DUSTLINE: Combat Sprint
Hold fire, hold your line.
About the game
DUSTLINE: Combat Sprint is a free browser combat racing game where guns and missiles matter as much as your braking points. Race a field of computer-controlled drones, drift the forest bends, boost down the cloudways and shoot your way to the front — no download, no sign-up.
Game info
- Genre
- Racing
- Categories
- Racing
- Developer
- harley66988
- Added
- October 21, 2026
- License
- Embedded via itch.io — the developer's official free browser build
Game features
- Five modes in one build: Combat Sprint, Free Race, Elimination, Time Trial with a personal ghost, and Gate Sprint
- Machine guns and homing missiles turn every overtake into a fight
- Computer-controlled rivals that adapt to how you race them
- Drift, boost and brake through tracks that run from forest bends to floating cloudways
- Race your own ghost in Time Trial and shave the line lap after lap
- Unlockable ORION liveries for your drone
- An original synthesized soundtrack, with progress and ghosts saved in your browser
How to play
Pick a mode and go — Combat Sprint is the headline race, while Free Race, Elimination, Time Trial and Gate Sprint each change what a win takes. On keyboard, steer with A/D or the arrow keys, hold F to fire, Shift to drift, Space to boost and S to brake; E throws your item, which is usually a homing missile. On touch, the game puts steering and FIRE, DRIFT, BOOST, BRAKE and ITEM buttons on screen. The loop is simple: carry speed through corners, line up the rival ahead, hold the trigger until they break, and manage boost so it lasts the whole run. Resetting with R costs a two-second penalty, so learn the track instead of leaning on it.
Tips & strategies
- 1.Drift into corners instead of braking — drifting keeps your speed up and sets up a boost exit, while a wall or a reset with R costs you two full seconds.
- 2.Line up the rival directly ahead and hold fire; burst them down before a corner so the overtake happens on the straight, not in the bunch.
- 3.Save your item for traffic. A homing missile fired into a pack of drones does the choosing for you; a gun duel works best one-on-one.
- 4.In Elimination, race the clock first and the pack second — know which rival is behind you and force them to spend their boost defending.
- 5.Treat your Time Trial ghost as a rival: pick one corner per lap where you can clearly beat it, and build the lap from there.
- 6.Boost is a resource, not a reflex. Spend it out of corners and on long straights, and coast behind a rival to slingshot past with what you saved.
Screenshots
Captured from the game running on Gameplo.
Controls
| Steer | A/D or arrow keys |
|---|---|
| Fire | F or left mouse button |
| Drift | Shift |
| Boost | Space |
| Brake | S |
| Use item | E or right mouse button |
| Pause | P |
| Reset to track | R (2-second penalty) |
| Touchscreen | Touch controls provided by the game — an on-screen steering control plus FIRE, DRIFT, BOOST, BRAKE and ITEM buttons. |
Frequently asked questions
What is DUSTLINE: Combat Sprint?
A free 3D arcade combat racer by indie developer harley66988. You race drones against a field of computer-controlled rivals while firing machine guns and homing missiles, and it runs entirely in your browser.
Is DUSTLINE: Combat Sprint free to play?
Yes. Every mode runs free with no account, and the game itself carries no ads or trackers. This page embeds the developer's official build from itch.io.
Does it have online multiplayer?
No. Rivals are computer-controlled and the race is local, so there are no online matches or leaderboards — the challenge comes from the adaptive rival AI and your own ghost in Time Trial.
Does the game save my progress?
Yes. Unlocks and your Time Trial ghosts are stored locally in your browser, so they're waiting the next time you open the page on the same device.
Can I play on mobile?
Yes. The build runs on mobile browsers with touch controls — an on-screen steering control plus FIRE, DRIFT, BOOST, BRAKE and ITEM buttons.
Is this the official game?
Yes, this page embeds the original build served by itch.io, the game's official home. It's in active development, so new tracks and features arrive with updates.