Rally 2000 is a multi-day off-road race across rough and varied terrain. You must manage your vehicle, your equipment, and your finances to make it across the 2,000-kilometer course in good time — or at all.

You start out with some resources, like a full tank of fuel, a couple of spare tyres, and some cash. You’ll encounter towns and fellow racers, providing opportunities to buy and sell the goods and gear that will help you finish the race.

R2K is non-real-time, so you can pick it up and put it down as you like.

Installing Rally 2000

Rally 2000 is built with Apple Shortcuts, and requires iOS/iPadOS 13.3 or later.

If you’re not familiar with Shortcuts, read this before installing.

Get Rally 2000

Turn-based Driving

R2K is driven entirely by simple menus. To drive your vehicle, choose Drive On. You’ll drive ahead a bit, and see an update of the current terrain and what lies ahead. Keep tapping to keep driving.

There’s no decision-making about where to go, as you are following a prescribed race course.

Copilot

To automate this tap-to-drive process, you have a Copilot. Handing them the wheel is like pressing the Drive button automatically. They’ll drive on until something interesting happens, like entering a town or encountering a fellow racer, at which point they’ll return control of the truck.

Managing Courses

Before you can race, you need to generate a Course. When starting a new race, you can load a course you’ve already generated, or create a fresh one. Courses are stored in your iCloud Drive, and any course you create is available to load and race again.

Course files can be shared, allowing you to compete with friends for the best time on a specific course.

Terrain

You’ll be driving across varied terrain. Here are the terrain types:

Flat
Rocky
Mountains
River
Deep Water

You drive slower over rocky terrain than flat, and slower still over rivers and mountains.

To drive through deep water, you’ll need a Snorkel, which you can buy from shops in towns, or from fellow racers. Without a Snorkel, you’ll have to drive around the deep water, which takes a long time. A Snorkel even helps you drive faster through a river.

The rougher the terrain, the more likely you’ll get a flat tyre.

Tyres

Your truck has four of them. You will get flats as you drive this rough course. You can drive on a flat, but it will slow you down. You can carry up to three Spare Tyres.

Buying and Selling

There are shops in the towns where you can buy and sell goods, and purchase fuel. You can also buy and sell from fellow racers.

Prices vary widely. Racers and shop owners have opinions about this, so ask them for advice!

The items you can buy and sell are:

Spare Tyre
Fuel Can
Snorkel
Light Bar
Map
Tea

Spare Tyre

You can carry up to three. When you get a flat, spares replace them automatically, costing you only a small amount of time.

Fuel Can

You can carry up to five of these 10 L fuel cans. They come empty, but they increase your fuel capacity, allowing you to go longer without refueling.

Snorkel

Speeds your passage through rivers, and allows you to drive straight through deep water.

Light Bar

Allows you to drive faster at night.

Map

With a map, you can see what terrain lies ahead, and if there are any towns coming up.

Tea

Not useful for racing per se, but racers love it, and some will pay dearly for it. The most price-volatile commodity.

Fuel

You need it to drive. In general, buying it in town will be cheaper than buying from a fellow racer, who needs it as much as you. You can buy fuel, but you can’t sell it.

Again, prices vary widely.

If you run out of fuel, all is not lost. A racer may happen by and sell you some.

Gambling

You can gamble with fellow racers. It’s a very quick way to lose money.

Forfeiting

If you’re out of fuel, out of money, and have nothing to sell, you can fire your Signal Flare and forfeit the race.

But there’s almost always a way to keep going, if you’re patient.

Racing Against Others

You can asynchronously race against other people by sharing a course file with them. You both race the same course, and then compare times when you finish.

Rally 2000 stores course files in iCloud Drive:

iCloud Drive/Shortcuts/R2K/Courses/

Use the Files app to share the course file with a friend who has also installed and run Rally 2000 at least once, and have them save the file to that location.

When you complete a race, you can share your results with your fellow racers via iMessage or any other messaging app.