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Nightmare Kart cover art

Nightmare Kart

LWMedia · 2024-06-05

Steam

RacingFree To Play

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Split screen · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: May 31, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Zoom through gothic streets in this horror themed vehicular combat racing game!

97%
positive of 6.4k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
81/100
IGDB user rating (12 ratings)
1
Nexus mods (11 downloads)
2.5h
to beat · rushed 2h · completionist 4h
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
Free
steam price (US)
Nightmare Kart is a 2024 kart racing game developed and published by Lilith 'b0tster' Walther and Corwyn Prichard under the company name LWMedia. The game uses a low poly art style inspired by the original PlayStation.

Health check

Healthy
  • · 272 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~34/week).
  • · Review velocity down 33% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (4,135 reviews).
  • · Top 5% of 2,159 Racing games in the census by review count.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
4.0k4.0k20242026Week of 2024-06-01: 4,030 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 105 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 380 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 212 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 210 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 157 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 565 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 268 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 443 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 45 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 207 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 71 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 80 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 58 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 51 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 21 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

25
achievements tracked
19%
earned "Learning the ropes"
2.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPShared/Split Screen PvPShared/Split ScreenRemote Play TogetherFamily Sharing

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,4506%25

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Players also track

DreamWorks All-Star Kart Racing

Similarity via IGDB.