Asphalt 8: Airborne similar games & best alternatives

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Asphalt 8: Airborne

BlackBerry OS, Windows Phone, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac • 2013

Should you play it?

What works

  • Extensive car collection with licensed vehicles
  • Stunning graphics and immersive sound design
  • Engaging multiplayer with up to 12 players
  • Varied race modes and stunt mechanics
  • Multiple paths and hidden shortcuts in tracks

Things to keep in mind

  • Aggressive in-app purchase incentives and grindy progression
  • Limited cooperative gameplay
  • Repetitive track reuse in career mode
  • Occasional physics inconsistencies
  • Cluttered menus and complex economy for new players

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Turbo Golf Racing

  • FlatOut 2

  • Asphalt Legends

  • Stampede: Racing Royale

  • Asphalt: Nitro

  • Mario Kart 64

Less violent

Games that feels like Asphalt 8: Airborne but with less combat and destruction

  • TrackMania Nations Forever

  • Trackmania United Forever

  • Static Shift Racing

  • Inertial Drift

  • Hill Climb Racing 2

  • HOT WHEELS UNLEASHED™

More social

Games that feels like Asphalt 8: Airborne but with more teamwork and cooperation

  • Team Sonic Racing™

  • M64 MKDD Extended

  • Mario Kart 8 Deluxe

  • Mini Motor Racing X

  • Bang Bang Racing

  • Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed Collection

Less fantastical

Games that feels like Asphalt 8: Airborne but with less imaginative fiction

  • Need for Speed: Shift

  • Hotshot Racing

  • iRacing Arcade

  • Engine Evolution 2022

  • Iso Racer

  • MX vs. ATV Reflex

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

Similarity map

How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Asphalt 8: Airborne: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Competition, Status, Fellowship, Domination. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Cooperation, Survival, Story.

Last update: 13/08/2026