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). Here’s everything we know so far about the new game so far.

Tokyo Xtreme Racer trailer

A short trailer for Tokyo Xtreme Racer dropped on 7 November, confirming that the new entry won’t deviate massively from the classic formula: street races taking place on Tokyo’s sprawling network of urban expressways.

Centred around three cars we already knew would be featured – the R34 Skyline GT-R, FD RX-7 and A80 Supra – the trailer doesn’t give away anything else in terms of content, but does seemingly confirm that car customisation will be a feature.

It also hints that, graphically, Genki is pursuing a deliberately nostalgic, slightly cartoonish look instead of pursuing out-and-out realism, which is something we’re very much on board with.

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

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.