TURN LEFT!The 1-Button Stock Car Racer

The whole game runs on a single button. Hold it to carve left into the corner; let go and drift high toward the wall. That’s it. That’s the whole control scheme — and somehow it’s the kind of thing you tell yourself you’ll play “one more lap” of at 11pm and look up an hour later.

It’s a top-down stock car racer with a modern-retro pixel look: chunky NES-era type, a clean limited palette, and a car that actually reads like a NASCAR machine tearing counterclockwise around the oval. No downloads, no menus to wade through, no account. Open the link on your phone or in your browser and you’re racing in about two seconds.

Easy to pick up, deceptively hard to run a clean line. Go turn left.