Stampede: Racing Royale Steam Charts & Player Count

12 Mar 2025Developer post

Stampede: Racing Royale to Close this Summer – Final Season Now Live

Heyhey racers, It is with an extremely heavy heart that the Sumo Leamington team announces today that Stampede: Racing Royale will officially be sunsetting this summer. Due to a variety of unexpected events, live support for our free-to-play kart racing game on Steam and Xbox wil

Heyhey racers,

It is with an extremely heavy heart that the Sumo Leamington team announces today that Stampede: Racing Royale will officially be sunsetting this summer.

Due to a variety of unexpected events, live support for our free-to-play kart racing game on Steam and Xbox will cease later this year. Server availability and wider support for the game will end in approximately three months’ time – an exact end date will be confirmed in due course.

Until that closing date, Stampede will still include its usual slate of features, live service options, and rotation of events and content – alongside much more, which we will touch on later in this article.

Before that, the entire Sumo Leamington team want to extend their thanks and appreciation to the Stampede: Racing Royale community. Since the game’s reveal and early playtests almost two years ago, your support and passion for Stampede has been an inspiration to us all.

Whilst we are deeply disappointed to end this journey, we are incredibly grateful for the memories and moments you allowed us to make together. Thank you.

Final Season of Stampede: Racing Royale

Despite this news, we have chosen to roll out our remaining unreleased content for Stampede in the ‘Season 1’ update, which will release on Steam and Xbox in the coming days. We are incredibly proud of this slate of content, additions and improvements, and thoroughly hope you enjoy it.

Prepare for new places to race and new machines to burn rubber with. Compete for glory on four new race circuits, each with distinctly different vibes. Twin Thruway is our new stadium-based track, with split track routes to choose from. Neon Circuit is a moonlit, city-based track with tight corners and shortcuts to uncover, whilst Wentworth Park (below) is a leafy location with flowing corners, perfect for huge drifts.

Finally, Stratos Raceway (below) sends us into space, with anti-gravity elements, new moving obstacles, and a few missing sidewalls – so try not to fall into the atmosphere!

Conquer these tracks in a whopping eight new karts. Shave off those milliseconds in the race-trimmed Sabre Slipstream, McAuley JK4/5, and Wentworth EX14B. Meanwhile, the Anima Turbo R and GRT Clash are larger rides that balance out speed with brute strength. Wanna drive something a bit different? Grab the Korrugated Kardboard, the metal-mad Scrapyard Screamer, or the Snooze Cruiser, which lets you join the action from the comfort of your bed!

Look out for details in-game on how to unlock the new karts, each of which will have its own Kart Mastery tree, full of additional items and perks to earn.

Xbox Achievements, Fresh Season Pass, Events, and More

Over 130 new visual items are sprinkled throughout Stampede, including in the new Season Pass, full of fresh gear to unlock. Also, Special Events gets a boost in Season 1, with added variants available for each event.

By popular demand, the Daily Calendar returns for Season 1 of Stampede and is stuffed with more prizes. Log in on 14 different days to earn a new reward, with day 14 unlocking the Wentworth EX14B kart! Party play is also improved as we expand the maximum party size to 12, and the ‘Suggested Friends’ option will now show accounts of players you’ve recently played against, allowing you to connect with them.

For Xbox players, Achievements are now added, so top up your Gamerscore with Stampede – and earn an exclusive headgear item by unlocking all Achievements. PC players, meanwhile, have more options to customise and optimise their visual setup, and Steam Deck players will see more improvements in performance and visuals.

We’ll share even more details in the patch notes for Season 1 of Stampede: Racing Royale when the update goes live on Steam and Xbox on. Follow us on Instagram, X, and YouTube, where we’ll be sharing more previews of what to expect.

