9 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Burnout Paradise. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Burnout Paradise.
Release Date: 02/12/2014, updated in 2018
Out Now: PC, PS4, Stadia and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Day and Night and Open World
The Crew is a series of open-world racing and exploration games set in a scaled down version of the United States. The emphasis is on enjoyable and exciting driving more than realism. It's a lot like Forza Horizon, although can be played on PlayStation...
Release Date: 14/09/2021
Out Now: Switch and Wii
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Cruis’n Blast is a brash over the top racing game based on a series of big arcade machines. Competing with games like Ridge Racer, OutRun and Daytona USA, it offers whacky racing with big and bombastic visuals and characters.
Release Date: 05/11/2021
Out Now: PC, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Day and Night, Open World and Weather
Forza Horizon 5 is a fast-paced racing game where you drive all manner of different vehicles in races and across the vast open landscape. Building on Forza Horizon 4, this fifth entry to the series is set in Mexico,...
Release Date: 15/05/2015, updated in 2017
Out Now: PC, PS4 and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Crossout is an online vehicle combat game set in a Mad Max, post-apocalyptic world. Players design modular vehicles combine weapons, armour and engines. As you progress in the game you earn currency to upgrade components and access more powerful parts....
Release Date: 28/02/2021
Out Now: PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 3D First-Person, Cartoon and Open World
Taxi Chaos is a racing game that you play in a large open city. You're driving around the city picking up and dropping off passengers earning fares as you drive. The aim is to rush around, pick up passengers and successfully drop them off at their...
Release Date: 08/11/2019
Out Now: PC, PS3, PS4 and Xbox One
Components: 3D Third-Person and Open World
Need for Speed: Heat is an open-world racing game. Races during the day are legally sanctioned street competitions where you try to win cash prizes. Races at night are illegal races where you aim to build a reputation. When racing at night, you need to...
Release Date: 14/09/2022
Out Now: PC and Xbox One
Coming Soon: PS4 and Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Hand-Made
You Suck At Parking is a tactical racing game where the ultimate goal is to stop in a parking spot. The game features cartoon style parkour racing tracks with loops, sharp bents, bombs and other hazards, on the route to a parking spot.
Release Date: 01/01/1998, updated in 2012
Out Now: Android, GameCube, PC, PS2, PS3, Xbox 360 and iOS
Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon and Open World
Crazy Taxi is a series of games where you take people to different locations in a city, as a taxi driver. It sounds a little dull, but in this brighter and bigger world, it's a joy rather than a chore. When you complete a fare you get money based on how...
Release Date: 29/01/2016, updated in 2018
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon and Open World
Defunct is an adventure game where you race through a post-human landscape. You play an old, broken racing robot with little propulsion left. However, by using the landscape and varying your gravitation pull you learn how to speed through the world....
36 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Burnout Paradise. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Burnout Paradise.
Release Date: 27/08/1992, updated in 2018
Out Now: 3DS and 2DS, DS, GameCube, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is a go-kart racing game on Nintendo systems. You race against other Nintendo characters around different circuits, picking up power-ups, attacks and speed boosts. It is frantic and chaotic but still requires skills to do well.
Release Date: 28/08/2018
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Rocket League is a sports action game where you drive futuristic cars to score goals with an oversized football. It’s another game that sounds ridiculous but is actually a huge amount of fun to play and requires a lot of expertise. What’s not...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: Mac, PC and Switch
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Skate Story is a skateboarding game that focuses on the skill, weight and locomotion of controlling the board. Running through the game is a story where you explore the underworld beneath New York City.
Release Date: 13/06/2017
Out Now: PS3, PS4, Switch, Wii U, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Open World
Cars 3: Driven to Win is a racing adventure game based on the 2017 film. You explore the world of Radiator Springs and other locations from the film. As you do, you meet the other cars, collect items and unlock new areas.
Release Date: 08/05/2019, updated in 2020
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Coming Soon: Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Descenders is a downhill mountain biking game with a focus on skill. In each downhill run, your goal is to score as many points as possible by completing skill based challenges and executing as many tricks and flips as you can, all while you try to...
Release Date: 16/11/2003
Out Now: GameCube, PS2, Wii and Xbox
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon and Open World
The Simpsons: Hit & Run is adventure game based on the American animated sitcom The Simpsons.
