Beach Buggy Racing (2014)

Beach Buggy Racing is a decent kart-racer; the driving is fun, the items are bonkers, and you'll likely be playing it for some time. Perhaps enjoyed best in small bursts, and without the expectation of it being a mega-serious racer, the game does offer some easy-to-play fun for both solo players and groups of family or friends. It can't steal Mario Kart's pole position and it suffers from a couple of little niggles but for a fraction of the price it does offer an acceptable alternative.

I would have a difficult time recommending it for the majority of gamers out there.

Beach Buggy Racing is a game for everybody though, I do not consider myself, and MK8 Deluxe, calmly walked past me, but still, every game has a right to exist, and I'm pretty sure in Beach Buggy Racing will play, it is fun, challenging, and in some sense reminiscent of the time when these games played with friends on consoles in the PS2 days, but will it spend as much time as I spend in the game a competitor, a matter of time.

I actually have some familiarity with this game from the mobile space and I can respect it within that market as being reasonably good. Unfortunately, especially where control and complexity come into play, what works well there is generally pretty mediocre on the dedicated gaming hardware of the Switch where the competition has set the bar far higher. If you’re truly bored of Mario Kart and looking for something to kick around with off and on for a while, or are less bothered by floaty controls perhaps it will scratch an itch for you. Nonetheless I would have a difficult time recommending it for the majority of gamers out there.

Does Beach Buggy Racing deserve a place in the games library? Yes, it does. It may not be Crash or Mario, but then it doesn't need to be. It's fun and quirky, it's something that can be played at any occasion, and can be taken seriously, too.