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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. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“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 count fetched 2026-07-11 13:40 UTC · history 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 2026-07-25.
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 (2026-07-24). 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.
AKINA EUROBEAT RADIO
Dear street racers, First of all, thank you for the incredible support! We've just surpassed 80,000 wishlists!If you haven't already, you can add Akina to your wishlist here.Here is a first version of
NEW DRIFT GAME: AKINA
Dear street racers, The worthy successor to Initial Drift Online and Drift86 will be released in early 2026. Wishlist and follow the game to stay up-to-date. Thank you for your support! ː86driftː A sm
MAJOR UPDATE
Dear street racers, Consider joining the discord, which brings together the community of Drift86 and Initial Drift Online. Link to the discord Rewindapp: Youtube Instagram Steam Creator Page DLC - Myo
MAJOR UPDATE
Dear street racers, Consider joining the discord, which brings together the community of Drift86 and Initial Drift Online. Link to the discord Rewindapp: Youtube Instagram Steam Creator Page DLC - Car
IDO Steam Trading Cards are available!
Dear street racers, Initial Drift Online trading cards, badges, backgrounds and emotes are now available! Rewindapp: Youtube Instagram Steam Creator Page Different levels of badges: Trading cards: Emo
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| 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 |
| Estimated owners | 100,000 – 200,000 (SteamSpy) |
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