Bad Dogs

Bad Dogs is a cyberpunk arcade game set in a digital city ruled by the all-seeing Syndicate. You race high-speed cyber-vehicles and kinetic marbles, hack through guarded sectors and choose whether to reclaim the streets or sell them out. Its neo-noir comic art combines with early 3D wireframe vector visuals, while neon effects pulse in time with the music.

Story and factions

In Story Mode, you follow The Pink Car, a phantom vehicle that encrypted obituaries claim was vaporized two years ago. Choose a faction, tackle high-stakes checkpoints and hack through tactical roadblock minigames. At each checkpoint, you can risk lethal corporate resistance for triple Data Cores or take a detour; at the Syndicate Core, decide whether to support the revolution or deny your network in exchange for corporate immunity.

Your faction determines your vehicle's strengths:

• Red Crow (Rebellion): balanced speed, nitro shockwaves and aggressive assault grip.
• Yellow Sparrow (Ecology): supersonic top speed and precise cornering.
• Blue Seagull (Exodus): a heavyweight armored chassis that turns Syndicate traffic into scrap metal.
• Green Mantis (Oblivion): a cyber-hacker craft that can phase through roadblocks.

Race the highways

Underground Racing is a time-attack mode across branching, multi-stage highway routes. Shift manually through 4 gears, draft behind traffic to charge high-risk turbo boosts and outrun The Enforcer, the Syndicate's pursuit agent. Choose a 5-stage sprint, a 100-stage marathon or endless tarmac.

In Marble Circuit, you race kinetic marbles through 12 physics-driven, 3D roller-coaster circuits. The tracks feature 400m gravity dives, inverted loops, sky-ridge chasm jumps and magnetic rails. Tuck for aerodynamic speed, dive down vertical drops, bank across 80° bobsleigh walls and slingshot through power slides. Race in 6-marble Grand Prix leagues, 1-on-1 Ladder Duels, Marble Rumbles or Solo Time Trials. A 3D Marble Designer lets you tune weight, grip, speed and downforce, then customize multi-layer glass, chrome and neon gyro shells.

Arcade minigames

Arcade Mode is an escalating hub of minigames with boss battles and global leaderboards:

• Brick-Breaker: breach firewalls with radar powerups, multiball splits and boss dreadnoughts.
• Angry Balls: blast aerial interceptor fleets, dodge drama spotlights and juggle enemy pawns in a Galaga-style mode.
• Sewer Shooter: descend through the sub-grid in 3D, shooting around rotating obstacles and bomb flippers before facing Titan bosses.
• Juggler: keep volatile data spheres airborne with kinetic rebounds.
• Shufflepuck: play 3D air hockey duels against rogue AI enforcers, using live table powerups and curve shots.

Cruise and customize runs

Sunday Club Cruise slows down traffic for relaxed drives along matrix highways, with its own chill leaderboards. In Cinematic ASMR Mode, an automated floating camera moves through neon architecture and changing weather fronts. Run modifiers include Wildchild Protocol, which gives 1.75x hyperspeed, Flower Child Sub-Routine and Avoid Everything.

The game features more than 11 atmospheric conditions, including Blizzard, Glitch Rain, EMP Storms, Solar Flare Ash and Nebula Drift. Neon skylines, wireframe road borders and shader pulses react to the music in real time. You can bank Data Cores in a persistent rebel safehouse to upgrade top speeds, mount repulsor shields and unlock neon paint finishes. The original soundtrack blends Atari ST YM2149 and Commodore 64 SID hardware sounds with modern production.

Leaderboards

Local leaderboards use classic 3-letter arcade initials and include celebration fireworks and ghost racing on your machine. Steam leaderboards track high scores, circuit lap times and weekly seeded world events against drivers worldwide. Leaderboards are available across every mode, circuit and perk.