GamesWheelMates
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
73
Well liked
from 413 reactions
very high confidence
67% positive12% mixed20% negative
→ SteadyTrend
1Platform
+9vs hype

What people are saying

Updated nightly
The Real Review

WheelMates is a 2-player co-op RC car adventure that's great to play with a friend, especially with the free Friend's Pass. People love the driving and puzzles, but it's dragged down by terrible performance issues on PC, which is a constant complaint. The value is a bit mixed, but if you can get past the technical problems, the core gameplay loop is genuinely fun for couch co-op.

Synthesized from 413 real reactions · very high confidenceGameplayMultiplayerGraphicsValueDifficultyPerformanceStory

Hype vs reality

Before release, then after.

64Pre-release
→
73Audience
+9
050100

From 142 pre-release reactions, locked on Sep 1, 2026. The audience score is built only from reactions since.

BeforeDivisive142 reactions
AfterWell liked413 reactions

Sentiment split

Every qualifying reaction, weighted.

67%positive
  • Positive67%
  • Mixed12%
  • Negative20%

By aspect

What people scored, piece by piece.

gameplay81
multiplayer79
graphics79
value63
difficulty51
story39
performance28

How opinion moved

The Real Score, night by night.

717476Sep 27302467473

Buzz

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

036Sep 22: 2 reactionsSep 22Sep 23: 2 reactionsSep 24: 2 reactions24Sep 25: 4 reactionsSep 26: 4 reactions26Sep 27: 0 reactionsSep 28: 3 reactions28Sep 29: 1 reactionSep 30: 2 reactions30Oct 1: 1 reactionOct 2: 5 reactions2Oct 3: 1 reactionOct 4: 5 reactions4Oct 5: 1 reaction5

Where the signal came from

Volume and platform mix only.

Steam337
Social Media76

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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.

Firevoltdeveloper58×43%+
Friend's Passfeature49×73%+
RC carsfeature21×71%+
Steamplatform17×6%+
puzzlesfeature15×53%+
PCplatform10×20%+
co‑opfeature10×100%+
WheelMatescharacter10×20%+
It Takes Twofeature9×56%+
It Takes Twocharacter8×38%+
professorcharacter5×40%+
controlsfeature5×20%+
Twitchplatform5×20%+
girlfriendcharacter4×100%+
Windowsplatform4×0%+

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