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An explosion in a trailer park arena as two RC cars fight.
Pocket Racing · Car combat

Battlesville

Four cars. Last one running wins.

In-game screenshot

Four RC cars, one arena, no time limit. Weapons, pickups, hazards, and a special for every driver. The last car (or team) still running wins.

Ways to play

Arenas

You and three others, free for all or in a 2 v 2 team battle. One to four players in split screen on one PC.

Playing alone, you get five lives and the computer’s cars get one each.

Connecticut Tour

One player, eight levels, in order, against waves of enemy cars. Your host is Shen Viento, and the winner gets one wish.

Two bosses, three difficulties, a hidden license plate in every level, and new paints for winning without losing a life.

Multiple contestants. One rooftop. No returns, no refunds. Let the Connecticut Tour begin!Shen Viento

The arsenal

  • Machine gunAlways loaded. Hold it too long and it overheats.
  • WeaponsMissiles, homing rockets, mines and rear missiles, from weapon crates.
  • PickupsHealth, turbo, weapon crates and special charge. Each comes back after a while.
  • SpecialsEvery driver has one: a giant car, an EMP, a freezing slap, a green tornado, a hammer and more.
  • RammingThe heavier car hits harder and takes less damage. Light cars should hit and run.
  • HazardsFire, black ice, avalanches, collapsing floors, fireworks. The big ones always warn you first.

Eight arenas

A condemned mall roof, an old missile base in the woods, a city park whose monuments are coming down, a trailer park full of fires, Hartford at night in a thunderstorm, a ski mountain in a snowstorm, the Daffodil Festival, and an old house on a lantern-festival night.

Battlesville, recorded from the game.
An RC car on a plaza in a city at night.
Hartford at night
RC cars battling at the festival at dusk.
The Daffodil Festival
A giant RC van in an explosion in a concrete tunnel.
Noah’s special: Not Today

The manual

Battlesville’s instruction booklet is nearly ready: 28 pages in the style of a late-90s game manual, with the controls, weapons, every driver’s special, the eight arenas, the Connecticut Tour and its bosses. It will be free to download here.

Manual coming soon

In the free demo

Arenas in the first two arenas, for one to four players. The Connecticut Tour and the other arenas are in the full game, coming to Steam Early Access, planned by December 2026.

Get the free demo »

All the modes

One more mode is in the works. Pocket Racing is still being built: everything on this page is from the current build, and it will keep changing.