10 Driving Games With No Racing
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ม.ค. 2025
- Racing and video games go together like a hand and a glove. All the high-octane action of Formula One, Rally, or NASCAR all from the comfort of your living room, and without the risk of wiping out on a corner and bursting into flames. That being said, not everybody wants to get behind the wheel of a car and burn rubber against a set of opponents. Sometimes, people just want to sit down and drive. If this is you, well then listen up, because these games will be right up your street. For this list, we’re examining titles that are themed around driving, but not racing. Whilst some of them do have minor racing mechanics or one-off levels in them, they are not the main focus of the experience. Also, don’t expect to see any Grand Theft Auto titles here, as they’ve become so big by this point that to label them as simply “driving games” would be completely absurd. Here are 10 Driving Games with No Racing.
VO: Ben Potter (@Confused_Dude)
Script: Jacob Simmons (@Jacob_Writes)
Video Editor: Lean Bacalzo (@LeanBacalzo)
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My Summer Car has racing, it's the entire point of the game actually. Build the car and win the rally that goes on every weekend in game.
There is a race every weekend, that is true, but taking part in it is entirely optional.
@@OrgaNik_Music But then BeamNG could be on the list. Racing is optional there too.
@@OrgaNik_Music actual racing is optional in Forza.... you can hire a driver and leave the house while the game plays itself.
Point is, why are we quibbling this point? Who cares? It doesn't matter.
No? The point is to build the car, do jobs, generally have a good time, and do the thing with Suski
It is on the list...@@JanTheLitterbox
Driver was a very solid ps one game but that tutorial level was one of the most brutally tough of all time.
I remember I lucked out and did it on my second try. Re-played that game a lot. Made sure I never did the tutorial again though.
When I had the game as a kid I didn't get past the tutorial so could never properly play the game 😢
It could be a great game, I don't know. I've got it on the shelf right here, but if I can't get past the tutorial then I'll never see the rest of the game. So, with that in mind, Driver is a dogsh!t game. It gets attempted for 20 minutes with no success then it goes back on the shelf forever. True story!
That Driver tutorial is the first thing I think of when I hear the term "rage quit".
@@linaria__man, I am with you
You forgot Big Rigs: Over The Road Racing.
Excuse me, but I was a winner according to that game
More like Through The Road And Everything Else
Classic Game Mill
And stuntman
With that game, we're all winner. XD
Smugglers Run. That game also had a great "Wow" moment around the third mission where you came over a hill and the draw distance was crazy for the time!!
both 1 and 2 are so fun still
NO DESERT BUS?!?!?!?! GET RIGHT OUT OF HERE!
The Italian Job for PS1? It’s a great game that (as far as I remember) featured no actual racing. It’s levels were as open world as PS1 driving games could allow, and was one of my favourites as a kid, to the point that my mum let me call a prohibitively expensive PS1 gamer helpline to complete it! My love of the movie probably helped, but it was a decent game regardless.
I played that game so much. I got it in a binder of ps1 games in like 2004 or something and played the hell out of it. Fun fact. It was developed by rockstar games same as GTa
So happy to see both Driver and Twisted Metal so high on this list.
Lol don't know why but the delivery for "such legendary big rigs as the Ford CLT9000" had me cracking up.
Might I suggest Carmageddon - yes, you COULD win meets by racing but most players engaged in destroying the other drivers or focused on mowing down pedestrian zombies (depending on your version) until there were none left standing.
No mention of Stuntman? Am I misremembering that game?
I'm a little surprised that
Stuntman wasn't here, either. That game was fantastic.
Only ten entries, fellas. Can't cover everything in one list. Don't take it personally.
@@danbauer3669 I wasn't taking it personally 😂 thought there's a chance only the first few levels were driving and I just never got past them in my younger days.
This is the first time I have seen a gaming channel bring up Rigs of Rods! I spent many hours on it back in the day, that game was amazing for its time
Honorable mention to "Vigilante 8" and "Vigilante 8: 2nd Offense", I played the heck out of the second one as a kid, just as good, if not even better than "Twisted Metal", in my opinion.
