Screamer is a racing video game developed and published by Milestone for PlayStation 5, Windows and Xbox Series X/S. It is a reboot of the 1995 racing video game of the same name.
Screamer was announced at The Game Awards 2024 ceremony. Upon the game's announcement, Troy Baker was also announced to voice a "pivotal character". In June 2025, Milestone released the first gameplay trailer for the game.
The game is a remake of Milestone's 1995 game of the same name released on the MS-DOS; at the time, Milestone was known as Graffiti. The 2026 remake is inspired by 1980s and 1990s anime and manga. Japanese animation studio Polygon Pictures, notable for its work on ' and Transformers Prime among other series, will contribute to animated cutscenes for the game.
Neo Rey, a futuristic city inspired by anime universes, serves as the game's setting.
Screamer received "generally favorable" reviews, according to review aggregator website Metacritic. Fellow review aggregator OpenCritic assessed that the game received strong approval, being recommended by 71% of critics.
Phil Iwaniuk of PC Gamer rated the game a 72/100, highly praising the game's visual presentation and idiosyncratic characterization, but criticizing its twin-stick driving mechanics. Iwaniuk wrote "In a genre where so many games are determined to squabble over who can make the best LIDAR-scanned Monza, we need more Screamers. Milestone's narrative-led, anime-infused arcade racer has a delightful plethora of fresh ideas, and it lavishes meticulous care into realising them". Iwaniuk opined that the game's driving controls are "very disorienting" and added that "transitioning from a full drift angle to facing straight ahead is awkward, because you don't feel the weight transfer".
Rock Paper Shotgun wrote positively of the game's aesthetic, with James Archer writing, "anime fits this game like a fully tightened wheel nut: its noisy excess, its love of bold colours, its episodic jumping between track locales, its enormous cast of emotionally compromised weirdos." The outlet's Mark Warren wrote that the game's difficulty can be punishing, though conceded, "in a lesser game, the regular demand for near masterful precision just to earn a passing grade might have dulled my enthusiasm to keep collecting chequered flags, but I'm glad to report that's not been the case here".
Luke Reilly of IGN gave a generally positive review of the game, rating it 8/10 and writing that it is a "neon-soaked, maximum volume arcade racing that requires both the finesse of Wipeout and the tactics and aggression of Mario Kart, where dicing for position demands that you think offensively and defensively at all times". Reilly was critical of the tournament mode's "uneven difficulty", but ultimately wrote "tedious characters and difficulty spikes notwithstanding, Screamer is a unique and confidently assembled racer that feels like the result of locking Blur in a room for 12 months with nothing but a Crunchyroll subscription". Reilly also praised the game's various modes and features, such as its four-player split-screen.