Moving around the world

Use WASD or the arrow keys to walk — movement is camera-relative, so "forward" always means the way you're facing. Drag the mouse to look around, and scroll to zoom the camera in and out.

Hold Shift while you walk to sprint. Press Space to jump — and tap it again mid-air to double-jump for a little extra height.

Yes — click the ground anywhere and your avatar auto-walks to that spot, so you can keep exploring without holding a key down. Any movement key takes back manual control whenever you want it.

Walk up to a poster, cabinet, door or vendor and press E — or click the on-screen prompt that appears — to interact with it. The prompt only shows when you're close enough, so just step nearer if you don't see it yet.

W/S accelerate and brake or reverse; A/D steer. Space is the handbrake for drifting. Z signals left, C signals right and X toggles hazards. H sounds the horn. The navigation map shows the actual roads and your active route.

Hold Shift to use charged nitro for the fastest acceleration and speed. Keep holding when nitro runs out to use Sport, which is faster than normal driving. Release Shift to return to normal power. The charge gauge shows when nitro is available; crossing an earned race checkpoint refills it.

Yes. Create a race and leave the computer count at one, or choose up to five. Select a difficulty, a course and contact or ghost mode, then Ready and Start. Friends can join the same lobby; island visitors can watch. Cars from different races pass through each other.

Short sprints have two intermediate checkpoints and a finish. Civic Circuit offers two to five laps with more checkpoints per lap. Cross gates in order and in the arrow direction. Earned gates refill nitro, and results appear when you cross the final finish. Follow wrong-way guidance if you turn around; Reset to track adds five seconds.

Open Autopilot to choose a destination or cruise, then adjust speed policy, following distance, comfort and routing preferences. Changing destination keeps the car on a legal turn plan. Manual driving input takes control.

An on-screen joystick sits in the bottom-left corner — slide your thumb on it to walk in any direction. You can also simply tap the ground to auto-walk to that spot.

Drag a finger anywhere on the right side of the screen to look around, and tap the JUMP button in the bottom-right corner to hop. The two work together, so you can steer and look at the same time.

Turn your phone sideways (landscape) for a wider, more cinematic view — it gives you more room to see the world and keeps the controls comfortably out at the edges.

The world is VR-ready over WebXR. Open /play/nyzaislands in your headset's browser and tap Enter VR. There's no separate app to install — it runs right in the headset's browser.

You walk the same world in first person, with smooth-move to glide, snap-turn to rotate in comfortable steps, and teleport to hop across longer distances.

If the option doesn't appear, your headset's browser may not support WebXR. Make sure the browser is up to date — and you can always explore the same world on a phone or computer in the meantime.

Tap the 🗺 map button to open the big map. A small mini-map also stays tucked in the corner the whole time, so you always know roughly where you are.

On the big map, click anywhere and your avatar auto-walks there — and if the spot is far away, it auto-runs to get you there faster.

Of course — any key or tap cancels travel and hands control straight back to you, so you can change your mind or stop to look at something the moment it catches your eye.

Click a bench, one of the amphitheater tiers or a picnic rug and your avatar sits down — perfect for settling in to watch a show or just hang out with people nearby.

Click a swing to ride it, and step onto the Ferris wheel to board and take a slow turn for the view from the top.

Press the number keys 1–4 to fire off quick emotes, and open the emote tray for the full set when you want more to choose from.

Yes — there's a real football on the pitch that you can run into and kick around with whoever else is there. Want to talk while you play? See Audio & voice.