Those are spinoffs to a game called Interstate 76, also
The one on Xbox Live Arcade is the best version of Vigilante 8. All three are basically the same game but the XBLA version allows you to hold down your weapon buttons for stronger attacks at the cost of more ammo. Also, no graphic fog. Not sure if it is still available to purchase, you know how those digital games are....
Big Rigs: Over The Road Racing (pre-patch - for all the good that did) could have been an honourable mention. 😂
Enviro-Bear 2000 is easily the best and most realistic simulator of a bear driving a car
First words in my head upon seeing this video "Euro Truck Simulator."
I've put many hundreds of hours into that game on my Steam account. It was my goto game for a long time, to just sit playing without thinking 95% of the time whilst I watch films or sitcoms etc streaming on my other monitor.
I've moved back to Minecraft this last couple of years though. Because despite a Steam level of 103 suggesting otherwise, I'm not really a fan of Steam itself. So I play Minecraft bedrock edition on console. Leaving my PC free to just churn out the films/dramas/sitcoms etc.
Desert Bus
I’m here for the Rogue Trip mention 😎
Enviro-bear 2000 I can't believe you forgot about that jewel lol oh yeah and rocket league?
Wasn't expecting to see simon miller here but I'll take it!
Vigilante 8 for the N64 was a pretty good one too. It was basically Nintendos version of Twisted Metal but it was still a fun game
Liked Twisted Metal but the similar Vigilante 8 games are underrated.
HECK YEAH!
Not in my country though, people love Vigilante 8 more than Twisted Metal here.
BeamNG should have been on the list, because the racing part is optional.
Honorable mention being World's Scariest Police Chases. No racing, just car chawes as you play a police officer
Does anyone remember Auto Assault? I had to buy it off the shelves when it was released in 2006 and then pay a monthly subscription to play it, it was not a good game (in my opinion) and the servers shut down in 2007. I might still have it somewhere in near mint condition.
Crazy Taxi?
Is definitely a racing game.
@@danbauer3669 Nope, it's a taxi game but crazy!
I haven't heard of Rigs of Rods in such a long time... holy moly...
Is it just me or does the fella in the thumbnail look a bit like Ben Potter? 😂
Oh, one more thing, love the Simon Miller reference. I will NEVER get tired of seeing these 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
The first game just seems like a top-down remake of Quarantine
OnRush should’ve been on here. It seems like most people slept on it. Awesome video nonetheless!
im surprised Big Rigs wasnt mentioned LOL
Ahh Driver… the very first driving game I ever played, well, once I FINALLY got past the bloody tutorial that is!
Once I did however, it was an enjoyable experience, and a very satisfying game. Plus the fact that my odd father ridiculed me in saying that “girls don’t make good drivers!” Was shamed by a child and not only that, but was unable to get past the tutorial himself!
One of my proudest moments as a kid, believe me!
Does race against the clock not count as a race? Because I remember Driver having a lot of beat the clock sections.
Desert Bus: "Am I a joke to you?"
What about Outrun? Yu Suzuki himself said it's not a racing game, it's a driving game. No AI opponents to beat to the line, just you and your girlfriend in the Ferrari.
On android?
@@raymytech It was originally released in arcade in 1986 but it's been ported to practically everything over the past 39 years so if it's on Android I wouldn't be surprised
*pounds fists on table* WHERE THE HELL IS CRAZY TAXI?
Thank you for this video. Been trying to find videos or articles related to the topic.
My Summer Car has both a rally every weekend you can participate in, and a drag racing on Fridays.
Two other suggestions:
Smuggler's Run - A game made by the same developers who did Midnight Club. It's a game where you collect contrabrand from one place to another while avoiding cops or rival gangs.
Stuntman - A game made by Reflections, but also it's sequel made by Paradigm. It's self explanatory: You're a stuntman for one of several movies who had to do certain stunts. It's hard.
What? No Mad Max for NES? No Desert Bus? No Big Rig Over The Road Racing???
Blasphemy!!!
Settle down. There is only ten entries on this list and obviously, there are more non racing car games than just the ten mentioned here.
