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Best arcade racing games for pc

1.Need for Speed

Paid: $19.99

Need for Speed is an online racing video game created by Electronic Arts and developed by Ghost Games. It was released in 2015 as a reboot of the first game of the series that was originally released in 1994.

  • Christopher Jimenez

    by Christopher Jimenez

    This game is a lot of fun, just like it was years ago when I used to play the older versions. It's cool being able to play online with tons of peop

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  • Humberto Bravo

    by Humberto Bravo

    If you're looking for racing games, I always go for Need For Speed. There were also other versions of this game and they are all awesome! You should c More

  • Edward Nguyen

    by Edward Nguyen

    a classic updated

2.Burnout Paradise

Paid: $19.99 Price upon request
Burnout Paradise is a racing video game set in an open world. The game was developed by Criterion Games and published by Electronic Arts. It's the fifth part of the Burnout series and is the first of the series to be released on PC.
  • He Zhang

    by He Zhang

    One of the best racing games that I have ever played. Burnout is so entertaining. My friends and I played this for hours. I love it when the cars cras More

  • Kevin Carlson

    by Kevin Carlson

    Burnout Paradise does a great job of recreating the feel of those old arcade racing games we all played as kids. Bonus points if you have a steering w More

3.Need for Speed: Most Wanted

Paid: $4.99 with in-app purchases
Need for Speed: Most Wanted is an arcade racer game developed by Electronic Arts. It lets players drive a variety of different cars through different terrain as they try to outrun cops and rivals in a high-intensity environment.
  • Dylan Hudson

    by Dylan Hudson

    This is a racing game for PC. And compared to other Need for Speed games, this is what I like the most. 

4.FlatOut 2

Paid: $9.99

FlatOut 2 is an arcade racing video game playable on computers running Microsoft Windows operating system. It was developed by Bugbear Entertainment and was published by Strategy First.

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  • James Richardson

    by James Richardson

    FlatOut 2 is probably the most enjoyable racing game on PC. This definitely isn't a racing sim, this is the pinnacle of arcade driving, if you want so More

  • Kenneth Harris

    by Kenneth Harris

    This is a good solution because the game is highly rated. There are a lot of positive reviews and is a popular racing game.

5.The Crew

Paid: $29.99

The Crew is an MMO racing game by Ivory Tower and Ubisoft Reflections. Players traverse in a large, open-world resembling the United States. They can partake in new contents and challenges everytime.

  • Nicholas Hall

    by Nicholas Hall

    The Crew has a lot to offer as a racing game. It really emphasizes the open-world mechanic of driving as fast as you can and going anywhere, on or off road. The graphics are really good and the controls feel very natural and satisfying. It is a solid More

6.Need for Speed Payback

Paid: $39.99

Need for Speed: Payback is an action driving video game and the twenty-third game of the Need for Speed franchise. With three characters available, players perform cinematic stunts. Classic features like 24-hour cycle and single player mode return.

  • by Kathy Diaz

    Who doesn't love driving games? I love to drive in real life and driving games are my favorite. I love you can get a platinum pack and pick a cool car and customize it by adding underbody lights and smoke for your tires. Love this game!

7.Redout

Paid: $34.99

Redout is a futuristic racing game by 34BigThings. Taking inspiration from AG racing classics such as F-Zero, WipeOut, Rollcage, and POD, players will experience high-octane races. The game comes with Career mode and online multiplayer mode.

  • Arthur Parker

    by Arthur Parker

    I had a blast playing this game and was surprised by how challenging it is. I went into this game thinking I would run through the career mode really quickly but I ended up having hours of fun and a bit of frustration.

8.Trials Fusion

Paid: $19.99
Trials Fusion is a racing game focused on motorcycle trials. Utilizing physics-based mechanics,players traverse courses using their platforming skills. Players can also share their custom race courses via track editor.
  • by Elizabeth Mendez

    I like this game because the graphics are quite good. I like the tricks you can do in the game. I like that it's available on most gaming consoles.

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  • by Nick Yao

    The game graphics looks very decent and the game itself looks very fun to play. After playing this, I can say that the price is worth it. 

9.Need for Speed Rivals

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Need for Speed Rivals is a street racing game by Ghost Games and Criterion Games. Taking the role of a cop or racer, players traverse in an open-world environment and participate to races. They can also utilize traps to disrupt rivals.

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    by Kathleen Barnes

    I was searching for the topic of best PC arcade racing games and was given the solution of Need for Speed Rivals. This is a great solution, it is sing More

  • Ralph Walker

    by Ralph Walker

    N4S: Rivals is a great PC arcade game. Great for a wide range of audience.

