Get Ace Racers SP for PC

Ace Racers SP is a prototype built around flying realistic space vehicles through player-created courses and obstacle arrangements. It is intended as a practice platform for thrust-physics vehicles, particularly a six-axis RCS spaceship, rather than a game about exploring deep space.

Create and share courses

You arrange obstacles and checkpoints to practise different maneuvers, then export and import saved courses for other players to use. A course can highlight the next checkpoint and specify the route, making it possible to share a particular arrangement without separate map or video instructions. The project’s goal is to build an expanding database of courses for players to browse and use to develop their piloting skills.

Fly and race

You can fly a course without the racing system, or use it to record lap times and compare them with your previous laps. Racing yourself is possible, but the course order and timing tools are designed to make courses easier to share, not for player competition.

The available vehicles include a six-axis space vehicle designed for pushing freight like a space barge, a lunar-lander-style vehicle and a forward-only vehicle that can move only forward.

Controls

The game was designed around a six-axis controller and is not fully compatible with mouse steering. It can be played with a six-axis HOTAS, a space mouse or a gamepad, though six-axis control may feel unintuitive on a gamepad. The default configuration uses keyboard-only controls; players can configure controllers through Rewired, though most or all are not set up by default. The mouse works in menus.