*NOTICE - TRY BEFORE YOU BUY* - Play the beginning for free. A one-time in-app purchase unlocks the full game. No ads.
**Minimalist Style, Maximum Strategy**
Golden Lap is a minimalist take on the racing strategy genre, with an intuitive UI that displays only essential information and makes it clear what each decision means – though it won’t make the decisions themselves any easier!
The amount of options and information involved in motorsport can be overwhelming for someone not familiar with it. Golden Lap cuts out the micromanagement and lets you focus on the big picture, with depth where it matters.
The Golden Era of open-wheel racing is about to begin. Do you have what it takes to lead an iconic team through one of the most exciting decades of motorsport history?
As the head of a team, you'll make pivotal decisions that shape the destiny of your drivers and the performance of your cars. Allocate your budget wisely across drivers, support staff, car development, and sponsorships to gain an edge over the competition. Manage big personalities to get the most out of every member of your team.
But don’t forget – racing in this era is unpredictable and intense. Golden Lap is no ordinary motorsport management game.
Safety measures are improving, but accidents can happen. Car technology is advancing in leaps and bounds. You aren’t racing spreadsheets, and there’s no such thing as a guaranteed win – which makes victory all the sweeter.
**Lead Your Team To Pole Position**
Every season is an opportunity to etch your name in racing history. Whether you're turning a back-marker team into a championship contender or taking on the pressure of maintaining a dynasty, your decisions between races and championships will be the key to your legacy.
Hire the right crew, develop your cars, make the right calls on race day, and meet your sponsors’ goals. All while making sure not to go broke!
**Your Legacy Awaits**
Build a winning team with drivers, a head engineer and a crew chief. Every hire comes with rich personality traits that affect everything from finances to car performance and skill behind the wheel.
A driver with rich parents may look like they’ve saved your team by helping out with money - until they turn out to be a party animal and cost you the championship by showing up tired on race day. Your head engineer might bring down the rest of your team with their grumpy attitude, but if they’re a magician with a wrench it might be worth it? Only you can judge what your team needs.
Lead your team, choose a strategy, and build a legend!
I have had Golden Lap on my PC for about a year and a half now and installed the iOS version a couple weeks ago. I liked it on pc but it was definitely more of a mobile game in the sense of simplicity so I have played a ton more on my phone waiting in the airport. It’s worth paying for the full game for sure and it’s a fair price. Like I stated simplicity is awesome for newer F1 fans and I love the nod to the 70s F1 teams since copyright issues won’t let the real teams and drivers exist. My only grip is I wish there was more mid season things to do. I think that’s where it really lacks. I think being able to fire people and hire people mid season would be awesome. Other than that the game is fully worth it and I’m so glad it has reached iOS.
An absolute treat
Ridan56
A great and absolutely my favorite mobile game. I got into Le Mans early this year and making my own little team, watching them race, improve, create better cars each season, slowly climbing the ladder, with a small mini game for tuning your car is just fun. The simplistic flat color 2D is lovely along side the weather effects and clouds. Now, if i had one small nitpick, i really wish there was a setting to turn off “unimportant” radio chatter. On PC im sure its no problem, but on a smaller screen the racers going “I CANT PASS LEVI MACH” along with “SIGH, IM GOING TO HAVE A BAD TRACK, SO SORRY EVERYONE” covers the circuit and its sometimes a nuisance. Otherwise its a 10/10 and i can’t recommend it to any racer fan enough.
Review with a suggestion
steven chickens
The game plays and feels very crisp, UI is well designed and strait forward. I played through one season on pape and enjoyed the experience of having to replace injured drivers and mange the overtaking. Bravo! One issue I’ve noticed is my car stats don’t carry over from season to season? This design seems counter intuitive as I pay for upgrades or a new part all together but just lose that investment while my team grows… making it almost impossible to work your way up from a mid ranked team to winning outside of countless repetition to reach competency limiting my desire to play more. Cheers!
a love letter to f1
Paigeofchalices
Genuinely have been playing for days. Feels like someone watched me watch f1 and made a game just for me. I have one more: MORE. Just more content. I think it would be fun to have more in depth options as far as difficulty. I know there are going to be people who don’t watch f1 and need more hand holding and explanations but after a while of playing I also want more challenging game mechanics. Blue flags, black and white flags for track limits, yellow flag pit stops, driver input re:car development ect. Perhaps some of these exist and I haven’t played enough yet but regardless KEEP GOING. I love this game.