10.Trackmania Turbo

Paid: $39.99

Trackmania Turbo is a stunt-based racing game by Nadeo and Ubisoft. Players can explore 4 environments with varying gameplay. Access over 200 tracks by completing campaign mode or build new tracks via Trackbuilder mode. 

  • by Lisa Bryant

    Turbo is a beautiful Trackmania game. The single player campaign isn't split into different games anymore, like it was in Trackmania 2. Graphics are b More

  • Sara Zepeda

    by Sara Zepeda

    I loved defying gravity in paradise, racing on tracks and using my driving skills in this game! There are 200 tracks and 5 levels of difficulty that i More

11.Blur

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Blur is a racing video game created by Activision. It has licenses for cars and real world locations. It is portable for PlayStation 3 and Windows computers. It has cinematic realism, multiplayer mode, and the races have power-ups.

  • Tomás Navarrete

    by Tomás Navarrete

    Blur is an interesting game that has the graphics of a Midnight Club but the gameplay of Mario Kart. And I don't think that is disparaging at all; I'v More

  • Tony Dai

    by Tony Dai

    I liked the 4-player feature since I can play this with my cousins. And it also works in our PC and that's more fun!

  • Félix Rivera

    by Félix Rivera

    Blur is a good racing game for pc, but far from the best. The lack of tracks and cars makes the game get really boring after a while. There's just not More

12.Carmageddon: Max Damage

Paid: $16.99
Create carnage in a wide range of large open world environments and smaller battle arenas, with plenty of fun stuff to smash into, smash up, snap off and sling around. Explore city streets and country trails, arid deserts, and icy wastelands. 
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  • Megan Lane

    by Megan Lane

    I'm not really into car games, I find them really repetitive, but Carmageddon: Max Damage seems like a really fun game and a fun way to waste some tim More

  • Wayne Hoffman

    by Wayne Hoffman

    This is the new version of Carmageddon: Reincarnation and it didn't disappoint me. It just got better.

  • Joseph Stewart

    by Joseph Stewart

     One of my favorite aspects of Carmageddon: Max Damage is that it satisfies a completely different niche to most racing games, being a destruction-

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13.SkyDrift

Paid: $9.99

Get closer than ever before to the world of adrenaline pumping sky-racing where flyboys can test and master their flying and combat skills against the deadliest opponents! Admire amazingly detailed terrains. 

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  • John Hernandez

    by John Hernandez

    SkyDrift is one of the most challenging arcade racers I've played in years. It can be a frustrating game at first, but perseverance is rewarded with e More

  • Henry Ortega

    by Henry Ortega

    When it comes to sky racing and if you want a racing game to another level, I will recommend this one since being a flyboy is cool!

  • Billy Lane

    by Billy Lane

    SkyDrift is an amazingly fun game. I love the gameplay and the competition. It is a favorite among my group of friends and we play for hours.

14.Star Wars Episode 1: Racer

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Star Wars Episode 1: Racer is a Star Wars themed racer created when the first episode was released featuring the racing pods featured in the movie. The gameplay is gravity racing based as see the player controlling Pod Racers in a behind the vehicle angle.

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  • Catherine Guerrero

    by Catherine Guerrero

    Star Wars is my favorite game and I love playing the racing pods. Anything Star Wars for me is good. The pod racers are very cool and the game is easy More

  • by Harold Berry

    If you are a collector of Star Wars then maybe this would be a good buy for you. This game is a classic but surprisingly, it still work in my PC. < More

15.Sonic & All-Stars Racing: Transformed

Paid: $19.99

Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed is an arcade multiplayer kart racing video game for computers with a Microsoft Windows operating system. It was developed by Sumo Digital and was published by SEGA.

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  • Joseph McCoy

    by Joseph McCoy

    like car racing? Likes boat racing? likes air racing? This game has it all, and there is also an element of transformer involved. Transform and race,  More

  • by Carlos Zúñiga

    Sonic is the king of fast, so it only stands to reason that a sonic game is too? Exactly, like mario cart, but with new and cool characters that I gre More

16.Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit

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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.
  • Vincent Gomez

    by Vincent Gomez

    There is really on one arcade racing game... Need for Speed. It set a standard that's hard to beat. Enter Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, the latest grap More

  • Judith Nguyen

    by Judith Nguyen

    Need for Speed has been around for a long time, and Hot Pursuit adds to the legacy. The fact that this game has been around for so long and still feel More

17.Race Room

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Race Room is a free to play racing game that is based on the official championships of racing series like DTM, WTCC, and ADAC GT Masters. Enter RaceRoom and enter the world of a professional race car driver.  
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    Race Room is one of the closest experiences you can get to feeling like a professional race car driver. The cars feel realistic and stay true their re More

  • Brian Cook

    by Brian Cook

    look pretty fun and fair price

18.Need for Speed: The Run

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Need for Speed: The Run is a game which lets players run from the police and from the people they owe money to. This frantic running game enables players to drive in actual places and actual roads from San Francisco to New York.