Once again, we hope you enjoy this final Season of Stampede, and thank every single player for your amazing support. <3

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19 Feb 2025Developer post

Dev Log: Status of Next Update & More New Content Details

heyhey racers, The Stampede: Racing Royale team wanted to provide a latest update on upcoming plans for the game. As some folks have noted, it’s been a quiet period for us, with the most recent Dev Log coming in early January, and the last major game update in November. So, here’

heyhey racers,

The Stampede: Racing Royale team wanted to provide a latest update on upcoming plans for the game. As some folks have noted, it’s been a quiet period for us, with the most recent Dev Log coming in early January, and the last major game update in November. So, here’s a breakdown of what can be shared right now.

In that January Dev Log we shared further details on the next major Stampede update, including increasing the maximum party size, improved visual performance options on PC, and new content to enjoy. We’re continuing to prepare this update. However, unforeseen events across the entire studio have slowed our ability to make progress here. There are now multiple new challenges and factors to overcome before the next major update for the game can be finalised and rolled out.

As you may expect, these new challenges have no set end date, meaning we’re unable to share a date, or time-frame, on when the new update can be expected to launch. We’ve mentioned previously that the ‘end timer’ for Stampede Season 0 in-game is a placeholder, and likely not an accurate gauge of when the update will arrive. That remains the case.

We apologise for the unexpected hold-up and lack of clear timeline, at this stage, for what’s next. The moment that we’re able to give a clear steer when to expect the new update, we will let you know.

Despite this, our team have been working incredibly hard to make that next Stampede: Racing Royale content drop our most exciting and rewarding to date – so we wanted to share more on what they’ve been cooking up.

We’ve already mentioned new features, expansions, and the addition of a new track. We’re hyped to confirm today that this update will include multiple new karts, multiple new tracks, a new PvP feature, and plenty more. Once we have more clarity on the update’s release, we’ll share a full breakdown of what’s coming.

In the meantime, racers can continue competing in our standard three-round, 60-player action, as well as participate in Special Events. We’ve recently increased the amount of Special Events on the calendar, and added Star Chips as an earnable reward for participating in them. That means you can save up Star Chips for Shop items, which continue to rotate with new daily and featured gear.

If you’re looking for more racers to party up with and race against, we highly recommend joining the official Stampede Discord server, where players are connecting daily to race together. We’ve also been awarding the ‘Stampede Star’ role on Discord to outstanding folks in our community, which earns you an exclusive in-game item.

As always, a humongous thank you to everyone for your support in Stampede: Racing Royale’s journey so far. We’ll reach back out with more information as soon as possible. <3

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13 Jan 2025Developer post

Dev Log: News on Party Size, Visual Options, Star Chips Rewards & More!

heyhey racers, I hope everyone is safely going through the gears and getting back up to speed for 2025! After a busy year, the Stampede: Racing Royale team is already putting plans in place to keep the momentum up and continue expanding the game. Updates and content drops are on

heyhey racers,

I hope everyone is safely going through the gears and getting back up to speed for 2025! After a busy year, the Stampede: Racing Royale team is already putting plans in place to keep the momentum up and continue expanding the game.

Updates and content drops are on the agenda for ’25, addressing more community requests, with a sprinkling of surprises too. We’ll be sharing more details on specific updates as more gets locked in – but for now, we wanted to share as much as possible on what we’re working on.

Glimpsing into 2025 for Stampede: Racing Royale

A common talking point within the Stampede community (particularly on Discord, where you should definitely hang out with us) is being able to race with more friends at the same time. Increasing the maximum amount of players in a Party has been a regular request, and this is something we’re excited to bring to the game soon. To help further with finding players, we’re also preparing to re-enable the Suggested Friends option in the Friends menu, after fixing a technical issue. Suggested Friends will show the accounts of players you’ve recently played against, with the option to send them a friend request.

Further options for PC players to optimise the game’s visual settings is also something we’re set to address, with frame rate and v-sync options introduced. Japanese as a language option is planned to be added, alongside at least one new track, which we previewed in December’s Dev Log.

