NASCAR Heat Mobile Review
A good NASCAR game on mobile! Why did it take so long?
There’s probably a super great deep dive article that could be written on the last two decades of NASCAR video games. I won’t be delving into that deep dive (yet), but I do want to make a mention that the last NASCAR video game made for console was absolutely eviscerated by the games media. The NASCAR simulation style video game has been in a pretty bad place in recent years. Hold that thought… (or read the article below!)
Since smartphone games have taken off, there was a simple idea that a racing game could easily transition to the smartphone. You can tilt your screen left and right to steer, and accelerate automatically. For any casual racing game, that’s all you need, and that’s exactly what 704 Games did with NASCAR Heat Mobile.
It’s surprising to me that it has taken this long for a good NASCAR mobile game to hit the app store. Mobile games are easy to monetize and pitch the idea of NASCAR to a younger audience.