Release Date: 31/10/2017, updated in 2020
Out Now: Android, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Components: 3D Third-Person, Day and Night, Open World and Weather
Mudrunner is an off-roading simulation where you drive ageing Soviet vehicles in extreme, muddy and unpaved environments. It's novel because of the simulated driving and that you just have a map and a compass to navigate.
Release Date: 28/04/2020, updated in 2021
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 3D Third-Person, Day and Night and Open World
SnowRunner is an off-road driving simulation game that follows up MudRunner. You drive all-terrain vehicles to traverse between locations and complete deliveries. You need to use the vehicle's gears, all-wheel-drive, fuel levels and other features to...
Release Date: 25/09/2018
Out Now: PC, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, 3D Third-Person, Day and Night, Open World and Weather
Forza Horizon 4 is a thrilling racing game where you race all manner of vehicles across a wide range of landscapes. This fourth iteration is set in the United Kingdom, with Edinburgh’s narrow streets, the Lake District’s hills and rainfall and the...
Release Date: 08/11/2018, updated in 2022
Out Now: Android, Apple TV, Mac, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Day and Night
Horizon Chase 2 is the latest game in the Horizon Chase series of arcade racing games with a focus on competitive fun rather than realism; its graphics make it look like it was plucked from the nineties’ arcades, with a nod to Outrun and Lotus Turbo...
Release Date: 01/01/2007, updated in 2020
Out Now: DS, PS2, PS3, PS4, PS5, Stadia, Wii, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person and 3D Third-Person
Dirt 5 is the latest game in a series of extreme sports racing games. Like Forza Horizon or the older MotorStorm games, the series focuses on exuberance and party atmosphere rather than just...
Release Date: 01/01/1997, updated in 2017
Out Now: PS3, PS4 and PSP
Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person and 3D Third-Person
Gran Turismo is a driving simulator that focuses on a photo-realistic driving experience. Players race real-world cars where bodywork and interiors are perfectly modelled. Whether hatchbacks or super cars, this game lets you step into the world of the...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Haste Broken Worlds is a super fast racing and reaction game where you guide a running character through a changing landscape. You play by directing your character to avoid running into things, using boosts and gliding to find the best way forward. Like...
Release Date: 14/09/2007, updated in 2010
Out Now: PS3, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Open World
Skate is a skateboarding series with innovative controls. One stick is used to control the skater's body and the other his feet. This resulted in the need to quickly motion different patterns to intuitively achieve different tricks - what become coined...
Release Date: 31/05/2020, updated in 2022
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead
KartRider is an online kart racing game. You race and customise your kart on a variety of different circuits. Along with the usual fantasy vehicles this includes real cars. It's similar to Mario Kart and has power-ups and drift...
Release Date: 11/09/2020
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 3D Third-Person
Inertial Drift is a racing game set in an alternative 90s retro future. Unusually, you use two sticks to control the direction with one stick and the drift with the other. Choose to either enter races or play the single player story mode, where you...
Release Date: 02/06/2009
Out Now: PC, PS3 and Xbox 360
Components: 3D Third-Person, Day and Night, Open World and Weather
Fuel is an open-world racing game set in a Mad-Max style post apocalyptic United States. It was one of the first driving games to let you drive anywhere on the huge map without loading times. With a day-night cycle and weather, you can take all manner...
Release Date: 01/09/2022
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Disney Speedstorm is a kart racing game like Mario Kart but with high-speed Disney and Pixar-inspired characters and racetracks. It's also different as it's a free-to-play with in-game purchases provided in seasons that offer new characters, circuits...
Release Date: 14/12/2006, updated in 2012
Out Now: PS Vita, PS2, PS3, PS4 and PSP
Components: 3D Third-Person
This series of games started on the PlayStation 3 with innovative tracks that got muddier as you raced. This, along with a wide variety of vehicles and routes through each of the courses makes for an entertaining and light-hearted racing game. Whether...
Release Date: 13/11/2012, updated in 2014
Out Now: PS3, Wii U, Xbox 360, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Dice
F1 Race Stars is a racing game loosely based on the 2012 Formula One season. The tracks may have loops, jumps and shortcuts and the drivers may look a little stylised but the kart-style racing is actually pretty convincing.
