This is a list of vehicular combat games.
By vehicle
Car
| Year | Name | Platforms | Style | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Looney Tunes Racing | PS1, Game Boy Color | Cartoon, racing | |
| 2006 | Cartoon Network Racing | PS2, Nintendo DS | Cartoon, racing | |
| 2000 | Wacky Races | Dreamcast, PS2 | Cartoon, racing | |
| 2001 | Bomberman Kart | PS2 | Kart racing | |
| 2005 | 187 Ride or Die | PS2, Xbox | ||
| 2017 | All-Star Fruit Racing | Microsoft Windows, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch | Kart racing | |
| 2006 | Auto Assault | Windows | 3rd person view, MMO | |
| 2011 | Armageddon Riders | Windows, PS3 | ||
| 2018 | Asphalt 9: Legends | iOS, Android | Action Car Game | |
| 1985 | Autoduel | Amiga, Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST, C64, MS-DOS, Macintosh | ||
| 2016 | Auto Warriors[1] | iOS | Turn-based | |
| 2002 | Bandits: Phoenix Rising | Microsoft Windows, Linux | Post-apocalyptic | |
| 2017 | Battle Riders | Windows, iOS | ||
| 2017 | BlazeRush | PS3, PS4, Nintendo Switch, Windows, MacOS, Linux | Top-down view | |
| 2010 | Blood Drive | PS3, XB360 | ||
| 1999 | Beetle Adventure Racing | N64 | ||
| 2010 | Blur[2] | Windows, PS3, XB360 | ||
| 2001 | Burnout series[2][3] | Xbox, XB360, Xbox One, PS2, PS3, PS4, PSP, GameCube, Nintendo DS, Nintendo Switch, Windows, iOS | Arcade Racing | |
| 1997–2016 | Carmageddon series[4] | DOS, Windows, Mac, PS1, N64, GBA, iOS, Android | Open world, graphic violence | |
| 1988 | Chase H.Q.[2] | Arcade | ||
| 2017 | Crash of Cars | iOS, Android | Cartoon | |
| 2005 | Crash Tag Team Racing[3] | GameCube, PS2, PSP, Xbox | ||
| 2001, 2002 | Cel Damage[5] | GameCube, Xbox, PS2 | cartoon | |
| 2014–2019 | Cel Damage HD | PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch | cartoon | |
| 2002 | Command & Conquer: Renegade | Microsoft Windows | ||
| 1993 | Crash 'n Burn | 3DO | ||
| 2006/2017 | Crashday | Windows | ||
| 2018 | The Crew 2 | Microsoft Windows, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Stadia | "Demolition Derby" (crash mode) in Freestyle motorsport family | |
| 2016 | Crossout | Microsoft Windows, Xbox One, PlayStation 4 | ||
| 2007 | Darkwind: War on Wheels | MacOS, Windows, Linux | ||
| 1976, 1990 | Death Race | Arcade | ||
| 1996–2012 | Death Rally | DOS, iOS, Android | Top-down view, arcade | |
| 1989 | Deathtrack | MS-DOS, DOS | ||
| 2008 | Death Track: Resurrection | Windows, PlayStation 3 | ||
| 2021 | Destruction AllStars | Playstation 5 | ||
| 1995, 1996 | Destruction Derby series | DOS, PS1, Sega Saturn, N64 | ||
| 1998 | DethKarz | Windows | ||
| 2021 | Detonation Racing | iOS, MacOS | ||
| 2012 | DiRT: Showdown | Microsoft Windows, OS X, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 | ||
| 2006 | Earache: Extreme Metal Racing | PlayStation 2, Wii, PC | ||
| 1995 | Fatal Racing | MS-DOS, DOS | Aka Whiplash in North America. Cross between Race Drivin, Stunts & Destruction Derby. | |
| 2012 | Final Run | iOS | ||
