Getting started | Wiki Desk Top Racer

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.

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 you're viewing. 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

Desk Top Racer Inventory and Garage in English — Inventory on the left holds unequipped parts. On the right are your resources, car, six equipment slots, and stats. Racing continues below. Click to enlarge.

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 car you're viewing.
Laps / position	Your lap and position in the ongoing race.
Inventory / Spaces	Unequipped parts and Inventory space usage.

Inventory context menu with the Sell option — Sell exchanges the part for Credit; Dismantle turns it into Scrap. Both actions require confirmation. Click to enlarge.

Activities and mascots

The dice icon in Garage navigation opens Activities. In Plincar, eligible races earn free spins for Credit, Scrap or Mastery. The Mascots entry opens your collection and the machine that uses DTR Coin.

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.

Unlock automation

Find the upgrade paths for opening crates and repairing your car.

Discover Plincar

Save up spins and choose to play for Credit, Scrap or Mastery.

Collect mascots

Learn about bonuses, duplicate upgrades and 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.

Game settings with Wiki and Discord — Display contains the visual settings; Audio contains the volume controls. Wiki and Discord sit side by side above Exit Game. Click to enlarge.

Keep the game open and connected to continue participating. There is no offline progress. Your profile and existing progress are saved when you close the game.