AFTERGLOW

1999, as imagined in 1986. A memory dealer, a stolen prototype, and a girl living in the dashboard.

Port Avalon runs on rain, neon and other people's memories. Vic Calloway sells them for a living, until a delivery goes wrong and leaves him with a cracked chip and a stolen car. He plugs the chip in, and LYRA wakes up in the dashboard: a mind cut into seven shards and sold across a broken continent.

Every shard you bring back gives her a memory, and gives the car a new ability.

He rebuilt her piece by piece. Then he had to stop her.

AFTERGLOW is an arcade combat racer in the spirit of Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge 2, Black Viper and OutRun: a hand-pixelled pseudo-3D road, ramps and jumps, forks, weather, armed rivals and bosses, and a story told in 80s-OVA comic panels.

Features

• 7 chapters, 21 stages: rain-soaked downtown, sunset coast, a desert of satellite dishes, a snowbound pass, flooded lowlands, an industrial wasteland, the city grid at dawn
• Checkpoint runs, escapes, pursuits, duels, gauntlets, jump runs and deliveries
• Front guns with heat, mines, oil, smoke and EMP, and a car special
• 7 abilities from LYRA's shards: call-outs, beat-synced Overdrive, threat radar, lock-on, traffic hack, shield and Afterglow slow-time
• Mama Dolores's garage: repairs, upgrades, tyres, paint and memory reels to keep or sell
• 6 cars, S–D ratings, Arcade, Time Trial, Endless Highway and Night Shift
• Split-screen Versus and Convoy co-op for two players
• A retrowave and late-80s club soundtrack, a car radio, and a CRT filter

Controls

Action	Keys
Accelerate / brake	Up / Down
Steer	Left / Right
Turbo	Space
Front guns	Z
Rear weapon	X
Car special	C
Gears (manual)	W / Q
Lock-on / Hack / Shield / Afterglow	Tab / A / S / D
Radio	R
Pause	Esc / P

Gamepads work, and every key can be remapped. Two players: WASD + F/G/H and Arrows + K/L/;.

Download the instruction manual (PDF) below for everything else.

Runs in the browser: Chrome or Edge on a desktop works best (WebGPU, with a WebGL 2 fallback). It also plays on phones and tablets, with on-screen touch controls.

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