- Update notes for 1.0.20260909 - 9 September 2026
Long time no see : ) After releasing Pretend Cars Racing 2, it was time to give PCR1 some love, here is a list of some small changes included in this update. Added: when playing in single-player mode, car can be driven with WASD or arrow keys Fixed: crash to desktop bug when exiting the game from a race Fixed: memory leaks Fixed: F1 was not always showing the help screen Fixed: small fixes to improve performance Fixed: force applied fix when colliding with other cars Fixed: spelling corrections and missing Spanish translations
- Update notes for May 24th - 24 May 2026
Long time no see : ) This is a small update to fix the pause menu being too small in 4K resolution. Now, lets go back finishing PCR2!
- Controller settings - 20 December 2024
I just published a small update that let's you turn off controller rumble and change the stick's deadzone. You can access both this settings through the options menu.
- New Liveries for Formula Pretend - 15 February 2024
https://gamercronico.com/galleries/pcr/devlogs-20240215.png Pretend Cars Racing is receiving new liveries for the Formula Pretend 2024 inspired by the new Formula 1 season!
- Ghost cars transparency - 17 August 2023
One user mentioned in the forums that it was a little bit confusing when driving very near of a ghost car, so I decided to make a slight change to their behaviour. Now ghosts change transparency according to distance from the player instead of a fixed value.
- Update 8/8/2023 - 8 August 2023
This is a small update to correct a couple of small bugs. - Fixed spacing of columns in the leaderboards (for positions >99) - Tweaked the phrasing in a couple of spanish translations to make the shorter - Added a checkpoint to Kingsdown to prevent track-cutting
- CRT filters, for a true old-school feeling! - 1 August 2023
https://gamercronico.com/artimg/plus/pcr_sshot_crt.jpg For those of us with gray hair, a CRT filter was something that Pretend Cars Racings needed ASAP ; ) You can now activate this feature via de options menu. And talking about menus, I completely redid them, making them more organized and useful.
- The gladiators join the race - 26 June 2023
With this new update, a new car class is available in the game. Seven new cars, classics in every sense, depicting 1975 and 1976 vehicles. They are small and powerful, difficult to master and extremely fun to drive, where sliding in every corner is the way to go. Unlock this new content in the Career Mode, and access a new championship, the Gladiator Cup, a well deserved name for drivers that gave it all to win a race. With this new content, Pretend Cars Racing has a total of 74 cars!
- Custom championships, 30 tracks and 70 cars are now in the game! - 2 May 2023
This is a big update, with one highly requested feature, a rework, new content and updated graphics! There is more coming in future updates, but the biggest features requested by the community are now in place, and with the new cars added today, the game has 30 tracks and 70 different cars to play with! Custom championships are here! Besides the included championships in Career mode, you can now do a custom championship, where you can select the type of cars and tracks you will be using. Not only that, but I redid the points system for championships, using a more classic approach, and added new graphics when ending a championship, to reflect winning or loosing the fight for the top spots! New classic cars Three absolute classics with very recognizable liveries were added to the Classic cars. New track layouts in the UI I redid all the track layouts graphics used in the menus, for a more…
- New content update brings the total to 30 tracks and 67 cars! - 17 April 2023
New track: This is the 30th track that comes to the game, and its one of my favorite ones: Mount Panorama! New cars: Formula Pretend received three new liveries inspired in classic cars New sounds: crowd sounds were completely redone to make them more natural and less repetitive
- More tracks and cars! - 11 April 2023
New track: the beautiful Montreal joins PCR as the 29th circuit in the game New cars: LMPs received new liveries
- New track, cars and added support for languages! - 3 April 2023
New track: with the addition of South Africa, PCR has at least a track for every continent! New cars: Formula Pretend adds two classic liveries Support for languages: you can now choose to play in English or Spanish Added a checkpoint in Buenos Aires to avoid track-cutting Improved game mode graphics in the menus
- New track, new cars and UX improvements - 24 March 2023
New track: You can now fight for the top positions in the leaderboard in Buenos Aires! New cars: Two new german contenders for the Classics category Mini-map: Tweaked the display information and now all cars positions are drawn in the mini-map Improved overlays: better legibility and more information shown when completing a lap (current position and laps are shown next to your car). Shortened the text shown when doing a lap record for faster reading. New guardrails: Buenos Aires is the first track using a new method for placing guardrails, after further testing, other tracks will get this upgrade.
- Leaderboards are now live! - 14 March 2023
One of the most requested features arrives to Pretend Cars Racing with this a big and awaited update! Leaderboards are easily accesible from the main menu, you can see where you stack against the competition and jump right into a hot-lap challenge to retake the top spots. While driving in hot-lap mode, leaderboards appear in real time in your HUD, so you can track your progress. Good luck reaching the podium!
- New feature: mini-map - 11 March 2023
This new build now includes a mini-map! Thanks TokyoDan for the suggestion yesterday in the discussions! Feel free to drop by there and send feedback, suggestions and requests.
