- Nominate Wheel World for the Steam Awards! - 26 November 2025
We've been so delighted to hear from players about how much they enjoyed Wheel World, with the soundtrack being consistently brought up as excellent. The music, created by Italians Do It Better artists Johnny Jewel, Orion, and JOON, has become a big part of what people remember about the game and it’s been great to see the community respond to it the way they have.The soundtrack brings so much character to the world and if it left an impression on you too, we’d be grateful if you considered nominating Wheel World for Best Soundtrack in this year’s Steam Awards.Thanks for joining us on this ride, your support truly means everything!
- Wheel World adds a Native Linux version for Steam Deck with a "significant performance improvement" - 9 September 2025
Wheel World from Messhof and Annapurna Interactive released back in July to some great reviews, and now it should be even better with the latest update. Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/wheel-world-adds-a-native-linux-version-for-steam-deck-with-a-significant-performance-improvement/
- Post Launch Patch #3 - 9 September 2025
Hey folks, we’re excited to drop two major updates for Wheel World! Photo Mode is now here! 📸 Now you can capture and share Wheel World's stunning vistas, quirky characters, clutch race wins and secret jump spots with your friends and the rest of the Wheel World community on Steam. Photo mode is very simple to use!For players using mouse and keyboard:Hold P on the keyboard to enter Photo Mode. From there you can fly the camera around using WASD and mouse look to position the camera, and press the Enter key to take a shot, which will be saved to your Steam screenshots library. A cheatsheet explaining controls for filters, zoom, and more can be toggled by pressing the Tab key. To exit Photo Mode, hold the Escape key. For players using an Xbox controller:Hold D-pad Left to enter photo mode. From there you can fly the camera around using the analogue sticks to position the camera, and pres…
- Post-Launch Patch #2 - 13 August 2025
Our second patch focuses on improved racing, fairness, collision improvements, performance upgrades, and a host of fixes. You can find the full patch notes below. Progression, Save & AchievementsCorrected achievement logic for: Awooooo!, Retail Therapy, Box Hunter. Issues with shop logic were fixed, and 2 missing bike part boxes were fixed in the final area. 100% completion is now achievable.Racing & FairnessOverhauled collisions between the player and dynamic objects such as other cyclists and cars. Collisions are now more predictable, and less “sticky” than before. Other cyclists are more likely to be pushed around by Kat, especially when using a high Grip build. Lone Wolf: fixed cases where blue rings triggered early, stopped appearing, or the race awarded a win from behind.Fixed out-of-bounds softlocks.Improved the return-to-track arrow.Some coupon prices and side-gig rewards were a…
- Инди-версия Tour de France: Обзор Wheel World - 10 August 2025
Лет 10 назад у меня сформировалось правило — не возлагать больших надежд на грядущие релизы игр. Это позволяет умерить ожидания и не разочаровываться, клюнув на яркие и насквозь фальшивые рекламные ролики. В случае с Wheel World я рассчитывал на проект из разряда Cozy Adventure, благодаря которому и прославилось издательство Annapurna Interactive . Каково же было удивление, когда на релизе появилась забагованная инди-версия Tour de France .
- Endgame save fix (July 28 hotfix) - 28 July 2025
Fixes an issue where the game could stop saving progress after rolling credits.
- Goodbye magenta objects! (July 25 hotfix) - 25 July 2025
This hotfix corrects an issue on some older GPUs that do not implement conservative rasterization, where certain shaders would fall back to a magenta color.
- Отдых на велосипеде: Annapurna Interactive объявила о релизе Wheel World - 23 July 2025
Издательство Annapurna Interactive объявило о релизе Wheel World от студии Messhof , которая доступна на ПК, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, а также в каталоге Game Pass. Кроме того, спало эмбарго на публикацию обзоров.
