Best Combat Racing Games on Steam
Racing games where weapons, crashes, sabotage, and aggression decide the finish.
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1Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds - Race across land, sea, air, space, and time in Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds! Warp through Travel Rings into new dimensions where something new awaits around every twist and turn.
Sep 25, 2025
In this game, you can…
- warp mid-race into a totally different world on lap 2, play by its rules, then snap back for a changed final lap.
- take first place early so you get to pick which world everyone gets warped into on lap 2.
- race online in 12- or even 20-player lobbies where the lead can flip constantly right up to the finish.
- chain drifts and boosts through corners until you're carrying ridiculous speed for long stretches.
- build a loadout around air tricks, launching off jumps to earn rings and keep your boost going.
- tune parts and gadgets to make your vehicle behave completely differently, from item defense to endgame burst speed.
- slam into opponents, steal their rings, and drift close to spin them out while the item storm is hitting everyone.
- enter team rule sets where you boost off allies, fight over rings, and knock opponents out instead of just racing.
2Tokyo Xtreme Racer - The title of “fastest” never fades. Race through the sealed future Tokyo night highways in your customized car. Defeat rivals in “SP Battle,” where drivers clash by draining Spirit Points. A unique racing game where only the rules for victory matter.
Sep 24, 2025
In this game, you can…
- flash your high beams at a car in free roam to start an instant head-to-head battle.
- win battles by draining an opponent's Spirit Points instead of racing to a finish line.
- hit 580–600 km/h in a fully tuned car and turn normal highway curves into real corner fights at speed.
- cruise the night expressway, pull into parking areas, and trigger rival conversations that reveal their backstories.
- get jumped in a duel that suddenly becomes a three-car fight when another driver piles in mid-battle.
- unlock secret rivals only by meeting weird hidden requirements like a specific plate region and body kit parts.
- run a loop where you provoke a rival, win, cash out, upgrade your car, and immediately go hunting again.
- unlock persistent perks that change battles, like draining enemy Spirit faster or slowing your own Spirit loss.
3SimplePlanes - Build airplanes by snapping parts together, designing wing sections, and attaching engines. At any time, you can strap yourself into the cockpit and see how it flies with realistic physics. If you're not in the mood for building, over 100,000 airplanes are available to download for free.
Dec 17, 2015
In this game, you can…
- reshape a fuselage block into almost anything, then ditch planes and build an airboat instead.
- stack 16 jet reactors onto one build, then roam the map intercepting convoys, destroying bridges, and wiping out a windmill farm.
- download community creations ranging from realistic jets to tanks, helicopters, ICBM launchers, and even pinball machines, then fly or drive them using the same physics.
- build an elastic band-powered plane that self-propels from a hand launch, then tune balance until it actually flies.
- add disconnectors to rocket engines so they rip off mid-flight, smash your control surfaces, and force you to redesign on the fly.
- tune center of mass and lift until a custom craft finally stays stable, takes off, and flies the way you meant it to.
- arm your own combat craft with guns or rockets, shoot down aircraft, and escalate into dogfights when something shoots back.
- explore for hours and stumble onto hidden landmarks, from the USS Beast and convoys to flying straight through the Pyramid.
4Uncrashed : FPV Drone Simulator - Amateur or experienced FPV pilot, learn or improve your skills on Uncrashed,the new ultra realistic FPV simulator. Simulate your own FPV drone with settings based on real values and you will have the same feeling as a real flight without the risk of breaking your drone !
Sep 1, 2021
In this game, you can…
- practice with your real drone settings by dialing in rates, gravity, drag, motor power, battery cells, and throttle response
- join a chaotic swarm of other pilots to chase down a car someone's driving across the map
- start a race at any point mid-flight, turning free roam into an instant timed run without leaving the map
- restart instantly after a crash and be back in the air in seconds
- build your own tracks and environments, then download community-made beginner maps to learn on
- chase drifting cars through valleys and forests while practicing smooth filming lines instead of just racing gates
- fly massive terrain for long, sweeping mountain-surf lines, then switch to freestyle, racing, and low-altitude passes in the same session
- race against a visible ghost of your personal best and hunt cleaner lines to beat it
5FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage Collector's Edition - Ready for the aggressive, adrenaline-filled ride that leaves you breathless? FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage Collector's Edition is all about destructive action. With carnage modes like the Deathmatch derby, Carnage Race and Head-on races are pure wreck-filled, adrenaline-pumping rides of maximum mayhem.
Aug 26, 2008
In this game, you can…
- catapult your driver through the windshield into rings of fire, bowling pins, and basketball hoops in dedicated stunt events.
- race on tracks packed with thousands of breakable objects, where debris can change your line from one lap to the next.
- do figure-8 races where the layout forces crossing traffic lines and collision-heavy pileups.
- smash through a barn and keep racing while your driver gets ejected through the windshield mid-crash.
- enter demolition derby arenas where the goal is to destroy every opponent, and rivals can gang up to slow you down.
