The Undercut: Racing Manager

Staz.Tech · Staz.tech

Released: Sep 2, 2026
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Last updated: 04 Sep 2026, 15:57 GMT

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11 Sep 2026Developer post
Hotfix 0.5.4-4 — Steam Workshop and Various Fixes
Hotfix 0.5.4-4 — Steam Workshop Is Live Steam Workshop — Now Live Subscribe to a Workshop item and the game reads it straight away — mod packs, hand-drawn circuits and language packs. Nothing to copy, nothing to move. A file in your own mods/ folder still wins over a subscribed i
Hotfix 0.5.4-4 — Steam Workshop Is Live
Steam Workshop — Now Live

Subscribe to a Workshop item and the game reads it straight away — mod packs, hand-drawn circuits and language packs. Nothing to copy, nothing to move.
A file in your own mods/ folder still wins over a subscribed item of the same name, so you can test changes locally.
Modding Tools

New: Language Editor ships with the game — translate the game into your language, drop the file or publish it on the Workshop.
New: Mod Editor Audit tab — reports problems in your pack before you publish. One-car teams, duplicate driver codes, missing circuits.
New: Mod Editor — choose which championships the world runs with a tick box each. Untick them all and your pack's drivers are the only ones in the world.
New: Mod Editor — set a driver's starting fame.
New: a pack's circuits can replace or extend the world's circuit pool — a real-world season no longer drifts back to generated tracks.
New: Circuit Editor — type the target length directly in the toolbar.
New: mod picker scrolls and can be searched by name.
Fixed: Restart during a test drive replaced your track with a random one.
Fixed: modded sponsors showed country codes instead of flags.
Fixed: modded circuits reported the same number of turns everywhere.
Stability

Fixed: the game held far more asset memory than needed — performance improved.
Fixed: on Windows, loading a save could crash on the loading screen.
Fixed: 4K Auto-fit UI sponsor-logo glyph performance issue.
Career

Fixed: scouting rating filter compared the driver's true rating instead of what you can see — filtering "70+" returned drivers you read as ~56.
Fixed: hand-drawn or modded tracks reported the wrong number of turns on all screens.
Fixed: weekend repairs offered no way to continue when your cars needed no repair.
Fixed: stopgap sponsor offer arrived mid-negotiations instead of when the window closes.
Added: Country column sorts in the scouting list.
Interface

Fixed: timing tower — scrolls inside its space with a full field. Gold arrows show hidden drivers. Wheel over the tower scrolls the order instead of zooming the track.
Fixed: lap history — follows the newest lap and scrolls back to earlier ones.
Fixed: live Result tab columns properly spaced on all screen widths.
Fixed: Pitwall Data tab and Events tab scroll properly at larger UI scale.
Fixed: Infrastructure screen ran off the bottom.
Fixed: R&D Production part name drawn under the version picker arrows.
Fixed: sponsor and supplier names overlapping at higher UI scale.
Fixed: country list scrollbar jumping the career setup wizard.
Fixed: modded career team list wouldn't scroll.
Presentation

Podium and team-presentation ceremony redrawn by artist Lucky Dart. Full-screen podium with proper sponsor boards and logos.
The Workshop is open. Build something.
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08 Sep 2026Developer post
Launch Discount Ends Tomorrow — and 0.5.5 Is the Next Big Update
Launch Discount Ends Tomorrow — and 0.5.5 Is the Next Big Update The –12% launch discount ends tomorrow. After that, the price goes back to $14.99 / €14.99 / £13.75. If you've been on the fence, this is the time. Buy The Undercut: Racing Manager Thank You The first week has been
Launch Discount Ends Tomorrow — and 0.5.5 Is the Next Big Update
The –12% launch discount ends tomorrow. After that, the price goes back to $14.99 / €14.99 / £13.75. If you've been on the fence, this is the time.
Buy The Undercut: Racing Manager
Thank You
The first week has been intense. The Discord community has quadrupled in less than a week. Hundreds of bug reports, save files, balance suggestions, and feature requests. The game is better today than it was on September 3 — four hotfixes in one week, all built from your reports.
To the alpha testers, demo players, and new players who shaped this game from devlog to launch: thank you.
🔧 0.5.4 — Still Being Patched
Hotfixes for the current build continue. If you hit a bug, the in-game report tool or the Discord are the fastest way to get it fixed. A save file is worth ten descriptions.
🏗️ 0.5.5 — The Next Big Update
0.5.5 is built directly from your feedback. It focuses on making the game yours — and brings many more changes alongside the headlines below.
Custom Career
A new career creation screen where you set the rules before you start:

Number of teams on the grid
Number of GPs per season
Weekend format
Difficulty settings
And more — the career adapts to what you want to play
Department Automation
Every department can be set to one of three modes:

Manual — you make every decision, like today
Assisted — the AI handles the department and emails you what it did. You take decisions through the emails.
Auto — the AI runs it and keeps you informed by email. You focus on what matters to you.
Set each department independently. Run sponsors on auto, R&D on manual, scouting on assisted — whatever fits your style. New players can auto everything and get to racing faster. Veterans keep full control. Switch any department at any time, mid-season, mid-weekend — it's never locked.
Spectator Mode
Watch a race without managing it. Pick any team, sit back, and watch the AI race the full weekend — practice, qualifying, race. Toggle it on or off whenever you want — spectate one weekend, manage the next.
AI Rebalance
Race strategy and career decisions for AI teams are being reworked. Tyre choices, pit timing, development priorities, and financial management are all getting a pass to make the grid feel more competitive and more believable across multiple seasons.
UI Pass
Continued polish on layout, readability, and responsiveness across all screens. The auto-fit system from 0.5.4-3 was a first step — 0.5.5 continues the work.
🗺️ The Road After 0.5.5
After 0.5.5, development shifts to 0.6.0 — Weather & Car Setup: dynamic weather, rain, drying lines, and a full rework of the car setup system. The first of the five headline updates promised in the roadmap.
Lights Out
The launch discount ends tomorrow. Every update after this — 0.5.5, 0.6.0, and everything through to 1.0 — is included in your purchase.
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06 Sep 2026Developer post
Hotfix 0.5.4-3 — UI Scaling, Strategy Fixes, Mid-Season Signings
Hotfix 0.5.4-3 Auto-Fit UI New: Auto-fit UI in Settings → Display (on by default). The whole game scales to your screen — menus, career apps, live race. This should fix most display and text overlap issues on high-resolution and Retina screens. Fixed: text overlapping at high zoo
Hotfix 0.5.4-3
Auto-Fit UI

New: Auto-fit UI in Settings → Display (on by default). The whole game scales to your screen — menus, career apps, live race. This should fix most display and text overlap issues on high-resolution and Retina screens.
Fixed: text overlapping at high zoom on R&D Improve/Inventory rows, Scouting status badges, and the Repair tab's DESTROYED tag.
Settings

Fixed: Simulation sliders reverted to their previous value after leaving Settings. They now stick, and a race started afterwards uses the values you just saved.
Mail

Fixed: the message list and the page no longer scroll together — wheel over the list scrolls the list, wheel over the preview scrolls the page.
Fixed: scrolling the list no longer changes the open mail.
Quick Sim

