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Slate and Pico, two plush penguins, sliding their red hatch through a gravel bend above the Knysna lagoon

Coldshift Racing

Two penguins from Antarctica on a road trip down South Africa's Garden Route.

Slate drives, Pico reads the notes. Real roads, rallies on the clock, and a coast full of locals: a taxi-driving seahorse, a dassie with a car lot, a loerie with a whistle.

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On the road

Top-down, flat out, Pico on the notes

The race screen is your phone held upright: the road from above, the notes on cards, the pedal under your thumb. Every picture here is the game as it plays.

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  • Right 3, tightens
    Right 3, tightens
  • Left 1, hairpin: drift it
    Left 1, hairpin: drift it
  • A boss race through town
    A boss race through town
  • The Seahorse's taxi on the N2
    The Seahorse's taxi on the N2
  • Coach Loerie's driving school
    Coach Loerie's driving school

What you do

Road trips, rallies and the odd seahorse (and dassie, and loerie…)

  • Real roads

    The roads are real ones, most of them drawn from a drive with GPS and a dashcam: Knysna's Main Road, the hill up Old Cape Road, the N2 along the lagoon, gravel passes over the mountains.

  • Rallies with Pico

    Stages back to back on the clock, with Pico reading the notes from the passenger seat: "Left 4, crest, don't cut." The light follows the day, and the weather is the forecast's.

  • Locals and legends

    Race the locals who know every bend, then each area's boss: the Knysna Seahorse in his taxi, for one. Drive about on your own and you'll find a few stories along the way.

  • Race your friends

    Phones on the same Wi-Fi or hotspot race each other, no account and no internet needed. Or ride along as the navigator on a second phone, calling the hazards for the driver.

  • Your kind of trip

    Pick a Scenic route, a Road trip or a Rally: the same roads, for a relaxed drive or a proper fight for the stage times.

  • Packs

    Areas, roads, cars and radio stations are all packs. Install more from this site, or make your own and share them over the link.

Who's who

Met along the road

  • Slate and Pico
    Slate and Pico

    The crew

    Two plush penguins from Antarctica, a long way from the ice. Slate drives from a stack of cushions; Pico reads the notes and holds the map.

  • The Knysna Seahorse
    The Knysna Seahorse

    The rival

    Drives the Waterfront taxi and knows every bend in town. Catch him if you can.

  • Tannie Dassie
    Tannie Dassie

    The car lot

    Spares, parts and new looks, and a fair price for the car you're done with. The kettle's always on.

  • Coach Loerie
    Coach Loerie

    The driving school

    Braking, drifting and stopping in the box: not short, not past. He's seen worse. Not much worse.

The garage

Two hatches and a lot of paint

The penguins' cars, drawn from the real ones. Paint them in the garage, buy looks at Tannie Dassie's car lot, and fit the parts you win along the way.

Looks at the car lot

  • Two-tone
  • Stripes
  • Flash
  • Rally
  • Chequered
  • Split
Tannie Dassie's car lot in the game: spares, parts and looks
  • The Redberry, side on, with Slate at the wheel and Pico beside

    Redberry

    The first car: a small five-door hatch, red nose, grey body, quicker than it looks.

  • The Blueberry Cheesecake, side on, with Slate at the wheel and Pico beside

    Blueberry Cheesecake

    Rally-bred, with wide arches, a bonnet scoop and a roof wing. Earn it.

On the car radio

Six stations

Surf guitar along the lagoon, concertina country over the passes, the penguins' own icy chiptune. Tune in for a taste; bring your own stations as a pack. Or add ours.

Live on VisTok

@redroman_angie

Angie is a VisTuber: a red roman fish with a headset and a hoodie, streaming from her loft in Joburg. She's the voice of the trip, reading the penguins' story as it happens, bringing the map's news and calling every race's countdown.

Watch a link race on a third screen and she's in the commentary booth with Coach Loerie, live on VisTok: every lead change, crash, drift and photo finish, called as it happens.

Hear the boothWatch her on VisTok

  1. Angie Hey hey, VisTok! Angie here, coming to you live from Knysna, and today it's racing! With me in the booth: Coach Loerie, from the Thesen Island Driving School!
  2. Coach Loerie Morning, Angie! Morning, everyone. Lekker day for it.
The race TV in the game: two cars on the N2 from above, with Angie and Coach Loerie in the booth in the corner
The race TV, with the booth in the corner

Pack the car

Free, on phones and computers. No account, no ads, no internet needed to race your friends.

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