NIGHT-RUNNERS Prologue is an early proof of concept/tech demo of the upcoming NIGHT-RUNNERS game, all features are not implemented and game may lack polish in certain ares. FAQ of the most common questions I have come across are in the end.

Please don't hesitate to ask questions here or give suggestions to add.

The goal of the Prologue is to beat 2 teams at the Tatsumi PA (Parking Area):

• G-Company
  
• Endless appeal

Both teams consist of 9 drivers, including 2 bosses:

• S.K as "sub-boss" and Star Tamer as the "crew boss" in G-Company
  
• Sonny as "sub-boss" and Eternal Sun as the "crew boss" in Endless Appeal

When starting the game, your friend J.B will call you and tell you to find a shoebox with money (between the computer and the bed on the balcony), use this to buy your first car.

After exiting the garage for a first time a mysterious figure will give you a betting loan, use this to bet against the other drivers. Keep in mind, that if you do not pay this loan, the loan shark will take away your car as a payment. When in debt, 75% of the winnings will go to pay off your debt. Multiplier and crew bonuses are not taken into account when paying your debt, only the wager. The 25% and bonuses are your own money to spend on upgrades. After clearing the debt, you get the full 100% of the wager and bonuses to use.

My suggestion is plan ahead and try to keep 1 000 000 yen in bank after paying off thew debt. You will be able to get the debt again if you have too little money: it prevents the soft-lock of the game.

Beat the other drivers to gain rep, once you have enough rep you can challenge these bosses. Around 5000 rep for the rep boss and around 9500 for the crew boss. After beating the crew boss you get a chance to join their crew.

You start the game without a crew, and you need to beat G-Company first. After beating Star Tamer he will offer you a chance to join G-Company. After agreeing to join, Endless Appeal should appear in the Tatsumi PA. If this does not happen, use the cheat to force the change (known bug):

引用自 Planet Jem Software：

Added cheat to change crew ownership -> pause game when in PA, press default 'Gear down' button(X (Xbox),SQUARE (PS), Q (keyboard)). Crew will change when you leave the PA.

After beating Eternal Sun and joining Endless Appeal you get a message thanking you for playing the prologue, this is the end of the prologue, however you are more than welcome to play more and continue racing at the PA.


Sonny, the rep-boss in Endless Appeal

The game currently has 2 types of races and Time Trials (TT). The races are started buy the flashlight guy, when he turns on the light the race starts, if you false start you lose some rep, but not the heat.

If you have circuit or prototype ECU installed you get launch control. This can be used on all race starts and free roam. To toggle it, hold throttle, brake and handbrake. To launch release the handbrake and brake.

• Best of 3 -types of straight line races. You win by winning 2 of the 3 rounds.
  
• Tyre warm up before the race:
  
• Hold brake and throttle, release brake for a short time and press it again, this should start a burnout.
  
• The ideal tyre temperature is 70°, it gives you a 10% grip bonus on launch. Do note that you can't perform a burnout in a car with an automatic gearbox

• Currently there are 2 types of sprint races
  
• Normal races, best of 1
  
• Boss races, best of 5. To win the event you need to win 3 out of the 5 heats

When challenging a driver to a race, you can decline their wager and raise it after. The AI can reject it twice if they deem it's too high. A safe number is 25% extra on top of their "base wager" (the amount they say in the first call). Meaning if you get a call for 600 000, you can reject and raise it to 750 000 safely.

The Prologue has 1 chassis but 3 cars to choose from:

• Sannis Livisa 180RS Sunroof
  
• Sannis Livisa 180RS No Sunroof
  
• Sannis Livisa 200RS Sunroof
  
  
• The 180RS has a 5 speed manual or a 4 speed automatic transmission, a black trim around the car, and tan, black or blue interior.
  
• The 200RS has a 6 speed manual or a 4 speed automatic transmission, no black trim around the car, blue, tan or black interior, sportier seats, a sportier front bumper and a hood scoop.

Both cars have the same top speed, regardless of their gear count. Meaning an auto 180RS has the same top speed as a manual 200RS. The no-sunroof variant of the 180RS is the lightest.

These cars are on the same chassis, meaning all of the buyable parts are interchangeable (the base engine and gearbox aren't, you can't have a 5 speed 200RS or a 6 speed 180RS nor change an automatic gearbox to manual or swap in a new engine yet).

• Engine cooling keeps your engine's temperature down, once you overheat you lose power. To combat this, my suggestion is to keep the cooling at 80% or higher. Upgrades that increase cooling are: radiator, intercooler and oil cooler. With cooling you need to take into consideration the NOS: they will heat your engine when you use them.
  
• Engine strength lower the wear your car gets when driven, once your engine status turns dark orange you start to lose power, you can repair the engine from the garage once you get the prompt where you would normally change oil, this prompt will appear once the check engine light turn on in your gauge cluster. My suggestion is to aim for 100% engine strength. Upgrades that increase engine strength are: engine block, engine head, pistons and spark plugs.
  
• A good assumption is that all other engine upgrades lower one of these stats, keep this in mind and plan ahead.

• You can change body parts from the exterior menu
  
• Same make of parts have different variations, these are mainly more downforce and less weight, meaning visual upgrades have a chance to affect your handling too
  
• You can toggle on/off certain aero parts without affecting your downforce or weight if you wish, such as splitters, diffusers, canards, hood latches etc.
  
• Modifying these parts is done from the menu they are in:
  
  • Bumpers, hood, side skirts etc. from the exterior menu
    
  • Tyre and rim size, width and spacers etc. in the wheels menu
    
  • Camber, ride height etc. in the handling menu
• To modify these parts you need to be realitively close and look at the part in question.
  
