Games like GRIP: Combat Racing
If GRIP: Combat Racing is your kind of game, the closest matches are Redout: Enhanced Edition, BallisticNG and Speedboat League — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its competitive, intense and gravity defying tracks. 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 →GRIP: Combat Racing is a 2018 action indie racing game developed by Caged Element Inc. and published by Wired Productions. It features gravity-defying tracks, split-screen multiplayer, and weapon-based combat across 29 circuits. Players can race solo, with local co-op, or online with up to 10 players. Reviewers highlight the tactical use of weapons in races, and players describe it as a nostalgic throwback to classic arcade racers. The game is priced at $29.99 USD, runs at Playable level on Steam Deck, and holds an 87% positive rating from 2,233 Steam reviews.
About GRIP: Combat 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.
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Redout: Enhanced Edition
WHY THIS
Top pick for GRIP: Combat Racing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Racing with GRIP: Combat Racing.
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.
BallisticNG
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with GRIP: Combat Racing.
Second-strongest match for GRIP: Combat Racing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with GRIP: Combat Racing.
BallisticNG is a high speed, all thrills anti-gravity combat racer and open modding environment developed as a tribute to old school classics such as Wipeout, Rollcage and Jet Moto.
Speedboat League
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for GRIP: Combat Racing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with GRIP: Combat Racing.
Race fast and shoot 'em all up with powerful speedboats. Intense, action-packed boat racer with lots of weapons, tons of unlockables, crazy stages, different game modes and local multiplayer. Speedboat League has it all.
G-Vora
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for GRIP: Combat Racing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with GRIP: Combat Racing.
High-speed anti-grav racing with hand-built physics for a direct, responsive feel. Slide along chargeable strips, knock rivals off the track with melee attacks, and race a friend in local splitscreen. A separate Battle Mode adds weapons.
BlazeRush
WHY THIS
Shares a competitive mood with GRIP: Combat Racing.
Ranked #5 for GRIP: Combat Racing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with GRIP: Combat 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.
Pacer
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for GRIP: Combat Racing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with GRIP: Combat Racing.
PACER is high-octane anti-gravity racing at its most destructive. Customise your craft and weapons then engage in the campaign, a single-player race or compete against your rivals in explosive online multiplayer for the ultimate combat racing experience.
Super Indie Karts
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for GRIP: Combat Racing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with GRIP: Combat 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!
Distance
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with GRIP: Combat Racing.
Ranked #8 for GRIP: Combat Racing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with GRIP: Combat Racing.
Distance is an atmospheric racing platformer. Fusing futuristic arcade racing with parkour, survive a deadly, mysterious, neon-drenched city by jumping, rotating, and flying.
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XENO WIPEOUT!
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Reviewers of GRIP: Combat Racing cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with GRIP: Combat Racing.
After centuries of invincibility, it became popular for humans to watch live alien hunting shows, participate in alien hunts, save up money, equipment, and use all the loot you find to move on to new maps and defeat more powerful enemies.
Split/Second
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with GRIP: Combat Racing.
Reviewers of GRIP: Combat Racing cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Racing with GRIP: Combat Racing.
Split/Second is an intense action racing game set within a reality TV show. Competitors vie to be the first to the finish line in a set rigged to blow. Players don’t just collide with other vehicles to knock them from the track, but can also trigger devastating events that alter the race dynamics.
Redout 2
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with GRIP: Combat Racing.
Reviewers of GRIP: Combat Racing cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Racing with GRIP: Combat Racing.
The fastest racing game in the universe. Redout 2 is a tribute to classic arcade racing games and the sequel to the critically acclaimed Redout. Reach impossible speeds in exhilarating futuristic races across an extensive single-player campaign and competitive multiplayer.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below GRIP: Combat Racing at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~83% under GRIP: Combat Racing on Steam right now. Shares Indie with GRIP: Combat 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.
Stardew Valley
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under GRIP: Combat Racing on Steam right now. Shares Indie with GRIP: Combat Racing.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under GRIP: Combat Racing on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with GRIP: Combat Racing.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under GRIP: Combat Racing on Steam right now. Shares Action with GRIP: Combat Racing.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
Hollow Knight
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under GRIP: Combat Racing on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with GRIP: Combat Racing.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under GRIP: Combat Racing on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with GRIP: Combat Racing.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Free alternatives
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with GRIP: Combat Racing.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
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 GRIP: Combat 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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with GRIP: Combat 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 GRIP: Combat 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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with GRIP: Combat 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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with GRIP: Combat 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.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with GRIP: Combat Racing.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Redout: Enhanced Edition
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Racing with GRIP: Combat Racing.
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.
BallisticNG
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with GRIP: Combat Racing.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with GRIP: Combat Racing.
BallisticNG is a high speed, all thrills anti-gravity combat racer and open modding environment developed as a tribute to old school classics such as Wipeout, Rollcage and Jet Moto.
BlazeRush
WHY THIS
Shares a competitive mood with GRIP: Combat Racing.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with GRIP: Combat 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.
Pacer
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with GRIP: Combat Racing.
PACER is high-octane anti-gravity racing at its most destructive. Customise your craft and weapons then engage in the campaign, a single-player race or compete against your rivals in explosive online multiplayer for the ultimate combat racing experience.
Super Indie Karts
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with GRIP: Combat 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!
Distance
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with GRIP: Combat Racing.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with GRIP: Combat Racing.
Distance is an atmospheric racing platformer. Fusing futuristic arcade racing with parkour, survive a deadly, mysterious, neon-drenched city by jumping, rotating, and flying.
Frequently asked about GRIP: Combat Racing
- Does GRIP: Combat Racing run on Steam Deck?
- GRIP: Combat Racing 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 GRIP: Combat Racing cost?
- GRIP: Combat Racing is listed on Steam at 29.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does GRIP: Combat Racing have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — GRIP: Combat 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 GRIP: Combat Racing?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside GRIP: Combat Racing are Redout: Enhanced Edition, BallisticNG, Speedboat League.
- Who developed GRIP: Combat Racing?
- GRIP: Combat Racing was developed by Caged Element Inc. and published by Wired Productions.
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