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Racing & Drifting
Driving games from arcade drifting to genuinely relaxing open-road cruising. The calm ones are a legitimate category of their own.
14 sites
Weaponised arcade racing around an open city, with the loud handling model of a mid-2000s console game.
- 10 min
- Desktop
Open-city driving with traffic and no mission attached, for when you want to obey a speed limit in peace.
- 10 min
- Desktop
One button, one endless right angle, one car sliding off the edge of the world. The purest possible drifting game.
Tune a car, hold the handbrake and score points for angle rather than lap times. The garage is quietly the actual game.
- 10 min
- Desktop
Balance a truck over obstacle courses clearly designed by somebody who has never driven anything at all.
Draw a track, then ride your own drawing on a BMX. Millions of user-made levels, most of them designed to be cruel.
- 10 min
- Desktop
The same ramp-covered playground with strangers in it, all attempting the same enormous jump and all missing it.
- 10 min
- Desktop
An empty city full of ramps and supercars with no objectives at all, which turns out to be the entire objective.
- 10 min
- Desktop
Time-trial motorbike stunts across levels engineered to kill you in a slightly funnier way on each attempt.
- 10 min
The bike stunt series relocated to a water park, where the traps are inflatable and no less lethal for it.
- 10 min
Racing where the accelerator is your typing speed, making it the only competitive driving game that leaves you better at something.
- 10 min
- Desktop
Low-poly time trials with a built-in track editor, hundredth-of-a-second leaderboards and a restart key you will wear out.
- 10 min
- Desktop
Loose-surface rally driving where every corner is taken sideways, largely because there is no other way to take them.
- 10 min
- Desktop
Three-minute kart deathmatches with weapon crates and absolutely no patience for anything resembling a racing line.
How we picked these
Every entry in Detour is hand-sorted rather than scraped: filed under one category, given one to three moods, and placed in a time band for how quickly it pays off. The practical facts — cost, sign-up, sound, device and whether it is safe at a desk — are recorded per site and shown on every card, so you can rule things out before you click.
Racing & Drifting: questions
How many sites are in Racing & Drifting?
14 sites, each hand-sorted by category, mood and how long it takes to pay off.
Which of these sites are free with no sign-up?
14 of the 14 are free and need no account. None of them are paid.
Do these sites work on a phone, and are they safe for work?
5 of 14 work on a phone; the rest are desktop only. 14 are safe for work and 14 work with the sound off.