Cube Racer similar games & best alternatives

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Cube Racer

Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2017

Should you play it?

Cube Racer is a round based multiplayer racing game with cubes. Every round, all players race against each other to the finish line. Before every round, the players get to build one or more obstacles on the map. In the next round, all players have to pass all the obstacles, which have been built yet.

What works

  • Addictive and fun racing gameplay
  • Creative obstacle building
  • Good multiplayer and social play
  • Free to play
  • Imaginative and varied character options

Things to keep in mind

  • Repetitive levels and lack of variety
  • Lag and server instability issues
  • Controls can be sensitive or awkward
  • Minimal narrative or story content
  • Small or inactive player base at times

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Zeepkist

  • Fling to the Finish

  • KartRider: Drift

  • Topple Tactics

  • You Suck at Parking® - Complete Edition

  • Gum Ball Run

More violent

Games that feels like Cube Racer but with more combat and destruction

  • Drunken Wrestlers 2

  • UpGun

  • Combots

  • Cube Racer 2

  • Super Indie Karts

  • Re-Volt

More story-driven

Games that feels like Cube Racer but with deeper narrative immersion

  • Wild Animal Racing

  • New Star™ GP

  • Clone Drone in the Danger Zone

  • Ducks Can Drive

  • Epic Snails

  • Dodgy Deliveries

Less survival-focused

Games that feels like Cube Racer but with less survival pressure

  • Barro 22

  • WHAT THE CAR?

  • Golf Gang

  • Turbo Golf Racing

  • Mash Box

  • Nickelodeon Kart Racers 2: Grand Prix

Choose your own criteria ->

Similarity map

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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).

Cube Racer: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Competition, Status, Fellowship, Domination. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Fantasy. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Violence, Story.

Last update: 03/08/2026