• You can make custom liveries in your preferred photo editing software or use community made ones. These can be imported to the car after buying the livery editor.

• Interior parts play a factor too
  
• They can "add lightness", improve handling or just look really cool
  
• Default handbrake is toggle, the 2 upgraded variants are hold
  
• Aftermarket gauges alter the gauges you see on the HUD.
  
  • Aftermarket speedometer shows up to 460km/h.
    
  • Oil and water temperature gauges.
    
  • NOS pressure gauge
    
  • Dashboard tachometer has a working shift light.
• Buying the straight-cut gearbox gives you a gear indicator in the cockpit.

Most, if not all parts are interchangeable between the 180RS and 200RS.

The cars have some weight to them, this can be felt best when cornering:

• Slow down well before the corner, the brakes are not the best in the world even when you equip prototype brakes and semi-slick tyres
  
• Using a manual with clutch is a bit faster than using manual without clutch. Use of the clutch is not mandatory however
  
• Automatic gearbox can be manually operated, though it will still go to a higher or lower gear if deemed necessary. Especially useful when slowing down as the automatic gearbox may still feel a bit slow.

Q: Where is the PA (Parking area)?
A: Follow this route

Q: Official Discord?
A: https://discord.gg/night-runners

Q: Patreon?
A: Night-Runners Patreon[www.patreon.com]

Q: Full release/release schedule?
A: Preliminary release schedule, correct info as of end of February:

• Private Early Alpha Patrons and KS Private beta backers and up: November 2025
  
• Touge Demo Patreon release: Q2 2026
  
• Touge Demo Steam release: Q2 2026
  
• Early access private beta release: Q2-Q3 2026
  
• Early access public release: Q2-Q3 2026
  
• 1.0 release: TBC

Q: Patreon prologue differences?
A:

• 24 extra wheels
  
• An extra body kit for the 180RS/200RS
  
• Beta car access (S15, Mark 2, R34 and 911) with limited customization and features

Q: Will we get more cars?
A: Most likely in the full release, projected release date is in December 2025 for the public game, November 2025 for the private beta.

Q: Can I suggest a car to be added?
A: Kickstarter has a pledge for £3650 where you can suggest a car from 2009 or earlier.
A: Kickstarter has ended

Q: What cars will be in the full game?
A: Publically visible cars from the dev logs and modellers social media posts:

• ⁠Lamborgini Murcielago
  
• ⁠Lamborghini Diablo
  
• ⁠Pagani Zonda
  
• ⁠Tommykaira ZZ
  
• ⁠Honda S2000
  
• ⁠Honda NSX
  
• ⁠Honda Civic EK
  
• ⁠Honda Integra DC2
  
• ⁠Nissan S30Z
  
• ⁠Nissan GC10
  
• ⁠Nissan Z32
  
• Nissan Z33
  
• ⁠Nissan R32
  
• ⁠Nissan R33
  
• ⁠Nissan R34
  
• ⁠Nissan RPS13
  
• ⁠Nissan S13 Silvia
  
• ⁠Nissan S14
  
• ⁠Nissan S15
  
• ⁠Mitsubishi CD9A Evo 1
  
• ⁠Mitsubishi CE9A (Evo 2/3)
  
• ⁠Mitsubishi CN9A Evo 4
  
• ⁠Mitsubishi CP9A Evo 5
  
• ⁠Mitsubishi CT9A (Evo 7/8/9)
  
• ⁠Toyota JZX90 (Chaser, Cresta, Mark 2)
  
• ⁠Toyota JZX100 (Chaser, Cresta, Mark 2)
  
• ⁠Toyota AE8X
  
• ⁠Toyota Supra A80
  
• ⁠Mazda RX-7 FC
  
• ⁠Mazda RX-7 FD3S
  
• ⁠Mazda Miata NA
  
• ⁠Subaru Impreza GC8
  
• ⁠Subaru Impreza GDB (Bugeye and Blobeye)

There are bunch of other cars too, but to see those I recommend subscribing to Patreon.

Q: Will the progress carry to the full release?
A: Expect that it will not. Getting money seems very fast in the prologue, my guess it will get toned down. Also the game will likely change a lot during the development progress, thus making old saves incompatible.

Q: I have 34 000 loan left and no money in the bank, I'm softlocked, what do I do?
A: My suggestion is to start a new save unfortunately.

Q: Should I lose a race, I got a call for more money?
A: If you deem it is worthy, keep in mind that losing a race makes you lose quite a bit of rep and all of your nightly multiplier.

Q: I found a bug, what now?
A: You can report it in the official Night-Runners Discord[discord.gg] in the #bugs-read-guidelines channel.

Q: Can I sell parts?
A: Yes, you need to enter the corresponding menu and choose storage to access this.

Q: Can I sell cars?
A: Yes, but not your last remaining car. You need to have at least 2 cars to be able to sell a car. The garage will fit 3 cars at most.

Q: Customisable keybinds?
A: Jem has stated it's in the works due to the demand. No promises or ETA however.
A: Custom keybinds have finally been added! They have some minor bugs however.

Q: Wheel support?
A: Not official wheel support, but you might be able to get it working with DS4Windows or other similiar software. Do bear in mind that it doesn't have force feedback, nor works too well. It is in the works however, it'll come in due time. Just please don't flood bug reports asking for it.

Q: Can I mod?
A: Can you? If you do however, all bugs and glitches are out of Jem's reach. Do not file any bug reports about missing textures, models or other bugs regarding modded content. And defenitely do NOT mention any mods nor post modded content of the official server.

Q: My handbrake was on the entire time, this doesn't count
A: Major skill issue.