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Single-player games like Inertial Drift

Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Inertial Drift, ranked by player overlap. Every pick carries Steam's Single-player category, so multiplayer-only titles or always-online games don't sneak in. imho.run pulls the category data from Steam directly — Single-player here matches what the store labels.

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Ranked picks

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    Star Drift Evolution — Steam game cover

    Star Drift Evolution

    Single-player alternative to Inertial Drift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Racing with Inertial Drift.

    Speed up and powerslide through twisty corners in this minimalistic arcade racer. No braking required. Stay on the throttle and feel the adrenaline of highspeed drifting. Race against AI, leaderboard ghosts or friends online or in split screen. Easy to learn, hard to master!

    2021Racing14.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    New Star™ GP — Steam game cover

    New Star™ GP

    Single-player alternative to Inertial Drift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Racing with Inertial Drift.

    New Star™ GP is a fast and exciting arcade motorsport game with crisp retro visuals. Play career mode and work your way through decades of racing while upgrading your car and your support team... or chase high scores in championship mode on your own or in split-screen with up to three friends!

    2024SportsIndieRacing9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    art of rally — Steam game cover

    art of rally

    Single-player alternative to Inertial Drift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Inertial Drift.

    Race in the golden era of rally. Drive iconic cars from the 60s to Group B on challenging stages through stylized environments inspired by real worldwide locations. Will you master the art of rally?

    2020ActionSportsIndie24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Parking Garage Rally Circuit — Steam game cover

    Parking Garage Rally Circuit

    Single-player alternative to Inertial Drift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Racing with Inertial Drift.

    Retro Arcade Rally Racing... in Parking Garages?!? Precision driving with tight simple controls and arcade physics, all in a Sega Saturn style presentation

    2024ActionIndieRacing9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    DEADLINE DELIVERY — Steam game cover

    DEADLINE DELIVERY

    Single-player alternative to Inertial Drift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Inertial Drift.

    Strap in, floor it, and deliver the goods... before the bomb goes off. Play as Carl, a monkey driving a wildly unstable mail truck through a difficult race against the clock.

    2026ActionIndieSimulation11.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Street Heat — Steam game cover

    Street Heat

    Single-player alternative to Inertial Drift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Racing with Inertial Drift.

    Four-player arcade racing with a sensational synthwave soundtrack! Take to city streets in local or online mutiplayer and race across hazardous tracks. Boasting an unbelievably satisfying handling model, Street Heat will have you punching the air as you master its seat-of-your-pants drift physics.

    2019IndieRacing1.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Redout: Enhanced Edition — Steam game cover

    Redout: Enhanced Edition

    Single-player alternative to Inertial Drift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Racing with Inertial Drift.

    Redout is a tribute to the old racing monsters such as F-Zero, WipeOut, Rollcage, and POD. It is designed to be an uncompromising, fast, tough and satisfying driving experience, soaked in that vertigo that stands at the core of the arcade racing genre.

    2016Racing19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    GRIP: Combat Racing — Steam game cover

    GRIP: Combat Racing

    Single-player alternative to Inertial Drift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Racing with Inertial Drift.

    Harness gravity-defying speed in classic combat racing taken to the EXTREME. Master wall-riding, ceiling-surfing tracks, and unleash devastating weapons across 29 blistering circuits. Race solo, split-screen, or online with up to 10 players. GRIP delivers white-knuckle racing like nothing else.

    2018ActionIndieRacing29.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit — Steam game cover

    Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit

    Single-player alternative to Inertial Drift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Racing with Inertial Drift.

    Need for Speed Hot Pursuit launches you into a new open-world landscape behind the wheel of the world's fastest and most beautiful cars. From Criterion, the award-winning studio behind the Burnout series, Hot Pursuit will redefine racing games for a whole new generation.

    2010RacingDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Project Wingman — Steam game cover

    Project Wingman

    Single-player alternative to Inertial Drift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Inertial Drift.

    Project Wingman is a flight action game that lets you take the seat of advanced fighter jets and become a true ace. Fight in various missions and gamemodes ranging from intense aerial dogfights to large scale ground assault in an alternate scorched earth setting.

    2020ActionIndieSimulation24.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Need for Speed™ — Steam game cover

    Need for Speed™

    Single-player alternative to Inertial Drift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Racing with Inertial Drift.

    Ready to own the streets? Get behind the wheel of iconic cars and floor it through Ventura Bay, a sprawling urban playground. Explore overlapping stories as you build your reputation – and your dream car – and become the ultimate racing icon.

    2020ActionAdventureSimulation7.49 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Turbo Overkill — Steam game cover

    Turbo Overkill

    Single-player alternative to Inertial Drift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Inertial Drift.

    Enter Paradise as Johnny Turbo—half-metal, half-human, all-murder machine. Clean up the streets with a chainsaw leg, 15+ weapons and your hovercar as you battle the rogue AI Syn, rival bounty hunters and cyberpunks aplenty. Apogee’s most outrageous FPS since Duke Nukem 3D. Good hunting, Sir!

    2023ActionIndie19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    OutRUN — Steam game cover

    OutRUN

    Single-player alternative to Inertial Drift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Inertial Drift.

    You play as two different people in the same creepy motel, and everything you think you know keeps changing. One moment you're Allison, running from something in her past, and the next you're Emma doing a late-night cleaning shift. You see the same events from totally different angles. You're JUDGE!

    2024ActionIndieAdventure4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Twilight — Steam game cover

    Twilight

    Single-player alternative to Inertial Drift — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    Twilight is a small dividing line between light and darkness. Sometimes you have to choose where you should stay and for what purpose.

    2025Adventure2.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Inertial Drift: Sunset Prologue — Steam game cover

    Inertial Drift: Sunset Prologue

    Single-player alternative to Inertial Drift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Racing with Inertial Drift.

    Set in a 90's retro future, Inertial Drift offers a driving experience genuinely unlike anything you've played before – boasting twin stick drifting mechanics that need to be felt to be believed.

    2020Free To PlayRacingFreeSingle-playerSimilar games →