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Initial Drift Online
Drift over some of Japan's most legendary mountain passes, compete against your friends or players from around the world in epic battles, make deliveries, buy new cars and set records in the world rankings!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-02 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-13.
What reviewers agree on
28 of the 78 reviews raise this.
“You’ll mostly be drifting alone in empty lobbies while the servers contemplate their existence. Menus fight controllers, connections drop for dramatic effect, and content feels… minimalist. Still, when the car slides…”
“Drifting mechanics are solid and responsive, with tight controls that reward precision. Car handling feels realistic, and customization options allow meaningful tuning. Online matches are competitive but can suffer from…”
“Fun game that kept me interested the whole time and didn’t waste my time. Simple, polished, and worth playing.”
18 of the 78 reviews raise this.
“---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good ☑ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☑ It's just gameplay ☐ Meh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just…”
“This game is amazing, the cars look very realistic and if you turn down the graphics it doesn't change how the car looks but it gives the world a ps2 kind of texture which is a really cool unintentional feature. Even…”
“Not sure why the game gets bad reviews, it ain't bad. It's not a simulator, it is an arcade made to have fun. That said, steering is well balanced, at least on my xbox controller. World looks nice and autentic, music is…”
10 of the 78 reviews raise this.
“For the price there is nothing better, shame its a bit empty as in stuff to do in open world besides delivery and battles ,needs better car audio the handling does need time to master, don't get upset snowflakes, not a…”
“satisfying once you learn controls, if caught on sale for free then very good game, controller reccomended though”
“Fun Drifiting Game. It is unoptimised and the servers every 10 minutes or so change and they throw you out. But still if you get it at a sale for a dollar or so or even free, it is worth it for the fun drifting.”
7 of the 78 reviews raise this.
“---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good ☑ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☑ It's just gameplay ☐ Meh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just…”
“[h1]Rating[/h1] 1/10 [h1]Intro[/h1] It's not worth playing, even for free. What's here was clearly stitched together within a week at best, for the sole purpose of making quick bucks. I doubt it's a coincidence either,…”
“Not sure why the game gets bad reviews, it ain't bad. It's not a simulator, it is an arcade made to have fun. That said, steering is well balanced, at least on my xbox controller. World looks nice and autentic, music is…”
6 of the 78 reviews raise this.
“satisfying once you learn controls, if caught on sale for free then very good game, controller reccomended though”
“Drifting mechanics are solid and responsive, with tight controls that reward precision. Car handling feels realistic, and customization options allow meaningful tuning. Online matches are competitive but can suffer from…”
“Not sure why the game gets bad reviews, it ain't bad. It's not a simulator, it is an arcade made to have fun. That said, steering is well balanced, at least on my xbox controller. World looks nice and autentic, music is…”
18 of the 78 reviews raise this · 8 of them still recommend the game.
“Terrible driving experience”
“Lower setting race game, the whole 3D model are like crap that developer seem made them out on the free 3D material website, there nothing or even a things that you could say "true content", it's just copy and paste…”
“Horrible controls. You can spend time to make it make sense but still its like meh. The breaking system feels like driving over ice.”
14 of the 78 reviews raise this · 8 of them still recommend the game.
“Lower setting race game, the whole 3D model are like crap that developer seem made them out on the free 3D material website, there nothing or even a things that you could say "true content", it's just copy and paste…”
“Horrible controls. You can spend time to make it make sense but still its like meh. The breaking system feels like driving over ice.”
“this is the worst car game ive ever played, even roblox ones are better than whatever this is oh my god. You cant control the car at all and ur just drifting absolutely everywhere and you cant slow down or else oops ur…”
11 of the 78 reviews raise this · 8 of them still recommend the game.
“You’ll mostly be drifting alone in empty lobbies while the servers contemplate their existence. Menus fight controllers, connections drop for dramatic effect, and content feels… minimalist. Still, when the car slides…”
“Not worth the 6gb of space. Perma kicked”
“Drifting mechanics are solid and responsive, with tight controls that reward precision. Car handling feels realistic, and customization options allow meaningful tuning. Online matches are competitive but can suffer from…”
11 of the 78 reviews raise this · 6 of them still recommend the game.
“Not worth the 6gb of space. Perma kicked”
“Lower setting race game, the whole 3D model are like crap that developer seem made them out on the free 3D material website, there nothing or even a things that you could say "true content", it's just copy and paste…”
“[h1]Rating[/h1] 1/10 [h1]Intro[/h1] It's not worth playing, even for free. What's here was clearly stitched together within a week at best, for the sole purpose of making quick bucks. I doubt it's a coincidence either,…”
8 of the 78 reviews raise this · 2 of them still recommend the game.
“Lower setting race game, the whole 3D model are like crap that developer seem made them out on the free 3D material website, there nothing or even a things that you could say "true content", it's just copy and paste…”
“this Game is actual ♥♥♥♥ i wold never pay $7.50 for a game that looks like it was made last minute in the Temu factory.”
“this is the worst car game ive ever played, even roblox ones are better than whatever this is oh my god. You cant control the car at all and ur just drifting absolutely everywhere and you cant slow down or else oops ur…”
Note: these 78 reviews lean more positive than the game overall — 78% of them recommend it, against 62.2% across all 5,807 reviews.
Counted across 78 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 62.2% positive rating · as of 2026-05-13
“drifting is better than sex >Driving Physics: You really have to do, to not bump into a guardrail. Why, you would probably ask. Well, you are sliding real far, if you have to much speed going into a corner. It handles hard and you have to fight against understeering and much…”
— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs played“my wife left me because i bought a $500 dollar sparco racing wheel and bride racing chair and gas pedals for my computer, worth it.”
— a player, Steam review · 9 hrs played“For a racing game, the drivin feels even worse than Mafias. The online servers r pretty much dead ghost towns, the level designs nothin special, and most tasks r just delivery runs. Gets old after goin back and forth a few times.”
— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-05.
Price tracking
US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-11. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.
Regional prices at last sample, in local currency — Steam sets each region's price independently.
Cheapest → most expensive, converted to USD at ECB reference rates (2026-09-04). Relative comparison only.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Action, Indie, Massively Multiplayer, Racing, Simulation |
| Player tags | Racing · Immersive Sim · Open World · Combat Racing · Life Sim · Driving · Physics · Automobile Sim · PvP · MMORPG · First-Person · Action (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Multi-player · MMO · PvP · Online PvP · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Trading Cards · Steam Cloud |
| Languages | English, French, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Spanish - Spain, Spanish - Latin America, Turkish, Japanese |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 36 |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 7/8/10/11 - 64bits Processor: AMD Athlon X2 2.8 GHZ, Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHZ Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 6450, Nvidia GeForce GT 460 Storage: 4 GB available space Sound Card: Integrated