Beach Buggy Racing is the latest racer from US indie developer Vector Unit. Like their last Xbox One offering, Riptide GP 2, Beach Buggy Racing also started life as a mobile game and in the same way that Riptide owed a huge debt to the Nintendo classic Wave Race 64, Beach Buggy Racing owes a debt to Mario Kart. Gameplay is king here and with such satisfying controls and excellent split-screen racing it’s easy to forgive some of the game’s flaws.
Richy takes a look at Beach Buggy Racing on the Nintendo Switch.
Beach Buggy Racing is a decent kart-racer; the driving is fun, the items are bonkers, and you’ll likely be playing it for some time. Perhaps enjoyed best in small bursts, and without the expectation of it being a mega-serious racer, the game does offer some easy-to-play fun for both solo players and groups of family or friends. It can’t steal Mario Kart’s pole position and it suffers from a couple of little niggles but for a fraction of the price it does offer an acceptable alternative.
VGChartz's Evan Norris: "It would be easy to take a quick look at Beach Buggy Racing and write it off as shovelware. It's not. It's a surprisingly fun kart racer with lots of single player content and local multiplayer options for four friends. Tighter steering, more tracks, and an extra layer of polish would make it even better."