Fixed: session ranking cut off the bottom of a full field — it now scrolls. Driver names shortened to fit the column.
Career — Drivers & Sponsors

New: sign a free agent mid-season to fill an empty seat after firing a driver or with no reserve.
New: leave pre-season sponsor talks with an empty slot and your marketing department emails a one-year stopgap offer — three low-end brands to choose from.
Fixed: Next GP with an injured driver showed the wrong warning. Injured drivers now get their own warning first.
Changed: modest and midfield drivers now accept fair offers from low-budget PFS teams more readily — backmarker teams can actually fill their seats.
Career — Parts & Strategy

Fixed: old, now-illegal part designs could still be produced after a regulation change.
Fixed: new season started on the latest fitted spec instead of your pinned default.
Fixed: race strategy pit compound wasn't always honoured — picking hard/hard could run hard/soft. Your exact picks are now locked for the race.
Modding

Imposed mod packs now support up to 14 teams (was 12).
Thanks for the reports. The Auto-fit UI should address most of the display issues — if you're on a high-res screen, please let us know how it works for you.
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04 Sep 2026Developer post
Hotfix 0.5.4-2
Hotfix 0.5.4-2 Stability Fixed: the World Data screen could freeze and crash the game. Displays & Controls Fixed: mouse wheel scrolling jumped a whole block per notch on Windows and macOS. Fixed: clicking a scrollbar's arrows or thumb also triggered the button or row behind i
Hotfix 0.5.4-2
Stability

Fixed: the World Data screen could freeze and crash the game.
Displays & Controls

Fixed: mouse wheel scrolling jumped a whole block per notch on Windows and macOS.
Fixed: clicking a scrollbar's arrows or thumb also triggered the button or row behind it.
UI Scale and in-race HUD scale now go up to 300% and 400% for 4K/Retina displays.
Audio

Fixed: menu music, UI click sounds and tutorial voice stayed silent on some sound devices.
Career

Fixed: at the summer break, a condition where all engine / tyre / fuel suppliers could announce they were leaving at once.
Fixed: the GP-10 free weekend gave 3 driver offers for the whole weekend instead of 3 per turn. You now get a fresh set each turn with the remaining count shown.
Fixed: a driver under contract was labelled "Free Agent" in the Scouting → Missions list.
Thanks for the reports. Keep them coming.
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03 Sep 2026Developer post
Hotfix 0.5.4-1
Hotfix 0.5.4-1 Displays & Performance Fixed: fullscreen at a resolution smaller than your monitor could draw the track as a black rectangle under the HUD. Fullscreen now always renders at your screen's native resolution. To render at another resolution, use windowed mode. The
Hotfix 0.5.4-1
Displays & Performance

Fixed: fullscreen at a resolution smaller than your monitor could draw the track as a black rectangle under the HUD. Fullscreen now always renders at your screen's native resolution. To render at another resolution, use windowed mode.
The main menu background is now a static image instead of a live animated track — it was costing CPU on weaker machines.
Race Weekend

Fixed: a car rejoining from the pits could be counted as a collision with a car on the straight, often triggering a phantom safety car.
Rebalanced puncture events — they were happening too often. Stints are now planned with a margin so punctures come from racing variance, not from the strategy itself.
Career

Fixed: infrastructure spending was deducted the instant you pressed +, and raising then lowering a level refunded only half. Nothing leaves your budget now until you end the turn — adjust freely, undo costs nothing.
Thank you for the reports — keep them coming.
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03 Sep 2026Developer post
The Undercut Is Out — Early Access Starts Now
The Undercut Is Out — Early Access Starts Now It is 09:00 CEST on Wednesday, September 3. The Undercut is out. Early Access starts now, on Steam, at $14.99 with –12% for the first seven days. Early Access opens on build 0.5.4 — a bugix update addressing reports from the last week
The Undercut Is Out — Early Access Starts Now
It is 09:00 CEST on Wednesday, September 3. The Undercut is out. Early Access starts now, on Steam, at $14.99 with –12% for the first seven days.
Early Access opens on build 0.5.4 — a bugix update addressing reports from the last week of testing.
Thank you !
Most of 0.5.4 came from bug reports. Demo players, alpha players, testers running early builds on hardware and setups I do not have. Thank you.

That work happens on the Discord — bug reports, save files, balance discussion, modding.
⭐ 0.5.4 — What Shipped With Launch
Displays & Performance
High-refresh and high-resolution screens supported properly.
Resolution picker patched.
Fixed: crash on exit on Windows.
Race Weekend
Fixed: cars weaved through corners on hand-traced circuits.
Fixed: team logos in the timing tower showed scattered fragments.
Fixed: lap counter vanished behind pit-wall buttons at raised HUD scale.
Fixed: qualifying run plan didn't scroll with triggers.
Fixed: simulated practice reported incidents against the wrong driver.
Fixed: minimap position numbers drawn upside down in Quick Race.
Career & World
Driver market rebalanced.
Car performance reads the way it reads. The weakest factory no longer displays as zero, and development room follows the factory instead of contradicting it.
Sponsors shared across disciplines — a brand can back a single-seater, a touring car and a GT at once, from a catalogue roughly 40% larger.
Fixed: a sponsor secured at 100% could still be taken by an AI team.
Scouting produces three times the work units per level.
Prize money up 20%.
AI teams can no longer rebuild or shed facilities between two races. They invest at the rollover, like you.
Circuit pool is a choice: hand-curated layouts or the legacy procedural generator, for new careers.
Controller (Steam Deck)
Selection ring takes any stick or D-pad. It listened to the right stick alone — nothing could be selected on the Deck's default template.
Tabs step in drawn order, bumpers no longer reversed.
Weekend repair screen takes Start to continue; it had no binding at all.
Tutorial
Walkthrough opens on the pre-season instead of touring all twenty sidebar apps first.
New guides: Private Testing tab, end-of-turn note.
Fixed: weekend loadout and run-plan guides never appeared.
Sarah's voice re-recorded for every changed line, and seven that had never been recorded.
Modding & Languages
Fixed: dropping a mod pack in mods/ applied it to every new career, including unmodded ones.
English-only translation template for machine translation ships with the language editor.
🏁 This Is Early Access, and I Mean It
The game you are downloading is a full career manager: a race weekend from free practice to flag, eleven series racing in one world, ~400 drivers with hidden traits and real career arcs, R&D, sponsors, contracts, scouting, modding tools, six languages, gamepad and Steam Deck support.

It is also not finished, and I would rather say so on day one than have you discover it on day three. There is polish left in the UI, balance passes left in the economy, and rough edges you will find before I do.

How to help: use the in-game bug report, or bring it to the Discord. A save file attached to a report is worth ten descriptions.
🗺️ What Comes After Launch
Five headline updates, each roughly 30 to 45 days apart:
Weather & Setup — dynamic weather, rain, reworked setup system.
Era Update — tech tree from the early '90s onward, engine development overhaul.
Playable Touring Car Series — different cars, different budgets, different politics.
Playable GT Series — endurance thinking, multi-class traffic.
Multiplayer — manage against people instead of a simulation.
Every update is free for Early Access owners. Version 1.0 is the destination, not a separate purchase.
Lights Out
$14.99, –12% for the first seven days. Save compatibility from 0.5.3 forward is something I intend to protect.

