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Games like Rise: Race The Future

If Rise: Race The Future is your kind of game, the closest matches are Build and Drive Racing, DiRT Rally 2.0 and DiRT Rally — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and contemplative. 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 Rise: Race The Future: Experience the most addictive racing gameplay! Drift and slide like never before thanks to an exceptional fluid and precise physics-based slippery handling. Unique futuristic cars, smooth powerslides, jumps and water zones take old-school rally arcade games to the next level of fun!

2018Racing15.99 USDWindowsby VD-dev
Rise: Race The Future — Steam game cover
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Boost meter can be filled via drifting or speedHandling sliders let you refine car behaviorNear future car designs stand outAtmosphericChallengingContemplative

Players who liked Rise: Race The Future also play

Steam players who put hours into Rise: Race The Future 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. Build and Drive Racing

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Rise: Race The Future fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Racing with Rise: Race The Future.

    Get ready for a new experience on Windows desktop and VR, where you get to build your ultimate racing machine, tailored to your driving style and optimized for performance, or race to the finish line with a monster what makes you smile.

    2023SportsEarly AccessRacing6.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. DiRT Rally 2.0

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Rise: Race The Future.

    Second-strongest match for Rise: Race The Future fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Racing with Rise: Race The Future.

    DiRT Rally 2.0 dares you to carve your way through a selection of iconic rally locations from across the globe, in the most powerful off-road vehicles ever made, knowing that the smallest mistake could end your stage.

    2019SportsSimulationRacing13.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. DiRT Rally

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Rise: Race The Future.

    Third-strongest match for Rise: Race The Future fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Racing with Rise: Race The Future.

    DiRT Rally is the most authentic and thrilling rally game ever made, road-tested over 80 million miles by the DiRT community. It perfectly captures that white knuckle feeling of racing on the edge as you hurtle along dangerous roads, knowing that one crash could irreparably harm your stage time.

    2015SportsSimulationRacingDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Assetto Corsa

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Rise: Race The Future.

    Ranked #4 for Rise: Race The Future fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Racing with Rise: Race The Future.

    Assetto Corsa v1.16 introduces the new "Laguna Seca" laser-scanned track, 7 new cars among which the eagerly awaited Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio! Check the changelog for further info!

    2014SportsIndieSimulation19.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Project CARS

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Rise: Race The Future.

    Ranked #5 for Rise: Race The Future fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Racing with Rise: Race The Future.

    THE ULTIMATE DRIVER JOURNEY delivers the soul of motor racing in the world’s most beautiful, authentic, and technically-advanced racing game.

    2015SportsSimulationRacingDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Best Forklift Operator

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Rise: Race The Future.

    Ranked #6 for Rise: Race The Future fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Racing with Rise: Race The Future.

    Welcome to the world of warehouses, transport, and forklifts. Join us and show that you deserve to be called the best forklift operator.

    2022IndieSimulationCasual19.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. GRIP: Combat Racing

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Rise: Race The Future fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Racing with Rise: Race The Future.

    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 PlayableSteam ↗
  8. #DRIVE Rally

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Rise: Race The Future.

    Ranked #8 for Rise: Race The Future fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.

    #DRIVE Rally is an arcade-inspired rally-driving experience set in the golden racing era of the ‘90s. Grab your co-driver and burn some rubber on iconic race-winning cars across a variety of terrains in some of the most iconic rallying locations in the world!

    2025ActionSportsIndie19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Rise: Race The Future

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. Trackmania® Turbo

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Rise: Race The Future.

    Reviewers of Rise: Race The Future cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Racing with Rise: Race The Future.

    Trackmania offers you the ultimate arcade racing universe where everything is about reaching the perfect racing time. Test your skills in over 200 tracks, experience immediate fun by challenging your friends at home (offline splitscreen) or online.

    2016Massively MultiplayerRacing39.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit

    WHY THIS

    Shares an epic mood with Rise: Race The Future.

    Reviewers of Rise: Race The Future cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Racing with Rise: Race The Future.

