a game
Stay tuned to the website for more on this tomorrow!
I have 2 of those in the Thumbnail. They're great
Super Woden GP 2 looks phenomenal as a fan of classic GT titles, I just can't play it though, I've tried but I cannot get used to isometric racing games. Corners sneak up on me that'd otherwise be easy, and cornering in general isn't as simple due to the odd perspective. Wish they had a chase cam option.
Edit: As does Superspec Rallycross, love rallycross racing.
Checkout night runners prologue, the official release is sometime in 2025 but the prologue is already excellent. It's gearing up to be a street racing masterpiece.
Mantis Burn Racing!!! It still has weekly challenges I participate in since 2017....
0:46 YO THIS HAS REAL LIFE TRACK? BRO I'M SOLD!
add Formula TOP to the list, great top down f1 game, 1.0 is coming later this year hopefully. I much prefer it to the alternatives. I can't stand the slidey Formula cars in CS. That's kinda what I wanted new star GP to be. I also prefer Rush Rally 3 over Origins (can use heli-cam in both)
New Star GP is fantastic 😊
It's early access so it doesn't qualify for this but Super Polygon Grand Prix on Steam is a love letter to all the Sega 90s racers and has the neat advantage of working bloody well on a Steam Deck already.
If horizon chase 2 was available anywhere else than the epic store on windows I would actually buy it, liked the 1st one too
With iracing picking up the circuit superstars as well as the exocross release it's pretty obvious they are going to be releasing an RC racing game or sim with a driver stand/rostrum viewpoint
Great games 👍🏻
I don't know where you're from, but I love your accent!
The Scottish Highlands, thanks!
Love Rush Rally Origins! Also, and this is not a car racing game, if you like high speed racing while flying like iron man, "Xeno Runners" is pretty addicting. Only for the hardcore "try harder" as it's tough af. Seems shallow at first but has a lot of depth to it.
Super Polygon GP has just hit Steam Early Access and offers similar vibes to New Star
I love circuit superstars. To hear they're partnering with iRacing makes me nervous.
"The isometric car racing genre", you can just say "Micro Machines."
Distance In my humble opinion, it's one of the Hot Wheels games we never got.
distance is a good game, played the indie version when it was released back then, problem of it is how bad it is for caroal tunnel
Which of those games has split screen?
@@tabletsamsung3388 SuperSpec Rallycross has up to 4 players split screen.
super wooden gp is amazing 👌
We need more top down realistic racing games ..
Super woden gp 2 is one of those games I`d be all over, if it weren`t for the top down/ isometric view.. I still added it to my wishlist, and will pick it up whenever it`s on sale for cheap enough.
Also, I didn`t know until this video that Aquos had been purchased by epic and absorbed into Fortnite, and as someone who really likes the first horizon chase, and who thinks it`s one of only a few non puzzle /match 3 games that actually plays well on a touchscreen, I`m low key pissed at the news
looking for a couple cheapish games to play on ally i think horizonchase and new star gp will do the trick nicely
Zeepkist. It's... a little bit special, okay?
i would like to suggest TRAIL OUT (flatout, wreckfestish racer) and YOU SUCK AT PARKING (more placing your vehicle in the right spot and being faster than everyone else at that, than really racing, but great car maneuvering fun nonetheless).
Great shouts!
As a fan of RR Origins I’m very tempted by SWGP2 on Switch, never played the first but love the GT comparisons! Is it a great port, can I confidently buy at full price? Seems like it has gone under the radar somewhat. Advice from Switch players welcome! 🙂
Nice rundown btw and I totally agree, I love serious racers as much as the next person but there’s always room to chill with great (top down) indie racers!
SWGP2 runs brilliantly on handheld, it’s the perfect concept for a switch racing game. I’m sure your money won’t be wasted 😄
Do they all work with Wheel and Pedals?
Should I get Super Woden GP1 first? Or ignore it and get GP2 right away?
Bought Super Woden GP II
Downloaded it and started playing it while having the 8 minutes left on the video
HahahaHappy Holidays
Enjoy!
I heard you like driving when you're (not) driving 😎
Art of Rally?
I wanna play woden gp 2 so bad, but isometric driving drives me up the wall. I have Curcuit superstars and love it for 10 mins then just rage when i keep turning the wrong way when driving towards myself.
The only problem I have with the first game is the camera
Aero GPX!!! :D
What was that isometric truck game at 0:23??
Hey! That was Circuit Superstars - th-cam.com/video/osiujH6XIRQ/w-d-xo.htmlsi=4_J8pqXNG77yTSaX
Funny game btw
BASED BASED BASED
DISTANCE MENTIONED
(showed footage of the wrong update though lol)
What is the intro game?
IRacing!
Want moreeee!
Distance looks bit like old game named POD
i wish super woden had a mobile port
You didn't say anything about the actual driving and handling of New Star GP: All the other stuff can be read off of a store page.
It's a shame about Super Woden GP as I like everything about it, except the driving view.
it is fun to play indie game with steering wheel?
I think it very much depends on the game... But in the majority of cases mentioned here, a controller is probably the way to go :)
Glad to say I missed none
Awesome! Well on top of things :D
@@TraxionGG Yarr, on top of things on the high seas.
formula TOP if you like F1 top-down racing. It's my favourite for sure
@@msum23 is it 100% playable?
@@TillTheLightTakesUsyup.. 1.0 is coming later this year but you can do quick races and championships with pit stops, weather, tyre wear, mod support. AI is very fun to race against too. Many difficulties. Unlockable turbo game mode and tiny cars too. I just bought it on a whim a few days ago and already have 10 hours in it, haha
What game is at 5:23?
art of rally!
Good game
I wish Horizon Chase 2 had proper physics and wasnt so random.
Something like the Outrun physics would've fitted the game amazingly.
New Star GP has cool ideas but it lacks heavily in many spots making the game rather boring really quickly, also the fact that all cars sound the same is just - nahh, there's no excuse for that.
Me think trackmania still king
4:53 I'd have love to have put any of mine on the list (Meh, street R.I.C.E.r., S.U.R.G. One Track, or S.U.N. D.R.G.) but only one of those got anything close to a release (S.U.R.G One Track for OUYA), the rest are still born while I learn Godot, and honestly none of them even remotely look this good.
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Talking about indie racers and not even mentioning Trail Out? How on earth?