CarX Drift Racing Online

Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.

Overwhelmingly PositiveOverwhelmingly Positive · 95%2017

The verdict

A deep, moddable drift game with huge tuning and customization and fun tandem lobbies. Skip it if you want a true sim, or if server errors, DLC paywalls and lost tunes would annoy you.

Great for

Players who love tuning, customizing cars, modding and chill tandem drifting with friends

Main risk

Broken multiplayer connections, lost tunes after updates, and arcade handling that feels off on some controllers

What players love

Deep tuning and customization

Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews

“The sheer amount of car customization is phenomenal, both visually and mechanically.”
Steam review · 4.5 h played ↗

“every car has tons of customization options, including various bodykits which allows you to create many unique builds”
Steam review · 24.8 h played ↗

“Car tuning and visual customization are deep and well-designed”
Steam review · 119.7 h played ↗

Satisfying drift physics

Mentioned in ~1 in 7 positive reviews

“its not the most realistic but its SOO satisfying to learn how to do clean drifts and transitions”
Steam review · 179.5 h played ↗

“Out of all the car games this one has to be the one with best and easiest to learn physics”
Steam review · 152.3 h played ↗

“Physics are fine, graphics are rich, lots of tuning and cars and also lots of maps, 10/10”
Steam review · translated · 20.6 h played ↗

Fun online tandems with friends

Mentioned in ~1 in 7 positive reviews

“Multiplayer stands out - hosting custom lobbies and setting your own rules makes it easy to find players with a similar style.”
Steam review · 119.7 h played ↗

“Relax and just run a tandem with a buddy one evening, that's exactly what this game is about!”
Steam review · translated · 197.9 h played ↗

Mods and Steam Workshop support

Mentioned in ~1 in 8 positive reviews

“if you mod the game with Kino the options are almost endless”
Steam review · 210.2 h played ↗

“The workshop items available for the game make it even better, but on PC CARX paired with Kino is the best way to enjoy the game”
Steam review · 81.7 h played ↗

“Cool game, racing touge on modded maps in tandem is fun, there's enough tuning and custom liveries for cars”
Steam review · translated · 3.9 h played ↗

Great value, especially on sale

Mentioned in ~1 in 13 positive reviews

“Picked this up on sale for $3 and it was $3 well spent.”
Steam review · 63.5 h played ↗

“The game is superb, especially considering how much it costs”
Steam review · translated · 4.9 h played ↗

Runs well on low-end PCs

Mentioned in ~1 in 14 positive reviews

“i use a low end laptop that is like a potato and it somehow runs pretty decent”
Steam review · 3.4 h played ↗

“can get consistent 144 fps on low settings even in full lobbies”
Steam review · 10.7 h played ↗

“Pros: excellent optimization, pleasant graphics for the money”
Steam review · translated · 31.3 h played ↗

What players complain about

Unrealistic, hard-to-control handling

Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews

“the cars turn like a boat sliding on ice and not like how a car should.”
Steam review · 0.2 h played ↗

“It feels like playing a mobile game port. I'm baffled when anyone says the car physics are realistic.”
Steam review · translated · 2.3 h played ↗

“Apparently. u spin out even on like 20% throttle and at like 3k-4k rpms.”
Steam review · 1.2 h played ↗

Multiplayer errors and dead servers

Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews

“Terrible servers. Refuses to let me join a multiplayer lobby. This error 504 has been going on for almost a year.”
Steam review · 128.9 h played ↗

“A simulator of waiting for the server to be fixed and frequent crashes. Wonderful game!”
Steam review · translated · 444.1 h played ↗

“Of all the servers only Eastern Europe works, with 20 people on it.”
Steam review · translated · 418.6 h played ↗

Poor wheel and controller support

Mentioned in ~1 in 7 negative reviews

“Wheel support is complete Ass. If u have a wheel good luck”
Steam review · 5.2 h played ↗

“Gettig a steering wheel set up for this is a nightmare.”
Steam review · 37.6 h played ↗

“starting on controller like who thought it would be a good idea to add no adjustable steering sensitivity”
Steam review · 484.4 h played ↗

Too many DLC paywalls

Mentioned in ~1 in 12 negative reviews

“They turned almost every little thing in the game into paid DLC!”
Steam review · 1.1 h played ↗

“Pushed maps behind dlcs in new update, and those maps were the ones that ppl mostly played on”
Steam review · 33.9 h played ↗

“They cut everything possible and shoved it into DLC.”
Steam review · translated · 1.6 h played ↗

Tunes, cars and saves wiped by updates

Mentioned in ~1 in 13 negative reviews

“They just put out a patch that reset every tune on every car I owned.”
Steam review · 129.4 h played ↗

“1500 hours of progress gone with one game crash”
Steam review · 1555.2 h played ↗

“this game has reset all my cars twice now for no reason”
Steam review · 722.6 h played ↗

Forced data consent and in-game ads

Mentioned in ~1 in 19 negative reviews

“As of recent updates the game asks for your personal data for advertising. If you don't accept, then you can't play in multiplayer.”
Steam review · 58.1 h played ↗

“Since the recently update I am getting targeted in-game advertising on the billboards around the racetrack.”
Steam review · 1499.4 h played ↗

System requirements

From the Steam store page

Steam Deck: Verified

Minimum

OSWindows 10 or higher

ProcessorIntel® Core™ i5-6400 or AMD Ryzen 5 1600

Memory8 GB RAM

GraphicsGeForce GTX 960 4GB / AMD RX 470 4 GB

Storage8 GB available space

Recommended

OSWindows 10 or higher

ProcessorIntel® Core™ I5-9400F or AMD Ryzen 5 2600

Memory16 GB RAM

GraphicsGeForce GTX 1060 3 Gb / AMD RX 580 4GB

Storage8 GB available space

OSWindows 10 or higher

ProcessorIntel® Core™ i5-6400 or AMD Ryzen 5 1600

Memory8 GB RAM

GraphicsGeForce GTX 960 4GB / AMD RX 470 4 GB

Storage8 GB available space

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