I totally forgot about rouge trip thanks for unlocking that memory. No one knew what I was talking about when I said the car game with the hot dog car.
*Best is Gran Carismo!*
Rogue Trip was my JAM back in the day! Played it through recently a few years ago and still love it. It quite literally is an alternative Universe Twisted Metal 2.
I know it’s pretty close to Twisted Metal, but Carmageddon was awesome too.
Quarantine was a good one. An old DOS game where drove round in a jacked up taxi.
Yo! That game was awesome!!! It was also on the Sega Saturn under a different name, Death Throttle.
I never played, but apparently there is a sequel to quarantine, too.
Thanks for confirming for me that that game wasn't some childhood fever Dream. It was real and I had a lot of fun with it!
An older one that may be forgotten is Smugglers Run.
you sound almost exactly like Josh Strife Hayes, chilling.
I like firing up GTA V every now and then a d treating it like a “driving while following the rules of the road” simulator
Quarantine. The original taxi game and the best
Very much looking forward to Pacific Drive, but I'll have to give Zombie Driver a look.
before the director's cut, Death Stranding fit this bill. considering that you'll likely be close to 100% completion in the game before you can actually build the racetrack, it maybe still doesn't count as racing.
noice title, straight to the point 😂
Nothing can be compared to Need for Speed world collecting the symbol during a certain time.
Two words: Desert Bus 🤜🎤
“These games will be right up your street”. Alley would have sufficed.
City Car Driving title says all :)
Literally the only similarities Driver (the game) and The Driver (the movie) are the titles, the getaway driver protagonists, and the focus on car chase action over shootouts and fist fights. Otherwise they’re very different, though the game did borrow a famous scene from the movie where the titular Driver (he’s never given a name) “auditions” for some clients by pulling off sick stunts in a parking garage.
Don't forget "Fahr-Simulator 2009" (aka Driving-Simulator 2009) by Astragon. This PC game is ridiculously glitchy and mainly fun when misused (ignoring all traffic rules and leaving the playfield - I made a long playlist about it). Successor versions 2012 and 2013 have more vehicles but seem to be as glitchy. See my "Driving simulator history" playlist for many other strange driving games (and professional stuff) you likely never heard before. Another strange thing is "3D-Fahrschule" (3D Driving School) for PC, which is still sold but looks like a bad copy of "Ridge Racer" (the 1993 arcade game), but as a learning aid this is fairly ok, you can mow down road signs and traffic lights by multiple crashes, and it has some ridiculous glitches too.
As far as janky driving sims go, don't forget 3D Instructor, the predecessor of City Car Driving (originally titled "3D Instructor 2"). Might as well include CCD as it's jank too, but nowhere near as bad as the first one.
3D Instructor is so realistic that even when you play on a keyboard the wheels don't automatically snap back to the center when you let go off the left/right arrow key. You gotta straighten them yourself.
Physics feel like the cars are made out of cardboard, yet turning feels heavy in a bad way. You can flip an SUV by touching a side walk wrong.
Sadly the instant you go out of bounds the game gives you a fail and there's no free cam hack like in CCD.
I hope you can (at least partially) read Russian because the game doesn't exist in English (outside of a limited demo). Also the only place you can still get it is a (to outsiders) obscure Russian torrent site (assuming the 2007 torrent is still up, I haven't checked in more than 2 years).
Interstate 76 and/or 82 didn't get a mention?
Huh, those were driving/combat focused, though i82 had more on foot elements too
Surprised none of the Spy Hunter games got a mention...
What! No 18 Wheeler : American Pro Trucker.
BeamNG and My Sumer Car have racing. But nice video BTW
But they were both optional.
No Earn to Die series? I remember playing them for hours in the internet cafe..
How about the long drive? Better than my summer car as you have to go #1 and #2 to keep your guy healthy.
The Ouya just cements the game being mobile.
Well, driving doesn't always mean racing
No Outrun?
No Crazy Taxi?
No Stuntman?
Great sentence to describe why I don't take mobile games seriously at all; "The console version of the game includes a story mode..."
