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Games like Derby Champions

If Derby Champions is your kind of game, the closest matches are Rival Stars Horse Racing: Desktop Edition, Silks & Glory and KartOne — 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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About Derby Champions: Build your racing dynasty in Derby Champions. Breed elite horses, train champions, and compete against players worldwide in online races. Build your stable, trade horses in the marketplace, and race for glory.

SportsStrategySimulationCasualRacingWindowsby The Lazy Grid
Derby Champions — Steam game cover

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Steam players who put hours into Derby Champions 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.

  1. Rival Stars Horse Racing: Desktop Edition

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Derby Champions fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Derby Champions.

    With stunning, realistic horses, an in-depth breeding system, and a range of exciting game modes, Rival Stars Horse Racing offers horse fans the ultimate racing and riding experience. Take the reins and become an equestrian legend!

    2020SportsStrategySimulation29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Silks & Glory

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Derby Champions fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Derby Champions.

    Build your racing legacy in a premium horse racing game with a full single-player career, direct jockey gameplay, deep stable management, worldwide competition, online leagues, 2–4 player split-screen, and LAN multiplayer.

    2027SportsStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  3. KartOne

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Derby Champions fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Racing with Derby Champions.

    KartOne is a realistic racing game about karting, built in Unreal Engine 5. It focuses on authentic kart driving, career mode and multiplayer competition – from rental karts to high-performance racing classes.

    SportsRacingSteam ↗
  4. Rival Stars Horse Racing: VR Edition

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Derby Champions fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Simulation with Derby Champions.

    Rival Stars Horse Racing: VR Edition is an immersive simulation game where you can become an equestrian champion from the comfort of your home. Raise, care for, and bond with your dream horses on a scenic ranch, then experience the thrill of the race track and the joy of horse riding!

    2025SportsSimulationRacing19.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. SuperTrucks Multiplayer Racing

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Derby Champions fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Racing with Derby Champions.

    SuperTrucks is a competitive, real time, ranked multiplayer racing game. Race against real opponents on challenging track surfaces, upgrade your truck and rank up as you win races.

    2026SportsIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  6. Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Derby Champions fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Racing with Derby Champions.

    Crash over and over until you master the mountain in the snowy followup to Lonely Mountains: Downhill. Now also including 2-8 person crossplatform multiplayer - work your way down the slopes together as a group, or risk it all in a breakneck race to the base!

    2025SportsIndieRacing24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. The Karters 2: Turbo Charged

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Derby Champions fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports with Derby Champions.

    Get ready for the ultimate kart racing experience on Steam & Steam Deck! Inspired by Crash Team Racing, built with its own identity, advanced gameplay systems, tons of new features and massive modding support for endless replayability!

    2025ActionSportsIndie29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Starters Orders 7 Horse Racing

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Derby Champions fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Derby Champions.

    Starters Orders 7 is the latest in the acclaimed horse racing management series from Strategic Designs Ltd. New features include in-depth breeding stats and lineage, realistic dynamic commentary, newspaper style race and form cards, new racecourses, old-school style betting shop race modes and more.

    2019SportsStrategySimulation34.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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  1. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Derby Champions.

    Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    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.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Counter-Strike:Global Offensive

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    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.).

    2012ActionFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Virtual Cottage

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and Casual with Derby Champions.

    Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.

    2020IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Derby Champions.

    Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. 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!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Derby Champions

Does Derby Champions have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Derby Champions supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online PvP).
What games are most similar to Derby Champions?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Derby Champions are Rival Stars Horse Racing: Desktop Edition, Silks & Glory, KartOne.
Who developed Derby Champions?
Derby Champions was developed by The Lazy Grid and published by High Greyed Gaming.

imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Derby Champions.

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