Rally Point 5: one car, one stage, one clock

How one stage of Rally Point 5 goes

The title screen has 2 buttons, PLAY and VIEW CREDITS. Three clicks reach the stage: PLAY, a track, a car. The game counts down 3, 2, 1, GO, and the clock runs whether you move or not.

There are 9 tracks in 3 settings, desert, snow and jungle, and 9 cars. At the start 3 tracks and 3 cars are open, the cars named evader, rhino and mule; the other 6 of each carry padlocks. Poki's description sums up the job: "manage your nitro boost carefully to avoid overheating your engine, and try to beat the clock".

The target for the first desert stage is printed above the clock: 03:15:00. Passing it does not end the stage. In our check on 10 November 2026 we left the road, the clock ran on to 04:26 and the target box turned red. We did not reach the finish.

Keys that worked in our check

↑

Accelerate. Held for 3 seconds from a standstill, it took the needle from 0 to about 50 on the Mph dial.

Space

Nitro. With ↑ held, 1.5 seconds of Space lit a blue flame at the exhaust and began to fill an orange heat bar.

← →

Steer. 0.6 seconds of ← swung the car off the track in a dust cloud; 1.2 seconds of → brought it back.

↓

Brake. Held for 2.5 seconds, it dropped the needle.

W A S D

Listed by Poki as an alternative to the arrows. Not verified by us.

The stage screen also draws a steering wheel and 2 pedals as on-screen buttons, which we did not try. The pause button at the top right needs the mouse and offers QUIT, RETRY and RESUME. Drive against the direction of the stage and a no-entry sign appears with the words WRONG WAY.

What Rally Point 5 costs and where adverts sit

The game is free on Poki. We saw no shop, no currency and no button that offers a reward for watching an advert on any screen. Poki links no app-store edition.

The Poki page has 2 places marked "Advertisement", in the right column and under the game. Both were empty in our screenshots. No video played before the game, and RETRY gave a black screen for about 3 seconds with no advert in it. Our check ran from an address in Thailand and lasted minutes, so what a UK visitor is shown, or what appears later in a sitting, we did not see.

Xform Games sells a Windows edition on itch.io for "$2.99 USD or more". The price is in US dollars; no price in pounds was shown.

Account, saved progress and age rule

The game starts without an account. Whether unlocked tracks and cars are still there after the tab is closed is not verified. Poki's FAQ says a guest's progress is kept in browser cookies and can be lost in private browsing.

Poki links no store edition, so we found no PEGI or App Store rating. That leaves the rule of the host: 16 and older in the Poki text we were served outside the UK, with a note that the age depends on where you live. The UK version is unread. The game shows rally cars on empty tracks. We saw no other drivers, no people and no chat.

A target time instead of a leaderboard

The stage clock is the score, set against the target time printed above it. A trophy icon sits on the title screen; we did not open it. The Windows edition lists "10 In-game achievements". We saw no best-time display and no online table in the Poki copy.

Who made Rally Point 5

Xform Games is based in Utrecht in the Netherlands. A press release datelined "UTRECHT, October 24th, 2024" calls it "an independent developer of action packed 3D games". The same studio makes the Burnin' Rubber series.

Rally Point 5 began as a Shockwave game. The page of the Windows edition says: "Originally build in Adobe Director (Shockwave) - now remastered in Unity." We found no source for the year of that first version. The Windows re-release is dated 19 October 2020 and belongs to a line the studio calls XformGames Archives.

The title screen of the Poki copy reads "Version 1,3". Poki dates its copy to March 2019 and the latest update to June 2022.