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Carmageddon
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dethrace

Brings back Carmageddon · By dethrace-labs

Get it on GitHubHow to play

Plays on your own device, not in a browser tab. Opens github.com in a new tab.

Ways to play

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    How to play
    1. Download the build for your system from its latest release: Linux (x64 or arm64), macOS, or Windows (x64 or x86).
    2. It ships no game content: it needs the data of your own Carmageddon, from its CD or the Max Pack bought on GOG.
    3. It also plays the freeware demos of Carmageddon and of its Splat Pack.
    4. Put it in the top-level Carmageddon folder, the one with CARMA.EXE; on Windows, put SDL2.dll there too.
    5. To keep the game in another folder, or change other settings, write a dethrace.ini file.
    6. If the Carmageddon folder holds a MUSIC folder of Track02.ogg, Track03.ogg and so on, as GOG's copy does, it plays them in place of the CD's music.

    Written by recomp.gg from its release v0.10.1, read Oct 12, 2026 and its README, read Oct 12, 2026.

Details

What
A new engine written from scratch that runs the original game's data.
Code
github.com/dethrace-labs/dethrace1.2K stars on its repositoryLast updated Oct 21, 2026
License
GPL-3.0
Release
v0.10.1, Feb 22, 2026

Its game

News

All news
  1. Release · Feb 22, 2026v0.10.1
  2. Release · Feb 21, 2026v0.10.0
  3. Release · Sep 21, 2025v0.9.0
  4. Hacker NewsPost · Hacker News · Sep 25, 2024Dethrace: Reverse engineering the 1997 game "Carmageddon" (2023)

From recomp.gg's How to play, read Oct 13, 2026, SubmitGame's list, read Oct 11, 2026, the GitHub API, read Oct 21, 2026 and the GitHub API, read Oct 11, 2026. Where How to play names the page it was written from, recomp.gg wrote the steps from it; elsewhere they are the ones every way of its kind shares, and the project's repository or site has the rest.