Desk Top Racer transforms your computer workspace into an evolving racing operation where you acquire and customize vehicles, then pit them against real players in competitive matches. The core progression mixes idle mechanics with active car management—collecting parts, building mastery levels, and unlocking championships to grow your garage. It appeals to players who enjoy light competitive racing without demanding constant attention, plus the collection and upgrade systems typical of management games.
About this game
Turn your desktop into a living racetrack with this idle racing management game. Acquire cars, equip parts, and compete online against other players. Win championships and expand your garage through Mastery, Collections, and new rewards.
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• Crate drops: The base chance is 50% per race, increasing to 60% through Mastery upgrades. Each race is a separate roll, so drops can come in streaks or take a few races. • Collections: Adding a part permanently consumes it. Once you complete the entire set, you unlock a permanent bonus for all your current and future cars. You don’t need to equip the set! Thanks for suggesting smaller bonuses for individual contributions—we appreciate the feedback. • Credits: You can spend them on equipment upgrades, new cars, and repairs. Equipment upgrades also require Scrap. We’re planning more uses for Credits in future updates. • Cars: Cars purchased with Credits have the same base stats as the starter car, so you can choose your favorite look without worrying about a higher price buying better performance. Your equipment, upgrades, Mastery, and Collection bonuses drive your progression.
you can’t replay completed Tour stages. Once you complete all 32, you unlock League mode! Each championship takes place on a randomly selected map from those 32, matching you with online players around your ranking. Then the cycle continues with a new championship!
can we transfer our items to steam inventory? Only Steam items can be transferred—you’ll recognize them by the [M] marker. Every item type and rarity has a Steam version, but these are quite rare! Once you have one, right-click it and select the option to send it to your Steam inventory. From there, you can list it on the Steam Community Market.
Inventory space The initial 10 slots are just the starting capacity. You can expand your inventory through the Mastery tree, which has a final node you can keep upgrading indefinitely. Keep earning Mastery points, and you can keep adding space!
Attribute explanations We plan to add clearer explanations in-game. Our goal is to make the interface easy to understand without filling it with screens of text, so short tooltips would fit that approach well. We’re also preparing a more complete wiki covering the game’s features and mechanics.
Collections Each set requires one part of each specified archetype. Hover over the central item in the set to see the bonus you’ll receive when you complete it. Contributing a part permanently consumes it, and completing the set unlocks a permanent bonus for all your cars. We’ll explain this in the wiki too!
Display scaling: We’ll look into adding larger options, such as 2× and 2.5×. We initially kept the range limited because the larger settings already take up quite a bit of screen space, but we’ll see what we can do to offer a bigger scale.
Disconnection: The disconnection was due to brief server maintenance. Everything is back to normal now, and you can reconnect to the game. Thanks for your patience!
Tournaments with friends: We’re planning a private tournament mode so you can create tournaments with your friends. This is planned for a future update.
Cars currently have the same base stats so you can choose the one you like most without sacrificing performance. If one were simply better than the others, everyone would have a reason to use that same car. That said, we’re already working on a free DLC that will add more car sets with different attributes, available to all players. Stay tuned! For offline play, the game currently requires an internet connection because race results and progression are handled by the server. That applies during both the Tour and the League.
The other 19 cars in the tour are bots, right? What will the league reward be? The other 19 cars aren’t necessarily bots! The Tour can include other online players, offline copies of players’ cars, and bots filling the remaining spots. Offline copies and bots don’t earn rewards. In the League, first place in a race gives a base reward of 100 Credits and 25 Mastery points, which Mastery upgrades can increase. Your overall championship placement also affects your League rating, but there’s currently no extra Credit or Mastery reward for winning the championship.
