Every update that reached the championship, newest first — what changed on the stages, in the rover, and around the site. Each date is the day that change went live.
GameplayFixes
A replay now follows the wheel inputs recorded during the run instead of inferring them, so the car you watch drives the line you actually drove. You can switch cameras while it plays.
How ghost racing worksFixesSite
Night and dusk runs keep their beam on the terrain ahead instead of losing it mid-corner.
Site
Driving guides, Mars science explainers and engineering write-ups on the tire model, the damage model and the netcode. Every post now carries a visible FAQ, a byline and its own share image.
Read the Mission LogFixes
Goals that ask you to finish every stage now measure against the stages that are open, not against stages still being charted, so they are completable.
Open your pilot dossierGameplay
Cycle chase, dash, hood and trackside views with C, ending in a free camera you can fly around the rover. The HUD names the mode as you switch.
Performance
Everyone starts on HIGH instead of being benchmarked into a preset at boot. Step down from the quality control in settings if you would rather have the frames — nothing demotes you silently.
GameplayStagesFixes
Collision was rebuilt so the rover behaves like a real body on the real surface, and a checkpoint counts when you cross the line between its posts rather than when you near it.
SiteFixes
The chips on the leaderboard open the board they name, each with its own shareable link, and they work with JavaScript switched off.
Open the leaderboardStages
Two more rally stages join Stage 1 in the route book. Both are drivable, both have a survey sheet on the site, and both keep their own leaderboard.
Open the route bookSite
The website was rebuilt as an official artifact of the championship rather than a landing page — numbered documents, timing-sheet typography and cinematic Martian plates.
StagesLevel editorGameplay
Stages you build can be published and played from a link, and every open stage gained two practice variants.
Gameplay
Opt in and the fastest three runs on the board start alongside you as ghost cars, so the target is on the stage instead of in a table.
Level editor
The editor became a tool you can actually author a stage in, including reshaping the ground under the route.
Gameplay
Pick how much the car helps you, and restart a run the instant you know it is over.
SiteFixes
An optional wallet link lets you claim the runs you set, and the leaderboard now verifies submissions on the server. The game still needs no account to play.
GameplaySite
Runs became shareable artifacts: send a link and whoever opens it races your exact ghost.
PerformanceSite
The first load got dramatically lighter, and the game stopped depending on third-party CDNs to start at all.
Site
The site got a real design system and a place to write: stage survey sheets, feature pages that differ from each other, and the Mission Log.
SiteGameplay
The game lost its menu screen. The site carries the mode launcher and everything around the driving, so opening the game puts you on a stage instead of in front of a list.
MultiplayerPerformance
Up to 8 pilots race the same stage at once, seeing each other live. Create a private room and share the link, or join whoever is already racing in the public lobby.
How online racing worksGameplay
A training course walks you through throttle, braking, looking around and landing jumps before you are timed on anything. Gears shift sequentially on A and Z.
Run the tutorialGameplay
Runs started counting for something beyond the clock: a pilot level, a challenge that changes daily, and cosmetics you earn rather than buy.
GameplayFixes
The grip model was rebuilt around real Martian constants, so stopping takes roughly three times the distance it would on Earth — about 165 m from 100 km/h.
Site
Posting the game on X, Discord or Reddit shows a Mars Rally card instead of a bare URL.
GameplayFixes
Land on the roof and press T to right the rover. The body itself now collides with the ground rather than sinking through it.
GameplayPerformance
The rover gained an interior worth looking at from the dash camera, and the renderer gained controls for slower machines.
GameplayFixes
Hitting things started to matter, and the phone layout stopped fighting the HUD.
Gameplay
Where the record begins: a rover on hand-sculpted Martian terrain, a deterministic physics simulation with fixed substeps and a per-wheel tire model, recorded runs you can replay bit for bit, and a leaderboard to put them on. Everything above is what happened next.
About the championship