What's new

v1.1.35 · Oct 21, 2026

🏁 Daily Trail challenge links: share your time, and friends who open the link race today's trail against it ("Challenge: beat 1:23.4"). The link holds only your time and the date.
🎮 More rumble: gear grinds, water splashes and a light thunk on the controller when a gear engages.
New name for the helper: 💬 Ask Buddy. Wreck Rally rivals are now called CPU drivers.

v1.1.34 · Oct 21, 2026

⚡ Smoother Stick Shift: the far-away hills use about a third fewer triangles, with no visible change. Biggest help in lighter mode.
Fixed a console warning when the game runs inside another site's frame.

v1.1.33 · Oct 17, 2026

Lighter mode now switches on right at startup on weaker devices.

v1.1.32 · Oct 17, 2026

📱 Works on older iPhones and iPads again (iOS 15 and up): Stick Shift and Wreck Rally load on older Safari.
🪶 Lighter mode on weaker phones and laptops (and with Data Saver or Reduce Motion on): fewer effects and lower resolution for smoother play.
⚡ The home screen no longer jumps while it loads.

v1.1.31 · Oct 17, 2026

Wreck Rally: your skin now shows only on the car it was made for, even if you switch cars in the menu.
Garage labels fit every vehicle (Paint, and pets that ride in your car or fly beside it).
Home: tidier Daily Trail button on phones.

v1.1.30 · Oct 16, 2026

⚡ The Garage loads your hub skins and wraps with fewer requests.

v1.1.29 · Oct 16, 2026

🎮 The Share sheet now works with a controller and Esc: D-pad moves inside it, B or Esc closes it, and the game stays paused (no more surprise restarts behind the sheet). TV remote Back closes it too.

v1.1.28 · Oct 16, 2026

🎨 Hub skins for Wedge (Steel, Arctic, Hazard, Stealth) and Apex (Crimson, Pearl, Volt, Nebula). All kid-safe.
📱 "Get the app" on the home screen, and an "All apps" link in the footer.

v1.1.27 · Oct 16, 2026

Volt Assist now holds your speed going downhill too.

v1.1.26 · Oct 16, 2026

📱 Sign-in support for the Android app.

v1.1.25 · Oct 16, 2026

🔷 Wedge: a tough, angular steel electric pickup. Heavy and slow to turn, huge torque, one speed. In Wreck Rally it hits hard and takes less damage.
🏁 Apex: a 2-seat electric hypercar. 0-60 mph in under a second. Press T for Track mode (spoiler up, more grip). In free drive and Wreck you can also use Thruster (hold B) and Hop (J). They are just for fun: Wreck matches where you use Thruster earn no coins, and lessons and the Daily Trail never have them.
Phones: automatics no longer show a clutch pedal.

v1.1.24 · Oct 16, 2026

🎨 Hub skins for every vehicle: Trail 4x4 and Trail Rig (off-road), Volt (EV) and Metro (sedan). Also new wraps for any vehicle (Racing Stripe, Desert Camo, Neon Grid, Carbon Weave) and 🛸 drone buddies that fly beside your car in both games.
Sign in with a passkey to shop with hub coins (no real money). Kids Mode shows kid-safe items only.
Quieter console for guests.

v1.1.23 · Oct 16, 2026

🛻 New Garage button on the home screen (vehicles, pets, paint and skins).
Footer: added TCG Booth, Stillpoint, CradleCue and RideYield to "Also by Nick".
Fixed a console security warning.

v1.1.22 · Oct 16, 2026

🚦 New vehicles in the Garage, for free drive and Wreck Rally: Trail Rig (big tires, crawler low range, flexes over rocks, doors and top come off, slow on top), Volt (quiet electric, instant torque, one speed, optional Assist cruise in free drive) and Metro (midsize sedan, front-wheel drive, smooth CVT).
Each one drives differently in both games. Lessons and the Daily Trail still use a stick-shift 4x4, because automatics have no clutch.

v1.1.21 · Oct 16, 2026

🐾 Pets: hatch eggs in the Garage (11 species, 5 rarities). They ride in the truck bed or fly beside your car, level up as you play and learn tricks. Just for fun, no stats.
Signed in, pets, eggs, names and pet hats are saved to your account. Guests keep them on this device.
Chrome Paint is in the shop for hub coins (no real money).
Faster and sturdier loading when the hub is busy.

v1.1.20 · Oct 16, 2026

📤 One Share button everywhere (home, lesson and Daily Trail results, Wreck results, screenshots and clips). It opens the share sheet with all the apps, a QR code and a picture card of your result.
⚡ Small speed-ups on phones.

v1.1.19 · Oct 16, 2026

Footer: added St. Pete Web Co. and Faithful Herald to "Also by Nick".

v1.1.18 · Oct 16, 2026

📸 Share your drives: on the pause and results screens, grab a screenshot or the last few seconds as a clip. Share it from your device, or sign in with a passkey to post it to the new 🖼 Community gallery (every post gets a safety check, and each one has a Report button). Never shown while you drive, and off in kid-safe mode.

v1.1.17 · Oct 16, 2026

The footer (Also by Nick, Buy me a coffee, version) now loads with the page itself, so it shows even before the game starts. It hides while you drive.
💬 Ask Buddy knows more about setting up a Moza wheel.

v1.1.16 · Oct 16, 2026

💬 Ask Buddy now knows the real controls for keyboard, touch, controller and Moza wheels, so answers about the clutch, gears and stalling are accurate.

