Rick Rack

Rick Rack is an arcade-style driving game set in Times-Ville, a small European town in the 1960s and 1970s. A major event creates a Time Ripple and traps the town in an Alternate Timeline that loops for 31 days. You control 15 citizens, driving them through their lives and making choices that can help restore the Main Timeline or lead to the town’s doom.

Times-Ville and its citizens

The town is based on old European towns and features Gothic architecture. All its citizens are affected by the Alternate Timeline, but 15 are especially central: choices they make during the loop can change the major event, directly or indirectly. Each has personal problems to deal with, and small decisions can have large effects on the timeline.

Driving and time loops

Each day, the drivers set out for their destinations at the same time. You control the characters’ journeys, helping each decision-making citizen reach their destination safely or preventing an accident. The driving is fast and smooth, and you can choose from 18 cars, including sports cars, muscle cars, trucks and vintage cars.

You can rewind time to adjust your route and those of other citizens. The rewind affects the whole town, including trees, birds, litter, flying envelopes and citizens, as seen from the current citizen’s perspective. Hitting another citizen can stop them from completing their daily chores and disrupt the sequence needed to restore the timelines.

Choices and consequences

Choices range from ones with little importance to decisions that affect lives. The game remembers your decisions and their repercussions; finding the right choices and patterns can avert the disaster and reunite the Alternate Timeline with the Main Timeline. Your goal is to solve the mystery by the final day and get the citizens’ lives back on track.