Tokyo Xtreme Racer 2025: Everything You Need To Know

We were pretty surprised, but extremely excited, earlier this year when Japanese game developer Genki revealed a reboot of its cult favourite racing series, Tokyo Xtreme Racer.

Set for a release in 2025, it’ll mark the first entry into the series since 2006 (bar a couple of Japanese mobile releases). With info steadily drip-fed since its announcement, we’re getting an idea of how the game is shaping up. Here’s everything we know so far about it so far.

What is Tokyo Xtreme Racer?

In case you weren’t familiar, Tokyo Xtreme Racer was heavily inspired by the manga series Wangan Midnight, and as such trades on the illegal highway racing depicted in that series. That's something the new title will continue to focus on, although interestingly, the Steam page mentions that it'll be set in "a sealed-off future Tokyo."

At least for the Western world, the original Tokyo Xtreme Racer games never really went beyond the realm of being cult favourites, but for those in the know, it’s regarded as one of the best arcade racing series ever made. The series started out in 1994 in Japan as Shutokō Battle, and was eventually released around the world as Tokyo Xtreme Racer with a Dreamcast title in 1999.

We don’t know a great deal about the new game at the moment, save for the trailer, a handful of confirmed cars some screenshots of realistic-looking stretches of highway. 

Tokyo Xtreme Racer 2025 confirmed cars

Tokyo Xtreme Racer has long-featured licenced JDM machines like the R34 Nissan Skyline GT-R, Honda NSX and err… Isuzu Vehicross. That looks set to continue.

Genki has begun drip-feeding cars coming to the game, with the 'hawkeye' GD Subaru Impreza WRX STI Spec C the latest confirmed for the game. Check out the full list of cars confirmed so far below.

Mazda

• FD RX-7 Type RZ

Nissan

• R34 Skyline GT-R V-Spec II

Subaru

• GD Subaru Impreza WRX STI Spec C

Toyota

• A80 Supra RZ

• GR86 RZ

• Levin GT-APEX AE86

Tokyo Xtreme Racer car customisation

Perhaps unsurprisingly for a game so heavily inspired by Tokyo’s street racing heritage, it’s going to be rife with customisation options.

As previewed with a new trailer released early in December, a plethora of bodywork options including new bonnets, wings, splitters, exhausts and wheels will be available. It remains to be seen if these will be licensed kits, or entirely fictional.

Presumably, but not yet confirmed, you’ll also be able to do some pretty extensive work to improve performance too.

Will it be coming to consoles?

So far, Tokyo Xtreme Racer has only been confirmed as coming to PC. Previous titles have been synonymous with console releases though, so we’d anticipate Genki at least exploring the possibility of bringing the new one to PlayStation and Xbox.

When will Tokyo Xtreme Racer be released?

So far, all we know is Tokyo Xtreme Racer will be released in 2025. There’s no indication yet at what point, although based on the limited info we have so far, we’d expect later in the year.