Games like Race The Sun
If Race The Sun is your kind of game, the closest matches are Race To Sanity, DriftKing 2D and Synthwave Dream '85 — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its daily procedurally generated maps, staying in sunlight matters and brutal. 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.
Get personalized picks →Race The Sun is a challenging Action Indie Racing game from Flippfly LLC, released in 2013 at $9.99. Players navigate procedurally generated courses aboard a solar-powered craft, racing against a relentless setting sun. Time-limited runs challenge players to catch speed boosts that momentarily reverse the countdown to darkness. Reviewers highlight the daily procedurally generated maps that keep gameplay fresh, the unique visual style that players describe as capturing speed effectively, and the tension of staying in the light while avoiding obstacles. Players describe the experience as brutal and challenging, with leaderboards tracking best runs. It runs Playable on Steam Deck and holds a 94% positive rating from 1293 Steam reviews.
About Race The Sun: You are a solar-powered craft. The sun is your death timer. Hurtle towards the sunset at breakneck speed in a futile race against time. Delay the inevitable by catching speed boosts which reverse the setting sun - if only for a moment. Don't crash, stay in the light, and don't slow down!
Players who liked Race The Sun also play
Steam players who put hours into Race The Sun also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Race To Sanity
WHY THIS
Top pick for Race The Sun fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Race The Sun.
Survive in the craziest places to get to your sanity. This game is racing style with physically real ragdoll. A super fun game for you to test the limits of your reflexes.
DriftKing 2D
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Race The Sun fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Race The Sun.
DriftKing 2D is an endless random generated Drifting game!But the story starts with DriftKing 3D! Complete races & win the game![Public Beta]
Synthwave Dream '85
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Race The Sun fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Racing with Race The Sun.
Neons, extreme speed, drifting, arcade scoreboard: everything an '80s stereotypes lover needs
Cyber Driver
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Race The Sun fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Race The Sun.
Cyber Driver is a small cyberpunk-style arcade flight game. It is fast, easy, tight, and repeatable, with elements of collection and challenges. Your only goal in the game is to constantly break the scores you have created before in the unique cyber atmosphere.
Run Tank Run
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Race The Sun fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Race The Sun.
Drive your tank, blast everything blocking your way, and rush forward with exhilaration.
CyberRush
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Race The Sun fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Race The Sun.
CyberRush offers a mix of roguelike cyberpunk streets and a series of handcrafted levels with unique challenges. Outpace the police, weave through obstacles and missile showers, have epic boss battles, and experience the rush in this intense rage-driving adventure. Ready, Set, CyberRush!
Turbo Takedown
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Race The Sun fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Race The Sun.
An infinite runner driving game where collisions are rewarded! Take out enemies and dodge hazards as you travel through six different biomes and chase the highest score.
Highway Hijinks
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Race The Sun fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Race The Sun.
Highway Hijinks is a roguelike endless runner that takes place in a futuristic post-apocalyptic world controlled by a mysterious artificial intelligence. Discover wacky items, race against computer opponents, and upgrade your vehicle with powerful gadgets to get as far as you can.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Race The Sun at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Race The Sun on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Race The Sun.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Race The Sun on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Race The Sun.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Race The Sun on Steam right now. Shares Action with Race The Sun.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Race The Sun on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Race The Sun.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Race The Sun on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Race The Sun.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Race The Sun on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Race The Sun.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Race The Sun on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Race The Sun.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Race The Sun on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Race The Sun.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Race The Sun.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Race The Sun.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Race The Sun.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Race The Sun.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Race The Sun.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Race The Sun.
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.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Race The Sun.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
The Lab
WHY THIS
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!
![UNBEATABLE [white label] — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1290490/header.jpg?t=1736770503)
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More from Flippfly LLC
Other recommendable Steam games by Flippfly LLC, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Whisker Squadron: Survivor
WHY THIS
Another title from Flippfly LLC, the studio behind Race The Sun. Shares Action and Indie with Race The Sun.
A smooth roguelite shooter from the creators of RACE THE SUN, featuring a voiced cast of feline pilots in a dramatic showdown against corporate-powered robots called The Swarm. Features a 3-act campaign with branching paths, epic bosses, and a wide arsenal of pilots, ships, and weapons.
Evergarden
WHY THIS
Another title from Flippfly LLC, the studio behind Race The Sun. Shares Indie with Race The Sun.
You have just arrived in a magical forest world with a hexagon board at its center, a mysterious creature nearby, and secrets lurking in the shadows. Why are you here, and what will you do next? A deceptively simple puzzle game, wrapped in a magical adventure.
Cats Fly Helicopters
WHY THIS
Another title from Flippfly LLC, the studio behind Race The Sun. Shares Action and Indie with Race The Sun.
Cats Fly Helicopters is about creatively completing jobs with your homebuilt helicopters in a quirky simulated city of cats. Upgrade your gear while you meet the needs of residents - but try not to make a mess along the way.
Whisker Squadron: Untitled Space Game
WHY THIS
Another title from Flippfly LLC, the studio behind Race The Sun. Shares Action and Indie with Race The Sun.
The second title in the Whisker Squadron universe takes the fight to the cosmos! A free roaming roguelike featuring tense battles in open space, sprawling Swarm factories, remote stations with quests and shops, moons infested with bosses, and a fantastically colorful vision of outer space.
Frequently asked about Race The Sun
- Does Race The Sun run on Steam Deck?
- Race The Sun is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Race The Sun cost?
- Race The Sun is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Race The Sun?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Race The Sun are Race To Sanity, DriftKing 2D, Synthwave Dream '85.
- Who developed Race The Sun?
- Race The Sun was developed by Flippfly LLC.
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