Drift Circuit

Drift Circuit is a one-tap drift game in 3D, in the style of the endless zigzag games made popular by Drift Boss. A red sports car drives itself along a narrow road that floats high in a sunny sky, among little floating islands, and the road never stops zigzagging. Tap to switch the car's direction, right or left, and slide round every corner sideways in a big cloud of white tyre smoke. Leave the edge of the road and the car falls into the clouds, so the whole game is in one question: when do you tap?

That one question is enough to keep you playing. Tap at the right moment before a corner and the car drifts round it and settles right in the middle of the next straight: a perfect drift, worth bonus points and a growing combo. Tap a little early or late and you come out off-centre; much too early or late and you slide off the side. Gold coins line the straights and follow the perfect line through the S-bends, and power-ups wait on some straights: a rescue that catches your next fall, a magnet that pulls in every coin nearby and 2× points.

Every run starts gently, on a wide road at an easy speed with long straights and a safety net that catches your first fall in the first 30 seconds, so a new player gets the feel of it straight away. Then the road gets faster and narrower tier by tier, and new pieces come in: tight S-bends, zigzags, narrow bridges and ramps that launch you over gaps in the road. The speed keeps climbing, so even the best runs end. Milestones mark every 500 metres, and a line on the road shows where your best run of the session ended.

There are two ways to play. Endless has no timer: you drive until you fall, and the leaderboard is about how far you got, since every metre is worth ten points and distance makes up most of the score. Timed gives you 90 seconds on the same road, for a quick round and for the daily challenge; there, coins and perfect drifts decide who comes out on top. Each mode has its own all-time and weekly leaderboards, verified by replaying your run on our servers.

Drift Circuit plays the same on every device. On a phone, tap anywhere on the screen, upright or sideways; on a computer, tap the space bar or any arrow key, or click. Nothing needs holding. It sits with our other racing games and car games, and it is one of our one-button games and timing games, where a single press at the right moment is the whole skill. If you like going as far as you can, try the endless runner games too, and for a short break see the quick games, on mobile or PC.

Free play is unlimited and there is nothing to download. Warm up with a few runs, learn where to tap before each corner, then take a Ranked attempt when you are ready to put a distance on the board.