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    by Julio Carrasco

    The topic is confusing because it says both pc and arcade. That being said, this sounds like it is a pc racing game. I do not know about the arcade as More

  • Jack Cole

    by Jack Cole

    It's hard to go wrong with Need for Speed. I love the old-school feel that it has, it brings back great memories from when I was younger.

19.Midnight Club 2

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Midnight Club II is an arcade racing game, and the sequel to Midnight Club: Street Racing, developed and published by Rockstar Studios. There are no rules. Drive anywhere in the city. Find the fastest route to win.

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  • Kelly Torres

    by Kelly Torres

    This game is fun racing but it also has shortcut strategies which make it really fun and more interactive than your average racing game. I love the ci More

  • John Pierce

    by John Pierce

    Midnight Club 2 is a great game to rock out on your PC. The graphics are stunning, the gameplay is super fun, and the speed is insanely fast.

20.MXGP3

Paid: $39.99
MXGP3 is the video game that lets you experience all the adrenaline of Motocross with the official Championship tournament simulation. The game is the official simulator for the tournament in actual motocross tracks. 
  • Rose Coleman

    by Rose Coleman

    The graphics on this are really good but I am not that into Motocross. I actually downloaded the game for my nephew and he really enjoyed it. I tried  More

  • Craig Coleman

    by Craig Coleman

    For motocross racing, I always recommend MXGP3 to my friends. The terrains and challenge in every round is awesome!

  • Vincent Reid

    by Vincent Reid

    Only motocross here, not much of a variety when it comes to racing. Playing motocross games feel the same no matter what because you simply have diffe More

  • Jiang Bai

    by Jiang Bai

    A racing game but it's for motocross. The challenge in every level is nice though. 

21.Carmageddon: Reincarnation

Free download

Like the old movie Death Race 2000, Carmageddon allows the drivers to accumulate points not merely by skill is shown on one of the 36 race tracks, but by the amount (and type) of pedestrians, the driver is able to run over while racing. *NO LONGER AVAILABLE*

Carmageddon: Reincarnation

Carmageddon: Reincarnation

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  • Frank Stone

    by Frank Stone

    I was looking for a good PC game that is reminiscent of coin-op arcade games and I found one in Camageddon: Reincarnation. The game allows you to play More

  • Edward Crawford

    by Edward Crawford

    I thought that this was gone. I just found out that it had a new version, the Max Damage. My friends told me to try the new version since it's much mo More

  • Stephen Chavez

    by Stephen Chavez

    you can't buy this version anymore it's now called "carmageddon max damage"... it the same game with updated mechanics and updated graphics.. it ok

22.Crash Team Racing

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CTR: Crash Team Racing is a racing video game developed by Naughty Dog and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for PlayStation and is part of the Crash Bandicoot series. It features fifteen characters.

    23.Crash Bandicoot: Warped

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    Crash Bandicoot: Warped is a 1998 platform game developed by Naughty Dog and published by Sony Computer Entertainment and is the third game in the Crash Bandicoot series. Players can control Crash and Coco Bandicoot to collect the 25 scattered crystals.

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      24.Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back

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      Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back is a racing video game developed by Naughty Dog and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It is the second game in the Crash Bandicoot series and improves and serves as the sequel to the first Crash Bandicoot game.

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        25.Crash Nitro Kart

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        Crash Nitro Kart is a racing video game developed by Vicarious Visions and published by Universal Interactive. It has platforms for Game Boy Advance and PlayStation 2. Players can control characters from the Crash Bandicoot universe, most of whom race in karts.

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          26.Crash Twinsanity

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          Crash Twinsanity is a racing video game, developed by Traveller's Tales Oxford Studio and published by Vivendi Universal Games for PlayStation 2 and Xbox. It features Crash Bandicoot and Doctor Neo Cortex, working together to stop "the Evil Twins".

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            27.Crash Bash

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            Crash Bash is a party video game developed by Eurocom and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for PlayStation. The game's story centers on a contest of minigames held by Aku Aku and Uka Uka to decide whether good or evil is the strongest.

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