Real City Bikes

An open-city motorcycle game with nothing you are obliged to do. There is a city, there is traffic moving through it at speed, there are ramps and highways, and there is a bike — and whether you use that to weave between lorries at two hundred or to ride around looking at the place is left to you. What gives it shape is the traffic. Because the cars are moving and the lanes are busy, riding fast is a continuous reading exercise rather than a test of top speed, and the satisfaction is in a long clean run through dense traffic rather than in any score. The bike handles loosely with real weight to it, so hard braking and lean angle both matter, and a collision at speed ends the run in a ragdoll rather than a respawn. There is no progression to speak of and no objective list, which makes it a ten-minute game that some people will return to often. It needs a moderately capable machine for a smooth frame rate in traffic, plays better with a keyboard than on touch, and runs in the browser without a download.