Twenty devlogs, a demo and an alpha got the game to this line. It is the start of the season, not the end of it.

See you on the pit wall.

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01 Sep 2026Developer post
v0.5.3 — Build ready for Early Access. September 3, 09:00 UTC+2.
v0.5.3 — September 3, 09:00 UTC+2. Early Access opens in two days. Here's what's new. 11 Series. One World. Eight new championships join the simulation: CTC, CUP, CTM, SCTC, HGC, AGS, CGT, and LRC — touring cars, GT, and open-wheel across four continents. Each one drafts drivers
v0.5.3 — September 3, 09:00 UTC+2.
Early Access opens in two days. Here's what's new.
11 Series. One World.
Eight new championships join the simulation: CTC, CUP, CTM, SCTC, HGC, AGS, CGT, and LRC — touring cars, GT, and open-wheel across four continents. Each one drafts drivers from its own region, runs a full season, crowns champions, and feeds the news. One shared driver market across all of them.

The world has 500+ drivers, 70+ circuits, 11 series, and a permanent results archive that keeps every race classification and championship table for the life of your career.
Hand-Curated Circuits
70 hand-curated track layouts replace the procedural pool (The feature will still be available to enable as an option, procedurally generated tracks will be increasingly added to the pool in future updates) — each venue races a unique circuit. The Circuit Editor gets corner Radius/Angle sliders, a trace-fidelity slider, a full-sim lap Analyse report, and a working Test drive mode.
Injuries
Crashes now have consequences beyond car damage. Drivers can sustain injuries — concussion to broken leg — and miss 1 to 5 GPs. If your race driver is out, the reserve steps in. Doctor mails, red "Injured" chip on the driver panel, DNS unless you have cover.
Audio
New engine sound. The radio is rebuilt — a feedback button with driver acks on a tower-themed widget. Audio sliders apply live from the pause menu.
Race Planning
New race run plan screen — strategy chart drawn to scale with tyre life, lap time, pit laps, projected time, and a fuel bar with fixed "+N kg" refuel labels
Custom race strategy — build your own plan: stop count, tyre per stint, exact stop laps. The AI respects it. Quick Sim honours it.
Strategy plans are sized from YOUR measured practice wear and fuel — not theoretical numbers
Live timing tower is clickable — select any car from the tower
Practice run plan rebuilt — roomier cards, all pace options as toggles, icon pickers for Focus/Dev targets
Trait investigations grouped by kind with progress gauges — discovery 40% faster
Balance
Tyres, fuel, and economy have been rebalanced across the board. Engine cooling is a real lever now — overheating degrades progressively instead of bricking in one session. In-race malfunctions last 60-300 seconds instead of 20-90.
Bugs Worth Mentioning
Discovered sponsor deals vanished on reload, or were taken by background feeder teams.
An expired works partnership blocked its supplier forever.
The Academy picked the wrong junior.
The mule swap destroyed the mule — damage wrote onto the incoming car.
The R&D Inventory stayed in weekend mode after backing out of an unstarted weekend.
Bug reports shipped no log and the wrong config since 0.5.1.
The Linux demo crashed on Steam Deck at launch.
The engine changed voice when the asset database was rebuilt.
Crashes and punctures were flushed off the live event window by routine overtakes.
A Windows crash that could occur.
And a lot more.
September 3. 09:00 UTC+2.
$14.99 — 12% off the first week.

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23 Aug 2026Developer post
v0.5.2 — The Development Ladder, Weekend Loadout, and Pre-Season Testing
v0.5.2 — The Development Series, Weekend Loadout, and Pre-Season Testing 0.5.1 gave the calendar a world to live in. 0.5.2 gives the championship a ladder — and it lands eleven days before Early Access on September 3. ⭐ The PFS Development Series Two feeder series now run underne
v0.5.2 — The Development Series, Weekend Loadout, and Pre-Season Testing
0.5.1 gave the calendar a world to live in. 0.5.2 gives the championship a ladder — and it lands eleven days before Early Access on September 3.
⭐ The PFS Development Series
Two feeder series now run underneath the Prime Formula Series. They are not playable yet, but they are genuinely racing.

PF2 "Prime Formula Challenge" — the step below the championship. International, 18 and over, 12 teams of two drivers plus a reserve, 16 races, a spec V6.

PF3 "Formula Development Series" — where careers start. 16 to 18 years old, 10 teams, 12 races, a spec I4, no pit stops, every part frozen to one specification.

Each has its own qualifying format, tyre rules and points scale. They run alongside your season: results, standings, poles, retirements, tagged news. Champions are crowned at the rollover, seasons are written into driver palmarès, and every seat is refilled.

The world is shared, not parallel. A brand backing a feeder team is unavailable to PFS teams that season. Drivers carry ambitions by tier — a modest driver targets a feeder seat, so a PFS offer above his sights closes more easily.

Academy loans. A feeder team will occasionally ask to field one of your academy prospects for a season. Accepting seats him in the series, pays your academy a contribution every GP, and buys him real seat time — worth 5% faster development than anything the academy can simulate.
🧳 Weekend Loadout
The weekend now starts before the weekend.

A new screen opens ahead of practice: choose how many cars travel — two, or three with the mule — and which spares make the truck. Fitted parts travel with their cars; spares only if you take them.

The choice genuinely locks the weekend: no purchases, no sales until the race is done. A broken front wing is now a pit stop, not a retirement — provided you packed a spare.
🔬 Pre-Season Testing
The moment your cars are built and fitted, the team heads to a testing day on a circuit drawn from this year's calendar. It is a real free practice session — run plans, development programmes, trait discovery, genuine part damage — with no qualifying or race after it.

Your chief engineer briefs you before and reports after. The Development phase will not close until you have run it.
🏭 The Test Track
A new R&D tab holds a standing run plan for the development car, driven by your reserve on the team's own test circuit. It re-runs every Grand Prix weekend until you change it.

Laps accrue trait-discovery mileage, and Development runs raise a part's potential. It is not free — the programme reserves a share of the Engineering pool proportional to the kilometres you plan. One bar, one truth.
📏 Regulations & Records
Pluggable regulation packages — classic top-6 points (10-6-4-3-2-1) is now the default
107% qualifying rule is active — too slow and you don't start
Country pages with national halls of fame, motor manufacturers, and circuits
PFS hall of fame counts PFS results only — feeder championships no longer inflate senior records
Records survive retirement instead of vanishing with the driver
⚖️ Balance
Mistakes recalibrated on a real season-one save. Expect 2–5 crashes and 6–13 spins per race now, down from 8–10 crashes
Sponsor Income Spread slider — headline brands pay disproportionately more
Team renown finally matters — reputation feeds prestige, which drives driver acceptance, AI negotiation order and academy signings
Smarter AI money management — teams trim facilities before reaching crisis
🖥️ Interface
Timing tower redrawn — garnet position plate, team colours, pit-stop count column
Simulate screen rebuilt — status gutter, full names, gaps refresh per sector like a real timing screen
Contextual help — a book button in every app opens that screen's wiki page
Decision mails stay in your inbox showing what you chose
Next GP blocked if you have unanswered offers waiting
🐛 Fixed
Closing the window now saves the career — Alt+F4, title-bar X and Steam Exit no longer drop your progress
Loading a career could freeze and drive the machine out of memory
Weekend Loadout no longer skips the season's first GP and pre-season test
Seven screens showed a hardcoded year instead of reading the mod calendar
Academy loan income now appears in Finance with its own section
Improve tab advertised the wrong reliability cost — by a factor of four
Worn parts warn before they ruin a weekend
Stuck negotiations self-heal when a sponsor signs through another channel
Steam Deck: podium, ceremony and country screens fit the display
📝 Also New
A player wiki covering every career screen, app and tab — with real formulas, cross-linked — now reachable from inside the game at the-undercut.com/wiki.
September 3
Early Access opens at 9:00 CET, at $14.99 — with a –12% launch discount for the first seven days. Until then, the free demo tracks the latest build.

