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CarX Drift Racing Online cover art

CarX Drift Racing Online

CarX Technologies, LLC · 2017-11-17

SteamPlayStation StoreEpic Games StoreMicrosoft Store

ActionCasualMassively MultiplayerRacingSimulationSports

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: Sep 09, 2020 (Xbox One), Feb 07, 2020 (PlayStation 4), Nov 17, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jun 24, 2021 (Nintendo Switch)

Master realistic drift physics, tune 120+ cars and drift online with up to 16 players across platforms. Compete in TOP-32, build unique setups and explore hundreds of community-made Workshop maps.

CarX Drift Racing Online is an Action, Casual, Massively Multiplayer, Racing game released in 2017, priced at $16.99, with an estimated 2,000,000 .. 5,000,000 owners and an Overwhelmingly Positive review sentiment (95% of 89,359 reviews).

696
playing now
95%
positive of 90k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
2,000,000–5,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
54
twitch viewers (latest)
2.6
viewers/channel (concentration)
80/100
IGDB user rating (9 ratings)
5
Nexus mods (20k downloads)
4.31★
PlayStation Store rating (18,255 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$16.99
steam price (US)

696 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 10:00 UTC (census sample)

Trailer

CarX Drift Racing Online trailer thumbnail

CarX Drift Racing Online: New Trailer

≈331,831 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Healthy
  • · 696 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 3,103 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~388/week).
  • · Review velocity down 36% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 1% of 27,649 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.2M–5.4M copies

Review-multiple estimate from 89,517 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$23.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $2.99 at Steam (2025-11-16)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $23.99 · on sale 20 of 28 observed days · $21.00 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
2.4k2.4k20182026Week of 2018-03-01: 114 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 76 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 57 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 94 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 100 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 70 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 59 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 334 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 71 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 60 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 71 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 223 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 279 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 50 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 41 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 31 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 91 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 354 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 74 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 291 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 250 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 209 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 262 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 366 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 32 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 278 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 253 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 314 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 323 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 345 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 31 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 439 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 1,364 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 42 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 1,623 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 49 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 1,967 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 60 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 1,874 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 57 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 1,509 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 60 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 1,237 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 34 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 1,628 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 54 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 2,210 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 80 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 2,382 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 75 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 1,934 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 78 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 1,638 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 52 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 1,468 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 51 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 1,557 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 48 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 1,730 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 90 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 2,088 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 95 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 1,507 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 55 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1,464 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 72 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 1,406 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 40 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 1,508 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 61 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 1,525 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 66 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 1,707 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 54 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 1,545 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 79 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 1,048 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 33 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 1,311 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 43 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 1,973 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 95 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 1,603 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 73 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 1,877 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 92 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 1,632 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 69 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 1,453 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 72 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 1,107 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 37 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 1,510 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 68 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 1,243 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 55 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 1,510 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 76 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1,385 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 65 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 1,157 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 61 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 894 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 43 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 1,732 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 61 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1,328 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 87 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1,194 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 60 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 862 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 53 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 942 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 46 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 848 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 55 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 801 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 64 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 663 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 57 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 776 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 60 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 688 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 44 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 607 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 41 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 538 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 37 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 761 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 807 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 65 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 651 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 39 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 544 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 527 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 43 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 441 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 34 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 486 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 35 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 420 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 42 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 518 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 39 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 491 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 31 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 373 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 37 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 538 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 47 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 1,064 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 62 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 554 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 61 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 522 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 50 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 351 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 443 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 51 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 350 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 31 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 410 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 38 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 418 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 45 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 374 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 252 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 252 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2026-10-01: 125 positiveWeek of 2026-10-01: 7 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

1.6k5962026-09-15 11:00 — 835 players2026-09-16 20:00 — 1,158 players2026-09-18 03:00 — 788 players2026-09-19 11:00 — 964 players2026-09-20 18:00 — 1,545 players2026-09-22 02:00 — 900 players2026-09-23 09:00 — 638 players2026-09-24 17:00 — 1,192 players2026-09-26 00:00 — 987 players2026-09-27 08:00 — 870 players2026-09-28 15:00 — 1,101 players2026-09-29 23:00 — 888 players2026-10-01 06:00 — 596 players2026-10-02 14:00 — 1,089 players2026-10-03 22:00 — 1,309 players2026-10-05 06:00 — 649 players2026-10-06 13:00 — 1,051 players2026-10-07 21:00 — 1,151 players2026-10-09 04:00 — 859 players2026-10-10 12:00 — 1,172 players2026-10-11 19:00 — 1,600 players2026-10-13 03:00 — 838 players2026-10-14 10:00 — 696 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
2.8k102Jul 2017Aug 2026Jul 2017 — avg 111 · peak 276Oct 2017 — avg 106 · peak 259Jan 2018 — avg 326 · peak 656Apr 2018 — avg 237 · peak 498Jul 2018 — avg 219 · peak 433Oct 2018 — avg 182 · peak 406Jan 2019 — avg 198 · peak 366Apr 2019 — avg 200 · peak 412Jul 2019 — avg 221 · peak 400Oct 2019 — avg 162 · peak 323Jan 2020 — avg 250 · peak 555Apr 2020 — avg 408 · peak 842Jul 2020 — avg 367 · peak 655Oct 2020 — avg 642 · peak 1,671Jan 2021 — avg 1,852 · peak 3,197Apr 2021 — avg 1,580 · peak 2,463Jul 2021 — avg 2,511 · peak 4,338Oct 2021 — avg 1,991 · peak 3,882Jan 2022 — avg 2,441 · peak 4,798Apr 2022 — avg 1,929 · peak 3,833Jul 2022 — avg 2,366 · peak 4,065Oct 2022 — avg 1,999 · peak 3,998Jan 2023 — avg 2,828 · peak 5,152Apr 2023 — avg 2,191 · peak 3,693Jul 2023 — avg 2,547 · peak 4,196Oct 2023 — avg 2,078 · peak 3,557Jan 2024 — avg 2,499 · peak 4,359Apr 2024 — avg 2,090 · peak 3,736Jul 2024 — avg 1,895 · peak 3,075Oct 2024 — avg 1,527 · peak 2,657Jan 2025 — avg 1,779 · peak 2,858Apr 2025 — avg 1,495 · peak 2,351Jul 2025 — avg 1,552 · peak 2,305Oct 2025 — avg 1,426 · peak 3,067Jan 2026 — avg 1,618 · peak 2,657Apr 2026 — avg 1,238 · peak 2,116Jul 2026 — avg 1,061 · peak 1,811Aug 2026 — avg 1,006 · peak 1,555
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Chart history