- Wheel World is Out Now! - 23 July 2025
Grab your bike parts, customize your ride, and save the world - Wheel World is out now!Not only that but our fantastic soundtrack made by Italians Do It Better Artists Johnny Jewel, Orion, and JOON is also on sale here on Steam.For a limited time, you can grab the game for its launch discount, too! Race, explore, vibe, and help a cute bike ghost avert the apocalypse today.💀🚲
- Wheel World review - 23 July 2025
For a low-stakes open world cycling game, Wheel World has a lot of lore. You wake up in the forest and discover a spirit called Skully, a ghost who offers the player a rusty bike and immediately ejects so much fantasy jargon and frontloaded backstory that I started to think it was an intentional joke. Thank Cog (the god of cycling) that this loredumping is not habitual. The rest of the game plays out as a chill and happy-hearted racer in a small but well-crafted world of rolling vineyards, bumpy forests, and honking city streets. It's a short tour, lasting only about five hours, but it's five hours nicely pedalled. Read more
- How Frankenstein bikes inspired Wheel World - 21 July 2025
Hi everyone, Messhof team here - Wheel World was recently featured on the Unity blog, where we spoke about how we used their engine to create the exciting open world you get to roam inside the game:We wanted the world to feel alive but also reflect a bike-oriented culture, so that meant having lots of entities travelling along all manner of roads and trails. To support the world design, we created a ton of tools in Unity.Our custom road-node editor lets us lay down roads and paths quickly, with each road type defined by attributes like texture, width, lane count, traffic rules, and speed limits. Terrain between roads is generated using a mix of noise samples and hand-authored topological detail using hint meshes. You can check out the blog here. And remember, Wheel World releases soon! You can grab the game for its launch discount on July 23, so get ready to save the world with the powe…
- Designing an Open World for Bike Heaven - 10 July 2025
Hey,I’m Mark Essen, creative director at Messhof. We’re really excited for you to jump into Wheel World when it launches later this month on July 23. We’ve been working on it for years, and it’s finally almost ready.At its heart, Wheel World is a game about riding bikes through a giant open world, finding secrets, collecting weird parts, and building your dream ride. Early on we tried all kinds of ideas: delivery missions, long-distance rides with stamina management, hill climbs. But what stuck with us the most was the feeling of spotting AI cyclists on the road, drafting behind them, and timing your slingshot to leapfrog forward. It felt good every time. Racing is a big part of the game, but it’s not the whole picture. This world is full of people who ride for fun, not just to win. Each neighborhood has its own local legends who ride the roads nearby. We wanted the game to feel informa…
- Wheel World launches July 23, 2025! - 8 June 2025
As you may have seen in the PC Gaming Show, we’re ready to shift gears as the finish line comes into view: Wheel World launches July 23, 2025! Wheel World started as a sketch of an idea and has grown into something full of motion and maybe just a few tight turns. It’s a game about bikes, but also about freedom of exploration, competitive spirit, and the guidance of an ancient spirit attempting to prevent the apocalypse To help get your wheels spinning, we have a brand-new trailer featuring the original song “Hold On” by JOON (streaming soon): https://youtu.be/n-WUWFguRqY We’ve been fine-tuning every spoke and gear to make this one feel just right, and we’re so grateful to everyone who’s joined us for the ride so far, especially those who checked out the demo. Your feedback’s been the wind at our backs, and we can’t wait to show you what’s still around the bend. Thanks for riding with us…
- Small Performance Update - 26 February 2025
We've just pushed out a small update for our Next Fest demo! This update includes some small performance improvements to help everything run a little smoother. Also note that on some machines switching to DX11 can help performance. Please keep in mind the game is still in active development. We couldn't wait to share the game with you all for Next Fest, and it's been incredible seeing so many of you enjoying it. Your positive reactions and feedback truly mean a lot to us. Rest assured, we're continuing to refine the experience, and we have plenty of tweaks and updates planned to make it even better. Thanks for sticking with us on this journey—your support and enthusiasm are making a huge difference. Stay tuned for more updates, and let us know what you think of the latest improvements. We're excited to keep building and can't wait to show you what's next! Mark and the Wheel World Team
- This open world bicycling game from the developer of Nidhogg is so chill that 'you don't really have to do any of the challenges if you don't want to' - 24 February 2025
For me, open world games like Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption 2 really only peak when I've fought my way through the missions and completed the main story and there's not much left to do except… doing whatever the heck I want. Sometimes that's making sure I've explored every single inch of the map, sometimes it's completing a few activities to 100%, but often it's just cruising around and taking in the sights... Read more.
- Wheel World demo available NOW! - 24 February 2025
We’re excited to announce Wheel World is well on its way to your Steam library, with a summer 2025 release window! It’s been a blast being part of the Annapurna Interactive Showcase this year, and we can’t wait to show you more in the buildup to launch. But why wait until summer when you can check out our game right now? Wheel World now has a Steam Next Fest demo available as we speak, where you can check out the first moments and get a feel for the gameplay. You can see the world we’ve built, take on a couple races, and find a few parts to spice up your ride! https://store.steampowered.com/app/3483160/Wheel_World_Demo/ We’ll have more news soon, but in the meantime, we’d love for you to consider wishlisting Wheel World and checking out the demo. Keep moving forward, Messhof
- Nidhogg studio 're-reveals' its new project: A stylish action-exploration game where you race bicycles and save the world - 17 October 2024
Back in 2023, Nidhogg developer Messhof unveiled its new game, a stylish racing game called Ghost Bike that sets players off on a quest to revive the the last of the Ghost Bikes, "magical couriers who rode between the world of the living and the world of the dead." Ghost Bike was re-revealed during today's Xbox showcase with a new title— Wheel World —and, sorry to say, a new, more distant release date: Instead of coming out this year as planned, it's now set for release in early 2025... Read more.
- Goodbye Ghost Bike, Hello Wheel World! - 17 October 2024
Hello there! Mark and Kristy from Messhof here. Been a while since we chatted, huh? Hope you’re doing alright! We’re coming up for air today to share some big news for our next game. “Ghost Bike” has been renamed, “Wheel World” This game represents a number of firsts for our studio. It’s of course our first 3D game, which also makes it our first game made with Unity. It’s our first game using a physics library, our first game made with a big team and hence our first game funded by a publisher, and our first game with a real narrative (with characters and dialogue boxes even!). The gameplay in Wheel World has gone through a number of iterations in terms of gameplay and structure, and the narrative has had to adapt along the way. At the point last year when it felt right to announce the project, we came up with the name Ghost Bike based on where the narrative was. It was a game about dyin…