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22 Aug 2026Developer post
The Price and Early Access Roadmap
The Price, and Five Updates After Launch Thirteen days out from Early Access on September 3. Two things you've been asking for in one post: what it costs, and what happens after. 💰 The Price The Undercut goes into Early Access at $14.99 / €14.99 / £13.75 . For the first 7 days,
The Price, and Five Updates After Launch
Thirteen days out from Early Access on September 3. Two things you've been asking for in one post: what it costs, and what happens after.
💰 The Price
The Undercut goes into Early Access at $14.99 / €14.99 / £13.75.

For the first 7 days, there's a –12% launch discount:
🇺🇸 USD: $14.99 → $13.19
🇪🇺 EUR: €14.99 → €13.19
🇬🇧 GBP: £13.75 → £12.10
🇨🇦 CAD: CA$17.99 → CA$15.83
🇦🇺 AUD: A$20.95 → A$18.44
🇧🇷 BRL: R$53.49 → R$47.07
🇯🇵 JPY: ¥1,900 → ¥1,672
🇵🇱 PLN: 62.99 zł → 55.43 zł
Regional pricing for LATAM, MENA, CIS and South Asia sits at ~$8.55 (~$7.52 during launch week). Steam shows the exact rounded figure for your store.
Why Buy in Early Access
At 1.0, the price is expected to be around $20.

That's not a trick to rush you. It's the honest consequence of the roadmap below: weather, a tech tree, two extra playable series and multiplayer are a lot of game to add, and the finished thing will be worth more than the thing you can play on September 3.

The part that matters: you pay once. Buy at $13.19 during launch week and every update on this page — all five of them, plus everything unannounced — arrives at no extra cost. The Early Access price is the lowest this game will ever be.
🗺️ The Roadmap After Launch
Five headline updates. Each one scoped at 30 to 45 days of work — with patches, fixes and smaller features landing between them.
1 — Weather & Setup
Dynamic weather, including rain, and a new setup system to answer it.

This is first for a reason: rain is the single biggest source of chaos in racing, and right now the game doesn't have it. A drying line, a call to pit for slicks two laps too early, a driver whose wet-weather head is better than his dry-weather pace — none of that exists until the sky does. The setup rework lands alongside it because a car you can't rebalance for changing grip is a car that just loses.
2 — Era Update, Tech Tree & Engine Development Overhaul
Research that actually buys you an edge, and a tech tree that unlocks eras — from the early '90s through to the modern day, and past it.

Your R&D department stops being a parts factory and starts being a bet on where the sport is going. Chase a technology early and you carry the cost while your rivals bank the money; get it right and you carry an advantage nobody can copy for two seasons.
3 — Playable Touring Car Series
Tin-tops. Different cars, different budgets, different politics — a full playable series rather than a skin over the existing one.
4 — Playable GT Series
Same idea, different discipline and a manager's job that looks nothing like a single-seater season.
5 — Multiplayer
The one that gets asked for most. Managing against a person instead of a simulation.

It's last on the list because it's the feature that most punishes being built early — every system above changes what a multiplayer season even means, and shipping it before they land would mean shipping it twice.
🔁 And Everything In Between
The five updates above are the headlines, not the whole schedule. Between them: continuous improvement, bug fixes, quality-of-life work, and features that come straight from player feedback.

That last one isn't a platitude. The demo has already rewritten parts of this game — the practice system, the driver market flow, and a long list of smaller things exist in their current form because someone said so on Discord. Early Access turns that dial up.

More surprises along the way, too. Not everything on the plan is on this page.
📅 The Dates That Matter
September 3, 2026 — Early Access launch, $14.99
September 3–10 — launch discount, –12% (≈ $13.19)
At 1.0 — expected around $20
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See you on the pit wall on September 3. 🏁
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09 Aug 2026Developer post
v0.5.1 — Race calendar improvements and bug fixes
v0.5.1 — The "Everything Should Actually Work" Patch The last patch before Early Access on September 3. No new systems — just making sure the ones you have don't lie to you, crash on you, or quietly charge the wrong car for someone else's damage. Race Calendar — Circuits Have Con
v0.5.1 — The "Everything Should Actually Work" Patch
The last patch before Early Access on September 3. No new systems — just making sure the ones you have don't lie to you, crash on you, or quietly charge the wrong car for someone else's damage.
Race Calendar — Circuits Have Contracts
The calendar is no longer a static list. Circuits now belong to a pool and hold contracts with the series — they join, they renew, they expire. A track that loses its deal drops off the calendar. A new venue with the right economics and media interest takes its slot. Your season-to-season calendar shifts the way real motorsport calendars do. Careers started before 0.5.1 gain the circuit pool and series contracts on load — nothing lost, everything additive.
Spins ≠ Crashes
Spinning into a wall used to run the full crash damage pipeline. A spin's wall brush now only damages parts on a rare roll. The dent, the lost position, the tyre wear and the shaken confidence still land — but your car no longer needs a full rebuild because a rear tyre stepped out at turn 4. Crashes keep their full consequences. A lost wheel now correctly reads as heavy suspension damage instead of a three-wheeled car with pristine parts and no explanation.
Your Saves Live Where They Belong
Careers, replays, screenshots and settings now sit in each platform's standard user directory — %APPDATA% on Windows, ~/Library on Mac, $XDG_DATA_HOME on Linux. This means Steam Cloud can sync them properly, and a reinstall won't silently delete your 40-hour career. Existing installs migrate automatically on first launch. Drop a portable.txt next to the executable if you prefer everything in the game folder.
Steam Deck — Actually Playable
A dozen screens had no controller bindings for what they actually do. Now they do:
Infrastructure: right stick to browse departments, triggers to buy and sell
Start button ends the turn from any app
Country filter opens the on-screen keyboard with Select
Sponsor rows no longer open negotiations just because you scrolled past them
Every binding is stamped on its button and echoed in the hint bar from a single source — they cannot drift apart
The Bug List
These are the kind of bugs that make you question your own strategy — because the game was quietly doing something else entirely.
A wrecked car kept racing. A stranded car raised the safety car while the standings still showed it running. Fixed — a wreck is a wreck.
Your #2 driver destroyed his brakes every weekend. He was running an AI team's practice programme. A reserve driver on the roster shifted the plan assignment list by one — your car got a 26-lap AI push programme instead of your 14-lap plan. That 1.9× distance ratio explains the 8.6% brake health.
The fuel slider did nothing. The run plan showed one fuel figure, then silently handed the race a different one. Fixed — what the slider shows is what the car carries.
Leaving a GP and coming back changed the race distance. 45 laps instead of 29 on a long circuit. Fixed.
Quitting always crashed. Closing the window ran no shutdown code — a save still being written was lost, and the process died of a segfault. Fixed — clean shutdown, reliable save.
Damage charged to the wrong car. Four places in the code determined which car a driver was in, and they disagreed when a reserve was on the roster. A driver is now bound to a car.
The driver offer popup gave away scouted stats for free. True stats instead of your estimates — on the one screen where that information costs money. Estimates now.
A missing config key could silently switch your engine. Older installs fell back to a legacy renderer with invisible mesh deformation and silent wheel loss. Fixed with tests that pin the shipped experience.
Mid-season drivers scored nothing. A promoted reserve or mid-season signing showed 0 wins / 0 podiums in the standings. The season log now grows to fit whoever takes a start.
Academy quoted the wrong price. 500k advertised for a department that charges 4M.
Pre-season development exploit closed.
Also
"Body" is now "Bodywork" — what this part models is sidepods, engine cover, coke-bottle — not the monocoque
Settings and PFS Series have their own icons instead of borrowing someone else's
Existing careers keep working — every change is additive
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03 Aug 2026Developer post
Early Access Launches September 3 — and Here's Update 0.5.0
Early Access Launches September 3 — and Here's Update 0.5.0 After two years of solo development, a closed alpha and a free demo, The Undercut: Racing Manager enters Steam Early Access on Wednesday 3 September 2026 at 9:00 CET . The build heading there is 0.5.0 — Partners & Ri
Early Access Launches September 3 — and Here's Update 0.5.0
After two years of solo development, a closed alpha and a free demo, The Undercut: Racing Manager enters Steam Early Access on Wednesday 3 September 2026 at 9:00 CET.

