The ultra-violent automotive fight collection Carmageddon returns in 2026. Developer 34BigThings introduced Thursday that its new tackle the nearly-30-year-old franchise, Carmageddon: Rogue Shift, will re-imagine the collection with “trendy roguelite depth and silky arcade dealing with,” its creators mentioned.
“We’re bringing one thing recent to the franchise and the racing style” mentioned Giuseppe Enrico Franchi, sport director of Carmageddon: Rogue Shift. “Carmageddon means discover, experiment, paint the streets purple and crumple up opponents. We would like our gamers to adapt, improve, and unleash destruction on zombie hordes with glee behind the wheel of a killing machine. Rogue Shift will hit with those that fondly keep in mind the legendary collection, and those that are discovering it for the primary time — reignited, reinvented and extra thrilling than ever.”
Carmageddon: Rogue Shift guarantees a roguelite marketing campaign with branching occasion maps and dynamic challenges, with development between gamers’ runs in “deadly underground races.” The builders at 34BigThings promise loads of selection to maintain runs attention-grabbing: 15 upgradeable automobiles, 13 weapon courses, and greater than 80 perks with stackable, synergistic results. As with earlier video games within the Carmageddon franchise, gamers will race towards different opponents and take down hordes of zombies — now together with supermutated boss variations — and mechanical warfare machines.
The unique Carmageddon was launched for PC platforms in 1997. The sport drew (meant) controversy for permitting gamers to run over pedestrians, and was censored in some territories, with robots and zombies changing the human pedestrian targets. Unique developer Stainless Video games launched a number of Carmageddon video games over the previous three many years, together with the latest mainline entry, 2015’s Carmageddon: Reincarnation, and cellular spinoff Carmageddon: Crashers. New developer 34BigThings (a part of the Embracer Group) is greatest recognized for its work on the high-speed Redout racing video games.
Carmageddon: Rogue Shift is coming to Nintendo Swap 2, PlayStation 5, Home windows PC (through Steam and Epic Video games Retailer), and Xbox Sequence X someday in early 2026.
