Never has a racing or driving game appear so… bewitching. The debut title for indie developer Electric Saint is called Crescent County and you’d never guessed at first glance it’s actually a driving and a racing game. Yeah, both.
In this “witch-tech” open world, you’ll be doing deliveries by day and go racing at night on your customisable motorbroom. And those aren’t some random racers you race against, they’re your new friends, which you can get even more intimate with should you choose.
Crescent County has life-sim elements including building relationships and room decoration. And with its cheerful artstyle, magical aesthetic (no bikes or cars, just the motorbrooms going vroom vroom) would be more appealing towards the total opposite of a gearhead steeped in car culture, which more or less makes up the majority of racing game fans. Even the Steam page doesn’t have a racing or driving tag. But it is.
Crescent County looks like the anti-racing game the world has yet to see. “anti-” here as in the same vein of an antihero.
The game was revealed last year, and already has a demo out, but the devs are set to launch a Kickstarter campaign.
As the blog post on Steam puts it: “We have a lot of faith in the power of grassroots communities. Our players, our friends and our communities have been so vocal in their support of Crescent County and now we’re putting the opportunity to make our game a reality in your hands.”
Crescent County may not be your typical racing game, or appeals to a typical racing game fan, but it must absolutely be counted as part of a rising movement in the indie scene of up-and-coming racing (and racing-adjacent games). Truckful. Easy Delivery. Co. Airframe Ultra. Asuka: The Ascent. JDM Japanese Drift Masters. Nightrunners. And many more we have yet to cover.
Cresent County has no release date yet, but a demo is available on Steam.