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Downtown Drift
Put your driving skills on the test in this urban arena! Drift to rack up as many points as possible while police is chasing you. To show it off, break the global highscores and claim your position on the leaderboard.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via SteamSpy as of 2026-05-14.
“Nice game”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played“i love ts cuz its nice and fun i got in the top 7.71 percent too”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played“Don’t let this distract you from the fact that Hector is going to be running three Honda civics with spoon engines, and on top of that, he just went into Harry’s and bought three t66 turbos with nos, and a motec exhaust system. ⣴⣿⣦⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣼⣿⣿⣿⣷⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀…”
— a player, Steam review · 20 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-08-02 22:41 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Downtown Drift Update 2.1
My plan for 2023 was to definitely release a new update for Downtown Drift... so now here we are one day before the year ends. Just in time! I had been quite bothered with the state of the game from t
Downtown Drift Update 2.0
It has been a long time since the last update for Downtown Drift, also it has been quite some time since I had initially announced this update to come out... my bad. I suppose I've gotten a bit rusty
Beta Update 2.0
After having to postpone the initial release of Update 2.0, I unfortunately have no other choice than to delay its release once more. However, there are good news: the current state of the update is p
Coming Soon Update 2.0
Well well well... it has been awfully quiet around here for a while now, for a good reason: Downtown Drift hasn't seen an Update for almost 2 years. So finally, after a long hiatus, there will be a ne
Downtown Drift Devblog #4
Downtown Drift Devblog #4 is out. Go ahead and check out what I am currently working on!
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-14.
| Genres | Action, Indie, Racing, Simulation, Free To Play |
| Player tags | Crime · Racing · First-Person · Arcade · Heist · Survival · Casual · Minimalist · Free to Play · Action · Driving · Simulation (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Partial Controller Support · Steam Leaderboards |
| Languages | English * * |
| Achievements | 5 |
| Estimated owners | 20,000 – 50,000 (SteamSpy) |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 7 64 Bit, Windows 8 64 Bit, Windows 10 64 Bit Processor: Intel Core i5 - 4670 or AMD equivalent Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 680 or AMD equivalent DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 400 MB available space