Games Like Split/Second

Harness gravity-defying speed in classic combat racing taken to the EXTREME. Master wall-riding, ceiling-surfing tracks, and unleash devastating weapons across 29 blistering circuits. Race solo, split-screen, or online with up to 10 players. GRIP delivers white-knuckle racing like nothing else.

Why similar: Racing 60.7%, Split Screen 20.5% ★, Multiplayer 5.3%, Action 4.4%, Local Multiplayer 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: A futuristic, high-speed racer that emphasizes weaponized combat and gravity-defying tracks.

Wreckfest is a demolition derby themed racing game with soft-body damage modeling, sophisticated driving dynamics and in-depth vehicle upgrading, featuring both demolition derbies and more traditional track races. It’s all about fun, breakneck racing and over-the-top crashes.

Why similar: Racing 53.5%, Destruction 33.1%, Multiplayer 6.6%, Action 2.7%, Driving 2.5%

Why You'll Like It: It features advanced soft-body damage physics that make every collision feel impactful and rewarding.

Burnout Paradise Remastered provides the ultimate driving playground for you and your friends to play online. This remaster includes all add-ons from the Year of Paradise, including the Big Surf Island update, meticulously recreated and ready to wreck in 4K.

Why similar: Racing 57.7%, Destruction 19.7%, Multiplayer 8.1%, Arcade 6%, Action 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: This is the definitive arcade racing experience that mirrors the high-speed destruction and takedown mechanics found in Split/Second.

Experience the drive of your life as you throw yourself around on and off the track causing fences to shatter, tyre walls explode, water tanks and barrels fly across the track into other cars.

Why similar: Racing 47.2%, Destruction 26.3%, Multiplayer 8%, Local Multiplayer 6.1%, Arcade 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: A classic title that perfectly balances arcade racing with chaotic destruction derby events.

Gas Guzzlers Extreme is a fast, furious, armed-to-the-teeth, trigger-happy shooter, shifted into top gear! Take a white knuckle ride in this crazily addictive combat racing game.

Why similar: Racing 75.7%, Destruction 8.5%, Multiplayer 8.4%, Action 4.9%, Arcade 1.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game leans heavily into the combat aspect of racing, featuring weaponized cars and environmental hazards.

Compete across land, water and air in incredible transforming vehicles that change from cars to boats to planes mid-race.

Why similar: Racing 63%, Split Screen 15.2% ★, Local Multiplayer 6.4%, Multiplayer 5.7%, Great Soundtrack 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: Features dynamic, transforming tracks that change mid-race, providing a similar sense of environmental spectacle.

Distance is an atmospheric racing platformer. Fusing futuristic arcade racing with parkour, survive a deadly, mysterious, neon-drenched city by jumping, rotating, and flying.

Why similar: Racing 60.3%, Split Screen 15.2% ★, Multiplayer 7.1%, Great Soundtrack 6.6%, Arcade 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: A neon-soaked, high-speed survival racer that requires quick reflexes and precision driving.

Collect the best vehicles in the Hot Wheels™ universe, build spectacular tracks and dive into breathtaking races.

Why similar: Racing 47.4%, Split Screen 31.4% ★, Multiplayer 7.2%, Arcade 5.9%, Local Multiplayer 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: Offers fast-paced, arcade-style racing on imaginative tracks that emphasize speed and tight competition.

Erase the line between single player and multiplayer in this street-racing rivalry between Cops and Racers. Seamlessly join a world where your friends are already racing and chasing

Why similar: Racing 40.8%, Destruction 19.9%, Split Screen 18.9% ★, Multiplayer 8.1%, Arcade 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: Features intense police chases and gadget-based combat that keep the action level consistently high.

The latest title in the RIDGE RACER franchise, RIDGE RACER Unbounded gears up to carve its own destructive path with a new breed of arcade racing.

Why similar: Racing 76.3%, Destruction 16.3%, Arcade 3.9%, Multiplayer 1.6%, Action 1.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on aggressive drifting and environmental destruction, making it a strong thematic match.

Crashday, the explosive cult classic multiplayer racer, is back! Retooled and remastered, Crashday: Redline Edition brings back the fun and memories of the original with this lovingly crafted tribute edition, featuring all-new and expanded features, including Steam Workshop support. Today is Crashday!

Why similar: Racing 41.6%, Destruction 34.6%, Multiplayer 9.2%, Arcade 6.2%, Action 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: It combines intense racing with stunt arenas and weapon-based combat, capturing the chaotic spirit of Split/Second.

