Free racing games

What makes a good racing game

A racing game is about the line you take. You brake a little before the corner, turn in, and get back on the power as early as you dare. Do it well and you pass a rival or knock a tenth off your lap; get it wrong and you slide wide and lose the place. Because a race lasts a few minutes, you can try a corner again and again until it feels right.

The racing games on Kiloo cover karts, drift cars, speedboats, skis, bikes, monster trucks and hover ships. Each one is built around one technique, such as a drift that charges a boost, a lean that keeps a bike upright or an airbrake that pulls a hover ship tight. Most give you computer rivals to beat and a ghost of your own best run to chase, so there is always someone to race even when you play alone.

Racing games to start with

Kart Rush is the friendliest start: pick a driver, grab item boxes and race seven rivals over three laps. Drift the long corners for a mini-boost and save the turbo, jelly or shield for the right moment. Tuk Tuk Dash is just as easy to pick up, with three-wheelers racing round market, harbour and hill towns, a handbrake drift that charges a boost and alleys that cut a corner off the lap. Turbo Boats swaps tarmac for water, with buoy gates that fill the turbo meter and boats that carry their momentum wide.

If you want a car to master, Drift King is a top-down night racer where one button breaks traction and you chain slides for a bigger multiplier. Rally Dust has no rivals on the road, only the clock and a co-driver who calls each corner before you can see it, on gravel, snow and sand.

For speed, Hover Circuit and Nebula Racer are anti-gravity races on banked tracks and neon tunnels, where chevron pads hand out boost. Hover Circuit has eight ships, six circuits and a vertical loop. The physics games are slower but harder: Moto Trials has thirty tracks where you lean your rider to climb crates and land jumps, and Big Wheel Bash puts you in a monster truck that flattens rows of old cars. Downhill Dash is a ski race through slalom gates, with kickers to spin off on the way down.

Controls, ghosts and racing with a friend

On a keyboard the arrow keys or WASD steer, speed up and brake in most games, and in Downhill Dash they carve, tuck and jump. The extra button changes: Space drifts in Drift King and Tuk Tuk Dash, fires an item in Kart Rush, pulls the handbrake in Rally Dust and fires the nitro in Big Wheel Bash. Kart Rush drifts on Shift, and Hover Circuit puts its airbrakes on Q and E. P pauses and M mutes.

On a phone or tablet, on-screen buttons take over. In Nebula Racer and Tuk Tuk Dash you hold either side of the screen to steer and the throttle is automatic, which makes them the easiest to play with one thumb each. Kart Rush has split-screen for two players on one keyboard and Hover Circuit has split-screen for two, so you can race a friend side by side. Tuk Tuk Dash saves a best time for every circuit in your browser.

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