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Distance is an atmospheric racing platformer for PC and PlayStation. Fusing futuristic arcade racing with parkour, survive a deadly, mysterious, neon-drenched city by jumping, rotating, and flying.


Distance features:


  • Adventure: Mysterious single-player narrative experience.
  • Arcade: Earn medals on 150+ tracks in modes like Sprint, Reverse Tag, Stunt, and Challenge.
  • Online + Split-Screen: Race up to 12 players online and 4 players locally. (Online multiplayer is PC only)
  • Trackmogrify: Random track generation with advanced seed modifiers.
  • VR: Full Oculus CV1 and HTC Vive integration. (PC only)
  • Unlockables: Complete achievements to unlock car skins and cheats.
  • Powerful level editor: Connected to Steam Workshop with 5,000+ user-created levels already available. (PC only)
  • Original soundtrack: By the composers of Nitronic Rush, Jordan Hemenway and The Quiggles.


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v1.5 Available Now for PC, coming to PS5 & PS4 on July 19th!
Play Distance now on Windows, Mac, and Linux
Jump into Distance and continue to get updates as we add features and improve the game!
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Distance is a spiritual sequel to our racer Nitronic Rush, created by ourselves and 5 others at DigiPen Institute of Technology. We're redesigning from scratch to support tons of new features!

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