Even though this is an AI generated image, it looks like it could have made for a wicked cool game back in the day.
Is it actually perhaps inspired from a real vaporware game?
Almost all the elements in the image are the most cliche design templates of the vaporwave aesthetic, so it’s probably just from all the images already out there. To be fair though, all those pre-AI images probably also took inspiration from classic retro games.
I’m almost certain I’ve seen this on Steam (I think it’s on my wishlist) - but I think my brain is just combining 5-10 different “80s style synthwave car racing” games.
Can you name any please. I want to play. I love vaporwave
If we consider vapourwave/synthwave etc to be fairly interchangeable terms, there’s a bunch here:
Horizon Chase Turbo (2018) - not quite so neon, but same gameplay heritage
List of Synthwave Racing Games on Itch
(I’m kind of going by visuals or my perception of gameplay - these might not all fit the description)
Thank You Man
Sadly these are all either not synthwave or tiny projects that just aren’t really good. The real deal is Power Drive 2000, but it never released.
Pretty Cool
Looks more like synthwave/outrun than vaporwave
Everything is perfect but the main sun/planet.
*Vapidware