Plus – we’ve been chatting to our players on the topic of creating a method for players to earn Star Chips (the purple in-game currency), to help you grab more items from the Stampede Shop if you wish. Our team are making positive progress on this and we’ll post a detailed breakdown of what we’re adding before it goes live.

‘Tis the Season

A big topic we’re looking to lock down is the conclusion of Season 0 and the beginning of Season 1, which will bring fresh content and rewards. As we mentioned recently, the in-game end timer for Season 0 was shifted out to February 6. A little more work is needed to confirm an exact timing for Season 1’s start, so Season 0 will continue until this is completed. Plenty more is being developed for Stampede: Racing Royale updates, and we’ll continue to keep folks posted!

Look out for more information through the beginning of this year, which we’ll share right here and across our Instagram, TikTok and X channels. Oh, did we mention Discord? That’s the best place to chat with our team and the community on today’s news and anything else. See you on the track!

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27 Dec 2024Developer post

Under The Hood on Kart Performance Stats in Stampede: Racing Royale

As more and more players get stuck into Stampede: Racing Royale and look for ways to be the very fastest on track, we’ve been having more community discussions around karts, and their performance stats. These are the numbers you see when selecting karts from the Garage menu! We w

As more and more players get stuck into Stampede: Racing Royale and look for ways to be the very fastest on track, we’ve been having more community discussions around karts, and their performance stats. These are the numbers you see when selecting karts from the Garage menu!

We wanted to go under the hood on this one and share some extra info on what the kart performance stats mean, as well as some general insight into how we design and optimise the performance for Stampede karts.

Kart performance stats in Stampede: Racing Royale

Kart performance is designed to be simple and easy for players to follow, but also to be thoroughly balanced, and give players options that have genuine value.

Players will also have different styles and preferences for driving, which will suit them better to different karts, so our team aims to accommodate that with different kart handling styles.

Maps also play a factor here – our maps are purposely varied in design, so that some are suited better to a Light, Standard, or Heavy kart.

Let’s look at the five performance stats that every kart has, confirming what each of them represents. Most of this will not come as a surprise, but there’s some interesting detail in there too!

SPEED – The higher this number, the higher the top speed the kart can reach, when not boosting

ACCELERATION – The higher this number, the faster the kart will gain speed from a standing start, or from low speeds, without boosting

DRIFT – This stat dictates how fast the kart can go whilst drifting, as well as how strong the boost effect is after you’ve finished a drift

WEIGHT – The higher this number, the more that other stats such as Acceleration and Handling are negatively affected. It also affects the amount of inertia the kart can have, and how long it is affected for when struck by a power-up or hazard

HANDLING – The higher this number, the faster a kart is able to change direction and generally grip to the track

Every kart has a unique combination of these five performance stats, which can also be improved as you progress through Kart Mastery trees and unlock perks - like this one for the Behemoth Bruiser:

How are performance stats decided for each kart?

Before a kart is added to the live game, thorough testing and balancing is carried out, racing the kart across a wider variety of tracks to ensure it not only feels fun to drive, but also feels different to the other karts.

As you’d expect, the larger karts in Stampede tend to have higher Weight stats, whilst smaller karts are lower on Weight, but higher on Handling and Acceleration. Once the look of a kart is designed, our handling team create a performance setup for it that generally reflects what you’d expect a real-life equivalent to feel like. From there, it’s tweaked and optimised to give it a unique feel for players to check out.

Our team are always tracking feedback and data around kart performance to help us understand if tweaks should be made to existing karts, and to inform plans if any additional karts are being cooked up for a future update. We hope this breakdown on kart performance is useful, and look forward to reading more on how you’re mastering each kart in Stampede: Racing Royale!

