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Wheel World
Released On: Jul 23, 2025
74
5.8
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 20 Critic Reviews
74
70% Positive
14 Reviews
14 Reviews
25% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
5% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 20 Critic Reviews
74
70% Positive
14 Reviews
14 Reviews
25% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
5% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Wheel World is an excellent game, bringing a realistic weightiness from the bike handling and merging it with a beautiful world that's a joy to explore.
Get on your bike and ride - Wheel World is a sheer joy, and one of 2025's most relaxing games.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 16 User Ratings
5.8
25% Positive
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
44% Mixed
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
31% Negative
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 16 User Ratings
5.8
25% Positive
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
44% Mixed
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
31% Negative
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
I love bikes and games based on them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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A fun little biking game. The first map is nice and vibrant and you have lots of stuff to explore and races to do. It's fairly easy to get all the goals done in the game, except maybe a few time trials you might have to come back to depending what you do first. But the world is just fun to bike around in. The 2nd zone however is more gated off and is just not appealing to look at, even though the races are still fun and offer a bit of a different challenge having tighter corners.
The story overall and the ending are fairly lame, but you don't really come to a racing game for that. I'd also say the boss music specifically, with the lyrics, made me mute it. I never do that in games, but this was so annoying to me, just not feeling it at all.
It's also only about 5 hours or so, so a nice GamePass game to spend an evening with.
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Wheel World was a real surprise for me. Its simple yet detailed world, satisfying racing and customization options, and great music introduced me to the world of bike racing, which I didn't know I loved so much. Whether you like the genre or not, give Wheel World a try if you want to relax and have some fun without putting in too much effort.
That choice, to ride how you want, to shape your experience not just through specs but through connection, is the heart of Wheel World. It’s a title that take you by surprise offering more than expected through its flexibility and reverence.
Ultimately, Wheel World is a small and charming open world, presenting a stylish look, an enjoyable biking gameplay loop, and various high adrenaline races, up and down the hills of this magic island. With rather formulaic open-world activities and slightly unpolished physics, the game doesn’t quite reach its full potential, but it’s also a pleasant experience that ends before some of its shortcomings could start to bore or frustrate. And, well, it’s out today and is on Game Pass, so it doesn’t cost much to give it a shot yourself. So, hop on your magical apocalypse-avoiding bikes, and let’s roll.
By merging Burnout Paradise and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild with pedal power, Wheel World arrives somewhere unusual and worth visiting. For fans of the soothing sound of displaced gravel.
Wheel World just doesn't deliver on the promises it presents in its opening hour. You'll quickly find the charm starts to wear off as you complete monotonous race after monotonous race. That boredom only turns to frustration as the later races in the game become increasingly hostile, with no way for the player to push back. Add on a story that goes nowhere, and you have a game that just feels like it never got past the initial brainstorming session.
Awful is likely to harsh for this mostly vibes based biking game with some decent cel shaded graphics and some ok moment to moment racing. But this game is just lacking everything, the performance is awful, the bike customization is a largely throwaway idea, and the characters/story are basically a zero.
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If it weren't for the constant annoying glitches and bugs in this game, I might have rated Wheel World higher. Somewhere beneath the horrible collision hitboxes that see enemies hitting you when they're nowhere near, or you hitting a bad invisible hitbox that isn't properly aligned with the object in front of you, random feeling bumps and walls that turn you around for no reason or fling you in a different direction, awful keyboard controls that you can't remap meaning I got hand cramps from my palm being in an unnatural position, broken AI that will just fling itself at walls or even pass through cars, unpredictable cars that just go through walls, drive on the grass, or do a 180 in the middle of the road, broken UI that doesn't correctly tell you which button to press to buy a part, and a glitch in the second area of the game that makes the entire bottom eight of my screen constantly flash, inducing a migraine, there is a decent feeling cycling game. Wheel World doesn't overstay its welcome, so even though it basically has only three types of races, one of which has the same repeated objectives over and over again, boredom never sets in. What does set in, however, are the hand cramps, a migraine for the ages, and a severe disappointment that there wasn't at least another 3 months of QA testing done before the release.
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Summary Ghost Bike puts players in the shoes of a streetwise kid from Freehub City on a mission to revive the last of the Ghost Bikes, the magical couriers who rode between the world of the living and the world of the dead. Ride the Ghost Bike to the afterlife, and save the lost souls of Wheel World. Abandoned and forgotten, the Ghost Bike ne...
Platforms:
- PC
- PlayStation 5
- Xbox Series X
Initial Release Date: Jul 23, 2025
Developer:
- Messhof
Publisher:
Annapurna Interactive
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