In case you have a look at my playtime throughout all of the video video games I play, there is a single clear outlier: The “Forza Horizon” collection has sucked up extra hours of my time on this Earth than every other sport. But I do not actually do any of the video games’ races, I do not do many of the challenges, and as soon as I’ve aced all of the video games’ drift zones there’s not a lot when it comes to objectives for me to really hit. As an alternative, I use the “Horizon” video games simply to zone out — drifting backwards and forwards, nook to manji to nook, with none curiosity in any of the aims the sport has set earlier than me. Lastly, somebody’s made a two-wheeled sport totally based mostly round that form of zen expertise that feels prefer it’s only for me: Upcoming sport “LANESPLIT.”
“LANESPLIT” is the second sport from solo developer FunkyMouse, and whereas it does not formally launch till January, the sport’s Steam web page has a playable demo obtainable without spending a dime. It is a quite simple idea: Weave your bike by visitors at excessive speeds, that is it. The sport itself is buggy and unpolished in all of the methods you’d anticipate from Steam early entry — I personally reported a bug on the developer’s Discord server, solely to seek out it had already been fastened with new code that can roll out in an upcoming patch — however it’s already turning into my most well-liked sport to show my mind off and play.
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Positive, 2026 goes to convey us a brand new “Grand Theft Auto” and that James Bond sport from the “Hitman” devs, however I actually have sufficient huge video games that I am already not spending my free time on. “LANESPLIT” guarantees — and, in its free demo, already affords — a pleasant, easy sport to get you into the move state on a single job. It is much less of a competitor to “Forza,” and extra like an infinite runner or “Mirror’s Edge” sport. The one issues you have to take note of are the vehicles forward of you, and you’ll tune out the remainder of the world — besides, after all, for the breakcore music that the sport performs when you begin actually transferring.
“LANESPLIT” is an easy little sport from a one-person developer, and at my superior age of 29 that is the precise form of sport I’ve the time and vitality to play after work. I am trying ahead to the total launch in January, the place I am going to get extra bikes and participant fashions to select from, however I am already having a blast with the little free demo that FunkyMouse slapped collectively. Give it a shot, and I am going to see you in multiplayer as soon as the total sport drops.