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26 Dec 2024Developer post

New Holidays Twitch Drops Event is Live!

heyhey racers, We're rounding off 2024 by rolling out another special Twitch Drops event! Starting now and running until January 4th 2025, our Holidays Twitch Drops are live: Watch streams of Stampede: Racing Royale on twitch.tv for a total of one hour to grab booth the the headg

28 Nov 2024Developer post

Dev Log: Next Update Plans and New Track Teaser!

heyhey racers, With the dust fully settled now on a busy few months in the world of Stampede: Racing Royale, our team wanted to check in with you folks via our latest Dev Log. So, here it is! Last week’s patch followed some of the most significant updates to Stampede to date. Alo

heyhey racers,

With the dust fully settled now on a busy few months in the world of Stampede: Racing Royale, our team wanted to check in with you folks via our latest Dev Log. So, here it is!

Last week’s patch followed some of the most significant updates to Stampede to date. Alongside our official launch on Steam in October, a huge selection of tracks, karts, customisation items, and entirely new ways to play were added. Then came more features and quality of life improvements, and the latest patch to tidy up a few things. All of this came at the end of a busy ol’ year, developing the game through Xbox Insider Program and Xbox Game Preview.

It’s been quite a 2024, and the main news to share in this Dev Log is confirmation that the next significant update for Stampede: Racing Royale will come in 2025. We’re making sure our team have time to rest, relax, and prepare for the new year.

Of course, we’ll continue to monitor the game and community feedback throughout December, just in case something pops up that requires action. Minor optimisations are being worked on and if they are ready to roll out in December, we’ll do so and share details.

Special Events will continue to rotate, our live Twitch Drops event will run until December 6, and a fresh set of Twitch Drops is planned for December, too – so there’s still plenty to get stuck into!

Work is already well underway on that first update of the new year, and we’re excited for the additions and improvements we’re putting into place for you. Expect fresh content, new stuff requested by players, and more general enhancements to the action.

One thing we can reveal is that a new track is expected to drop in that next update. Wanna sneak peak of it? Well, since you asked so nicely…

The entire team here at Sumo Leamington and Secret Mode are mega grateful for all of your support for Stampede in 2024. We’ve loved taking the game from strength to strength whilst building a community with you, and we’re excited to go even bigger and better, together, in 2025.

Chat with our team and fellow players on Discord, and follow those usual channels on Instagram, YouTube, and X to keep up to date. We hope you have an awesome end to 2024, and look forward to sharing more with you in the new year!

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21 Nov 2024Developer post

Thanksgiving Twitch Drops Event Now Live!

heyhey folks, Celebrate the season of thanks with our new Twitch Drops campaign, available from now until December 6! We're thanking our Stampede: Racing Royale community with these free Drops, which are not available anywhere else. Make sure to head to rewards.stampederacing.com

04 Nov 2024Developer post

New Stampede: Racing Royale Update! Fresh Features, Improvements & More

Heyhey racers, It’s been a total blast welcoming Steam players back to the wild world of Stampede: Racing Royale, as we fully launched the game on Steam in October, joining Xbox Game Preview folks. We marked the launch with a major update, including a host of new features and exp

Heyhey racers,

It’s been a total blast welcoming Steam players back to the wild world of Stampede: Racing Royale, as we fully launched the game on Steam in October, joining Xbox Game Preview folks.

We marked the launch with a major update, including a host of new features and experiences – but we’re not stopping there! Today we’re sharing details on the next Stampede update, going live on all platforms very soon.

Look out for new content, community-requested tweaks, and more improvements. Let’s get into it!

NEW ROUND MODIFIER!

After adding the unforgiving ‘Hard Mode’ in our last update, another dangerous round modifier is coming. Look out for ‘Fire Walls’! This can be triggered on certain tracks in the third and final round, and causes flaming obstacles to move along the track. Steer clear of the fire, else you’ll be immediately eliminated...

No two rounds in Stampede will ever be the same, with a wide range of tracks and four different round modifiers to potentially take on. We'll also be adding another new map following the release of this update. Watch this space!

REWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS

By popular demand, Achievements have been added to Steam, giving you new ways to flex your Stampede skills. In-game, there are more ways you can boost your rewards, too. Get a bump in post-match moolah by playing in a Party – the more Party members you have, the higher the rewards boost you’ll get! Each Kart in your Garage will also give you a limited-time boost in rewards every day – so mix up your machine of choice to make use of their XP and currency multipliers.