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🏎️ Cars on TrackCars now visibly turn through corners and lane changes, with smoother movement.Spinning wheels and brake lights that follow every angle.Tire marks and smoke on hard braking, and an exhaust backfire when overtaking.🔊 Race SoundsYour car now has its own sound: engine, road and braking, all following your speed.Audio cues for the start lights.At the finish, the sound fades gently and keeps playing while your car drives on.Volume follows the "Game effects" option in Settings.🎵 Interface SoundsNew sounds in Paint, the Mascot Machine, Plincar and the Mechanical Collection, matching each animation.Selling parts now has its own sound.🛠️ FixesFixed an error in part tooltips.Improved stability in the Paint screen and the mascot speech bubble.📥 How to UpdateThis update didn't require any server maintenance: the changes are client-side only. If you don't have it yet, just close the game, update it through Steam and launch it again. If the update doesn't show up, close Steam and open it again so it downloads the new version.
🎨 Car paintWhere to paint: in the Garage, click your car to open paint customization.How to earn points: each car has its own mileage, which goes up as it races. Every mileage level gives the car 1 paint point. Mileage starts counting from this update.Unlocking colors: pick one of the 11 colors in the palette, spend 1 point to unlock it and apply it. The car's original color is already unlocked.Permanent colors: once unlocked, a color stays available for that car, and you can switch between your unlocked colors whenever you like.In races: the new color kicks in from the next race, and other players see your paint job too.Level track: shows how far you are from the next point.Mascot alert: your mascot lets you know when the equipped car has a paint point to spend. ✨ Refreshed lookInventory, Steam Inventory and Collection now use rarity cards, making it easier to spot each item at a glance.Buttons, frames and tooltips have been redesigned and look cleaner. 🔧 Part tooltipsComparison with the equipped part: each attribute has a bar, with gains in green and losses in red.Upgrade: a line shows how much the part's upgrade adds to each attribute.Collection: the Collection Piece badge appears when the part fills an empty slot in a set, along with the set progress (e.g. 1/4).Steam: Steam items show the Tradable on Steam badge. 🐾 MascotsThe mascots screen now has two scrollable columns.Each mascot's card shows which attribute it boosts.The starter mascot now appears alongside the others in the collection. 🌍 TranslationsGeneral translation improvements.In Asian languages, quantities in lists are now aligned with the item name. 🛠️ FixesFixed cut-off text on Windows with display scaling at 100%. This affected tooltips, mascot cards and TrackCards.Rain, fog and other weather effects no longer freeze during the championship intro.The game no longer stops your computer from turning off the display when idle. 🏁 Let's hit the track! More updates are rolling in over the next few days, ...
Version 1.0.7 is here! The big highlight is TrackCards, a new way to make your car stronger beyond parts. Here's everything that changed:🃏 TrackCardsTrackCards are collectible cards, one for each Tour championship. When equipped, they give your car bonuses during championships.How to get them: a card unlocks when you're promoted in that Tour championship or when you complete the League in that country for the first time. After that, every new League completion in that country earns a copy of the card.Evolution: collect copies to raise the card's rarity through Common, Uncommon, Rare, Epic, Legendary and Mythic. The rarer the card, the stronger its bonuses. Want to speed things up? You can buy copies with DTR Coin.Bonuses: you can equip a set of up to 3 different cards. Each card has three bonuses:extra car performance when the championship is held in the card's country;a boost to one part type, like Engine or Tires;extra points in one attribute, like Speed or Braking.Strategy: since each card favors a different part and attribute, it pays to build the trio that best suits your car and the championships you're racing. A new set takes effect from the next championship.Circuit: open a card and flip it to see that championship's track layout and its km per lap.🪙 DTR CoinDTR Coins now sit together in a single stack in your Inventory, taking up less space and keeping things tidy.You can send them to Steam and back to your Inventory several at a time, choosing the exact quantity.🏆 LeagueThe Overview MMR chart is more complete: it now shows the value scale on the side, and hovering over a championship reveals the country, your MMR, your final position and how much you gained or lost.🐾 MascotYour mascot now warns you when your Inventory is full and when your Crate Storage is almost full or full, so you don't lose crates or items for lack of space.🔧 ImprovementsMastery: the VIP point reallocation now also refunds level 1 of each upgrade, giving you more freedom to rebuild you...
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