Outburn 87

Sunset roads.
Pixel-perfect speed.

Outburn 87 drops you behind the wheel of a classic convertible on an endless desert highway, bathed in the warm glow of a perpetual sunset. Inspired by the pseudo-3D arcade racers of the late 1980s, the game captures that unmistakable feeling of speed, reflexes and the open road: pure, pick-up-and-play arcade action.

Dodge oncoming traffic, weave between roadside obstacles, hit the fuel pumps to keep going, and push your skills to the limit as the road gets faster and more unpredictable. There is no finish line: only your best distance and the drive to beat it.

Completely free.
Completely yours.

Outburn 87 is free to download and free to play. The entire game. No trial period, no locked content, no energy timers. You won't be interrupted by video ads between runs, harassed by pop-ups asking you to rate, or nudged toward spending money on power-ups. The game respects your time and your attention.

Eight worlds,
one highway

Every few stages the landscape changes: from the sunset coast (ocean left, sand right) through countryside, desert and canyon to alpine passes, starlit night and a neon city. The roads are procedurally generated, so no two runs are the same, and the speed cap rises with every stage: from a friendly 100 km/h to well past 300.

Under the hood sits a V8 built from three oscillators, a five-gear simulation and a tire squeal that only shows up when you earn it. The soundtrack is a server-served playlist of synth tracks, pure 1987.

The road is young

Outburn 87 shipped in February 2026, so the review shelf is still short. Here is what the first drivers said, quoted as written.

Read the road

Five short guides: how to drive, how to score, and how to put your own message in the sky.

Same garage,
new machine

Outburn 87 is the newest game from the one-man Amsterdam garage of W.L. Middelkoop, published by dsd 164 B.V. It follows Snake '97, the retro phone classic with over 40 million downloads, and Block 89, the handheld brick puzzle. Same philosophy every time: rebuild a love from the golden age properly, charge nothing, show no ads, collect no data.

The whole game is one hand-written file. Every sprite is drawn in code, down to the passenger's hair fluttering with speed. That is not efficiency, that is affection.

Charter a skyplane

While playing Outburn 87, small planes occasionally fly across the sky, trailing a banner behind them, just like at the beach. These skyplane banners are the only form of messaging in the game, and they are designed to feel like part of the scenery, never like an interruption.

If you would like your brand or message to appear on a skyplane banner visible to all players, configure your fly-by below. Text only, no links: just pure sky-high visibility. One month of airtime for €9.

Asked and answered

Your data. All zero bytes of it.

Outburn 87 does not collect, store, transmit, or process any personal data. There are no accounts, no analytics, no event logging, no session recording, and no behavioural profiling. Your high scores and game progress are stored locally on your device and never leave it.

The game contains no advertising SDKs, no third-party code, and no tracking of any kind. It does not access your device's advertising identifier (IDFA/GAID), hardware identifiers, or any other unique identifiers. No network access is required during gameplay: the game works entirely offline.

Skyplane banners. The only content loaded from the internet is the skyplane banner configuration: a small text file containing the active banner messages and their colours, plus the soundtrack playlist. These requests contain no user identifiers, device information, or tracking parameters. There is no ad SDK involved, no impression counting tied to individual users, and no click-through tracking.

Children. Because Outburn 87 collects no data whatsoever, there are no special considerations for children's privacy. The game is safe for players of all ages.

App Store and Google Play. When you download Outburn 87, Apple or Google may collect information as described in their own privacy policies. This is outside our control and unrelated to the game itself.

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