Touge Shakai
Touge Shakai (Mountain Pass Society) is an online Touge Racing Game based on Japanese car culture in the 90s. With an emphasis on balance between realism and fun gameplay, the physics are tailored for competitive drift racing, while giving a challenge to all players.
The driving physics are mainly simulated, but not to the extent of hardcore racing simulators. The driving characteristics of each car is tailored to be distinctly different from each other, and require drivers to master different driving styles to bring out the best in each car. The objective is to be fun while remaining believable. However, there’s a twist to the driving physics: Drifting is faster than grip driving for most rear-wheel drive vehicles.
Features
- Unique sim-cade driving physics designed for Touge Battles
- Time Attack against local and online ghosts
- Multiplayer lobbies for free roaming and impromptu battles
- Cosmetic car customization – Body kits and custom liveries
- Unique Touge racing modes
- Steering wheel support with Force Feedback
- In-game music player – Load your own tracks into the game
Coming later
- Progression – Unlock new cars and parts as you hit objectives
- Virtual Reality Support
- Different weather conditions – Rain, fog
- Online matchmaking and ranking
- Driver and team profiles
- Replay camera editor – Setup race cameras using key frames
Game modes
Time Attack
Race against the clock with various cars and courses to improve your pace and compete on the leaderboards. Players can also challenge the “ghosts” of other players, which are apparitions of their previous runs to learn from their driving. Medals are awarded with target timings, and provides progression for customization for each car.
PvP Battle
Classic touge-style battle. Battles rules include “First to finish” and “Cat and Mouse”. Cat and Mouse has a leader and a chaser, with the leader trying to pull away and the chaser trying to keep up. The leader wins when they finish the course by a fixed distance from the chaser, while the chaser wins if they manage to overtake by the finish. The race moves on to the next round in a draw, with their positions reversed. Cat and Mouse mode is recommended as it provides the fairest battle, as overtaking is difficult and dangerous on the touge.
Team battles consist of multiple PvP Battles ongoing at the same time, with the team with the most wins coming out on top.
Free Ride
Practice, socialize and start impromptu races with others on the touge and just have fun! Learn from others and enjoy the course without the pressure of winning or losing. Showcase your rides and hang out with other racers and teams.
Game Discussion
Steam User 12
I just slammed 4 hours in one day on this game. I can honestly say it's such a BLAST to play, especially in multiplayer and/or with a friend. I absolutely love the ability to customize the soundtrack to your liking (ofc it's all EuroBeat for me). It takes some time to get used to the handling but the satisfaction you feel when you nail a drift chain and some hairpins is worth it.
Some cars are better than other cars on certain tracks, like the Suzuki Cappuccino will beat anything on a tight track, but it will get destroyed on tracks with high speed corners and straight lines, which is a nice way to balance the game in my opinion.
I totally recommend this game if you are into touge racing, money well spent on my part.
One thing I would like to be added though is the possibility to have separate garage music because it feels weird to have high energy racing music when you want to chill in the garage customizing your car.
Steam User 11
Touge Shakai (Toogay Shaka'in my pants right now simulator)
>Boot up touge shakai thinking youre about to be the next Initial D protagonist
>Choose any track except myogi (cause no one likes highways)
>Timeattack.exe
>Lockedin.exe
>You face reality and accept youre gonna hug the guardrails harder than your ex ever did
>Fml.dll
>Repeat.
Gameplay (grip? never heard of her):
-Its your time to fucking send it like a madman and still be fast cause this game allows you to drive like your drunken father.
-If you don't like sending it, there's still cars for you sissy twats like the GTR (How the fuck does a brick with 4 wheels do well on technical tracks? DEVS)
-In all serioussness very rewarding gameplay system and some cool (still unrefined in some places) driving techniques -> Practice makes you good.
Multiplayer (if I see another myogi lobby im commiting war crimes):
-Some lobby crashes, no matchmaking system (yet), some rubberbanding issues (as of this update netcode got a bit worse)
-Get ready to be rammed by a random french guy!
Customization (not my thing I suck at making liverys):
-Cool addition to the game unless your livery making skills are like mine and you just slap random decals hoping it will be awesome.
If you do love touge culture and touge racing I highly recommend giving this game a try (when I mean try, please spend more then 5 hours on the game PLEASE)
final veridict- git gud or git rail'd
Steam User 7
I don't think I've ever had this much fun in a racing game. Nice physics, nice dorifto, eurobeat. Best PvP battles in a racing game. Small but dedicated community with a league for teams to compete
Steam User 4
To say the least I've put 500 hours into a 15 dollar game so whoever reads this might as well try it. Solid physics and good controls once you get used to them, don't give up in the first hour because you're not good, it takes a while but its worth it.
Steam User 4
Having over 60 hour in this game, plus managing 4 ,,Specialist,, time attacks, and breaking a all time course record, I can say that this game is goddamn fantastic, even if it's hard at first, once you learn the physics and how each car steers and feels, it becomes a joyride, plus the BGM feature which I love so much that I have in total 65 new songs in game.
Review by Haos Official Member ,,Racing Specialsit,,
Update: Just finished to grind for every conversion in game, took awhile but it was worth it, the grind is over
Steam User 3
good handling good sound good maps good cars what do you want more
Steam User 3
balance of sim to arcade is perfect. this is everything the initial d arcade games should have been imo. addicting tire model and slip. haven't tried it with wheel but it's very optimised with a controller, unlike ac. a dream game, honestly