CarX Drift Racing Online — Steam Gift

CarX Drift Racing Online: buy the full game as a Steam gift

CarX Drift Racing Online is the drift simulator that a whole generation of slide-control fans grew up on. It's developed and published by CarX Technologies, built on the studio's signature CarX physics tuned alongside the CarX Motorsport team. It launched on Steam on November 17, 2017, and has since grown a huge library of cars and tracks plus a community that still uploads new maps to the Workshop. Here you're buying the full base version of the game — it arrives as a Steam gift to your account.

What the game is and why people play it

Unlike classic “first past the line” racing, this is all about a clean, precise slide. You hold the car in a controlled drift, manage angle and speed, and score points for style. The game has 120+ cars, five modification types and over 50 tunable settings, so you can build a drift machine around your own style — from suspension and camber to power and tire grip. Nineteen official tracks are backed by hundreds of community maps from the Steam Workshop, so you rarely run out of places to slide.

Solo and online

CarX Drift Racing Online is both a solo and a multiplayer game. You can free-ride solo for hours, train tandems, jump into open online lobbies or create your own with custom rules. It supports VR and has Steam achievements and trading cards. If you enjoy dialing in setups and perfecting your line, it's the kind of game that keeps you coming back.

What's included in the gift

You get the base version of the game with all its starter content: the car roster, tuning, modes and Workshop access. Separate DLC — the Season Pass, car packs, cosmetic bundles and skins — is not included; you can buy those inside Steam after activation if you want. If you specifically want “everything with all add-ons,” look at the dedicated editions and DLC instead — this lot is the clean full base game.

How we deliver the gift

Delivery goes through Steam Gift. You provide your Steam friend invite link and your account region. After payment, our bot adds itself to your friends and sends the gift — usually within a couple of minutes. You don't need to accept the friend request manually: the bot handles everything and automatically leaves your friends list once delivery is done. Steam Guard is not required for this.

Region and ownership — two key conditions

This is a gift, so two Steam rules matter. First: your Steam account region must match the gift region — the gift is available in roughly 42 regions, so pick the one for you. Second: the account must not already own CarX Drift Racing Online — Steam won't let you accept a gift for a game you already have. If both conditions are met and your profile allows friend requests, delivery goes smoothly.

If something goes wrong

The most common snag is restricted friend requests in your profile settings or an expired invite link — then the bot simply can't add you. Check your privacy settings, send a fresh link, and we'll retry the delivery. Failures are rare, as with any service like this, and we try to sort them out quickly.

Tuning and customization that's truly yours

One big reason people sink hundreds of hours into CarX Drift Racing Online is the depth of setup. Five modification types and over fifty parameters let you change not just looks but how the car behaves in a slide: suspension stiffness, camber, gear ratios, tire grip and wear, pressure, brake balance. Two cars that look identical can drive completely differently depending on how you built them. On top of that comes visual tuning: body kits, wheels, vinyls, stance. You can go for a clean factory style or build a wild drift machine exactly to your taste.

Modes and community

The game doesn't lock you into one format. There's relaxed free-ride where you can carve slides and perfect your line forever, tandem runs for paired driving, open online lobbies with other players, and your own rooms with custom rules. Since the project has been live since 2017, it has gathered a large, active community: people upload new maps to the Steam Workshop, share setups and host their own events. As a result the content practically never runs out — even years after launch there's still plenty to do.

Why a gift, not a key

CarX Drift Racing Online is delivered specifically as a Steam gift, not an activation code — that's how this product is sourced. For you it means the game isn't “entered with a key” but lands straight in your library via a gift from our bot. The one catch is the region lock and the “must not already own it” condition we covered above. Once those are met, getting it is as simple as it gets: pay, wait for the bot's request, accept the gift — and start driving.

Similar games

If CarX drifting clicked with you, check out the sequel CarX Drift Racing Online 2 with its reworked physics, and the open-world street arcade CarX Street from the same studio. Fans of sim driving will also enjoy Assetto Corsa.