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Racing Games

Racing and driving games, from arcade drift tracks to parking challenges that care about millimetres. Most use the arrow keys and almost none of them expect a wheel or a gamepad.

Racing games category cover — free online HTML5 games

1,883 games

Two quite different instincts share this category. Arcade racing is about speed and forgiveness — you take a corner too fast, you slide, you recover. Simulation-leaning driving is about control: parking games, truck manoeuvring and precision courses that will fail you for clipping a cone. Stunt and ramp games sit apart from both and are mostly about physics doing something ridiculous.

Keyboard is the default. Arrow keys or WASD to steer, space to brake or use nitro. A few titles support a connected gamepad, and those are marked on the game page. Touch controls usually replace steering with on-screen buttons or tilt, which works better for arcade racing than for precision driving.

Performance. 3D racing games are the heaviest thing on the site. If one runs poorly, closing other browser tabs helps more than anything else — these games compete for the same GPU your other tabs are using.