PositiveNegative
13132026-09-212026-10-142026-09-21: 13 new positive2026-09-21: 5 new negative2026-09-22: 4 new positive2026-09-24: 1 new positive2026-09-25: 7 new positive2026-09-25: 2 new negative2026-09-26: 9 new positive2026-09-28: 2 new positive2026-09-28: 2 new negative2026-09-29: 2 new positive2026-09-29: 2 new negative2026-09-30: 3 new positive2026-10-02: 5 new positive2026-10-03: 9 new positive2026-10-04: 12 new positive2026-10-04: 2 new negative2026-10-06: 11 new positive2026-10-06: 3 new negative2026-10-08: 13 new positive2026-10-08: 1 new negative2026-10-09: 9 new positive2026-10-09: 1 new negative2026-10-11: 6 new positive2026-10-13: 2 new positive2026-10-13: 1 new negative2026-10-14: 4 new positive2026-10-14: 1 new negative
New Steam reviews per day (census review snapshots). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$23.99$2.992017-07-082026-10-142017-07-08 — best price $7.992018-01-04 — best price $9.992018-07-05 — best price $9.992018-11-28 — best price $9.992019-02-12 — best price $9.992019-10-28 — best price $8.392019-12-03 — best price $14.992020-01-27 — best price $14.992020-07-09 — best price $14.992020-12-01 — best price $14.992021-02-15 — best price $14.992021-07-08 — best price $14.992021-12-01 — best price $14.992022-01-18 — best price $14.992022-05-30 — best price $14.992022-08-08 — best price $14.992022-11-29 — best price $14.992023-02-13 — best price $14.992023-05-22 — best price $14.992023-08-16 — best price $14.992023-11-28 — best price $14.992024-01-04 — best price $14.992024-03-21 — best price $14.992024-07-11 — best price $14.992024-10-28 — best price $14.992024-12-19 — best price $6.742025-03-20 — best price $14.992025-07-10 — best price $14.992025-10-06 — best price $14.992025-11-03 — best price $14.992025-12-18 — best price $4.492026-02-23 — best price $14.992026-03-30 — best price $4.492026-06-18 — best price $3.392026-09-09 — best price $23.992026-10-07 — best price $23.992026-10-14 — best price $23.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Twitch viewers

11492026-09-30 21:34 — 62 viewers2026-10-01 06:34 — 41 viewers2026-10-01 15:34 — 10 viewers2026-10-02 00:34 — 39 viewers2026-10-02 09:34 — 21 viewers2026-10-02 18:34 — 69 viewers2026-10-03 03:34 — 52 viewers2026-10-03 12:34 — 9 viewers2026-10-03 21:34 — 59 viewers2026-10-04 06:34 — 42 viewers2026-10-04 15:34 — 35 viewers2026-10-05 00:34 — 15 viewers2026-10-05 09:34 — 13 viewers2026-10-05 18:34 — 89 viewers2026-10-06 03:34 — 41 viewers2026-10-06 12:34 — 9 viewers2026-10-06 21:34 — 48 viewers2026-10-07 06:34 — 15 viewers2026-10-07 15:34 — 23 viewers2026-10-08 00:34 — 29 viewers2026-10-08 09:34 — 23 viewers2026-10-08 18:34 — 17 viewers2026-10-09 03:34 — 56 viewers2026-10-09 12:34 — 26 viewers2026-10-09 21:34 — 74 viewers2026-10-10 06:34 — 41 viewers2026-10-10 15:34 — 20 viewers2026-10-11 00:34 — 57 viewers2026-10-11 09:34 — 14 viewers2026-10-11 18:34 — 38 viewers2026-10-12 03:34 — 26 viewers2026-10-12 12:34 — 114 viewers2026-10-12 21:34 — 45 viewers2026-10-13 06:34 — 43 viewers2026-10-13 15:34 — 34 viewers2026-10-14 00:34 — 49 viewers2026-10-14 09:34 — 16 viewers2026-10-14 18:34 — 67 viewers2026-10-14 20:34 — 54 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Completion

36
achievements tracked
84.5%
earned "DP-Man"
19.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPCo-opOnline Co-opCross-Platform MultiplayerSteam AchievementsVR SupportedSteam Trading Cards31 DLC

12 supported languages: English, Russian, French, Italian, Korean, Japanese, German, Spanish - Spain, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal

Post-launch support: 31 DLC released, first 2017-11-21, latest 2025-04-28 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
PS4 (PlayStation)26,8071%37
Steam (Steam)17,2822%36
Xbox One (Xbox)6,3850%36
Switch (Nintendo)320%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

VRArcadeRacingPhysicsSandboxRelaxingControllerOpen WorldSimulationMultiplayer

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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Similarity via IGDB.

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