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Getting started
You prepare the car. It handles the race.
Your Garage. A race already underway.
Desk Top Racer is a free management game with automatic races. Your car races in a strip on your desktop while you choose equipment, improve its stats, and make progress.
Start with the basics: keep the game open and connected, open the crates you receive, and equip your active car. You don't need to accelerate, brake, or steer.
Whenever you want to drive yourself, Driving Mode is one click away: it is separate from the championships, and your automatic race keeps running while you drive.
Your first four steps
- Open the management view. Use the tools button on the racing strip. The Garage shows your car and its equipment; the side panel displays the section you select.
- Open your crates. They are stored in the Depot, accessible through the crate icon on the racing strip. The revealed item, either equipment or DTR Coin, goes to your Inventory.
- Fill the empty equipment slots. Click or drag a compatible part onto the car. Compare its stats before replacing an equipped part.
- Spend your Mastery. Open the tree to improve performance, storage, and automation. In the Tour, finishing in the championship's top three unlocks the next stage.
The interface at a glance
| On the screen | What it means |
|---|---|
| Mastery / Credit / Scrap | Your available Mastery, Credit, and Scrap. |
| Performance | The performance of the car with its current setup. |
| Condition | The current Condition of the active car. |
| Laps / position | Your lap and position in the ongoing race. |
| Weather icon | Today's weather and the favored stat. Hover over it for details. |
| Inventory / Spaces | Unequipped parts and Inventory space usage. |
Activities and mascots
The dice icon in the Garage navigation opens Activities. In Plincar, each play uses 1 DTR Coin to play for Credit, Scrap or Mastery. Mascots opens your collection and the machine, which also uses DTR Coin. Weekly Missions sit in the same panel and pay DTR Coin for every mission you complete. Part Fusion, also there, trades five parts of the same rarity for one of a higher rarity.
Resources while you're away
Unlock Offline Credit and Offline Mastery separately in the Mastery tree. Each starts with a 4-hour limit per absence, upgradable to 6 hours. See the paths, costs and examples in the Offline rewards guide.
What would you like to learn next?
Progress through the Tour
Learn how points, stages, and qualification work.
Understand drops
See what can drop at each stage of the game.
Build your equipment setup
Compare, upgrade, sell or dismantle your parts.
Develop your Mastery
Choose upgrades, automation and offline reward benefits.
Discover Plincar
Use DTR Coin and choose to play for Credit, Scrap or Mastery.
Collect mascots
Learn about bonuses, duplicate upgrades and DTR Coin.
Drive the car
Take the wheel in Multiplayer or Practice.
Complete missions
Complete the week's missions and claim DTR Coin.
Fit the game around your day
Settings lets you choose the language and interface scale, keep the window on top, reduce motion and adjust the volume. Changing the interface language does not affect your race.
Wiki and Discord sit side by side above Exit Game. Wiki opens the guide in the current interface language, including when Automatic is selected; Discord opens the official community invitation.
Keep the game open and connected to continue racing. Closing it preserves your progress, and you can earn Credit and Mastery through offline rewards once you have unlocked them.