Rushmark

Rushmark is a fast-paced racing game about piloting a combat droid through enemy-filled courses. A learned run takes under 30 seconds; when you fail, you restart immediately. The underworld runs a betting operation and uses you, a pilot neural-linked to a combat droid, to race rigged courses for spectators betting on whether you make it.

Master the moves

You have five moves, all controlled with one hand: run, jump, an eight-way dash, wall kick and area burst. There are no moves to unlock or upgrades to earn; the challenge comes from combining your abilities at speed.

The dash is both your fastest move and your weapon. On the ground, it returns in under a second. In the air, you get one dash, and waiting does not restore it. Killing an enemy with the dash refunds it instantly, letting you chain kills into a route across gaps. Enemies shape the racing line: blockers occupy fast routes, ranged units force you to commit early, and armoured anchors beneath low ceilings can only be opened with an area burst.

Race the courses

Season One contains ten fixed courses, each built around a different idea. They include a wall-kick gauntlet that you cross without touching the ground, a descending course and one played almost entirely in the air. Each course is rated from one to three stars, and marker splits show where your time went.

The game also includes a tutorial that teaches each technique through practice, and a practice mode that lets you respawn at the start of the section where you died. Season Two is finished and present in the game behind a locked card; it contains five more courses and two more Marathons, scheduled to release in December. The ladder resets when a season closes.

Choose a game mode

• Courses: Race ten fixed tracks.
• Survival: Run an endless chain drawn from 40 hand-built sections. The world speeds up the longer you last.
• Marathons: Race courses 1–5, 6–10 or all ten back to back. A halfway checkpoint does not stop the clock.

Race against others

Personal bests appear on the boards as soon as you set them. Each course, Marathon and Survival mode has its own Steam leaderboard, while the season ranking scores you across all of them. Losing a course to a rival can cost you season position.

You can download a leaderboard entry and race against that player's recorded run, or watch it with the skin and trail they used. Season rank earns skins, but no gameplay advantages; trails are earned by beating par times. The game also includes achievements, Cloud saves, personal-best ghosts, and a built-in music player for switching playlists, creating your own or skipping a track mid-run.

Survive each run

There is no health bar or lives. Touching a hazard destroys the droid, and enemy fire knocks you off your line, often with the same result. Restarts have no fade, menu or confirmation, so you are moving again immediately.