| 1988 | Fire and Forget | Post-apocalyptic combat racer | ||
| 1990 | Fire and Forget II | Master System, Amstrad GX4000 | Post-apocalyptic combat racer. Cars also fly. | |
| 2005 | Fired Up | PSP | ||
| 2004–2017 | FlatOut series | Windows, Xbox, XB360, PS2, PSP, Wii | ||
| 2006 | Full Auto[5] | XB360 | ||
| 2006, 2007 | Full Auto 2: Battlelines[5] | PS3, PSP | ||
| 2012 | Gas Guzzlers Extreme | Windows | ||
| 2015 | Grip: Combat Racing | Windows | Inspired by Rollcage series | |
| 2000 | Grudge Warriors | PS1 | ||
| 2006 | Hard Truck: Apocalypse | post-apocalyptic | ||
| 2016 | Hardware: Rivals | PS4 | ||
| 1997 | Have a N.I.C.E. Day! | Windows | ||
| 2009 | Hot Wheels Battle Force 5 | Wii, NDS | ||
| 2007 | Hot Wheels: Beat That! | PlayStation 2, Xbox 360, Windows, Wii, NDS | ||
| 2021 | Hot Wheels Unleashed | PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Switch, Xbox One, Windows, Stadia, Xbox Series X/S | ||
| 2023 | Hot Wheels Unleashed 2: Turbocharged | PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Switch, Xbox One, Windows, Xbox Series X/S | ||
| 2002 | Hot Wheels Velocity X | GameCube, PlayStation 2, PC, Game Boy Advance | ||
| 1997 | Interstate '76[6] | Windows | ||
| 1999 | Interstate '82 | Windows | ||
| 2005 | Jak X: Combat Racing[7] | PS2, PS4 | ||
| 1989, 1990 | Knight Rider | NES | ||
| 1999 | Lego Racers | Windows, N64, PS1, Game Boy Color | ||
| 2001, 2002 | Lego Racers 2 | Windows, PS2, Game Boy Advance | ||
| 2000 | London Racer: Destruction Madness | Windows, PS2 | ||
| 2012 | LittleBigPlanet Karting | PS3 | ||
| 1992 | Lucky & Wild | Arcade | ||
| 2015 | Mad Max | Windows, Xbox One, PlayStation 4 | post-apocalyptic | |
| 1999 | Mad Trax | Microsoft Windows | ||
| 1992–2020 | Mario Kart[3] | Super Nintendo, Nintendo 64, Game Boy Advance, GameCube, DS, Wii, 3DS, Wii U, Arcade,[7] Switch, iOS/Android | Kart racing, 1st person view (Mario Kart 7) | |
| 2004 | Mashed series | Windows, Xbox, PS2 | ||
| 1994 | MegaRace | MS-DOS, Sega CD, 3DO | ||
| 1996 | MegaRace 2 | MS-DOS | ||
| 2002 | MegaRace 3 | Windows, PS2 | ||
| 2018 | Meow Motors | Microsoft Windows, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch | Kart racing | |
| 2010 | ModNation Racers | PS3, PSP | cartoon | |
| 2001 | Motor Mayhem | PS2 | ||
| 2011 | MotorStorm: Apocalypse | PS3 | Apocalyptic racing | |
| 2000 | NASCAR Heat[2] | Windows, Game Boy Color, PS1 | ||
| 1996 | Necrodome | Windows | ||
| 2010 | Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit | Windows, PS3, Wii, XB360, iOS, Android, webOS, Windows Phone, Java ME | ||
| 2013 | Need for Speed: Rivals | Windows, PS3, XB360, Xbox One, PS4 | ||
| 2018-2022 | Nickelodeon Kart Racers series | Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, PS4 | Crossover branded kart racer | |
| 2019 | Nightwolf: Survive the Megadome | Windows | Synth-themed, cyber-powered vehicles | |
| 2006 | Novadrome | Xbox 360 | ||
| 2016 | Obliteracers | Microsoft Windows, Xbox One, PlayStation 4 | Cutesy combat racer on exoplanets | |