Still racing hard to add new Karts to your collection? New in-game guidance will show you how to unlock them – and once you’ve grabbed all six of the new Karts, a unique customisation reward is waiting for you.

TECH TWEAKS AND MORE MUSIC!

A selection of gameplay tweaks have been made, driven by player feedback, to further improve the Stampede experience, including minor changes to Kart performance, power-ups, on-track hazards, and Boost. Listen out for brand new music, and for the music to dynamically change as a race unfolds. Further optimisation for Steam Deck is included, along with more fixes. Our patch notes archive will include a full breakdown of this update’s contents before it goes live.

Join us on Discord to chat about the new update with our team and fellow players, and follow us on X, Instagram, and YouTube to stay in the loop as we get things ready. In the meantime, time for some practice matches...

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07 Oct 2024Developer post

Stampede: Racing Royale is Launching on Steam! Everything You Need to Know

heyhey racers, The title says it all – Stampede: Racing Royale is coming back to Steam! Let’s go! First things first, a HUMONGOUS thank you to Steam players for your patience and support, since the most recent Steam Playtest for Stampede earlier this year. After building a commun

heyhey racers,

The title says it all – Stampede: Racing Royale is coming back to Steam! Let’s go!

First things first, a HUMONGOUS thank you to Steam players for your patience and support, since the most recent Steam Playtest for Stampede earlier this year. After building a community with you and making improvements to the game with your support through multiple playtests, we’re hyped to now fully launch the game on Steam.

This will indeed be a full, free-to-play launch for Stampede: Racing Royale – not a playtest, or Early Access period. This move has been made to ensure as many folks as possible have the chance to experience and enjoy the game on Steam at an important time.

We don’t currently have a set roadmap, or update schedule, for the game beyond this launch. We’ll be continuing to chat with you, both here and on Discord, to help us shape where Stampede goes from here, so your participation and feedback remains vital.

There’s so much fun new stuff to dive into once we launch on Steam, but before we get into that, here are a couple of key things we’d like you to know:

IMPORTANT CHANGES FOR STEAM LAUNCH

To help all players experience Stampede to its fullest, in-game purchases using real currency will be unavailable on all platforms. However, you can still use in-game currency (Coins, XP, Star Chips) to purchase and unlock items across the game. To ensure that all players can still access all content in the game, such as the premium Season Pass, every player will receive an additional 3,000 Star Chips to their game account, to use however you wish.

Finally, we’re extending the window for Season 0 into early 2025, allowing Steam players the time to progress through the current Season Pass and other features.

BIGGER, BETTER, FASTER!

If you played Stampede: Racing Royale during our Steam Playtests, prepare for more fun and chaotic 60-player karting action, with a whole host of new stuff to check out!

Alongside faster gameplay and new modifiers (including a ‘Hard Mode’ where players can be instantly eliminated in the final round…), look out for six new maps, seven new karts, and over 250 customisation items. Progress through the new Daily Calendar, find more perks and rewards in Kart Mastery, use the new Jelly Block power-up, and so much more.

Finally, we’re over the moon to be collaborating with Mintrocket for the Dave the Diver collaboration – a completely free batch of content inspired by the fantastic game, including an additional kart and customisation items, bringing Dave and Bancho into the world of Stampede!

A full breakdown of what’s new can be found on our website here. Follow us on X, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and Twitch to stay in the loop on exactly when we’re going live on Steam. We can’t wait to see you on the track. From the entire Stampede team, thank you <3

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11 Jul 2024Developer post

Stampede: Racing Royale - Dev Log #7

heyhey folks, We’re back with a new Dev Log for Stampede: Racing Royale, to update you on the status of our Early Access launch. Let’s dive right into it. Early Access Sit Rep As you may’ve seen today, Stampede’s next launch phase is beginning on Xbox platforms. Our brilliant tea

15 May 2024Developer post

Stampede: Racing Royale - Dev Log #6

heyhey folks, We’re speeding back into your notifications with a new Dev Log, to share a clutch (heh, get it, it’s a car thing) of updates and info. Here we go… Much Love! A massive thank you to everyone who has taken part in our recent playtest window, either right here on Steam

heyhey folks,

We’re speeding back into your notifications with a new Dev Log, to share a clutch (heh, get it, it’s a car thing) of updates and info. Here we go…

Much Love!

