Games like Barely Racing
If Barely Racing is your kind of game, the closest matches are Motor Strike: Racing Rampage, TRF - The Race Factory and BlazeRush — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
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Motor Strike: Racing Rampage
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Top pick for Barely Racing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Casual with Barely Racing.
Welcome to the craziest racing experience! Destroy your friends in this demented shooting racing game, play alone, with the split screen mode or online. Enjoy multiple tracks, lots of vehicles and heavy artillery with multiples game modes and feed your hunger of speed, shooting and chaos!
TRF - The Race Factory
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Second-strongest match for Barely Racing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Racing with Barely Racing.
The Race Factory is a fast-paced top-down racer, allowing up to 4 local players, with AI supported in all modes. Inspired by arcade racing games of the 80's/90's. Featuring drift physics, power-ups, and plenty of customization to keep you entertained.
BlazeRush
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Barely Racing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Casual with Barely Racing.
BlazeRush is a dynamic arcade racing survival game with no health, no levelling and no brakes! You can assemble a team of friends to play in local or online multiplayer, choose a car to your taste and chase, blow up and cut off! Adapt your style and tactics to new enemies, obstacles and tracks.
GRIP: Combat Racing
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Ranked #4 for Barely Racing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Racing with Barely Racing.
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.
Concept Destruction
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Ranked #5 for Barely Racing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Racing with Barely Racing.
Concept Destruction is a demolition derby sandbox with miniature cars made of cardboard. Crash them into each other to earn points by destroying other vehicles. Pick a car model and crash other concept cars to begin mass production!
Super Indie Karts
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Ranked #6 for Barely Racing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Barely Racing.
Super Indie Karts is a classic retro 16 to 64-bit style karting game, with Time Trials, Grand Prix, Splitscreen GP, Mission Mania, and Battle Mania! Featuring 48 racetracks, with many more coming soon. You don't have to wait until completion though as you can join the race now with Early Access!
Turbo Sliders Unlimited
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Ranked #7 for Barely Racing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Barely Racing.
Driving game with Unlimited possibilities. Spiritual successor to classic top-down racing games, but in 3D with modern online features, countless game modes and extensive moddability. For casual fun, serious competition, or to unleash your creativity with the editors.
Gas Guzzlers: Combat Carnage
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Ranked #8 for Barely Racing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Racing with Barely Racing.
Gas Guzzlers: Combat Carnage is a fast-paced addictive combat racing game for the PC. The game features many different vehicles, weapons, upgrades, on-track bonuses as well as distinctive and astonishing environments.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Barely Racing at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~44% under Barely Racing on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Barely Racing.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~44% under Barely Racing on Steam right now. Shares Action and Casual with Barely Racing.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Titanfall® 2
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Priced ~50% under Barely Racing on Steam right now. Shares Action with Barely Racing.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~44% under Barely Racing on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Barely Racing.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
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Priced ~44% under Barely Racing on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Barely Racing.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~89% under Barely Racing on Steam right now. Shares Action with Barely Racing.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~67% under Barely Racing on Steam right now. Shares Action with Barely Racing.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
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Priced ~44% under Barely Racing on Steam right now. Shares Action and Casual with Barely Racing.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Barely Racing.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
STRAFTAT
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Barely Racing.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Barely Racing.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Barely Racing.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Barely Racing.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Disfigure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Barely Racing.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
The Lab
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
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Frequently asked about Barely Racing
- Is Barely Racing verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Barely Racing is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Barely Racing cost?
- Barely Racing is listed on Steam at 8.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Barely Racing have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Barely Racing supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Shared/Split Screen PvP).
- What games are most similar to Barely Racing?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Barely Racing are Motor Strike: Racing Rampage, TRF - The Race Factory, BlazeRush.
- Who developed Barely Racing?
- Barely Racing was developed by Fragile Software.
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