Wild ramps, impossible loops, a timer that taunts you down to the millisecond.

The profile says everything about the game's nature. Controller feel sits ahead of 67% of titles, and that is exactly where Trackmania lives: the precision of the line, the perfect trajectory you redo a thousand times. But look at the rest and the mechanic stands bare. Connection drops to the very bottom, ahead of barely 3% of games. Art style and rediscovery plunge low too, under 10%. There is the gap: this is a game of pure performance, arcade and stopwatch, that seeks neither to move you nor to tell a story. What makes it great, the rush of the perfect time, is simply not what these questions about attachment and image measure.

Compared to arcade racers like Hotshot Racing or the older Trackmania entries, it is the same logic: the move above all.

So, who is it for? For you if you live for the timer, the repetition, the quarter second clawed back. Much less if you want a world to bond with or a story to remember.