Turned on grass on New Earth · Added bindable mouse controls to the controls ui (can now invert the mouse) · Service actions (Apply repairs, drop rover, etc) are now rebindable · Increased Tensei daily sprint stage length/checkpoint ranges to avoid very short daily stages. · Improved readability of left/right stick press controller glyphs. · Added runtime quality scaling grass/detail, tree, and…
Hi folks, Well, somehow more than four years of development has passed, and Exo Rally Championship is out now! I started the game back in early 2022, not long after Exo One. I still wanted to keep exploring alien planets, movement, momentum, physics and traversal, but from a totally different angle. In Exo One you were mostly gliding and rolling over these worlds. With Exo Rally, I wanted to kn…
Hi all, We’re going to disable the current Exo Rally Championship demo on Steam in the next 24 to 48 hours. The honest reason: the demo is getting old and it doesn’t ease players in as well as it should. Even with the tutorial, it still drops you straight into the fastest rover, and we’re seeing that leads to avoidable frustration and early quits. That’s not a great first impression, and it’s n…
Welcome to the January 2026 Exo Rally update! Happy New Year! Aside from a nice break during the holidays, we’ve spent the last few months with our heads under the hood, upgrading the game engine to Unity 6, reworking the training flow, and implementing some fundamental changes to how races start and how rovers handle as we push towards release. Here are the highlights of what we've been up to…
Here’s what we’ve included! · Dhool: a dusty, meteor-wracked moon orbiting a gas giant · A 6WD Racing Rover with RCS thrusters for air control · Realistic physics and damage simulation · Full 10 Stage Rally. Locked stages for demo, random in full game · 3 ever-changing Daily Stages with online Steam leaderboards · In-depth rover tuning, servicing/repairs In the full game you can look forward to…
Welcome to the September Exo Rally update! We've been hard at work finishing one of the last (?) planets, Fusang, a volcano world. The current planet list now includes: - Dhool (meteor desert world) - Lunar (Earth's moon) - Tensei (strip mined, earth quake riddled planet) - New Earth (terraformed forest planet) - Fusang (volcano world) Hopefully we will still have time to add one last planet, b…
Welcome to the June Exo Rally update! Since it's been a little while, it's a big one! The current planet list now includes: - Dhool (meteor desert world) - Lunar (Earth's moon) - Tensei (strip mined, earth quake riddled planet) - New Earth (terraformed forest planet) ...and we've recently begun work on a deadly volcanic world, "Fusang". Here's a look at both: New Earth New Earth was seeded with…
Happy to announce development is proceeding well and we’re targeting mid this year for full release. If you’re a playtester, we have a new build now live for you to try! We're not yet decided on whether we will be adding more testers at this point. This is a fairly unstable, early stage, unbalanced build so please don't have super high expectations. There's a bunch of unfinished stuff in here!…
Welcome to the first update of the year for 2025! Here's what we've been working on since the demo released at the end of last year (plus some other stuff given the demo update was a bit short!): Multi-Planet Series You'll be able to run a multi-planet series (Rally class only), individual rally events using one of 4 classes, daily online leaderboards using all classes, training and free-roam.…
Here’s what we’ve included! · Dhool: a dusty, meteor-wracked moon orbiting a gas giant · A 6WD Racing Rover with RCS thrusters for air control · Realistic physics and damage simulation · Full 10 Stage Rally. Locked stages for demo, random in full game · 3 ever-changing Daily Stages with online Steam leaderboards · In-depth rover tuning, servicing/repairs In the full game you can look forward to…
Welcome to the First Exo Rally Playtest! We're excited to welcome the first 1,000 playtesters. We'd love to hear your thoughts, so please share your feedback and join our community on Discord here: If you're still not part of playtesting, you can apply on the main store page. What's Included: · 1 Rover + 1 Planet only · Planet Dhool, a desert world wracked with meteors and fine dust · A 6WD 200…
Welcome to the July 2024 Exo Rally update! As we close in on the demo release, we've now opened up play testing on Steam , so go here and request access . We hope to open up access to a few hundred new people in the coming weeks! Industrial Planet WIP I've returned to this planet again this month and started adding dust drifts that form dunes and build up against structures. Also added scattere…
Welcome to the May 2024 Exo Rally update, here's what's been happening! Demo Incoming Super excited to share we will be releasing a demo soon! Exact date is still TBD, but it'll feature the start of the ‘story campaign' on Dhool (the meteor/dust world). You’ll be able to drive one rover class on one planet, and you’ll be able to race in daily stages and rallies and compete via online leaderboar…
First Exo Rally update for 2024, here it is! New Planet, “Tensei” Tensei (named “Start Planet” internally!) is essentially complete. It features mostly flat plains and rolling hills, nothing too harsh that you can smack into (just some fluffy ‘feather trees’), and both low gravity ~7m/s2 vs Earth’s 9.81 m/s2 and higher atmospheric drag (amplifies the low G feel) which generally means softer lan…
We’ve got another Exo Rally update for you! Let’s get into it. Additional Game Modes Exo Rally Championship has procedurally generated stages - which make drone surveys and reactionary driving very important skills - but sometimes you want to compete against other players on the same stage. We’ve added some (in-world) sponsored events where players can compete for the fastest times: Daily Sprin…
Welcome to the November Exo Rally Championship update! This month we’ve been working on a new planet and a more feature rich, more punishing damage system. There’s lots more damage types, like bent RCS thrusters/locked or destroyed brakes/snapped off suspension arms (you're really in trouble...) and even destroying your exterior camera link: Industrial Planet While the majority of planets in Ex…
October 2023 Hi all, it’s been a few months since we announced the game, which we’re calling “The final frontier of racing - remote, unexplored, extreme exoplanetary rally!” If you didn’t catch that first post, here’s an overview of the game: So here’s an update on where we’re at, approximately 1.5 years into development: Vertical slice is in/working well - you can now run a single 6 stage rall…
Hi folks, I’m absolutely pumped to finally reveal my new game, Exo Rally Championship, to the world. Just debuted it as part of PC Gaming Show 2023, but in case you didn’t catch it there, here’s the reveal trailer: I’ve been working away on this for a good while now with Rhys Lindsay and Mark Billington on board to make up the full Exbleative team. Rhys was responsible for Exo One’s stunning so…
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