A massive thank you to everyone who has taken part in our recent playtest window, either right here on Steam, or via Xbox Insider Program. Being able to share our progress with you, stress-test new content, and have a first live run at cross-platform matchmaking, has been hugely helpful for our development team.

The feedback and understanding of players has once again been fantastic, as we work through this phase of development. From reporting bugs, to sharing your suggestions, to just getting involved here and on Discord, the Stampede community has delivered. We truly appreciate it!

Playtest Closing Soon

We wanted to let you know the current playtest will be closing on Monday, May 20, at 10am UK time, across all platforms. This move is to help focus all the team’s efforts towards our upcoming Early Access launch.

For Steam players, we have our usual playtest survey here, which we encourage all players of the current Steam playtest to fill out. Your submissions will once again help our team with tweaks and changes, both for Early Access and beyond.

A quick reminder of something mentioned in our FAQs: Progress and rewards earned in this playtest will not be carried over to the Early Access launch. This is necessary to help ensure the game is balanced and enjoyable for all players, once ‘Season 0’ goes live.

However, that doesn’t mean you’ll be empty-handed…

Exclusive Playtester Reward!

We’re hyped to reveal the customisation item reward for Steam Playtest players – this exclusive feline-themed helmet!

All players who joined this current playtest on Steam, or took part in October 2023’s playtest on Steam, will receive this item, shortly after Early Access goes live. So, if you’re yet to jump into our playtest, you have a couple more days to get involved and earn your reward!

It's the least we can do to thank our ever-growing Stampede community. We’re super excited for what’s ahead and will share more details as soon as we can.

Take care <3

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29 Apr 2024Developer post

Stampede: Racing Royale Early Access Begins This Summer - NEW Trailer!

heyhey racers – pack up your power-ups and polish up those karts… Stampede: Racing Royale is speeding towards its Early Access launch! Sumo Leamington and Secret Mode are hyped to confirm that this summer, Stampede comes to Steam in Early Access, as well as on Xbox Series X|S and

heyhey racers – pack up your power-ups and polish up those karts… Stampede: Racing Royale is speeding towards its Early Access launch!

Sumo Leamington and Secret Mode are hyped to confirm that this summer, Stampede comes to Steam in Early Access, as well as on Xbox Series X|S and Windows PC, via Xbox Game Preview. To celebrate, we’ve rolled out a fancy new trailer, giving you a sneak peek of the wild action coming your way…

Watch on YouTube

To those of you joining the herd for the first time, Stampede: Racing Royale is our free-to-play, 60-player online kart racing battle royale bonanza. Compete against the world – with cross-platform matchmaking – in wild races and battles, avoiding elimination over three rounds, to be crowned the ultimate champion.

Discover incredible maps, pull off huge drifts, deploy destructive power-ups, and enjoy the thrill of fast-paced karting action, combined with competitive battle royale intensity!

In collaboration with our community, Stampede has been growing and developing over the past year, through playtests and feedback from our players. This has helped bring big additions and changes for Early Access launch, including new modes, new ways to play, new progression features, and hundreds of new customisation items to discover.

Between now and Early Access launch, we’ll be sharing more of what you can expect – and you can get a taste of the action today! Jump into the latest Steam Playtest, available right now, featuring many of the new changes and content we'll be dropping for real this summer. Simply hit the green 'Request Access' button on our store page, or just check your Steam library, if you played any of our 2023 playtests.