| 2022 | One Hell of a Ride[8] | Xbox One, Xbox Series, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch | ||
| 1992, 1993 | Outlander | Sega Genesis, SNES | ||
| 2017 | PAKO 2 | Windows, MacOS | overhead view, arcade | |
| 2011 | Post Apocalyptic Mayhem | Windows | Post apocalypse | |
| 2005, 2006 | Pursuit Force | PSP | ||
| 2007, 2008 | Pursuit Force: Extreme Justice | PSP | ||
| 1994, 1995 | Quarantine | 3DO Interactive Multiplayer, Sega Saturn, PlayStation, MS-DOS, DOS, IBM PC compatible | dystopian armed cab-driving | |
| 2011 | Rage | Windows, PS3, XB360, MacOS | FPS game | |
| 1999, 2000 | Red Dog | Dreamcast | ||
| 1999 | Redline | Windows | ||
| 2011 | Renegade Ops | PC, PS3, XB360 | ||
| 1999 | Re-Volt | Windows, N64, Dreamcast, PS1 | RC cars | |
| 2012 | Ridge Racer Unbounded | PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PC | ||
| 1998 | Red Asphalt | PS1 | ||
| 1999 | Rollcage | Windows, PlayStation | ||
| 2000 | Rollcage Stage II | Windows, PlayStation | ||
| 1987 | RoadBlasters[2] | Arcade | ||
| 2003 | RoadKill | PlayStation 2, Xbox, Nintendo GameCube | ||
| 1986 | Roadwar 2000 | Amiga, Apple II, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS | Roguelike, Strategy video game | |
| 1987 | Roadwar Europa | Amiga, Apple II, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS | Roguelike, Strategy video game | |
| 1993 | Rock n' Roll Racing[2] | Sega Genesis, Super Nintendo, Mega Drive, Game Boy Advance, Windows | ||
| 1998 | Rogue Trip: Vacation 2012 | |||
| 1998 | S.C.A.R.S | |||
| 2015 | Scraps: Modular Vehicle Combat[9] | Windows, MacOS, Linux | Buildable vehicles | |
| 1999, 2000 | San Francisco Rush 2049 | Arcade, N64, Game Boy Color, Dreamcast | ||
| 2008 | Speed Racer: The Videogame | PS2, Wii | ||
| 2010 | Split/Second | Windows, PS3, XB360, iOS, Java ME, PSP | ||
| 1983 | Spy Hunter series[6][2] | Arcade | ||
| 2003 | Starsky & Hutch | |||
| 2016 | Switchcars | |||
| 2007 | Swypeout | |||
| 1997 | Streets of SimCity | |||
| 2004 | Test Drive: Eve of Destruction | Xbox, PS2 | ||
| 1986 | Turbo Esprit | ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64 | ||
| 1999 | Toy Commander | |||
| 1995–2012 | Twisted Metal[6][3] | PlayStation, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable | ||
| 1999 | Vigilante 8: 2nd Offense | PlayStation, Dreamcast, Nintendo 64 | ||
| 1998 | Vigilante 8 | PlayStation, Nintendo 64 | ||
| 2007 | Vigilante 8 Arcade | |||
| 1985 | Violent Run (Gekisou)[10] | Arcade | ||
| 2018 | Warped Kart Racers | iOS, MacOS | Kart racer with crossovers from cheap cartoon shows. | |
| 2003 | WWE Crush Hour | |||
| 2009 | Wheelman | Windows, PS3, XB360 | ||
| 2012 | Wheels of Destruction | PS3 | Arena, Teams, Online Multiplayer | |
| 2018 | Wreckfest | PC | ||
| 2009 | Zombie Driver | Windows, PS3, XB360, Android | 
Futuristic racing
Note: Also covers Anti-gravity combat racing games.
- Fire and Forget (1988)
- Fire and Forget II (1990)
 
