diff --git a/games-action/extreme-tuxracer/extreme-tuxracer-0.8.4.ebuild b/games-action/extreme-tuxracer/extreme-tuxracer-0.8.4.ebuild
index da4778f4f9f02..7dc8d835ef082 100644
--- a/games-action/extreme-tuxracer/extreme-tuxracer-0.8.4.ebuild
+++ b/games-action/extreme-tuxracer/extreme-tuxracer-0.8.4.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2024 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=8
@@ -14,7 +14,10 @@ LICENSE="GPL-2+"
 SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm64 ~ppc64 ~riscv ~x86"
 
+# <media-libs/libsfml-3: breaking changes
+# https://sourceforge.net/p/extremetuxracer/discussion/help/thread/6de9a5beae/
 RDEPEND="
+	<media-libs/libsfml-3.0
 	>=media-libs/libsfml-2.4:0=
 	virtual/glu
 	virtual/opengl