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CarX Street
Open-world street racing around Sunset City, with drift events, deep part tuning and a Premium subscription.
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- Developer
- KAR IKS TEKHNOLODZHIS, OOO
- Score
- 4.6
- Downloads
- 100K+ ratings
- Age
- Rated 4+
- Genre
- Racing
- Price
- Free
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About this game
CarX Street puts the physics engine from CarX Drift Racing 2 into an open world. Sunset City is a large map of highways and streets with a day-night cycle, and the player drives freely between races, fuels up at gas stations, buys houses to store cars in, and works through a career of clubs and bosses. Events split between top-speed sprints and drift runs. Tuning is detailed. Engine, transmission, body, suspension and tires can all be upgraded, parts swapped for a specific race, and whole engines swapped out. Visual options cover mirrors, headlights, skirts, bumpers, rims and more. Real-time multiplayer sets players against each other online across the city. The game is free, but a Premium subscription (offered in 7-day, 1-month, 3-month and 6-month terms, auto-renewing) adds daily silver, gold and tire sets, doubled rewards in some modes, free online rooms and the removal of level limits on cars and parts. The developer also suggests a break every 40 minutes.
CarX Street: the full guide
What the game is
An open-world racer that borrows its physics from CarX Drift Racing 2 and gives those physics somewhere to go. Sunset City is the map, a sprawl of highways and side streets that cycles through day and night, and between events you simply drive, stopping at petrol stations and buying houses to garage your collection.
The career is structured around clubs and bosses, with events split between flat-out sprints and drift runs. Tuning reaches down to engine swaps, and the visual customisation is similarly deep. A Premium subscription, auto-renewing in several term lengths, sits on top of the free game.
How a session plays
Pick a destination on the map and drive there. That's the first surprise for anyone coming from menu-driven mobile racers: the city is contiguous and the transit between races is part of the game. Once at an event, the handling model decides everything, and drift runs in particular ask for a feel for weight transfer that takes a few sessions to build.
Back at the garage you swap parts for the next race, or swap the whole engine. Online rooms put other players on the same streets. The developer recommends a break every forty minutes, which hints at how long sessions tend to run.
Why people look for it
Open-world driving on a phone is scarce, and CarX's drift physics have a following of their own, so the combination gets searched for by both groups. Players who want to actually steer, as opposed to timing shifts in a drag racer, land here. The fuel stops and purchasable houses give it a lived-in quality that also draws people who like the idea of simply cruising.
Look and feel
Realistic rather than stylised. The five screenshots will show sunlit highways, night-time streets and cars with visible aftermarket parts, since the body-kit options are a selling point. Expect a heads-up display of speed, a minimap and a drift score counter, with menus organised around parts lists and garage views. This is a game that wants to be looked at as much as played.
Updates and upkeep
The developer's name is a transliteration of a Russian company registration, which tells you little about support on its own; the 4.6 rating across more than a hundred thousand reviews says more. An auto-renewing subscription implies ongoing server and content costs that the studio is expecting to cover. Only the App Store listing is linked here, and no update history is available to us.