The build heading there is 0.5.0 — Partners & Rivals — the biggest update the game has ever had. The free demo is updated with the same build right now.
📅 Mark the Date
Release: Wednesday 3 September 2026
Time: 9:00 CET (Paris / Berlin)
Where: Steam — Windows, Linux, Mac, Steam Deck
Wishlist now — a wishlist is what tells Steam to email you the moment the game goes live.
⭐ What's New in 0.5.0 — Partners & Rivals
Partners With Expectations
Signing a deal used to be the end of the story. Now it's the beginning.
Sponsor money is partly variable — every race pays out according to that sponsor's satisfaction
Every sponsor and supplier sets a per-race target scaled to the brand's stature. Beat it and happiness climbs. Miss it and it drops.
How a contract ends matters. A happy brand gives you a head start on renewal. An angry one refuses to talk for 1–5 seasons.
Account management — park marketing work units on any partner to absorb bad-weekend dissatisfaction or court unsigned brands for a head start
R&D Overdrive
Parts whose potential reaches past 100 performance points can now be developed there. The blue band (100–150) costs double. The purple band (150+) costs quadruple. AI teams follow their financial personality — aggressive managers pay the premium, conservative ones never do.
Free Practice, Run Your Way
The Start Stint overlay lists runs from your plan — pick one, tweak tyres, fuel, laps and engine map. Programs pay off now: Quali and Race sims sharpen pace, and Dev Program runs add development potential to a part of your choice.
Top Speed Is Earned
Each car's ceiling now derives from its engine horsepower and chassis development — roughly 320 km/h in season 1, climbing toward 372 km/h as the grid develops.
🛠️ Modding Tools — In the Main Menu
Two experimental editors ship with Early Access:
Circuit Editor — freehand-draw a track or trace it from an image, place markers, preview with the real race renderer, save as a mod circuit
Mod Editor — replace or extend teams, drivers, sponsors, suppliers, define a full calendar from your own circuits, or create an Imposed scenario where the player takes over an existing team at race 1
Both are full-game only — they ship in Early Access precisely because they need your feedback.
🌍 Full Localization
Complete translations in French, German, Spanish, Italian and Brazilian Portuguese — hot language switching, translated commentary and emails. Plus community language packs: drop a translation file into mods/lang/ and it shows up in Settings.
🎮 Gamepad & Steam Deck
Menus, career UI and modals are fully playable on a pad — stick navigation, A/B confirm and cancel, shoulder-button tabs, on-screen keyboard. The Steam Deck launch crash is fixed.
AI With Intentions
Rivals follow individual commercial doctrines — different sponsor targets, partnership-vs-client choices
AI teams manage money through pluggable financial models — downgrades, equity sales and loans
AI rivals actually develop again, funded from their real R&D capacity
Supplier brands can withdraw, return or newly enter the series between seasons
🐛 The Big Fix
The GPU memory leak is dead. Logo baking leaked ~2 MB per logo — 5.6 GB over a 73-minute session, enough to bring a machine down. Fixed at the render-engine root with an always-on watchdog. Plus: async saves (no more 10–20s Windows freeze), pit stop replays, correct Safety Car behaviour, and dozens more.
What Early Access Means Here
The core game is finished and already good for dozens of hours: a full career, physics-driven races, procedural circuits, a living economy of sponsors and suppliers. Early Access exists so the rest gets built with the people playing it — the roadmap after launch is shaped by what the community actually runs into.

It is not a paid beta of an empty shell. It's a complete career sim that intends to keep growing.
Try It Now
The free demo is updated with the 0.5.0 build. If you've been waiting for the right moment to try The Undercut, this is it.

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20 Jul 2026Developer post
v0.4.1 — The Commercial Game: Negotiations & Engine Architectures
v0.4.1 — The Commercial Game: Negotiations, Engine Architectures & a World of Manufacturers 0.4.0 made the driver market a real system. 0.4.1 does the same for the commercial side. Signing sponsors and suppliers is no longer a menu of instant offers — it's a negotiation campa
v0.4.1 — The Commercial Game: Negotiations, Engine Architectures & a World of Manufacturers
0.4.0 made the driver market a real system. 0.4.1 does the same for the commercial side. Signing sponsors and suppliers is no longer a menu of instant offers — it's a negotiation campaign you run against the whole grid, on a budget, against the clock.
⭐ Sponsor & Supplier Negotiation — Completely Reworked
The old Sponsors and Suppliers apps are gone. Replaced by a single Marketing app with a unified workflow.

Negotiation is a campaign. Pick a target, commit work units, watch it progress. Mission size scales with the partner — a small department can still land a big name if fully focused. Reallocate or stop any mission at any time.
Everyone is racing you. AI teams run missions on the same sponsors and suppliers. When a rival targets your deal, their logo appears on your mission card and you get a heads-up email. Out-spend them or fall back to a safe deal.
Completing a negotiation earns the offer — not the deal. Only your signature locks it in. Until you sign, a rival who finishes their own negotiation can steal it. Unsigned deals expire when the window closes.
Contracts now have length (1–5 seasons). Rush a deal and you get one season. See it through and they offer their best terms.
🏭 Suppliers: Partnership or Client?
Every supplier deal is a real strategic choice.

Works Partnership — the supplier pays YOU every GP, grants +2 reputation and +5 work-order WU per turn. But only one team can hold it. Race the grid for exclusivity.
Client Contract — always available, signs instantly. Your negotiation progress buys up to 20% off the client price. The fallback that keeps you competitive.
🔧 Engines Have Architecture
Every Prime Formula Series engine now runs a real V8, V10 or V12 at 3.5L — shown on a spec sheet, not abstract bars.