Road Redemption lets you lead a biker gang on an epic journey across the country in this driving combat road rage adventure. Huge campaign, dozens of weapons, full 4-player co-op splitscreen.

Why similar: Racing 63.1%, Multiplayer 9.4%, Local Co-Op 7.1%, Local Multiplayer 7%, Action 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: A combat-heavy racing game that focuses on vehicular mayhem and high-speed action.

An arcade racer that tears up the rule book with innovative twin-stick controls, completely re-imagined driving mechanics and a huge roster of fiercely individual cars and tracks.

Why similar: Racing 94%, Split Screen 3% ★, Arcade 1.1%, Multiplayer 1%, Driving 0.5%

Why You'll Like It: Features a unique twin-stick drifting mechanic that rewards skill and high-speed precision.

Hotshot Racing is a blisteringly fast arcade-style racing game fusing drift handling, razor-sharp retro visuals and an incredible sense of speed to create an exhilarating driving experience.

Why similar: Racing 42.8%, Split Screen 29.2% ★, Multiplayer 7%, Arcade 5.7%, Local Multiplayer 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: A retro-styled arcade racer that focuses on pure speed and accessible, drift-heavy gameplay.

Team Sonic Racing combines the best elements of arcade and fast-paced competitive style racing as you face-off with friends in intense multiplayer racing.

Why similar: Racing 65.3%, Split Screen 11.1% ★, Multiplayer 8.5%, Great Soundtrack 3.9%, Local Multiplayer 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: A team-based arcade racer that focuses on cooperative play and high-speed track navigation.

Experience a future of illicit hydrojet racing, where armored riders kick out death-defying stunts over massive waterfalls, dodge cops, and boost across surging waves. Unlock new vehicles, characters, and customization features as you take down bosses and build your crew in Career mode.

Why similar: Racing 72.8%, Split Screen 15.6% ★, Multiplayer 4.9%, Local Multiplayer 2.9%, Arcade 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: Water-based arcade racing that features stunts and track-altering shortcuts similar to Split/Second's environmental triggers.

Winning is Cheating in this futuristic racer set on rollercoaster-like tracks. Create shortcuts to cheat your way to the front. Beat a series of varied solo missions of increasing difficulty and then take your skills online in the cross-platform multiplayer, or battle your roomies in split-screen.

Why similar: Racing 38.2%, Split Screen 36.6% ★, Multiplayer 6.8%, Arcade 6.4%, Local Multiplayer 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: A high-stakes, gravity-defying racer that emphasizes speed and daring shortcuts.

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.

Why similar: Racing 60.1%, Destruction 26.3%, Multiplayer 5.5%, Arcade 3.2%, Great Soundtrack 1.9%

Why You'll Like It: A refined version of the classic destruction racer with improved physics and visuals.

CARMAGEDDON: MAX DAMAGE is HERE! And it's the antidote to Racing Games.

Why similar: Racing 64.9%, Destruction 18.6%, Action 8.2%, Multiplayer 6.4%, Driving 1.9%

Why You'll Like It: An extreme destruction-focused racing game that prioritizes carnage over traditional racing lines.

Battle up to five friends online in this over-the-top vehicular mayhem racer!

Why similar: Racing 78.8%, Action 6.6%, Destruction 6.5%, Multiplayer 5.4%, Arcade 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: A combat-racing game set in a wasteland that focuses on destroying opponents to win.

Be one step ahead of your competitors, finding shortcuts, repairing your car in the pit lane, and dominating your opponents from the top-down view.

Why similar: Racing 63.4%, Split Screen 24.4% ★, Local Multiplayer 6.2%, Arcade 6%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down arcade racer that focuses on tight, competitive tracks and quick-thinking maneuvers.

Compete over 13 challenging and diverse environments using whatever means necessary to batter and bruise your opponents into submission, and claim victory for yourself!

Why similar: Racing 85.7%, Local Multiplayer 8.4%, Arcade 3%, Action 2.9%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down combat racer that is perfect for chaotic local multiplayer sessions.

Features traditional time trial mode and 9 other game modes, including the popular “Capture the flag”, “Gate hunt” and “Pathfinder”.

Why similar: Racing 75.9%, Split Screen 13.3% ★, Multiplayer 4.2%, Arcade 4%, Action 2.5%

Why You'll Like It: Off-road arcade racing that emphasizes chaotic maneuvers and high-speed jumps.

