Hello friends. This is a Let’s Play video of “Screamer” demo version. High-octane action and anime aesthetics collide in this arcade racing game, featuring fighting mechanics and a storyline that hits hard. In this world, some race for glory while others seek power or revenge. Every race is a fight and every battle is personal.
Anyone who spent 1995 sitting in a computer shop drooling over a Screamer 2 demo running on a Pentium 133 with a Voodoo 1 will need to sit down and take a deep breath, because Milestone S.r.l. has quietly resurrected one of the great Italian arcade-racer names for a brand new 2026 audience. Released in March 2026 at a full AAA sixty bucks and sitting at Very Positive with 952 reviews, this Screamer is a cyberpunk-anime combat-racer that channels 90s Ridge Racer swagger, Rollcage lunacy, and Redline’s animation-cel adrenaline into a proper story-driven tournament. You pick from five factions, soldiers, scientists, criminals, superstars, and magnates, each with a driver, a bespoke vehicle, and a personal reason to enter the Screamer competition, then master the ECHO tech that turns every car into part racer, part fighter: Boost for speed, Strike for offence, Shield for defence, and Overdrive for the full-throttle chaos state where nothing on the road is safe. Single-player campaign, online PvP, cross-platform multiplayer, split-screen (yes, in 2026, salute), 50 achievements, eight team customisation packs already lined up in the DLC queue, and the kind of Milestone-Italian arcade polish that MotoGP and Hot Wheels Unleashed fans will recognise instantly. For anyone who wanted an anime combat racer with actual pedigree behind the wheel, this is the surprise mainstream release of the year.
Developer: Milestone S.r.l.
Publisher: Milestone S.r.l.
Genre: Racing, Arcade, Combat Racing, Story Rich, Indie
Release Date: 26 Mar, 2026
Reviewed on: PC/Windows
Available on: PC/Windows, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S
Link: Steam
Review copy was demo.
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