Retrocycles
In Retrocycles, you ride a bizarre vehicle that can never stop and leaves a deadly trail behind. In the most basic game mode, you can only make sudden right angle turns and are trapped
with others in an inescapable arena. The last survivor wins.
Focus is firmly on online play. Pick a server that sounds fun from the server browser, hop in, stay and play there for as long as you like with the same people. Online, you will find many variations of the core gameplay principle. There are other objectives than mere survival. In Fortress Mode, two teams face each other. Each team owns a Fortress Zone and needs to defend it while trying to conquer the enemy team’s Fortress. In Sumo Mode, everyone needs to stay inside a shrinking circle to stay alive.
The game supports custom maps (sadly without an editor) and just about every gameplay variable can be tweaked to your, or more likely, the server owner’s heart’s content. Speed, map size, trail length and timeouts are just the start. Even the rigid right angle turn rule can be bent!
Retroycles is the Steam version of the open source game Armagetron Advanced, the almost only game of its kind to stay a bit relevant for twenty years.
Features:
- Offline singleplayer against bots
- Splitscreen multiplayer for up to four players
- Online multiplayer for at least 16 players per server, servers can provide more slots
- Four builtin game modes: Last Man Standing, Last Team Standing, Fortress and Sumo
- Modded servers online also provide Racing, Capture the Flag and Mazes. And there is this one strange server with Rogue-ish RPG elements.
- Customizable keyboard layout
Game Discussion
Steam User 5
Back in the 2000 I remember being able to do an instant 180 and scrape boost along my own light trail. How to do again? Seems impossible.
Steam User 3
Main staple of 2000 uni.student days.
Steam User 3
Finally Armagedtron on Steam!
Steam User 2
tron
Steam User 1
This game is an alltime classic and i can wholeheartedly recommend this gem.
Formerly known as "Armagetron" and later "Armagetron Advanced", this is the closest freeware game you can get to play the Motorcycle races known from the movie Tron.
It is especially funny if you play against other human opponents. Its easy to learn but hard to master.
This game is highly addictive at LAN-Parties! (Yes they still exist).
Steam User 1
Formerly known as Armagetron Advanced, i use to play this game in High school ALL DAY! the nostalgia is insane! not only this was my favorite and only game i played as a kid, after 20+ years, it still holds up and is still an amazing game.
time to binge some hours! see yall in the Submarine!
Steam User 1
Formerly known as Armagetron Advanced, Retrocycles is an open-source snake (In this case Tron clone) with, you guessed it, Tron Light-cycles.
If you think this looks old, that's because it is, considering it initially released in 2001.
This game is everything that I remember it to be, Its a simple light-bike experience with so many different game modes built into it and the capability for third party developers to mod their private servers. The game is dated, as it has not been changed since release but it is free of bugs and if you like tron this is THE best game out there for it.
there is unfortunately a server population error but I definitely recommend grabbing this for a fre hours of fun with some friends!