One of September 2025’s best games, according to user reviews, brings back a series that will be very familiar to those who grew up playing PS1, PS2, and Sega Dreamcast games. That said, the release in question has flown under the radar a bit, in the shadow of major releases like Borderlands 4, Hollow Knight: Silksong, and Silent Hill f. That said, it is arguably as good as any of these games.
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The game in question is Tokyo Xtreme Racer from developer and publisher Genki. After almost two decades of dormancy — unless you count two limited mobile releases — the arcade-style racing series is back, and as good as ever. After a period in early access that started back in January, Tokyo Xtreme Racer fully released on Steam this week, and now it’s coming soon to PS5.
One of the Highest-Rated Steam Games of 2025
Tokyo Xtreme Racer doesn’t currently have a Metacritic score, but it does have 8,281 user reviews, 96 percent of which are positive. This gives the game on PC an “Overwhelmingly Positive” rating, which is the highest rating a game can earn on Steam. One of these user reviews praises the game as “a PS2 game in 2025 in the best way possible.” Another user review reveals that it made the player “feel like a teenager again.”
As these user reviews suggest, Tokyo Xtreme Racer is very much an old-school arcade-style racing game all about chasing top speeds and customizing your car. It is a simple formula, but as other user reviews note, a very refined and optimized formula. In the game, you race around sealed-off futuristic Tokyo.
“This is a proper return to form, to simpler, better times,” reads another user review. “This game is a PS2 game in a very good, nostalgic way. There’s none of that triple-A crap that plagues games these days, like an always-online requirement, microtransactions, or an ocean-wide but deep as a puddle open world.”
If you grew up playing Tokyo Xtreme Racer, whether in the early days on PS1 and Sega Dreamcast, or when it became a PS2 exclusive series, or when it was a standout in the Xbox 360 Arcade lineup, this new installment is worth checking out. While it’s a modern version of these games, it is indeed very much one of these games. Genki has revived the series two decades later and picked up right where it left off. Those interested, though, will need to fork over $49.99. Meanwhile, if this old-school PlayStation nostalgia doesn’t tickle your fancy, the good news is that there is more coming very soon.
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