Forget The Brakes!
A game about driving a train without brakes by Multi-Track Drifting
Two train engineers are working on building their own machines! But they forgot to add the brakes! But they will be multi-track drifting their way through the railway. No stopping required!
CONTROLS
Hold
I and K (as well as Up or Down arrows) to switch rails with the front boogie of the train.
Hold W or S (as well as E or D for our french players) to switch rails with the rear boogie of the train.
Spacebar and Return to accept, Spacebar pause/unpause and Escape to quit or back.
Use the mouse to interact with the menu.
CHANGELOG
2.2
- 10/03/2025: 10th year anniversary update
- Made the game pay-what-you-want. Thanks for everyone who bought the game and supported us this last 10 years!
- Resubmitted Android and iOS versions, both now available for free on Google Play and the App Store respectively (including working leaderboards).
- Added 26 new difficult track presets
- Improved title screen visuals
- Improved camera interpolation
- Improved background generation
- Made a non-google play apk available for download for previous purchases and purchases over 1$ (still contains Google Play Games API for Google leaderboards)
2.0
- 08/07/2019: Working on new content version
- Updated WebGL & standalone builds to match mobile versions
- WebGL version is now complete(!)
- Optimizations
1.0
- 30/06/2015: Post-gamelab update
- Added GUI switch
- Reworked tutorial animation
- Improved the game's performance-demand
- Fixed rail where train could get stuck
- Fixed bug where it would keep telling the player they won when winning
- 12/06/2015: First public release
Download the mobile versions to access the leaderboards*
*Web, Linux, macOS and Windows versions do not have leaderboards
ABOUT
A game by:
Ferran Bertomeu & YenTing Lo
Check the (old) Devlog here:
http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=43503.0
Download
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Development log
- 10 years anniversary updateMar 10, 2025
Comments
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Fun game! Well done setting the random tracks when you die. Checkpoints do help for sure. Did you make the sounds with your mouth?
Nice.Hopefully one day my game will be that GOOD
check me if you want.
Greate game
Extraordinarily addictive, be careful!
great music, and great design, and fun concept! I love your execution of this game :)
It would be cool if there was a way to access the initial start screen between runs, so that you can switch out tracks and adjust your sound settings.
Thanks for the comment!
And maybe it's not clear, or I'm not understanding, but if you press pause while running, and then press the "QUIT" white rectangle that appears in its place, you can go back to the main menu.
It works better on the downloadable version because you can just press Escape button twice, but in the web version Escape minimizes the game and removes focus so it doesn't work well.
Really fun ! :)
fun concept
good game !
Forget The Breakes Gameplay
Google's store has delisted your game.
I've updated it and it should be available on Google Play now again!
Can you provide an Android APK directly to itch that doesn’t require Google Play Services? I specifically buy games from itch.io to avoid that.
I know it's been 2 years, but I uploaded an APK here on itch. It still uses Google Play Services for Leaderboards, but I'm pretty sure you can just refuse to sign in.
Let me know if it works for you!
Well made! The sounds are also cool.
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what a great idea for a game. Simple to learn, and quite fun.
Okay, so the mobile UI doesnt look too hot, but the game is a pretty solid and addicting ideafor a highscore game. You steer the front and end part of a train simultaneously and need to make sure to choose the correct paths so that the train wont get ripped apart. It took me a few minutes to understand how the mechanics work and to get into the groove of it, but once you do.. its pretty darn addicting to replay and hunt for a better score. The mobile version has leaderboards, which the itch version unfortunately does not have, but this is really surprisingly fun.
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hay is the city the last plays in the game
Yes, city and the high-speed train is hardest and last part of the game!
ok i thot so
If you switch quickly from one side to the other, yellow will lean it's head but not purple
well ether thin me not thanking the mucik dose not fit very well it is a very fun game and i do like playing it
l;isin to this wall you play it fits so mush beter
It's so simple and so effective, I had a blast playing it. Amazing work!
Really enjoyed this, simple and fun. Played with a freind and laughs were had!
Please add an easy verison with just the front train? Want to see where it leads, scenary and winning
Hey! Thanks for playing.
You can try playing with a friend on the same computer, sometimes it's easier, but sometimes it's harder!
I don't really want to make a version with only 1 cart, the whole game is designed around 2 carts.
I would consider a slower/calmer version though!
How far can you get? There are only 4 levels (backgrounds) per train :)
What a riot! Where did you come up with this? Seriously good fun. Only tried the web version so far. The game play flows perfectly.
Crazy difficult yet easy to pick up
This game is nicely made. Its a short burst of fun trying to master the controls. I made a short video on it. Your game is the third one in the video. I tried all of the trains and I am fond of the white speedy train.
Glad you enjoyed! Very happy to watch you play it!
What a good fun game!
Thank you!!
This was a lot of fun!
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
This is such a hard game even with the simple trains! I love it!
Edit:I made a YouTube video for this game if that’s okay:
Thanks! I'm glad you like it.
It's been a while since I worked on this but I always want to come back and add more rail puzzles :)