Interstate 76 should definitely be on that list.
Some of these mentions on the list makes me wonder if Final Fantasy 15 didn't deserve to be on it either. I mean, Mad Max is mostly a brawler/shooter.
5:10 HOLY COW THAT'S MEE!!!!
What about Blast Corps and Vigilante 8 for the N64?
If Twisted Metal is too old then slightly newer Interstate 82 was good fun.
I came for the thumbnail of Stone Cold in a driving game
It’s still called Euro Truck Simulator over here in the United States.
Every saints row after 2 never had racing in it
I was playing ETS2 just yesterday in convoy with bois
11/10 will do it again soon
Try ats, it just hits different
Also Vigilante 8, Battletanx and Blast Corps
What, no Desert Bus?
No mention of Stuntman and Stuntman: Ignition?
Wtf how am I only learning of the Newcastle cheat in driver now:😮
If you like to just drive around. Bus simulator 2021 is very nice game
What about the old school "cross country canada"?.. dunno if anybody outside of canada actually knows this game. Were talking late 80s PC... driving across canada simulator, can even pick up hitchhikers... lol
I'm in Canada and I never heard of it. Played many PC games in the 80's. Not calling you a liar, just saying I never heard of this! What is it? Now I am curious....
@danbauer3669 it was a typing/visual type game. Had to type your commands, but you viewed things from the front seat of your truck. It was in tons of public schools, i think they used to consider it a learning game, hence the reason it was in schools.
@@kylekostamo1880 I'm in AB. You in ON?
We had some typing games on those old apple II's, but I don't remember that one.
@danbauer3669 ya im in ontario. I cant remember what type of computers we played it on whether it was old apple PCs, or a really early MS-DOS. It was a very basic simulator, you could crash too, i believe you could stop to eat and sleep as well to recover stamina so you wouldnt crash.
Im sure if you youtubed it, you could prolly find someone with screenshots, or a playthrough. Im 38 now and i was like 4-7 years old when we had on our school computers so i only remember bits and pieces of it.
The zombie driving game shouldn't be on this list if there's a racing mode
Optional, much like My Summer Car and BeamNG Drive
Wrong Ben! The Mayans did not predict the end of the world, that was just the Europeans' perceptions
I'm a big race game fan....I burn baby burn rubber with games such as "Need For Speed", "Grid Legends", "Dirt", " Grand Tourismo 7","Nascar Racing" & a few other titles. Why I love.race.games ? Well ...racing in my blood. As a black guy into Indy 500, Nascar, F1 Racing, & Urban Illegal Street Racing in games. I get the sense of adrenaline as a slipstream the car ahead of me then surpassed him by using my NOS & aggressive speed ahead.....it's a.feeling like nothing of this world. I also like motorcycle racing games & off road races too.....I also like the music soundtrack to racing games...
most racing games has a buttery mixture of current hip hop, EDM electro, & punk or rock n roll....in conclusion, As long as they keep making race games.....I will continue to burn rubber on the grid & race !
🏎️🏎️🏎️🏎️🏎️🏎️🏎️🏎️
What about Carmageddon 🤷🏼♂️ nobody talks about that series no more
Could have had the Vigilante series on the list too
7:29 *Minor other reasons* ... m i n o r
What about City Car Driver, a realistic driving sim from Russia from 2016?
WHERE
IS
STUNTMAN
IGNITION?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
FailRace sighting! Great channel for driving game content.
What about RE2: Sandwich Eating Simulator?
Everyone check Mexican Motor Mafia.
I think GTA V deserves a special mention here
Specifically and above and beyond any other GTA game? Yeah, no. There are races in the GTA games.
@@danbauer3669not the games focus though, are they?
@@paulheap1982 if that's the mission you are on then it is the games focus until you complete it. Try being more creative in your thinking. "Diving games with no racing."
Interstate ’76 is missing!
Rocket league?????
What about the great Stuntman?
Stuntman?!?!
WWE Crush Hour
Thought rogue trip was a twisted metal clone
Yes, it is a clone, but it's a SingleTrac developed clone.
No Jalopy :(