V8 — 500 hp, 13,000 rpm. Cheapest, most reliable, frugal, light — but less driveable.
V10 — 550 hp, 13,500 rpm. The balanced benchmark.
V12 — 580 hp, 14,000 rpm. Most power and driveability — thirsty, hot, heavy, fragile, expensive.
Horsepower drives the car directly: base × displacement × condition, feeding into the speed model. Fuel burn, heat damage, wear, driveability — it all reads the architecture you chose. Pick your motorist carefully.
🌍 A World of Manufacturers
Every career generates ~35 major road-car manufacturers with a 1990-flavoured country spread — Luxury, Sport, and Mass Market categories, each with a favoured engine architecture.
Browse them in World Data → Manufacturers. Click any for a full profile: identity, PFS record, current teams, prestige, valuation, and a sector prestige breakdown. Tyre suppliers get their own profile page too.
🎨 Updated Car & Suits Model
The car model and driver suits have been updated. The colour picker is fixed and players can now select the live 2D race livery directly.
🐛 Notable Fixes

GPU memory leak fixed — World Data's Fame tab warmed helmet textures for all ~400 drivers in a single frame, enough to hang the system. Now only renders visible rows.
Cars with destroyed parts can no longer start qualifying — repair or replace before quali.
"Fix a problem" no longer offers fixes on last year's obsolete designs.
News headlines wrap properly instead of spilling out of their card.
Rival car upgrades and commercial deals now appear in the news feed.
Scouting duplicate missions fixed.
Engine sound +15%, consistent across all sessions.
Main menu circuit loads from hand-vetted seeds — faster startup.
Try It
The demo is updated with everything above. If you want to experience the full negotiation system and engine architecture choices, now's the time.
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13 Jul 2026Developer post
Update 0.4.0 — Scouting, Driver Traits, Driver Academy & a Talking Tutorial
Update 0.4.0 — Scouting, Driver Traits, Driver Academy & a Talking Tutorial The biggest update since The Undercut began. The driver market is now a real game system. Money management matters. Every driver, team and circuit has a profile page. And the entire game is voice-guid
Update 0.4.0 — Scouting, Driver Traits, Driver Academy & a Talking Tutorial
The biggest update since The Undercut began. The driver market is now a real game system. Money management matters. Every driver, team and circuit has a profile page. And the entire game is voice-guided for new players.
The free demo is updated with everything below.
⭐ Driver Scouting — The Headline
Driver stats are no longer public. Everyone starts partially hidden.

New Scouting department — your 8th infrastructure. Its level sets your scouting capacity per GP.
The Drivers app is now the Scouting Center: reveal-as-you-scout columns, favorites, contract-aware badges, and salary estimates that sharpen as your knowledge grows.
Missions tab — track your running observations, reallocate or stop them, and review your scouting history.
What you learn is never unlearned — and AI teams scout too, feeding the paddock rumour mill all season.
Scout before you sign. A cheap driver with red traits is no bargain.
🎭 Driver Traits
Drivers now carry hidden personality and skill traits — late brakers, tyre whisperers, hot heads, prodigies, toxic teammates. Each trait has real effects:

On-track: braking, cornering, tyre wear, pressure resistance, mistakes
Off-track: fame, teammate morale, team chemistry
Traits range from negative (yellow → red) to positive (green → blue → purple)
🎓 Driver Academy
Build the new Driver Academy — your 9th infrastructure department. Grow your own talent:

Junior slots (16–18) and development slots (18–21)
Prospects develop like signed drivers and can be promoted to your race team cheaply
👤 Profile Pages for Everything

Driver Profile — identity, scouting-gated attributes, traits, contract, full career record
Team Profile — honours, prestige, infrastructure, car ranking, sponsors, suppliers, per-season history
Circuit Profile — track map, key facts, race history, lap record, contracts
Every name in the game is clickable — from News, Standings, Calendar, Mail, anywhere
🎙️ A Tutorial That Talks

Completely reworked onboarding with step-by-step guided phases
Full voice-over — every tutorial card is read aloud
Win95 hover tooltips everywhere — every stat, column, badge and bar explains itself on mouse-over
💰 Economy & AI Overhaul

Team value, equity sales & bank loans — sell shares to survive (game over below 50% ownership) or take a bank loan
AI teams run balanced / aggressive / conservative financial models — they save when struggling, sign pay drivers when broke, downgrade facilities in a crisis
TV broadcast rights paid each pre-season
Championship prize pool doubled
Team bankruptcies announced in the News
📝 Contracts & Market

Contracts honoured to term — no more silent early departures
Driver ambition and objectives — missing them costs happiness and can push a star to the exit
Mid-season signing window at GP 10
Driver retirements keep the talent pool fresh across seasons
🔧 Car & R&D

Car and R&D merged into one app — cleaner workflow
Design projects sized freely with a continuous slider
Production tab — manufacture parts from blueprints, rush for +50%
Regulation pressure — miss a mandatory redesign and you start on rushed "Poor" parts
📰 News App
A proper media dashboard: clickable headlines with team logos, latest results, in-focus stories, and paddock rumours. The sport feels alive around you.
🛠️ Performance

Fixed a massive GPU memory leak
Saves no longer freeze the game (async save — fixes the 10–20s Windows hitch)
Windows: resizable window from launch
Try It
This is the version we've been building toward. The demo is updated — if you tried it before and wanted more depth, this is the build to come back to.
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29 Jun 2026Developer post
v0.3.3 — R&D Pipeline Rework, Living Race Sim, and a UI That Finally Scales
v0.3.3 — R&D Pipeline Rework, Living Race Sim, and a UI That Finally Scales A large depth-and-polish pass built from player feedback. R&D is reworked, races feel more believable, the inbox is richer, and the UI finally scales properly. R&D & Car Development — The
v0.3.3 — R&D Pipeline Rework, Living Race Sim, and a UI That Finally Scales
A large depth-and-polish pass built from player feedback. R&D is reworked, races feel more believable, the inbox is richer, and the UI finally scales properly.
R&D & Car Development — The Headline
The entire R&D pipeline has been reworked.

Improving a fitted part now upgrades its design. Manufacture a new copy and it keeps the performance you paid for — parts no longer come out at base spec. Existing saves self-heal on load.
Smarter trait fixes. Fixing one trait no longer wipes your knowledge of other traits on the part. Solved problems stop lingering in the "Fix a problem" list.
Design uses a continuous slider instead of fixed tiers, with Improve-style performance/expected columns.
Next-season planning overhauled. Every part is now designable, N+1 projects draw from the shared R&D pool, and finished designs send a "part ready for next season" email instead of sitting at 100% forever.
Supplier engines carry over between seasons — they only re-spec when regulations force it.
Reworked screens across the board: cleaner framing, three-zone gauges, bigger car preview, dedicated Work-Order glyphs.
If R&D felt fiddly before, this is the build to come back to.
In-Race Simulation — More Believable

Dynamic malfunctions. Transient mechanical and tyre problems can now appear mid-race — not just terminal DNFs — each with its own event, team-radio call and replay marker.
Spin epidemic fixed. Races no longer descend into a pile of spins. Mistakes and crashes are rebalanced to feel earned. Minor lock-ups and wheelspins no longer spam the commentary.
PFS Mail — Richer, Clearer

Rich email cards. "New design ready", "Part delivered", "Driver Development Report", and trait-redesign emails now show proper spec/part/driver/circuit cards with before→after comparisons and jump-to buttons — instead of plain text.
New "Important" folder with red flags on action-required mail.
No more duplicate "something feels off" trait-suspicion emails.
UI Scale — It Finally Scales
The most requested feature since Next Fest.

