Hi everyone! Thanks for the patience, and sorry for the long silence.

I've got some good news!

I'm rebuilding Night Run as Night Run EX (that's why the page name changed). The game was originally set up as free to play and that might still show up in Steam. The new version of the game will be a paid download, I'll announce price closer to release but it won't be super high.

The build that was in the playtest was from 2023 and doesn't reflect it: EX runs on a new rendering pipeline (Unity URP), holds 60 fps with the loading hitches gone, is being tuned for Steam Deck, and will add traffic and improved asynchronous multiplayer via leaderboard competition and ghost racing. Race yourself! Race your friends (or rivals)! It's gonna be cool.

The previous game included AI generated images on the in-game billboards. At the time AI image generation was brand new and I felt it fit the futuristic theme of the game. The big backlash hadn't started. In the years that have followed, players have made it clear that they do NOT like seeing AI art in games and so for the revised version I've removed it all and replaced it with abstract code based art by me and non-AI art by some of my friends.

No more AI images are in Night Run EX. All the music was already human-made (much of it by me!) so that wasn't an issue.

The plan is a new public demo in coming months, then release in 2027. I'll post dates here very soon. The original version of Night Run will stay free on Epic but not get these updates.

If you hit a broken seed or a performance wall in the old playtest build, sorry about that, that build and playtest is being retired.

Thanks for sticking around.

-- Matto