Free car games

What makes a good car game

A car game puts you behind the wheel of something with an engine and asks you to drive it well. Sometimes that means speed, holding a slide through a corner or finding a faster line than the rivals. Just as often it means care: backing into a tight bay, keeping crates on a truck or getting a bus to the stop on time without a bump.

The car games on Kiloo come from several corners of the site. There are top-down and side-view racers, a 3D combat racer, dodgems for two, and a whole set of driving and parking games with forty levels each and three stars to earn per level. A few are puzzles where you never steer at all, you just work out which car moves first. All of them run in the browser and keep your best times and stars on the device you play on.

Car games to start with

If you want to race, Kart Rush is the friendliest start: eight karts, item boxes, ramps and drifts that charge a mini-boost, with split-screen for two on one keyboard. Rocket Racers takes the same idea into 3D, with eight tracks, missiles and mines from the crates and fourteen cars to unlock. Drift King is about style on rain-slick night streets, where one button breaks traction and every slide you chain raises the multiplier. Rally Dust asks you to trust your co-driver, who calls each corner before you can see it on gravel, snow and sand. Big Wheel Bash is a side-view monster truck that flattens rows of old cars, and Tuk Tuk Dash races auto-rickshaws through market alleys.

For calmer driving, Parking Pro has forty car parks where reversing steers the other way, and a trailer to back down a slipway from level 25. Taxi Dash has you pick up waving fares and reach the drop-off before their patience runs out. Bus Route, Tow Truck, Truck Delivery and Tractor Fields each give you a job to do neatly, from towing a car on a swinging hinge to ploughing every tile of a field.

If you would rather think than steer, Car Jam and Parking Jam are car park puzzles with sixty levels, undo, hints and a Daily puzzle. Traffic Tap has you switch traffic lights to keep a cartoon town moving, and Bumper Cars is a sixty-second dodgem round where a good bump knocks the stars out of the car you hit.

Steering on a keyboard or a touch screen

On a computer, the arrow keys or WASD drive and steer in almost every car game here. Space has a different job in each one: it breaks traction in Drift King, fires an item in Kart Rush and Rocket Racers, pulls the handbrake in Rally Dust and Taxi Dash, fires the nitro in Big Wheel Bash and drops the hook in Tow Truck. P pauses and M mutes everywhere.

On a phone or tablet, on-screen steering buttons usually sit bottom left with gas, brake or reverse pedals bottom right. Tuk Tuk Dash keeps it simplest: hold either side of the screen to steer and the throttle looks after itself. In the parking games, take it slowly, because a bump costs you a star. In the racers, practise a track a few times before you chase a ghost of your own best lap.

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