UI Scale control in Settings → Display. Plus speed (km/h ↔ mph) and temperature unit toggles.
Everything scrolls. Career apps scroll vertically when content overflows. Scrollbars only appear when needed.
Drivers app rebuilt — scales at every UI size, click anywhere on a row to select, sortable columns, Browse tab restyled with per-row magnifier.
Tutorials revamped — detailed per-tab R&D walkthrough, a "?" button on every app, steps that point at the live element instead of a text wall.
Streamers and Steam Deck players — this one's for you.
Quality of Life

End-of-season "Next Season" button with confirmation popup
Pre-season auto-skip is now opt-in (off by default)
Email available again during pre-season
Race Calendar shows break weekends with bigger rows
Engine audio volume properly fixed
New in-game Bug Report app — report issues without leaving the game
Try It
The demo is updated with everything above.
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19 Jun 2026Developer post
v0.3.2 — Audio Overhaul, R&D Redesign, and a Big Polish Pass
v0.3.2 — Audio Overhaul, R&D Redesign, and a Big Polish Pass A patch built almost entirely from player feedback during Next Fest. No new systems — just making the existing ones work the way they should. Audio — Finally Usable The engine volume slider was broken — the usable r
v0.3.2 — Audio Overhaul, R&D Redesign, and a Big Polish Pass
A patch built almost entirely from player feedback during Next Fest. No new systems — just making the existing ones work the way they should.
Audio — Finally Usable
The engine volume slider was broken — the usable range was crammed into the bottom 4%. It's been completely rescaled. Music volume actually works now. The frozen buzzing sound on pause is gone. No more loud engine burst at race start. Menu music waits until loading is finished.
If you muted the game because of audio issues, give it another chance.
R&D & Parts — Designs Are Now the Source of Truth
The parts pipeline has been reworked. When you improve a part, the design updates — so every future production run and emergency replacement uses your latest spec. No more random off-spec parts when you need a replacement mid-season.

New "Default Design" chooser — pick exactly which version gets produced
Emergency replacements now reproduce your actual design (quality + traits)
Green DEFAULT badge and version flags make inventory readable at a glance
Positive part tiers are colour-coded: Good (green), Very Good (blue), Perfect (purple)
AI teams follow the same design rules as the player
Practice & Qualifying — Clearer, Cleaner

Pitting in practice/qualifying now simply ends your stint — no more confusing "race strategy" pop-up
Purple/green sector colours fixed — first flying lap correctly shows purple, and two cars can no longer both hold purple
Free Practice is properly labelled across the HUD
Per-driver observations and discovered car traits shown in run plans
Quality of Life

Windowed mode no longer crops the bottom of the screen on Windows
+$20M starting budget on every tier to ease early-season car builds
Prize money increased by 35%
Simulate mode now matches live race overtaking patterns
Per-car fuel estimation in simulated races
Tutorial soft-lock fixed — skip tutorial now actually skips everything
Stability

Fixed crash entering team presentation in season 2+
Sponsor logos no longer render as black squares
Released drivers no longer ghost or duplicate in the Drivers app
Steam Next Fest — Last Days
The demo is updated with all of the above. If you tried it earlier this week and hit audio issues or a crash — it's fixed. Give it another go.
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17 Jun 2026Developer post
v0.3.1 — Quick Race Mode + Hotfixes
v0.3.1 — Quick Race Mode + Hotfixes A small but important update during Next Fest. New: Quick Race Want to see the race engine in action without the management layer? Quick Race drops you straight into a live 2D race on a procedurally generated circuit. Pick your team, choose you
v0.3.1 — Quick Race Mode + Hotfixes
A small but important update during Next Fest.
New: Quick Race
Want to see the race engine in action without the management layer? Quick Race drops you straight into a live 2D race on a procedurally generated circuit.
Pick your team, choose your tyres, and hit the grid. Physics-driven dirty air, drafting, tyre temperature, and mechanical failures — all in a single session.
Perfect if you want a taste of what makes The Undercut's race engine tick before diving into Career mode.
Fixes

Fixed a crash when entering the team presentation at the start of season 2+
Fixed black squares appearing for arrows, checkmarks, and sponsor logos on some GPUs
Fixed a black asset flash at the end of race loading
Fixed Free Practice HUD being mislabelled as "Qualifying"
Fixed the Run Plan back button not working correctly
Thanks to everyone reporting bugs during Next Fest — keep them coming.
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15 Jun 2026Developer post
Alpha 0.3 — Car Traits, Part Rolls, Live Replay, and Playable Free Practice
Alpha 0.3 — Car Traits, Part Rolls, Live Replay, and Playable Free Practice The biggest update yet — and the version powering our Steam Next Fest demo starting June 15 . This update overhauls how cars work, how parts behave, and how you experience race weekends. Every system here
03 Jun 2026Developer post
The Demo Is Live — Play Now for Free
The Demo Is Live — Play Now for Free You can download and play The Undercut: Racing Manager right now. For free. 👉 Download the Demo What's in the Demo A trimmed pre-season phase — make real management decisions: hiring, contracts, early development calls A full race weekend — p
The Demo Is Live — Play Now for Free
You can download and play The Undercut: Racing Manager right now. For free.

👉 Download the Demo
What's in the Demo
A trimmed pre-season phase — make real management decisions: hiring, contracts, early development calls
A full race weekend — practice, qualifying, and race day with pit strategy, tyre management, and real-time tactical calls
Physics-driven 2D race engine — dirty air, drafting, tyre temperature, engine failures. Every race is unscripted.
Procedurally generated circuit — unique track layout every time
Dynamic time-of-day lighting — the sun moves, shadows shift, the track changes mood
Steam Neo Fest — June 15-22
The demo is available right now, ahead of Steam Neo Fest. When the festival begins on June 15, it will be featured alongside hundreds of other upcoming games.

Play it now and get a head start.
Your Feedback Matters
This is a solo-developed game in active development. Every bug report, every suggestion, every "this confused me" — it all shapes the final game.

Join our Discord to share your feedback directly.

Wishlist the full game to get notified when Early Access launches.

See you on the grid. 🏁
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02 Jun 2026Developer post
Alpha 0.2.7 — Dynamic Lighting, Procedural Liveries, and a Living Paddock
Alpha 0.2.7 — Dynamic Time-of-Day Lighting, Procedural Liveries, and a Living Paddock The most visual update so far — and the last major one before our Steam Neo Fest demo. A Sun in the Sky The track used to be lit flat. Now there's a real sun. A full time-of-day system drives a
Alpha 0.2.7 — Dynamic Time-of-Day Lighting, Procedural Liveries, and a Living Paddock
The most visual update so far — and the last major one before our Steam Neo Fest demo.
A Sun in the Sky
The track used to be lit flat. Now there's a real sun.

