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