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WheelMates poster
Released Sep 1, 2026

WheelMates

2026 · Puzzle, Racing
Firevolt · PC

Dive into a 2-player co-op driving adventure with RC cars. With Friend’s Pass, your friend joins for free. Explore the professor’s home laboratory, solve puzzles, find hidden paths, and uncover what happened inside.

Real Score
74
Well liked
from 459 reactions
very high confidence
68% positive13% mixed19% negative
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+10vs hype

What people are saying

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The Real Review

Firevolt’s WheelMates is a PC co-op RC car adventure where you explore a professor’s lab, solve puzzles, and find hidden paths. The driving and two player loop is the hook, and Friend’s Pass gets a lot of love because your buddy can join free. The big problem is how it runs: performance, PC and Steam issues, and some control gripes come up enough to sour the experience. It’s still worth a look if you have a patient co-op partner, but the technical rough edges and middling value are what lose people.

Synthesized from 459 real reactions · very high confidenceGraphicsGameplayMultiplayerValueDifficultyPerformanceStory

Hype vs reality

Before release, then after.

64Pre-release
→
74Audience
+10
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From 142 pre-release reactions, locked on Sep 1, 2026. The audience score is built only from reactions since.

BeforeDivisive142 reactions
AfterWell liked459 reactions

Sentiment split

Every qualifying reaction, weighted.

68%positive
  • Positive68%
  • Mixed13%
  • Negative19%

By aspect

What people scored, piece by piece.

graphics82
gameplay81
multiplayer79
value62
difficulty48
story39
performance27

How opinion moved

The Real Score, night by night.

717476Oct 3579117474

Buzz

65 reactions over two weeks, counted by the day they were posted.

01020Sep 28: 3 reactionsSep 28Sep 29: 1 reactionSep 30: 2 reactions30Oct 1: 1 reactionOct 2: 5 reactions2Oct 3: 1 reactionOct 4: 5 reactions4Oct 5: 1 reactionOct 6: 10 reactions6Oct 7: 13 reactionsOct 8: 6 reactions8Oct 9: 9 reactionsOct 10: 6 reactions10Oct 11: 2 reactions11

Where the signal came from

Volume and platform mix only.

Steam382
Social Media77

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Names and topics that came up

Mentions across all reactions, with the share that were positive. Anything mentioned fewer than twice never shapes the review.

Firevoltdeveloper60×43%+
Friend's Passfeature51×75%+
RC carsfeature24×75%+
puzzlesfeature21×43%+
Steamplatform17×6%+
PCplatform10×20%+
co‑opfeature10×100%+
WheelMatescharacter10×20%+
It Takes Twofeature9×56%+
It Takes Twocharacter8×38%+
controlsfeature8×13%+
professorcharacter6×33%+
Twitchplatform5×20%+
girlfriendcharacter4×100%+
Windowsplatform4×0%+

Trailer and screenshots

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