 - Deathtrack (1989)
 - S.T.U.N. Runner (1989)
 - F-Zero series (1990 debut)
 - Battle Cars (1993)
 - Hi-Octane (1995)
 - Wipeout series (1995 debut)
 - Assault Rigs (1996)
 - Jet Moto series (1996 debut)
 - DethKarz (1998)
 - Psybadek (1998)
 - Fatal Inertia (2007)
 - Death Track: Resurrection (2008)
 - BallisticNG (2018)
 - Pacer (video game) (2020)
 
Aircraft
Boat, ship and submarine
- AquaNox series
 - Blood Wake
 - Critical Depth
 - Dead In The Water
 - Microcosm
 - Silent Hunter series
 - Silent Service and Silent Service II
 - TigerShark
 - War Thunder
 - Wave Race series
 - World of Warships
 - Akella's PT Boats series
 
Tank
- Alien Front Online, the primary good forces are tanks and the secondary alien forces are played as mechs
 - Arcticfox
 - Armored Warfare
 - BattleTanx series
 - Battlezone, original arcade game and home conversions
 - Battlezone and Battlezone II: Combat Commander, although most of the tanks have anti-gravity engines instead of tracks
 - Borderline (Thunderground)
 - BZFlag, a FOSS Battlezone-like game
 - Combat, the original 1977 founder of the genre
 - Cyber Sled
 - Front Line
 - Gunmetal
 - Hovertank 3D
 - Iron Warriors: T-72 Tank Commander
 - iPanzer '44
 - IL-2 Sturmovik: Tank Crew
 - M1 Tank Platoon
 - M1 Tank Platoon II
 - Metal Drift
 - Metal Max series, a tank combat and role-playing video game combination
 - Nova 9
 - Panzer Commander
 - Panzer Front
 - Panzer Elite
 - Pop'n Tanks!
 - Quantum Redshift
 - Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45
 - Recoil
 - Spearhead (video game)
 - Spectre VR
 - Steel Armor: Blaze of War
 - Steel Beasts
 - Steel Fury
 - Stellar 7
 - Tanarus
 - Tank
 - Tank Universal
 - Tank! Tank! Tank!
 - Tank Troopers
 - Team Yankee
 - Thunder Brigade
 - Tiny Tank: Up Your Arsenal
 - TNK III (T.A.N.K.)
 - Tread Marks
 - War Rock
 - War Thunder
 - Wild Metal
 - World of Tanks
 - World War II Online, a tank, gun, infantry, plane, ship, simulation, MMO, FPS and real-time strategy combination
 
Motorcycle
- A.B. Cop
 - Cycle Warriors[11]
 - DeathDrome
 - Extreme-G series
 - Final Fantasy VII (G Bike)
 - Final Fantasy VII G-Bike
 - Mach Rider
 - Mad Crasher
 - Road Rage
 - Road Rash series[2]
 - Road Redemption[12]
 - Seicross
 - Grand Theft Auto series
 
Space vehicle
- Astron Belt
 - A/X-101
 - Battlestar Galactica (2003 game)
 - The Cosmic Balance series
 - Colony Wars series
 - Descent (series)
 - EVE Online
 - Freespace series
 - Freelancer
 - Lunar Rescue
 - Moon Patrol
 - Project Sylpheed
 - Space Encounters
 - Space Seeker
 - Star Citizen
 - Star Trek
 - Star Wars: Demolition
 - Star Wars: X-Wing
 - Star Wars: Rebel Assault series
 - Star Wars: Starfighter series
 - Tac/Scan
 - X
 - Starlancer
 - Star Trek: Bridge Commander
 - Wing Commander (franchise)
 
Multi-vehicular
(List of games in which players use more than one vehicle type during gameplay)
- Armed Assault series
 - Armour-Geddon series
 - Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts (2008)
 - Battlefield series
 - Body Harvest (1998)
 - Borderlands series
 - Battlestations series
 - Command & Conquer: Renegade (2002)
 - Darkwind: War on Wheels (2007)
 - Deadly Dozen series
 - Delta Force: Xtreme 2 (2009)
 - Diddy Kong Racing (1997)
 - Diddy Kong Racing DS (2005)
 - Enemy Territory: Quake Wars (2007)
 - Extreme Assault (1997)
 - Frontlines: Fuel of War (2008)
 - G-Police: Weapons of Justice (1999)
 - Grand Theft Auto series
 - Halo series
 - Hidden & Dangerous series
 - Homefront (2011)
 - Incoming (1998 video game) (1998)
 - Incoming Forces (2002)
 - Jeff Wayne's The War of the Worlds (1999)
 - Just Cause series
 - Mario Kart 8 / Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (2014-2017)
 - Mario Kart Wii (2008)
 - Mercenaries series
 - Onrush
 - Operation Flashpoint series
 - PlanetSide (2003)
 - PlanetSide Arena (2019)
 - PlanetSide 2 (2012)
 - Rage 2 (2019)
 - RecWar (2002)
 - Red Faction series
 - Saints Row series
 - Scarface (2006)
 - Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed (2012)
 - Star Wars: Battlefront series
 - Stealth Combat: Ultimate War (2002)
 - Switchcars (2016)
 - The Saboteur (2009)
 - Thorium Wars series
 - Tribes series
 - Unreal Tournament 2004 (2004)
 - Unreal Tournament 3 (2007)
 - War Thunder (2013)
 
