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Battlesville
Four cars. Last one running wins.
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 his job: a year running El Viento Technics.
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.
The story
The winner runs El Viento Technics for a year.
Shen Viento runs El Viento Technics. When he overheard his brothers Anthony, Vincenzo and Lucius, and Lucius’s wife Jozi, planning their contests, he vowed to build a better one. More action. More intensity.
The prize is his own chair: one year at the head of El Viento Technics. Shen upgrades every car in the field with weapons, and sends you through eight arenas across Connecticut. He never shows his face. He talks to you over the radio.
He didn’t build it alone.
Shen called in his sister, Eliza Viento, who runs El Viento Financial. She wasn’t sure at first. Then Shen promised her 400 pounds of donuts and 18 barrels of iced cappuccino lattes. Eliza thinks of that as an afternoon snack. But she can’t stand Lucius, Anthony or Jozi, and she’d love to see their contests flop. So she’s in, and she drives a car called Mr. Lumpy.
The eight arenas
- Merry Den Mall RooftopCondemned. Shen’s welcome: “No returns, no refunds. Let the Connecticut Tour begin!”
- Meshomasic Missile SiteThe military left a few things behind. Shen’s advice: try not to push the wrong button.
- Washington ParkMonumental Disaster. Shen shows off his Tokyo Tower replica, then warns you the next stop is personal.
- Groton Trailer ParkFire Walk. Shen invites you to a family barbecue. Eliza is waiting, coffee in hand.
- HartfordThe Big Leap. Rooftop to rooftop. “It’s not the fall that gets you. It’s the sudden stop at the bottom.”
- Flurry RidgeThe Drop Zone. Breaking ice. “I’m sure the ice will hold. Probably.”
- Meriden Daffodil FestivalField of Screams. Win here, and Shen says he never meant to hand his prize to just anyone.
- Lord Hightmein MuseumHong Kong Krunch. The last arena. This time, Shen says, he’ll be waiting personally. Bring your best car.
The manual
Battlesville’s instruction booklet: 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. Free to download.
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.
All the modes
Experiment Mode is where new ideas get tried first. Overscale RC is still being built: everything on this page is from the current build, and it will keep changing.