The Trackmania series as a whole is a very mechanically pure game, where your gameplay is dictated by just 4 buttons (or 2 buttons and a left right stick). It's very focused on time trials and honing in on fractions of a second optimizations on 20-60 second levels.

This game is a package of 4 environments, which all can be treated as kind of their own separate gameplay styles. It's a good value package to try out many different gameplay styles with ease.

This title is missing a lot of features from other Trackmania games, mainly pertaining to multiplayer and user generated content, but has the best single player campaign. Coming from someone who has 100%'ed every other Trackmania title's campaign.

I'd only recommend this Trackmania game over the others if you are interested in the single player campaign. Trackmania Nations Forever and Trackmania (2020) are both free and good ways to try the series out if you're unsure.

The normal campaign is definitely one of the more challenging ones in Trackmania, but strikes a nice balance between feeling difficult and feeling doable. It doesn't do the best job at teaching you fundamentals of the game, but you'll pick it up with more playtime.

After you 100% the base game, you unlock Super Solo, which is legitimately one of gaming's hardest challenges to complete. If you want to spend possibly thousands of hours mastering every tiny nuance of a seemly simple set of mechanics, than it's for you! It's extremely rewarding to do so, but of course that amount of dedication is not for everyone.

Even so, if you're looking for any kind of skill based time trial challenge, the single player campaign of this game will have you covered for a long long time.

The Trackmania series as a whole is a very mechanically pure game, where your gameplay is dictated by just 4 buttons (or 2 buttons and a left right stick). It's very focused on time trials and honing in on fractions of a second optimizations on 20-60 second levels. This game is a package of 4 environments, which all can be treated as kind of their own separate gameplay styles. It's a good value package to try out many different gameplay styles with ease. This title is missing a lot of features from other Trackmania games, mainly pertaining to multiplayer and user generated content, but has the best single player campaign. Coming from someone who has 100%'ed every other Trackmania title's campaign. I'd only recommend this Trackmania game over the others if you are interested in the single player campaign. Trackmania Nations Forever and Trackmania (2020) are both free and good ways to try the series out if you're unsure. The normal campaign is definitely one of the more challenging ones in Trackmania, but strikes a nice balance between feeling difficult and feeling doable. It doesn't do the best job at teaching you fundamentals of the game, but you'll pick it up with more playtime. After you 100% the base game, you unlock Super Solo, which is legitimately one of gaming's hardest challenges to complete. If you want to spend possibly thousands of hours mastering every tiny nuance of a seemly simple set of mechanics, than it's for you! It's extremely rewarding to do so, but of course that amount of dedication is not for everyone. Even so, if you're looking for any kind of skill based time trial challenge, the single player campaign of this game will have you covered for a long long time.