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Karting

PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation • 2021

Should you play it?

Climb aboard your kart and beat records alone or with friends in a unique arcade game!

What works

  • Accessible and intuitive controls
  • Fun multiplayer with friends
  • Varied tracks and karts
  • Good value for price
  • Engaging arcade racing physics

Things to keep in mind

  • Buggy controls and glitches
  • Limited customization and progression
  • Lack of narrative or deep content
  • Ai is poor and uninspired
  • Multiplayer player base is small

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Barro 22

  • Barro F22

  • Synthwave Burnout

  • Barro

  • Barro GT

  • Barro Racing

More expressive

Games that feels like Karting but with more self-expression and customization

  • ReCharge RC: High Voltage

  • KartRider: Drift

  • Touge Shakai

  • HOT WHEELS UNLEASHED™ 2 - Turbocharged

  • Race for Tuning

  • Karting Superstars

More violent

Games that feels like Karting but with more combat and destruction

  • FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage Collector's Edition

  • Re-Volt

  • Truck Racer

  • Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing

  • DEADLINE DELIVERY

  • Super Indie Karts

Less idle-friendly

Games that feels like Karting but with less of an idle filler feel

  • Super Woden: Rally Edge

  • Drift86

  • Slipstream

  • Engine Evolution 2023

  • Bang Bang Racing

  • GENSOU Skydrift

Choose your own criteria ->

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).

Karting: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Fantasy, Story, Violence, Survival. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Competition, Fellowship. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Progression.

Last update: 10/08/2026