Mecha
This subgenre of vehicular combat involves mech robots, or mecha, as the vehicle for combat. For most mech games, they are played in either first-person or third-person view style. Other games are based on popular Anime television shows such as the various Gundam series, Robotech, and Evangelion. Also, games with a mech theme are featured in RPG games such as Xenosaga and the Front Mission series.
- Another Century's Episode series
 - Armored Core series
 - Assault Suits series
 - Battle Engine Aquila
 - Nintendo's Battle Clash/Metal Combat: Falcon's Revenge
 - Border Break
 - Nintendo's Custom Robo series
 - Chromehounds
 - Cruise Chaser Blassty
 - Cyberbots: Full Metal Madness
 - Cybernator
 - Daemon X Machina
 - Earthsiege
 - Eureka 7 video games
 - Exteel
 - Front Mission series, a tactical RPG mecha series
 - Ghen War
 - Ghost in the Shell
 - G-Nome
 - Gungriffon series
 - Gun Metal
 - Hawken
 - Heavy Gear series
 - Hover Attack
 - IGPX Immortal Grand Prix video games
 - Kagirinaki Tatakai
 - Krazy Ivan
 - Nintendo and Levels-5's Little Battlers Experience
 - The Super Dimension Fortress Macross video games
 - MechAssault series
 - MechWarrior series
 - MechCommander series
 - Metal Fatigue
 - Metal Head
 - Metal Marines
 - Metal Storm
 - Metal Warriors
 - Mobile Suit Gundam video games
 - Neon Genesis Evangelion video games
 - One Must Fall 2097
 - Patlabor
 - Perpetuum
 - Phantom Crash
 - Robocraft
 - Robot Alchemic Drive
 - Robotech video games
 - Senko no Ronde
 - S.L.A.I.: Steel Lancer Arena International
 - Slave Zero
 - Shattered Steel
 - Shogo: Mobile Armor Division
 - Star Cruiser, a first-person shooter action RPG
 - Starsiege
 - Steambot Chronicles
 - Steel Battalion
 - Steel Battalion: Line of Contact
 - Super Robot Wars series
 - Tail Concerto
 - Titanfall
 - Thexder series
 - Transformers video games
 - Vanguard Bandits
 - Vastar
 - Virtual On
 - WiBArm, a third-person action RPG shooter
 - Xenogears
 - Zone of the Enders series
 
Kart racers with battle modes
Battle modes for kart racing games are deathmatch battles influenced by the characters, go-karts and weapons used in the mode. The Mario Kart series demonstrates this kind of mode in its previous installments.[7]
Mario Kart series
Crash kart series
Other kart racers with battle modes
- Bomberman Kart
 - Cartoon Network Racing
 - Cel Damage
 - Charinko Hero
 - Cocoto Kart Racer
 - Diddy Kong Racing
 - Diddy Kong Racing DS
 - Freaky Flyers
 - Jak X: Combat Racing
 - LittleBigPlanet Karting
 - Looney Tunes Racing
 - Muppet RaceMania
 - Nickelodeon Kart Racers 2: Grand Prix
 - Nickelodeon Kart Racers 3: Slime Speedway
 - Pac-Man World Rally
 - R.C. Pro-Am
 - Shrek Smash n' Crash Racing
 - Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed
 - Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing
 - Speed Punks
 - Team Sonic Racing
 - Wacky Races
 - Wacky Wheels
 
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 - 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Lambie, Ryan (June 10, 2010). "The 10 best combat racing games". Den of Geek. Archived from the original on April 28, 2015. Retrieved April 24, 2015.
 - 1 2 3 4 Adam (May 18, 2012). "5 Awesome Vehicular Combat Games". egmr. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved April 24, 2015.
 - ↑ Hudak, Chris (August 8, 1997). "Carmageddon Review". GameSpot. Archived from the original on March 15, 2015. Retrieved April 24, 2015.
 - 1 2 3  Schilling, Chris (April 2017). "Drinkbox Studios". Edge Magazine. No. 304. 
...developer Pseudo Interactive, best known for vehicular combat games Cel Damage and Full Auto and their sequels.
 - 1 2 3 Schwab, Brian (2009). AI Game Engine Programming. Cengage Learning. p. 192. ISBN 978-1584506287. Archived from the original on February 5, 2023. Retrieved October 2, 2020.
 - 1 2 3 Masser, Jeff (2012). "A Brief History Of Kart Racing Games". Modojo. Archived from the original on June 26, 2015. Retrieved April 24, 2015.
 - ↑ "One Hell of a Ride (2022)". MobyGames. Retrieved 2023-04-20.
 - ↑ "Scraps: Modular Vehicle Combat". Scraps: Modular Vehicle Combat. Archived from the original on December 5, 2018. Retrieved December 19, 2018.
 - ↑ Roberts, Mike; Doyle, Eric (February 1986). "Coin-Op Connection". Computer Gamer. No. 11. pp. 54–5.
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