SONIC AND SEGA ALL-STARS RACE FOR VICTORY IN A HIGH SPEED HIGH SKILL RACETRACK SHOWDOWN! TAKE TO THE TRACK BY CAR, MONSTER TRUCK, BIKE AND EVEN AEROPLANE IN SONIC & SEGA ALL-STARS RACING. Explore stunning new circuits including Sonic Seaside Hill, Curien Mansion and Blizzard Castle as you zip around medieval castle ramparts, hurtle...

Why similar: Racing 57.4%, Split Screen 21.4% ★, Local Multiplayer 6.1%, Multiplayer 5.3%, Arcade 4.3%

Super Toy Cars is a tabletop arcade combat racing game featuring fast and cool looking cars, impressive tracks made of everyday objects and a bunch of power-ups that will let you destroy your opposition.

Why similar: Racing 82.5%, Multiplayer 8.7%, Local Multiplayer 4.9%, Arcade 4%

Why You'll Like It: A lighthearted arcade racer that focuses on combat and varied, creative track environments.

The open-world action in Need for Speed Most Wanted gives you the freedom to drive your way. Hit jumps and shortcuts, switch cars, lie low or head for terrain that plays to your vehicle’s unique strengths. Fight your way past cops and rivals using skill, high-end car tech and tons of nitrous.

Why similar: Racing 62.8%, Multiplayer 12.3%, Split Screen 8.3% ★, Arcade 5.7%, Driving 4.4%

Rev up your rocket-powered hydro jet and put your racing skills to the test. Riptide GP™2 features dynamic racing on fully interactive water surfaces, a deep career mode with tons of upgrades, customizable riders and skills, online and local multiplayer, and fully integrated controller support.

Why similar: Racing 65.7%, Split Screen 19.7% ★, Local Multiplayer 4.6%, Action 4.2%, Multiplayer 3.1%

Ram through pile-ups and smash through your windshield as you push racing to the edge! FlatOut™ delivers more heart-stopping thrills than any sane driver can handle!

Why similar: Racing 52.9%, Destruction 28.4%, Multiplayer 6.3%, Arcade 4.4%, Action 3.4%

Welcome to the festival of explosive races, TRAIL OUT! Reckless racing around the world! Crashes, explosions, destruction, and screaming drivers!

Why similar: Racing 37.8%, Destruction 35.1%, Local Multiplayer 6.9%, Local Co-Op 6.1%, Arcade 5.9%

Arcade racing with the physics of damage

Why similar: Racing 65.8%, Destruction 27.9%, Arcade 4.7%, Difficult 1%, Singleplayer 0.7%

High-octane action and anime aesthetics collide in this arcade racing game, featuring fighting mechanics and a storyline that hits hard. In this world, some race for glory while others seek power or revenge. Every race is a fight and every battle is personal.

Why similar: Racing 64.8%, Split Screen 14.2% ★, Arcade 9.8%, Multiplayer 5.7%, Driving 5%

Drive the most powerful truck and destroy every opponent that you’ll find on the road or go to the multiplayer mode and decide who is the king of the highway, among your friends.

Why similar: Racing 89.9%, Action 10.1%

GRID Legends delivers thrilling wheel-to-wheel motorsport action. Create dream race events, hop into live races, experience a dramatic virtual production story, and embrace the sensation of spectacular racing.

Why similar: Racing 69.2%, Arcade 9.2%, Multiplayer 8.5%, Action 6.8%, Driving 5.5%

Choose from a variety of daring riders and get a taste of adrenaline riding freestyle or on the race course. Show your opponents what you can do with your best drifts and tricks! Show of your skills to win the championship and send your enemies of the road or into traffic for spectacular crashes.

Why similar: Racing 66.2%, Split Screen 21% ★, Multiplayer 6.7%, Arcade 3.3%, Action 2.7%

Blast opponents off the road with Fireburst, an explosively fun fast-paced arcade style racing game with fantastic graphics.

Why similar: Racing 90.9%, Action 9.1%

Trackmania offers you the ultimate arcade racing universe where everything is about reaching the perfect racing time. Test your skills in over 200 tracks, experience immediate fun by challenging your friends at home (offline splitscreen) or online.

Why similar: Racing 59.9%, Split Screen 22.1% ★, Multiplayer 6.3%, Arcade 5.1%, Local Co-Op 2.5%

It’s the year 2030, the era of flying vehicles. A one-off championship for wheel based vehicles has been organised, with cutting-edge electric cars boosted by Xenon gas. Drift through cities like Tokyo and Dubai as fast as you can and claim eternal glory!