Throughout Early Access we’ll continue to gather your feedback and ideas as we keep building the world of Stampede, ahead of future seasons and updates. Join our community on Discord, and follow us across Instagram, X, TikTok and YouTube, to make your voice heard and stay connected to all things Stampede: Racing Royale!

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27 Dec 2023Developer post

Sneak Peek: New Customisation Items Arriving in Early Access

heyhey folks. Hope you've had (and are still having) a great festive period! Across the Stampede: Racing Royale social channels ( X , Instagram , Facebook , TikTok ), we recently shared a selection of brand new cosmetic items coming to the game when Early Access begins in 2024. N

15 Dec 2023Developer post

Dev Log #4 - Stampede: Racing Royale

Heyhey everyone, A few weeks on from our last Dev Log, and shortly before the festive period really gets going, we wanted to share another update with you on the status of Stampede: Racing Royale! It’s been an important period behind the scenes, so here’s an overview of what’s be

Heyhey everyone,

A few weeks on from our last Dev Log, and shortly before the festive period really gets going, we wanted to share another update with you on the status of Stampede: Racing Royale! It’s been an important period behind the scenes, so here’s an overview of what’s been going on.

FULL SPEED AHEAD!

Our development team at Sumo Leamington recently reached a key milestone, producing what we consider to be an ‘Alpha’ build of the Early Access version of Stampede: Racing Royale. A tonne of great work has gone into expanding the game with new features, adding more content and options, and optimising across the board.

This is a big moment, but it’s also part of an ongoing journey. There is plenty more we can (and plan to!) do to improve on this Alpha version, to deliver the quality of game you expect. That work is taking place right now and will continue in the new year.

We say this all the time, but it’s true so we’ll keep saying it – we couldn’t have reached this stage without the support of Steam Playtest players this year. Your feedback has helped shape Stampede already, so thank you once again. When Early Access begins in the first half of 2024, we’ll continue to listen and collaborate with you.

THE NITTY-GRITTY

There are many additions and changes we're working on from community requests, such as an end-of-event "podium scene" and other effects to capture the drama during celebrations. We're also adding some additional tips and explanations throughout to make sure it's always clear what you need to do!

Also, after mentions of wanting more ways to play, we’ve shared a first look at the Special Events mode coming to Stampede. Features like this, which give you more to engage with and achieve, are a big focus for us right now. We’ll keep you posted on more stuff like this through our channels, alongside a chunky set of patch notes once Early Access begins.

On more technical topics, we’re also super busy squashing bugs and improving the gameplay some more. We’ve resolved some commonly-reported display issues, like the ‘roulette’ animation for power-ups not appearing at times, and a few lingering bugs when players partying up. Our Trello board, which shows the status of hot-topic issues reported by playtest players, is up to date – but if something you spotted during playtests isn’t mentioned there, feel free to leave a comment below and we’ll get back to you.

RACING INTO ’24

Our crew will soon be taking some well-deserved downtime, returning in early January to continue working towards more milestones. Our Dev Logs will continue, as well as our feature deep dives and other content across our channels to keep you informed on our road to Early Access, coming in the first half of 2024.

Have a fantastic festive period and see you in the new year!

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Updates & announcements

Glimpsing into 2025 for Stampede: Racing Royale

‘Tis the Season

Kart performance stats in Stampede: Racing Royale

How are performance stats decided for each kart?

NEW ROUND MODIFIER!

REWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS

TECH TWEAKS AND MORE MUSIC!

IMPORTANT CHANGES FOR STEAM LAUNCH

BIGGER, BETTER, FASTER!

Early Access Sit Rep

The Road Ahead

How To Win!

Powerful Power-Ups

Customisation Guide

Progression Guide

Much Love!

Playtest Closing Soon

Exclusive Playtester Reward!

Xbox Insider Program

What’s New?

What About Early Access?

Characters and Apparel

Karts, Skins, and Wheels

FULL SPEED AHEAD!

THE NITTY-GRITTY

RACING INTO ’24