A full time-of-day system drives a sun direction and global tint curve — cool dawn, neutral noon, golden afternoon, orange dusk. Everything on track reacts to it:
Cars get dynamic body shading and metallic specular highlights that rotate as the car turns through corners
Tyre walls, grandstands, and trees are shaded the same way — canopies brighten toward the sun, shadows stretch and rotate with the time of day
The asphalt gets procedural normal-map micro-relief — surface bumps catch the light, crevices darken
Warm racing-line strips, soft edge shadows, and a 1-pixel relief shadow under the white border lines
Morning races feel different from sunset races. Not just in the data — in the way the track looks.
Procedural Liveries — Baked Into the Race
Cars are no longer single-colour shapes. Every car's texture is now baked from a procedural livery — multi-zone designs with fills, stripes, diagonals, and rectangles painted in each team's colours.
In Career, liveries are deterministic — your team's look stays consistent across seasons
Every car on the grid looks distinct. No more guessing who's who by colour alone.
The Paddock Comes Alive
The area behind the pits finally feels like a real race weekend:
Per-team transport trucks parked behind the pit lane, tinted with each team's primary colour
Paddock perimeter walls — concrete and Armco wrapping the area
A start-lights gantry over the start/finish line — cars pass under it with a sun-tracked drop shadow
Grass shade variation — the flat green is gone, replaced by a natural three-shade palette
Helmets You Can Tell Apart
Every car's top-down helmet is now recoloured to match the driver's real helmet hue. No more identical yellow dots from above.
Gameplay Fixes
Straight from closed-test reports:
Bankrupt AI teams no longer ghost-race the next season
Lapped cars are now classified in correct track order
Cars can no longer overtake under Safety Car
Free Practice now honours your tyre plan
Podium and team suits match your chosen colours
Qualifying mini-sector bar colours correctly on first flying lap
Audio settings now actually save between sessions
Dozens more fixes from the closed-test crew
Steam Next Fest — June 15-22
This is the version the demo is built on. In less than two weeks, you'll be able to play The Undercut for free.

All of the above — dynamic lighting, procedural liveries, the living paddock — will be in the demo.

Wishlist now to get notified when the demo drops

Full technical breakdown: Read the complete devlog

Thanks to our closed-test crew — every fix above started as one of your reports. Join the Discord if you want in on the next wave.

See you on the grid in June. 🏁
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21 May 2026Developer post
Alpha 0.2.6 — Opening Ceremony, Race Debrief, and a Big Polish Pass
Alpha 0.2.6 — Opening Ceremony, Race Debrief, and a Big Polish Pass 0.2.6 just landed on the closed-test channel. This update was built largely around real tester feedback — and it's a big one. What's New FIA-style Opening Ceremony Before the first GP, a full-screen opening seque
Alpha 0.2.6 — Opening Ceremony, Race Debrief, and a Big Polish Pass
0.2.6 just landed on the closed-test channel. This update was built largely around real tester feedback — and it's a big one.
What's New
FIA-style Opening Ceremony
Before the first GP, a full-screen opening sequence presents every team — worst to best, all the way up to the reigning champion. Driver line-ups, suppliers, sponsors, media predictions — all laid out like a real pre-season broadcast.
Race Debrief — Rebuilt From Scratch
The post-race screen is completely new. Clean standings with helmets and flags, partner reactions with happiness bars, and three new panels:
Race Stats — overtakes, mistakes, DNFs, safety cars
Driver of the Day — auto-picked from positions gained and overtakes
TV Rating — 0 to 5 stars, from "Dull" to "Instant Classic"
Simulate Race / Simulate Quali
Don't want to watch every session? New buttons let the AI run your strategy at 254× speed. Perfect for pure management mode.
A Calendar That Breathes
The hardcoded track pool is gone. The calendar now draws from a GDP-weighted city database — larger economies host more rounds, each city generates a unique procedural circuit. No two seasons look alike.
Player / AI Symmetry Fix
A tester found that the AI had hidden advantages the player didn't: free engine replacements and weekend-reset parts. Both are gone. The AI now plays by the same rules as you.

Engine thermal targets were also retuned — races now finish with a realistic number of classified cars instead of mass mechanical failures.
New Balance Sliders
Two new career sliders let you tune the experience:
R&D Dev Rate — controls how fast parts improve (0.25× to 5.0×)
Perf→Fiab Cost — controls how much reliability you sacrifice for speed
Main Fixes :
AZERTY / QWERTZ keyboard support fixed
Safety Car no longer stays out forever in Simulate Race
Drivers, Sponsors, and Suppliers panels rebuilt with a consistent visual language
Market activity feeds: see every signing and deal across the grid
Race debug dumps for easier bug reporting
Dozens of crash fixes and UI polish from closed-test reports
Steam Next Fest — June 15-22
A playable demo is coming in less than a month. If you haven't yet:

Wishlist The Undercut on Steam

Full patch notes and technical details: Read the full devlog

Thanks to our closed-test crew — antonio.m8729, xplicit57, and Kido — for the reports that shaped this update. If you want to join the closed beta, hop into our Discord.

See you on the grid. 🏁
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Updates & announcements

Hotfix 0.5.4-4 — Steam Workshop Is Live

Steam Workshop — Now Live

Modding Tools

Stability

Career

Interface

Presentation

Launch Discount Ends Tomorrow — and 0.5.5 Is the Next Big Update

Thank You

🔧 0.5.4 — Still Being Patched

🏗️ 0.5.5 — The Next Big Update

Custom Career

Department Automation

Spectator Mode

AI Rebalance

UI Pass

🗺️ The Road After 0.5.5

Lights Out

Hotfix 0.5.4-3

Auto-Fit UI

Settings

Mail

Quick Sim

Career — Drivers & Sponsors

Career — Parts & Strategy

Modding

Hotfix 0.5.4-2

Stability

Displays & Controls

Audio

Career

Hotfix 0.5.4-1

Displays & Performance

Race Weekend

Career

The Undercut Is Out — Early Access Starts Now

Thank you !

⭐ 0.5.4 — What Shipped With Launch

Displays & Performance

Race Weekend

Career & World

Controller (Steam Deck)

Tutorial

Modding & Languages

🏁 This Is Early Access, and I Mean It

🗺️ What Comes After Launch

Lights Out

v0.5.3 — September 3, 09:00 UTC+2.

11 Series. One World.

Hand-Curated Circuits

Injuries

Audio

Race Planning

Balance

Bugs Worth Mentioning

September 3. 09:00 UTC+2.

v0.5.2 — The Development Series, Weekend Loadout, and Pre-Season Testing

⭐ The PFS Development Series

🧳 Weekend Loadout

🔬 Pre-Season Testing

🏭 The Test Track

📏 Regulations & Records

⚖️ Balance

🖥️ Interface

🐛 Fixed

📝 Also New

September 3

The Price, and Five Updates After Launch

💰 The Price

Why Buy in Early Access

🗺️ The Roadmap After Launch

1 — Weather & Setup

2 — Era Update, Tech Tree & Engine Development Overhaul

3 — Playable Touring Car Series

4 — Playable GT Series

5 — Multiplayer

🔁 And Everything In Between

📅 The Dates That Matter

v0.5.1 — The "Everything Should Actually Work" Patch