6 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Hot Wheels Unleashed. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Hot Wheels Unleashed.
Release Date: 24/02/2011, updated in 2017
Out Now: Amazon Fire, Android, Apple TV, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series 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 Series 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: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Resistor is a racing game where you use tricks and dirty tactics to win races, in an effort to take down the dystopian establishment. It draws its racing from Burnout, but between each event there threads a narrative about power and money. This...
Release Date: 14/09/2021
Out Now: Switch and Wii
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Cruis’n Blast is a brash over the top racing game based on a series of big arcade machines. Competing with games like Ridge Racer, OutRun and Daytona USA, it offers whacky racing with big and bombastic visuals and characters.
Release Date: 27/08/1992, updated in 2018
Out Now: 3DS and 2DS, DS, GameCube, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is a go-kart racing game where you race against Nintendo characters around different circuits, picking up power-ups, attacks and speed boosts. It is frantic and chaotic but still requires skills to do well.
Release Date: 01/01/2007, updated in 2020
Out Now: DS, PS2, PS3, PS4, PS5, Stadia, Wii, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One and Xbox Series 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...
31 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Hot Wheels Unleashed. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Hot Wheels Unleashed.
Release Date: 02/12/2014, updated in 2018
Out Now: PC, PS4, Stadia and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Day and Night and Open World
The Crew 2 is the latest in a series of open-world racing and exploration games set in a scaled-down version of the United States. The emphasis is on enjoyable and exciting driving more than realism. It's a lot like Forza Horizon, although can be played...
Release Date: 10/12/2020
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, PS5, Stadia, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person and Open World
Cyberpunk 2077 is a massive open-world action-adventure game inspired by cyberpunk themes, focused on the merging of humanity and technology. The line between human and machine is heavily blurred in every corner of its world. You have a fully...
Release Date: 16/10/2020
Out Now: Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit is a kart racing game with a difference - You play on the Switch but use it to control a real-life Mario Kart that races around the floor of your living room. You see the race from the view of the car beamed back to the...
Release Date: 05/11/2021
Out Now: PC, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Day and Night, Open World and Weather
Forza Horizon 5 is a fast-paced racing game where you drive all manner of different vehicles in races and across the vast open landscape. Building on Forza Horizon 4, this fifth entry to the series is set in Mexico,...
Release Date: 08/05/2019, updated in 2023
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and iOS
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Descenders is a downhill mountain biking game with a focus on skill. In each downhill run, your goal is to score as many points as possible by completing skill-based challenges and executing as many tricks and flips as you can, all while you try to...
Release Date: 15/05/2015, updated in 2017
Out Now: PC, PS4 and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Crossout is an online vehicle combat game set in a Mad Max, post-apocalyptic world. Players design modular vehicles combine weapons, armour and engines. As you progress in the game you earn currency to upgrade components and access more powerful parts....
Release Date: 25/09/2018
Out Now: PC, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, 3D Third-Person, Day and Night, Open World and Weather
Forza Horizon 4 is a thrilling racing game where you race all manner of vehicles across a wide range of landscapes. This fourth iteration is set in the United Kingdom, with Edinburgh’s narrow streets, the Lake District’s hills and rainfall and the...
Release Date: 08/10/2019
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, Switch and iOS
Components: 3D Third-Person
Asphalt 9: Legends is a racing game in the series that focuses on fast-driving fun. This year the game adds new cars, a wide range of accessible control schemes, race modes, and nitro boosts for extra speed.
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: 16/03/2018, updated in 2018
Out Now: GameCube, PC, PS3, PS4, Switch, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, 3D Third-Person, Day and Night and Open World
Burnout Paradise is the latest game int the Burnout series, an over-the-top racing game where you’re encouraged to crash, bash and ram other cars. Throughout the series the bravado and crashing increases, but they all have the same novel core gameplay.
Release Date: 03/10/2017
Out Now: PC and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, 3D Third-Person and Weather
Forza Motorsport 7 immerses players in the exhilarating thrill of competitive racing. From mastering the new motorsport-inspired campaign to collecting a wide range of cars to experiencing the excitement of driving at the limit, this is Forza reimagined.
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: 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 super cars, this game lets you step into the world of the...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Haste Broken Worlds is a super fast racing and reaction game where you guide a running character through a changing landscape. You play by directing your character to avoid running into things, using boosts and gliding to find the best way forward. Like...
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: 08/11/2019
Out Now: PC, PS3, PS4 and Xbox One
Components: 3D Third-Person and Open World
Need for Speed: Heat is an open-world racing game. Races during the day are legally sanctioned street competitions where you try to win cash prizes. Races at night are illegal races where you aim to build a reputation. When racing at night, you need to...
Release Date: 02/06/2009
Out Now: PC, PS3 and Xbox 360
Components: 3D Third-Person, Day and Night, Open World and Weather
Fuel is an open-world racing game set in a Mad-Max-style post-apocalyptic United States. It was one of the first driving games to let you drive anywhere on the huge map without loading times. With a day-night cycle and weather, you can take all manner...
Release Date: 01/09/2022
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Disney Speedstorm is a kart racing game like Mario Kart but with high-speed Disney and Pixar-inspired characters and racetracks. It's also different as it's a free-to-play with in-game purchases provided in seasons that offer new characters, circuits...
Release Date: 14/12/2006, updated in 2012
Out Now: PS Vita, PS2, PS3, PS4 and PSP
Components: 3D Third-Person
Motorstorm is a series of games started on the PlayStation 3 with innovative tracks that got muddier as you raced. This, along with a wide variety of vehicles and routes through each of the courses makes for an entertaining and light-hearted racing...
Release Date: 14/06/2018, updated in 2019
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Wreckfest is a racing game where you aim to destroy other people's cars. It focuses on demolition modes with classic American muscle cars and other unusual vehicles. Rather than racing, this is a physical challenge with cars crammed onto a small track,...
Release Date: 14/01/2022
Out Now: Android and iOS
Components: 3D Third-Person
Crossout Mobile is a smartphone version of the popular online vehicular combat game Crossout. While it retains all the core mechanics of the main version, including the modular vehicle designs, customisation and skilful gameplay,...
Release Date: 26/02/2019, updated in 2019
Out Now: PC, PS4, Stadia, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Trials Rising is a four-player side-on motorbike racing game controlled by pressing ‘accelerate’ or ‘brake’ and using the stick to shift the weight of their riders’ bodies. The game emulates real-world physics, so you have to balance your...
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: 12/07/2020, updated in 2021
Out Now: PS4 and PS5
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Tectonic is a timed single-car racing game. It starts out as an ordinary race through an American city, but soon develops into an exciting experience as you drive through the city while it is being wrecked by an earthquake. Buildings fall all around you...
Release Date: 16/06/2021, updated in 2022
Out Now: Android, PC, PS4, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Agent Intercept is an arcade-style racing game where you control a transforming spy vehicle in order to save the world. It is a bombastic, simple to play driving game that requires you to drift, dodge, smash and destroy your way through to victory. It...
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: 16/08/2017
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: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Cartoon and Pixels
Victory Heat Rally is a frantically fast racing game, like arcade-style experience but with modern features and twists. Visually similar to Power Drift and the older Mario Kart games, but you can upgrade your car....
Release Date: 16/11/2018, updated in 2023
Out Now: Apple TV, Mac, PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series 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: 02/11/2023
Coming Soon: PC
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Stampede: Racing Royale combines Mario Kart and Fortnite to offer 60-player kart racing. To play you take on other racers in over-the-top circuits with a creeping elimination to avoid. It's like Mario Kart meets Fortnite.
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