Gameplay & sound / 7 November 2026

The summit.A proper arrival.

An original summit landmark, a skippable car showcase, new music, climb records and a saved journey result.

The climb now has somewhere to end.

The solo road journey already finished with a demanding mountain ascent. It now ends with a proper arrival: park in the summit plaza, let the car have its moment, then decide what to do next. The existing route still climbs 526 metres, and the separate Nordschleife remains a separate drive.

A car at Horizon Summit during the new arrival showcase
Actual Unreal development capture: summit showcase.

A landmark, a view and a ten-second showcase.

An original rounded arrival portal, lookout sculpture, stone planters, timber deck and benches replace the old finish-marker treatment. A distant mountain skyline extends the view. The actual game camera makes a gentle approach and orbit around the car, with a stationary alternative when camera motion is disabled. Enter or Escape skips directly to the results.

Claude Code helped author the Blender landmark generator. The A6000 workstation produced and rendered the distant skyline in Blender. Those assets were then imported, fitted to the route and checked in Unreal. The images here are current native captures; the environment still has prototype geometry and foliage.

Your car, your climb, your result.

Horizon Summit results with climb time, gold rewards and three action buttons
Actual Unreal results-screen test capture. Trip statistics are scripted review data.

The results show journey distance and time, climb time, remaining fuel and car condition. Reaching the destination pays 400 gold. Completing the existing four-minute climb challenge without overheating or roadside help adds 600 gold. Valid personal-best climb times are saved per car, and repeated interaction cannot award the finish twice.

Choose Explore the summit, Return to garage or Start a new journey. The garage return keeps the chosen driver. Gold, purchased parts and remaining fuel carry forward; the ending does not secretly refill the tank.

An original score for the last climb.

The A6000 also generated an instrumental ascent track, The Last Climb, and the sung victory song Carried Our Thunder. Fourteen original synthetic announcer and driver clips provide climb introductions, arrival reactions and bonus calls. Dialogue has matching captions and ducks the music; the victory song plays once through its ending.

Illustrated alpine road panorama used on the summit results card
AI-generated menu artwork. This is not a screenshot of the game world.

The panorama above is AI-generated menu artwork. It appears on the results card and is deliberately labeled separately from the actual game-world captures. It does not represent the current fidelity of the playable environment.

Tested as an ending, not just a screenshot.

Five native suites passed 124 checks covering both reward outcomes, the physical climb, camera and input restoration, saving, and actual travel back to the garage. The finish now requires the car to physically reach and stop at the summit, rather than accepting an old progress value. These checks used the Development editor-game build, not a Steam or Epic release package.

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