Hot Lap Racing

Nintendo World ReportPhilip Orona

7.5/10

What Zero Games Studios has created with Hot Lap Racing is the foundations of a solid simcade racing game. There seems to be a lot to be desired in terms of content, but the team has focused mostly on the joy of driving and accessibility. While it falls short of being the motorsport G.O.A.T on the Nintendo Switch, it represents a potential top tier contender in the genre, trailing behind GRID Autosport. The current pros outweigh the cons but as time goes on, it will be interesting to see what gets added. If all of the small gripes get cleaned up, Hot Lap Racing could just take the pole positio...

Hardcore Gamer Jeremy Peeples

Hot Lap Racing succeeds far more than it fails as a more serious racing game on the Switch. It's hurt a framerate-wise by the hardware, but still manages to control nicely with digital inputs being recognized on either controllers with purely digital inputs or analog. Controlling the cars feels natural and that plays into the harder-than-usual difficulty that makes the player get better to excel and doesn't offer as many options as other modern-day racers to ease the burden. Veteran racing fans will probably appreciate that approach to an extent, while the inclusion of many kinds of driving ch...

Pure NintendoJemma Casson

6.5/10

Hot Lap Racing is a racing sim for the Nintendo Switch. This isn’t a genre that’s represented a great deal on Nintendo’s hybrid, so it’s refreshing to s

COGConnectedMark Steighner

60/100

Great racing games for the Nintendo Switch are few and far between. There’s Mario Kart (of course) and a handful of others, like a watered-down GRID spinoff and a Need For Speed remaster. Hot Lap Racing would like to be the next great Switch racing game. Unfortunately, I played it on PC, where it gets absolutely demolished by other games in the genre.

CGMagazineDavid Walters

6/10

Hot Lap Racing is an entertaining arcade-style racing game, but falls flat on keeping one entertained with a minimal amount to do.