    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 PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Ridge Racer™ Unbounded

    WHY THIS

    Shares an epic mood with Rise: Race The Future.

    Reviewers of Rise: Race The Future cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Racing with Rise: Race The Future.

    The latest title in the RIDGE RACER franchise, RIDGE RACER Unbounded gears up to carve its own destructive path with a new breed of arcade racing.

    2012Racing1.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Need for Speed™

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Rise: Race The Future cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Racing with Rise: Race The Future.

    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 PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Burnout

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Rise: Race The Future cross-mention this title as a similar play.

    Burnout is the perfect game for anyone who has run out of patience. Click, snap, let it out: here stress isn’t cured, it’s recycled. The more unhinged you get, the more the game rewards you.

    2026Free To PlayCasualEarly AccessFreeSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Rise: Race The Future at current Steam store prices.

  1. Superflight

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~81% under Rise: Race The Future on Steam right now.

    Superflight is an intense, easy to learn wingsuit game with an infinite number of beautiful procedurally generated maps. A great game to relax for half an hour and chase your latest highscore!

    2017ActionSportsIndie2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Wild Animal Racing

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Rise: Race The Future on Steam right now.

    Wild Animal Racing is an exciting go-kart simulation game with a twist. Play as an elephant, a lion, a zebra, a giraffe, a rhino or a hippo! Play against the other animals or against a friend on the same PC with the split-screen mode! Or invite Steam friends in the multiplayer mode!

    2016ActionSportsIndie3.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. JellyCar Worlds

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Rise: Race The Future on Steam right now. Shares Racing with Rise: Race The Future.

    It's a Car, made of Jelly! Squishy Physics, Tactile, Silly & Imaginative Driving/Platforming

    2022ActionSimulationRacing7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Need for Speed™ Heat

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~56% under Rise: Race The Future on Steam right now. Shares Racing with Rise: Race The Future.

    Hustle by day and risk it all at night in Need for Speed™ Heat Deluxe Edition, a white-knuckle street racer, where the lines of the law fade as the sun starts to set.

    2020ActionSportsAdventure6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. SpeedRunners

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~81% under Rise: Race The Future on Steam right now.

    Cut-throat multiplayer running game that pits 4 players against each other, locally and/or online. Run, jump, swing around, and use devious weapons and pick-ups to knock opponents off-screen! One of the most competitive games you'll ever play.

    2016ActionSportsIndie2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Garfield Kart

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~69% under Rise: Race The Future on Steam right now. Shares Racing with Rise: Race The Future.

    Join Garfield and his friends in the funniest fast and fur-ious game! What character do you want to play with? Garfield, Odie, Jon, Nermal... you choose! Take part in no-holds-barred crazy races.

    2015Racing4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Need for Speed™ Payback

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~49% under Rise: Race The Future on Steam right now.

    Set in the underworld of Fortune Valley, you and your crew were divided by betrayal and reunited by revenge to take down The House, a nefarious cartel that rules the city’s casinos, criminals and cops. In this corrupt gambler’s paradise, the stakes are high and The House always wins.

    2020ActionSportsStrategy8.09 USDSteam ↗
  8. Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed Collection

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~69% under Rise: Race The Future on Steam right now. Shares Racing with Rise: Race The Future.

    Compete across land, water and air in incredible transforming vehicles that change from cars to boats to planes mid-race.

    2013SportsRacing4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

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

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. 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 ↗
  3. 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 ↗
  4. Virtual Cottage

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  5. Iron Snout

    WHY THIS

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

    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.

    2016ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  7. Coloring Pixels

    WHY THIS

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

    A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.

    2018IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  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 Rise: Race The Future

How much does Rise: Race The Future cost?
Rise: Race The Future is listed on Steam at 15.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Rise: Race The Future?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Rise: Race The Future are Build and Drive Racing, DiRT Rally 2.0, DiRT Rally.
Who developed Rise: Race The Future?
Rise: Race The Future was developed by VD-dev.

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 Rise: Race The Future.

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