v1.1.15 · Oct 16, 2026

💬 Ask Buddy: a friendly helper for tips, rules and jokes. Open it from the home screen or the pause menu (never while driving). Type, or hold 🎤 to talk, and it can read answers aloud. Works with a controller too.
🎃 More seasonal jokes from the shared OPPS joke pack, still family-friendly.

v1.1.14 · Oct 16, 2026

🎃 Seasonal car jokes on the loading screens and in the pause menu. They change by date (Halloween, Thanksgiving, winter holidays, Valentine's, spring, summer), with everyday jokes in between. Family-friendly, in English and Spanish, and they translate with the language picker.

v1.1.13 · Oct 16, 2026

🎨 Truck paint garage: unlock 6 colors by earning lesson stars and Daily Trail streaks. Free, nothing to buy.
Stick Shift on portrait phones: the coach text, dashboard and clutch bar no longer overlap.
Sharing a 📸 snapshot now adds a short message and the game link.
After an update, an open tab reloads once by itself instead of failing to start a game.

v1.1.12 · Oct 16, 2026

Faster first load: the home screen downloads 27% less code. Both games still load in the background so they work offline.
Wreck Rally draws its arena grid more efficiently.

v1.1.11 · Oct 16, 2026

📅 Daily Trail: a new Stick Shift course every day, the same for everyone. Beat your best time and keep your 🔥 streak going. Start it from the home screen.
Share buttons on Daily Trail and Wreck Rally results: your device's share sheet, or X, WhatsApp, Facebook and copy link. Nothing is posted unless you choose to.
Nicer link previews when the game is shared.

v1.1.10 · Oct 16, 2026

Wreck Rally: bigger, brighter sparks and a flash ring on every blast, so hits are easy to see on phones.

v1.1.9 · Oct 16, 2026

TV mode for Android TV, Google TV and Fire TV. Bigger menus with overscan-safe margins and an always-visible focus ring, and the first item is focused for you.
Arrow keys and the remote D-pad move between buttons; OK selects. Back pauses while driving, closes menus, and leaves sub-pages.
The Android app now appears in the TV launcher with its own banner. Stick Shift and Wreck play best with a controller on TV.

v1.1.8 · Oct 16, 2026

Smarter Wreck Rally rivals. They react like people (a short delay and a little aim wobble), go after weak or nearby cars, team up to focus a target, swing wide to flank, stay clear of the zone edge and the next circle, and grab repairs when they are hurt. They also ease off when you are struggling and push harder when you are winning.
Stick Shift coach explains why: why you stalled (no gas, clutch too fast, gear too high), when the engine is lugging, when you are on the limiter, riding the clutch or starting in a high gear. It also cheers shift streaks. Each tip backs off once you have got it.

v1.1.7 · Oct 16, 2026

Smoother driving: the 3D view now shows the truck between physics steps. The chase camera eases in and widens with speed, and it looks ahead down the road.
Camera shake on bumps, rocks and stalls (turned off when your device asks for reduced motion). Dust, tyre smoke and water spray come off the wheels.
On slow devices the 3D resolution adjusts automatically to keep the frame rate up.
Wreck Rally: the camera eases and looks ahead, nearby blasts shake the screen, sparks fly, and cars kick up dust trails.

v1.1.6 · Oct 16, 2026

Controller navigation in the pause menu is now reliable in Stick Shift too. A button held when you resume no longer triggers an action.

v1.1.5 · Oct 16, 2026

Stick Shift frees its 3D scene (textures, materials, WebGL context) when you leave a lesson, so lots of lesson switching stays smooth.

v1.1.4 · Oct 16, 2026

Pinch-zoom works again on menus (accessibility); it stays off while driving.
The "Smooth stop" lesson accepts the gentler engine braking from the new idle.

v1.1.3 · Oct 16, 2026

Pause menu works with a controller: Menu/Options opens it, the D-pad moves, A selects and B continues.
The 60-second coin timer no longer counts paused time.
Translation fixes: "Resume" is now "Continue" (some languages read it as a CV). The Stick Shift top bar wraps on narrow phones in long languages.

v1.1.2 · Oct 16, 2026

Pause menu (⏸ or Esc) with Resume, Controls, Settings and the version.
Controls guide: hold ?, H or your controller's View/Select button. It shows your current input (keyboard, touch, controller glyphs, or wheel bindings). A short first-play hint fades out on its own.
Easy mode creeps a bit more readily off the clutch.
The Android test app is updated to v1.1.1.

v1.1.1 · Oct 15, 2026

Engine braking feels right again; Easy creeps more readily on clutch release.

v1.1.0 · Oct 15, 2026

Stick Shift: pulling away in 1st is much more forgiving. Stronger idle (about 850 rpm), so the car creeps when you let the clutch out. A wider, smoother bite zone, and a quick release on Easy/Normal slips in instead of stalling. Brief dips no longer stall. "Hard" is now called Realistic.
Clutch calibration in Controls: a live bar to check direction, an Invert option, top/bottom deadzones and a bite-point slider. The HUD shows when the clutch is free, biting or locked.
Pedals whose rest was captured mid-travel now learn their full range automatically.
Notch, punch-hole and rounded-corner screens: the game and its buttons stay inside the safe area.
Coins now sync with your Nick's Sites account (guests keep coins on this device), with a daily streak and a first-win-of-the-day bonus.
Version number and this page.

v1.0 · Oct 2026

Shared controls: wheels (Moza incl. H-shifter over 32 buttons via WebHID), handbrake as an axis or button, Xbox/PlayStation/Switch/generic pads, menu navigation by controller, rumble.
Stick Shift lessons, Wreck Rally, CC0 sounds, Android app.