6 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Absolute Drift. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Absolute Drift.
Release Date: 14/09/2022, updated in 2023
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Hand-Made
You Suck At Parking is a tactical racing game where the ultimate goal is to stop in a parking spot. The game features cartoon-style parkour racing tracks with loops, sharp bents, bombs and other hazards, on the route to a parking spot.
Release Date: 23/09/2020, updated in 2021
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Art of Rally is a racing game that focuses on stylised off-road motion from the creator of Absolute Drift. Slide through the hand-crafted stages set in Finland, Japan and Spain with varying weather and time of day.
Release Date: 19/05/2023
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Blocks, Cartoon and Open World
Lego 2K Drive is an open-world racing game made out of Lego. There are races, as you'd expect, but you can also freely explore each of the worlds, collect parts and upgrade your cars. It stands out for updating the popular Lego destruction and...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Tiny Tires is a miniature racing game where you control toy cars around super-sized everyday locations. Play is a simple matter of getting around the course ahead of the other drivers, but as you do you must deal with hazards, make use of moveable...
Release Date: 11/09/2020
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 3D Third-Person
Inertial Drift is a racing game set in an alternative 90s retro-future. Unusually, you use two sticks to control the direction with one stick and the drift with the other. Choose to either enter races or play the single-player story mode, where you...
Release Date: 22/04/2015, updated in 2019
Out Now: Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Day and Night
Does Not Commute is a traversal challenge where you drive to work multiple times in a small 1970s town. It starts with empty roads, but each journey you make adds a vehicle on that route for your next trip. It stands out for creating a fascinating...
26 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Absolute Drift. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Absolute Drift.
Release Date: 28/08/2018
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Rocket League is a sports action game where you drive futuristic cars to score goals with an oversized football. It's a game that sounds ridiculous but is actually a huge amount of fun to play and requires a lot of expertise. What's not obvious from the...
Release Date: 12/02/2009
Out Now: PC, PS Vita, PS3, PS4 and iOS
Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, Open World and Weather
Flower is a traversal collecting game where you control the breeze blowing across fields of grass and blow petals into other flowers to make them bloom. Flower is simple and single-purpose in evoking the feeling of the wind. What starts as an awkward...
Release Date: 19/02/2015, updated in 2018
Out Now: Android, Apple TV, Mac, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 4+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Day and Night and Weather
The Alto Collection is a series of games including Alto's Odyssey and Alto's Adventure. Both are action traversal games where you explore beautiful mountains, dunes and canyons on a snowboarding journey full of serenity and secrets. All you have to...
Release Date: 14/11/2014, updated in 2016
Out Now: PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person and Open World
Mirror's Edge and the follow-up, Mirror’s Edge Catalyst are free-running games where you traverse a futuristic city using aspects of urban exploration and parkour movements to complete missions and evade or fight enemies. The focus is on this...
Release Date: 05/03/2021, updated in 2021
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Circuit Superstars is a simple racing game viewed from above. Up to four players control a car and race around a complex track. You can see what's coming which makes it easier but must work with real car physics to get across the line first. What starts...
Release Date: 20/08/2015, updated in 2022
Out Now: Android, Apple TV, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One, iOS and iPhone, iPad
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Day and Night
Horizon Chase 2 is the latest game in the Horizon Chase series of arcade racing games with a focus on competitive fun rather than realism; its graphics make it look like it was plucked from the nineties’ arcades, with a nod to Outrun and Lotus Turbo...
Release Date: 25/05/2010
Out Now: PC, PS3 and Xbox 360
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Blur is a four-player racing game with many Mario Kart-style features but with customisable real-model cars. The combination of such cars as the Dodge Viper, Ford Transit and Lotus Exige (to name a few) with weapons, stunts and power-ups is both unusual...
Release Date: 01/01/2007, updated in 2020
Out Now: DS, PS2, PS3, PS4, PS5, Stadia, Wii, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person and 3D Third-Person
Dirt 5 is the latest game in a series of extreme sports racing games. Like Forza Horizon or the older MotorStorm games, the series focuses on exuberance and party atmosphere rather than just...
Release Date: 01/01/1997, updated in 2017
Out Now: PS3, PS4 and PSP
Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person and 3D Third-Person
Gran Turismo is a driving simulator that focuses on a photo-realistic driving experience. Players race real-world cars where bodywork and interiors are perfectly modelled. Whether hatchbacks or supercars, this game lets you step into the world of the...
Release Date: 02/12/2021, updated in 2023
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Open World
Solar Ash is a running and jumping game with a strong focus on fluidity of movement and combat. You play Rei, who is trying to reclaim her homeland. You swing and float your way through a vivid, surreal landscape filled with enemies of all shapes and...