Why similar: Racing 62.1%, Multiplayer 11.8%, Arcade 8.3%, Great Soundtrack 7.3%, Action 6.6%

Experience fast-paced top-down retro racing: build your own tracks, climb global leaderboards, challenge friends in split-screen, and race through dynamic day-to-night transitions in multi-category events.

Why similar: Racing 58.5%, Split Screen 27.4% ★, Arcade 6.7%, Multiplayer 3.2%, Local Multiplayer 2.1%

FlatOut 4: Total Insanity™, where reckless driving has never been this much fun. FlatOut 4: Total Insanity™ blends everything everyone has ever loved about FlatOut into one offering. Gamers will also be introduced to all new and exciting features, game modes, and vehicles which will soon become personal favorites.

Why similar: Racing 61.1%, Destruction 23.5%, Multiplayer 7.9%, Arcade 2.9%, Action 2.6%

BBR2: Island Adventure is a mayhem-filled kart-racer with an emphasis on split screen fun and game rule customization. Customize and save your own zany race rules for epic contests with up to 8 local players.

Why similar: Racing 68.7%, Split Screen 27.9% ★, Local Multiplayer 3.4%

R.C. Cars is an exciting arcade racing game featuring the world of highly realistic toy radio controlled cars. Jump, accelerate, perform acrobatic feats in the air, and bounce on big hummocks, pits and bumps while contending with opponents for victory.

Why similar: Racing 94%, Multiplayer 5.6%, Singleplayer 0.4%

TrackMania² Canyon will let you experience the fun and adrenaline of racing stunning cars on sensational tracks in a major enhanced sequel to Nadeo Studio’s online racing phenomenon TrackMania, already enjoyed by millions of players.

Why similar: Racing 70.8%, Split Screen 10% ★, Multiplayer 9.2%, Arcade 4.2%, Local Multiplayer 4%

Hustle by day and risk it all at night in Need for Speed™ Heat Deluxe Edition, a white-knuckle street racer, where the lines of the law fade as the sun starts to set.

Why similar: Racing 60.4%, Multiplayer 10.8%, Split Screen 8.7% ★, Destruction 8.4%, Driving 3.9%

Gas Guzzlers: Combat Carnage is a fast-paced addictive combat racing game for the PC. The game features many different vehicles, weapons, upgrades, on-track bonuses as well as distinctive and astonishing environments.

Why similar: Racing 78.9%, Action 8.6%, Multiplayer 5.8%, Arcade 4.5%, Driving 2.2%

Trials Fusion is the gold-standard platform racer for the next-generation of gaming. Built upon the Trials franchise’s proven gameplay foundations, Fusion challenges players endlessly in both classic and all-new ways.

Why similar: Racing 86.4%, Multiplayer 5.4%, Local Multiplayer 3.4%, Arcade 1.3%, Action 1.3%

Constant sense of ultimate speed is your only companion, and fast reflexes and tactical skills are what stands between victory and defeat. Buy before Dec. 7 10AM PST and get 10% off.

Why similar: Racing 93.1%, Action 2.7%, Arcade 2.2%, Great Soundtrack 2%

Ready to own the streets? Get behind the wheel of iconic cars and floor it through Ventura Bay, a sprawling urban playground. Explore overlapping stories as you build your reputation – and your dream car – and become the ultimate racing icon.

Why similar: Racing 56.2%, Destruction 21.3%, Multiplayer 9.6%, Arcade 4.4%, Action 4.1%

Hit the starting grid in C10 Racing. An online competitive title that merges intense wheel-to-wheel racing action with first person shooter gameplay. 4 teams of 2, one driver & one shooter, go head-to-head using teamwork & strategy to capture the checkered flag.

Why similar: Racing 87.1%, Action 7.3%, Multiplayer 5.6%

PACER is high-octane anti-gravity racing at its most destructive. Customise your craft and weapons then engage in the campaign, a single-player race or compete against your rivals in explosive online multiplayer for the ultimate combat racing experience.

Why similar: Racing 63.3%, Multiplayer 14.6%, Arcade 10.3%, Action 7.4%, Driving 4.3%

Welcome to the world of Mini Motor Racing X! Strap yourself in, or strap on your VR headset, and jump into a nitro fueled world where little cars mean BIG fun!

Why similar: Racing 65.9%, Split Screen 21% ★, Local Co-Op 4.4%, Arcade 3.7%, Great Soundtrack 2.9%

Pocket Cars is a fast paced arcade combat-racing game, where you can drive remote controlled cars that speed through amazing tracks.

Why similar: Split Screen 39.5% ★, Racing 39.4%, Multiplayer 7.3%, Arcade 5.5%, Action 4.1%