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Battle Wheels swaps the usual lap for a straight-up duel. There is no finish line to cross — instead you and an opponent each pilot a roofless car around a small arena, and the only way to win a round is to ram your rival hard enough, and from the right angle, to smash their exposed head before they do the same to you.

That makes it feel less like the traffic-dodging or drift runs elsewhere on Car Rush and more like a physics brawler on wheels. Momentum decides most exchanges: a car coming in fast and low can flip a slower one onto its back, exposing the head for an easy follow-up hit. Rounds are short, so a match usually comes down to two or three good hits rather than a long chase.

How to play

Battle Wheels, made by EasyCats, is a one-on-one car fight, and it supports both a single-player mode against the computer and a local two-player mode on one keyboard. In two-player, Player 1 steers with the A and D keys and Player 2 steers with the Left and Right arrow keys. There is no separate gas or brake button — steering into your opponent is the whole game. Land your car's body or wheels on their head to chip away their health bar; take too many hits yourself and your bar empties first. Between rounds you can spend what you earn on chassis upgrades for more health, wheel upgrades for more damage, and further health or damage boosts as you climb the ranks.

Tips

• Approach at an angle rather than head-on, so your chassis absorbs the hit and your own head stays out of reach.
• Use ramps and bumps in the arena to get airborne — landing on top of an opponent's head does real damage.
• If you're losing early rounds, put your next upgrade into chassis health rather than damage; surviving longer wins more fights than raw power does.
• Play a round or two against the computer first to get a feel for how the car flips before jumping into two-player.

Similar games on Car Rush

Battle Wheels shares the site with more traditional driving games, and the contrast is worth knowing before you pick one. Smash Karts is also about wrecking other players, but it does it with karts and pickup weapons in an online arena rather than head-to-head physics ramming. Drift Boss drops the combat entirely for a one-button timing game about drifting through turns without falling off the track. Highway Traffic is closer to what the name promises — weaving a single car through oncoming lanes with nothing to fight, just traffic to avoid.

Because the controls are two narrow key clusters rather than a full keyboard spread, Battle Wheels also works well on a laptop or Chromebook when two people want to share one screen for a quick best-of-three.