Release Date: 01/07/1998, updated in 2019
Out Now: Android, PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox 360, Xbox One and iOS
Components: 3D First-Person, 3D Third-Person and Weather
Dirt Rally is a series of racing games, originally called Colin McRae Rally. They simulate the experience of dangerous and perilous rally stages. You drive from an in-car experience and are given spoken directions from your co-pilot. It's thrilling but...
Release Date: 08/02/2022, updated in 2022
Out Now: PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
OlliOlli World is a skateboarding game where you roll, jump and trick your way around the vibrant world of Radlandia. It's hard to start, but once it clicks the controls are designed to let you flow through different moves. You meet colourful characters...
Release Date: 05/05/2020
Out Now: PC and iOS
Components: 3D Third-Person
Forza Street is a simple racing game from the team behind Forza Motorsport. You race other players to earn and purchase a lineup of high-powered cars. Races are quick and focus on the cinematic rather than realism.
Release Date: 19/08/2013
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS Vita, PS4 and iOS
Components: 3D Third-Person
Race the Sun is an arcade-inspired racing game where you helm a solar-powered craft. Your objective is simple, hurdle towards the sun dodging obstacles for as long as possible before the sun sets.
Release Date: 28/10/2014, updated in 2019
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS3, PS4 and Switch
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
BlazeRush is a car racing and combat game where you beat other players across the line by any means necessary. Play is viewed from the top, like Micro Machines, which lets you not only pick the best racing line but trigger attacks and bumps to push...
Release Date: 25/02/2022
Out Now: Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Night Skate is a one-button skating and jumping game where you play a skateboarder endlessly trundling and tricking their way through the world at night. You use a single button to jump, float and land. In this way you can build up combos and tricks to...
Release Date: 24/02/2011, updated in 2017
Out Now: Amazon Fire, Android, Apple TV, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox X|S and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Riptide GP: Renegade is a fast-paced racing game set in the underground hydro-jet racing scene. It takes extreme jet-ski action in a wacky direction, but there's a significant skill in manoeuvring your vehicle through tight twists and turns to achieve...
Release Date: 14/09/2023
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: Day and Night, Open World and Weather
The Crew Motorfest is an open-world racing and exploration game. It's a sequel that takes 2018's The Crew 2 to a Hawaiian island you traverse with cars, trucks, boats, and planes. It stands out for the many ways to explore the...
Release Date: 16/06/2021
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead
Twilight Drive is a racing game where you turbo, drift, and use a grappling hook to turn corners and get fast lap times. Along with racing your own times, an on-line leaderboard lets you compete with friends and family. It's a cross between Micro...
Release Date: 13/09/2007, updated in 2010
Out Now: PS3 and PS4
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead
PixelJunk Racers is racing game where the circuit is viewed from above. Like a slot car game (Anki Overdrive or Scalextrics) you race round the in one of the five separate lanes. This unusual approach makes the game about changing lanes and controlling...
Release Date: 22/02/2020, updated in 2020
Out Now: PS4 and PS5
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person
Rally 2020 is a single-player rally racing game. Drive through a cross-country course in Germany from the viewpoint of the driver with your co-driver giving you navigation. It's novel because of the simple intensity of this task. Don't fall in the water...
Release Date: 16/11/2018, updated in 2023
Out Now: Apple TV, Mac, PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox X|S and iOS
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Marble It Up Ultra is a rolling and jumping game where you race a marble through levels to get to the finish. You play by controlling the direction of your marble rolls, being careful not to fall off platforms and traversing each level as efficiently as...
Release Date: 16/08/2017
Out Now: Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Data Wing is a racing game where you guide an arrow through courses, race opponents, and aim for the fastest lap times. Using simple yet nuanced controls, you expertly navigate each track, gaining boosts by thrusting away from the walls and perfecting...
Release Date: 25/05/2023
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Cartoon
Summer Trip Cruise is a traversal game where you guide a cruise ship on sightseeing missions. Play is like a fairground boat game where you steer left or right with the wheel/rudder and throttle. It stands out for the simple controls and forward...
Release Date: 29/09/2022
Out Now: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Funtasia is a racing game where you play anthropomorphic animals who have jumped in goofy vehicles to fend off their world succumbing to trash. You play by accelerating or decelerating to try and get through the side-on level, using the physics of the...
Release Date: 28/01/2022
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Zeepkist is a game where you race engine-less kart down hills and obstacle courses. In your simple go-kart you use gravity to get down tracks as fast as you can. It works because it's simple, and doesn't muddy that fun with too much else.
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