Release Date: 23/09/2020, updated in 2021
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Art of Rally is a racing game that focuses on stylised off-road motion from the creator of Absolute Drift. Slide through the hand-crafted stages set in Finland, Japan and Spain with varying weather and time of day.
Release Date: 27/09/2021
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Hot Wheels Unleashed is an arcade-style racing game where you race toy cars around sprawling, looping tracks through rooms and garages. Its controls, while child-friendly, offer enough nuance to reward practice. It's a game that focuses on ingenuity and...
Release Date: 09/11/2017
Out Now: PC
Components: 3D Third-Person and Open World
Superflight is a game where you control a risk-taking man in a flight suit. You control your flight with the aim of buzzing the landscape. The closer you come without crashing the more points you get. If you can do this a few times in a row you get...
Release Date: 14/06/2018, updated in 2019
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch and Xbox One
Coming Soon: Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Wreckfest is a racing game where you aim to destroy other people's cars. It focuses on demolition modes with classic American muscle cars and other unusual vehicles. Rather than racing, this is a physical challenge with cars crammed onto a small track,...
Release Date: 10/03/2022
Out Now: Switch
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Chocobo Go is a racing game where fantasy characters compete to get around the circuits first. Each of the Chocobo characters (characters from Final Fantasy universe) have unique abilities and can equip Magicites items to delay or take out the...
Release Date: 14/06/2022
Out Now: PC, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Lumbear Jack is a puzzle game where you slice and dice through machinery, and humans, and work with wacky woodland critters to stop the industrial giant Evil Works.
Release Date: 26/02/2019, updated in 2019
Out Now: PC, PS4, Stadia, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Trials Rising is a four-player side-on motorbike racing game controlled by pressing ‘accelerate’ or ‘brake’ and using the stick to shift the weight of their riders’ bodies. The game emulates real-world physics, so you have to balance your...
Release Date: 14/01/2022
Out Now: Android and iOS
Components: 3D Third-Person
Crossout Mobile is a smartphone version of the popular online vehicular combat game Crossout. While it retains all the core mechanics of the main version, including the modular vehicle designs, customisation and skilful gameplay,...
Release Date: 10/10/2022
Out Now: Web
Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Day and Night and Weather
Slow Roads is a relaxing endless driving game that focuses on the simple experience of travel. You play by steering the car through the different locations and times-of-day, or switch to autopilot and let the countryside fly past automatically. It...
Release Date: 08/11/2019
Out Now: Android, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Coming Soon: PC
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
REKT! High Octane Stunts is a stunt racing game for up to four players on one system. Players compete to chain tricks, nail landings, drift corners and unlock more cars. The multiplayer game is where things really heats up, as players attack each other...
Release Date: 12/07/2020, updated in 2021
Out Now: PS4 and PS5
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Tectonic is a timed single-car racing game. It starts out as an ordinary race through an American city, but soon develops into an exciting experience as you drive through the city while it is being wrecked by an earthquake. Buildings fall all around you...
Release Date: 16/06/2021, updated in 2022
Out Now: Android, PC, PS4, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Agent Intercept is an arcade-style racing game where you control a transforming spy vehicle in order to save the world. It is a bombastic, simple to play driving game that requires you to drift, dodge, smash and destroy your way through to victory. It...
Release Date: 16/06/2021
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead
Twilight Drive is a racing game where you turbo, drift, and use a grappling hook to turn corners and get fast lap times. Along with racing your own times, an on-line leaderboard lets you compete with friends and family. It's a cross between Micro...
Release Date: 10/01/2022
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Cartoon
Buck Up And Drive! is a retro racing game that double's down on the surrealism of 90's arcade games. It's driving meets skating by way of destruction derby and offers a great distraction from a sometimes over serious world.
Release Date: 24/02/2011, updated in 2017
Out Now: Amazon Fire, Android, Apple TV, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Coming Soon: Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Riptide GP: Renegade is a fast-paced racing game set in the underground hydro-jet racing scene. It takes extreme jet-ski action in a wacky direction, but there's a significant skill in manoeuvring your vehicle through tight twists and turns to achieve...
Release Date: 05/12/2022
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Cartoon and Weather
Swordship is an action game where you control a ship hauling stolen cargo, often under attack from security forces. As you have no weapons yourself, you must use enemy attacks against them - making them shoot their own ships and destroy themselves. It's...
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