- drive special vehicles like rocket cars and a jet car, then eject your driver out the windshield at speed.
- race with 11 opponents at once, so pileups and wrong-place collisions happen constantly.
- trigger a full wreck chain: crash, burn, explode down to the frame, then watch the driver fly out as the race continues around it.
6Nightmare Kart - Zoom through gothic streets in this horror themed vehicular combat racing game!
Jun 5, 2024
In this game, you can…
- fight boss battles in the middle of a kart racing campaign.
- kill monsters during races to raise your top speed by collecting their blood drops.
- turn your screen into a shaky CRT look with unstable PS1-style geometry while you race.
- drift and land ramp tricks to build a resource, then spend it on perfectly timed boosts to keep your momentum.
- aim and fire weapons in any direction, then use them to take out other racers mid-race.
- swap from racing into story missions like last-man-standing and capture-the-flag events as the campaign escalates.
- race through branching gothic tracks packed with traps, tight passages, and enemies, then launch off boost pads across gaps onto new platforms.
- drive absurd vehicles like a pig kart, a birdcage, or an operating table, then still compete like it's a serious race.
7BallisticNG - BallisticNG is a high speed, all thrills anti-gravity combat racer and open modding environment developed as a tribute to old school classics such as Wipeout, Rollcage and Jet Moto.
Dec 14, 2018
In this game, you can…
- download hundreds of custom tracks, then instantly playtest them alongside modded ships, music, HUDs, and even code tweaks.
- race in a mode where your ship keeps getting faster and faster until surviving the track becomes the whole goal.
- use bumps to gain height, then hit a jump within a one-second window to skip a corner entirely.
- carve corners with dual airbrakes and pitch, then counterbrake to stretch a slide and tighten a full-speed turn.
- thread a hairpin drift straight into a chicane, then grab a pickup and blast the opponent you're chasing.
- fire a rolling shockwave that runs down the course and stuns everyone in front at the push of a button.
- switch physics modes so the same ships and tracks suddenly play like different eras of anti-gravity racing, including barrel rolls and weapon absorbs.
- set up custom rules like weaponless endurance races at 2–3x laps, reverse-track events, or a one-on-one against a supercharged rival.
8Vecter - Get in your ship, push the throttle to max, and try not to die. Daily leaderboards where your name stays forever if you're good enough. Custom colors, custom music, YouTube in-game. It's free. What are you waiting for?
Oct 14, 2020
In this game, you can…
- turn off the UI and run the game as a visualizer under any YouTube video.
- drop in your own MP3, FLAC, or OGG music and watch the visuals pulse to it as you race.
- see in-game billboards showing where top players crashed and died on the track.
- jam the throttle to max and annihilate anything in your path at full speed.
- shoot obstacles while dodging, clearing a path through the track in real time.
- hit 5,000,000 score to trigger a new difficulty escalation and try to survive the chaos that follows.
- play the exact same procedural track seed as a friend and compare runs on an identical course.
- take a daily leaderboard spot where your name can stay recorded permanently.
9FUMES - Arm your vehicle with deadly weapons and roam endless wastelands in this fast-paced single-player car combat game. Collect upgrades for your car to melt enemies and giant bosses in this bizarre world. Retro vibe. Retro cars. Retro gameplay!
Jul 28, 2025
In this game, you can…
- drive forever through an open world that loops endlessly, crossing biomes with no fast travel or invisible walls.
- mount rockets up front and minelayers in back, then bait bosses into your mines while you clear their escorts.
- heal mid-fight by killing a specific enemy at the right moment, forcing you to hunt targets instead of just running away.
- circle a towering wheeled monster, chip pieces off it, and turn the kill into new parts and vehicles back at the garage.
- put tank treads on almost anything, turning a twitchy off-road missile into a heavier machine that can hold together in fights.
- defend a moving bus as it barrels forward, and end up being the one who damages it most during the firefight.
- strap cargo to your car for delivery runs, knowing you can lose it on the road and get paid less.
- slide and drift at high speed while free-aiming shots and grenades, landing hits as you constantly correct your line.
10Make Way - Speed around loops, dart through train crossings, drift around helter skelters, and unleash wacky weaponry in this modern take on classic top-down multiplayer racing games such as Micro Machines and Mashed. The twist? You build the track.
Dec 4, 2023
In this game, you can…
- race a course you just built, then come back on the mutated version to settle scores.
- turn shortcuts on, walls off, and stack crushers and barriers until the next lap becomes a death section.
- hold the horn on a milk truck to trigger an almost permanent speed boost separate from normal boost pads.
- build the track piece by piece after every race.
- drop a boost pad on a sharp corner just to bait your friends into wiping out.
- crash, respawn at the last checkpoint, and rejoin the pack fast enough to take revenge immediately.
- smack rivals with an oversized hammer, then get them back later with a rooftop-mounted shotgun after you respawn.
- snap together loops, seesaws, corkscrews, train crossings, and bouncing bumpers into one absurd course that still counts as a race track.
