Games Like Smash Karts to Play in Your Browser
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Games like Smash Karts mix driving with fighting: you steer a kart or a car and use items, rockets or plain collisions to knock rivals out. Smash Karts is a multiplayer kart game where you pick up weapons and use them on other players. Below are original browser games by independent studios in the same spirit, from item karts to demolition derbies.
What makes a game like Smash Karts
The track is only half of it. The other half is what you pick up and who you hit with it. The games below are either kart racers with items or arenas where the last car standing wins.
| You want | Try |
|---|---|
| A kart with pick-up items | Spooky Racing, Boom Wheels |
| Rockets or shields | RACE: Rocket Arena Car Extreme, Mad Truck Challenge Special |
| An arena where rivals get knocked out | Crash Derby AYN, Bumper Car Demolition Race, Crazy Buggy Demolition Derby |
| Other players | Battle Cars Online 3D Game, Pixel Kart |
| Something odd | Doodle Car Race, Tug Pull Crash Challenge |
Kart racing with items and rockets
Start here if you want laps first and fighting second.
- Spooky Racing is the closest to a classic kart racer. It is a Halloween race in 3D where you pick one of eight classic monsters, each with its own kart. You grab item boxes, throw slime potions and homing ghosts, and drift to charge boosts on the way to a Grand Prix trophy. E or Enter uses your item, and gamepads work. More seasonal picks are in Halloween games.
- Boom Wheels is a 3D go-kart game built around power-ups: a speed boost, rockets, a heavy stone to smash opponents and banana peels to lay for the other racers. WASD or the arrow keys steer and Space uses the power-up. On a phone you touch the left or right side to steer and swipe up to use it.
- Mad Truck Challenge Special is a 2D race battle between monster trucks armed with rockets. Space is nitro, X fires rockets and the arrow keys balance the truck over the stunts.
- RACE: Rocket Arena Car Extreme is a 3D survival racing game in a post-apocalyptic world. You upgrade combat cars and use nitro to get through arenas full of traps. Space fires rockets, Q is a superpower and E raises a shield.
Arena battles with pick-ups
These drop the lap count. You collect something, then fight.
- Battle Cars Online 3D Game is an online confrontation game. You drive a kart with armor against other monster trucks, collect props on the track and use them to survive, firing armor-piercing bullets and dodging the attacks of other players.
- Battle Cars is built the same way: you collect equipment on the track, use it as your secret weapon in the arena and win by defeating all opponents. Tap and slide to move.
- Bumper Car Demolition Race is a bumper-car arena in pixel style. You pick Arena Mode or Custom Mode, crash into opponents to knock them out and open treasure chests for items that raise your damage or freeze rivals.
- Crash Derby AYN puts eight racers on one battlefield. You collect abilities such as Damage X5, HP +25 and Shield, a car explodes when its HP drops to 0 and the last one standing wins. Each car you detonate gives you 20 HP back. Arrow keys or WASD drive, and N is nitro.
Demolition derbies: ram your way to the win
These describe ramming, boosts and drifting rather than weapons. Each puts you in an arena with rival cars and asks you to wreck them first.
- Derby Car War Arena is a demolition match: accelerate, steer, ram opponents, use boosts and survive until the other vehicles are wrecked. It has on-screen mobile controls as well as WASD and the arrow keys.
- Derby Car Smash Challenge has you ram rival cars, dodge crushing impacts, collect rewards and upgrade your vehicle between battles.
- Xtreme Demolition Arena Derby HTML5 is a 3D arena where you smash into opponents, earn cash to upgrade and customize your car, and drift around corners.
- Crazy Buggy Demolition Derby starts all drivers in opposite directions. The goal is to smash the other cars and be the last car standing. WASD drives.
With a friend, or something different
- Pixel Kart is a retro pixel kart race you can play against a friend, on a phone or a computer. It runs for five laps, and A and D, the left and right arrows or a touch steer.
- Doodle Car Race starts each match with a car you draw yourself: you sketch a shape, it comes to life and you race opponents in fast battles.
- Tug Pull Crash Challenge is a tug-of-war between customized cars. You hold the accelerator to pull your rival toward crushers, manage engine heat and upgrade wheels and body parts. Hold Space, W or the up arrow, or hold the mouse button.
Tips for kart and car battle games
- Collect before you fight. In Battle Cars Online 3D Game you gather props on the track first, then use them to survive.
- Find the item key before the race. It is Space in Boom Wheels (a swipe up on a phone), E or Enter in Spooky Racing, Space for rockets in RACE and X for rockets in Mad Truck Challenge Special.
- Use the pick-ups. In Crash Derby AYN the three abilities are how you beat your opponents, and in Bumper Car Demolition Race the treasure chests hold items that raise your damage or freeze rivals.
- Finish rivals when you are low. In Crash Derby AYN each car you detonate gives you 20 HP back.
- Spend between rounds. Derby Car Smash Challenge lets you upgrade your vehicle between battles, and Xtreme Demolition Arena Derby HTML5 gives you cash for upgrades.
The racing games tips cover nitro and upgrades in more detail, and racing games and car games have more to try.
Games like Smash Karts FAQ
Are there games like Smash Karts with weapons?
Yes. Boom Wheels has rockets, a heavy stone and banana peels. Spooky Racing has slime potions and homing ghosts. RACE and Mad Truck Challenge Special both fire rockets.
Can I play with friends?
Pixel Kart is built for you against a friend. Battle Cars Online 3D Game describes other players, and Demolition Cartoon Car Crash Derby mentions single player and multiplayer. For the rest the descriptions do not mention other people. The multiplayer games guide explains how to tell if a game is online.
Do they work on a phone?
The site works in the browser of a phone, a tablet and a computer. Boom Wheels steers by touch and swipes up for power-ups, Derby Car War Arena has on-screen steering, accelerator and brake buttons, and in Spooky Racing the kart speeds up by itself on mobile.
Are these games free?
Yes. They play free in the browser, with no install and no registration, and the site asks for neither money nor personal data.
If you only try one, start with Boom Wheels.
