Free & Open Source Racing Games
202 free, open-source racing games — real clones and remakes you can download, inspect the source of, and modify. Not just free to play: the code itself is open.
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Original game imageClone of Mario Kart
A free, open-source kart racer in the spirit of Mario Kart, with its own original characters and assets.
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Clone of Wipeout
A work-in-progress, asset-free re-implementation of the 1995 PSX racer Wipeout for SDL2, Sokol, and web.
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Original game imageClone of Mario Kart 64
A no-assets-included PC/Switch port of Mario Kart 64, built on the libultraship framework with mod support.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
Stars2,348
Updated2 months ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2024
Genre: Racing
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Original game imageClone of Mario Kart 64
An ongoing decompilation of Mario Kart 64, verified against USA and European ROM revisions, requiring assets from the original game.
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Clone of Carmageddon
Dethrace is a from-scratch reimplementation of Carmageddon (1997) in C, requiring an existing original game installation to run.
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Clone of Out Run
Javascript Pseudo 3D Racer is an Outrun-style pseudo-3D racing tech demo in HTML5/JavaScript, built as a four-stage teaching series.
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Original game imageClone of Mario Kart Wii
A native PC port of Mario Kart Wii made with static recompilation; you supply your own PAL disc image.
Stars1,073
Updated1 month ago
LicenseGPL-3.0
Release2026
Genre: Racing
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Clone of Out Run
Cannonball is a from-scratch C++ rewrite of the OutRun arcade engine, adding higher frame rates and widescreen support.
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Clone of Need For Speed III: Hot Pursuit
An early-stage engine recreating classic Need for Speed games 1-5 from their original data files.
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Clone of Need For Speed II
A cross-platform wrapper for Need for Speed II SE adding OpenGL rendering and TCP play, with Linux and Android support.
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Clone of TrackMania
A VDrift/OGRE-based 3D rally-stunt racer with 202 tracks, 25 vehicles, and a built-in Track Editor for GNU/Linux and Windows.
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Clone of Mario Kart Wii
A static recompilation of Mario Kart Wii and Retro Rewind for Android, iPhone, iPad and Mac, with touch and motion controls.
Stars630
Updated1 month ago
LicenseGPL-3.0
Release2026
Genre: Racing
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Original game imageClone of Mario Kart 64
A native static recompilation of MarioKart 64 with widescreen, high framerate and mod support; needs your own US ROM.
Stars603
Updated3 months ago
LicenseGPL-3.0
Release2025
Genre: Racing
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Clone of The Simpsons: Hit & Run
An open-source C++ reimplementation of The Simpsons: Hit & Run using modern OpenGL, requiring the original game's asset files.
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Clone of Mario Kart Wii
A work-in-progress decompilation of Mario Kart Wii. The repository does not contain any game assets or assembly, and the only supported…
Stars466
Updated1 year ago
LicenseCC0-1.0
Release2021
Genre: Racing
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Original game imageClone of Crash Team Racing
CTR-ModSDK is a toolkit for creating C-language mods for Crash Team Racing (1999), including example mods and a Ghidra-derived source tree.
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Original game imageClone of Diddy Kong Racing
A full decompilation of Diddy Kong Racing for the Nintendo 64, supporting all regional ROM versions and requiring your own ROM to build.
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Clone of Mario Kart
A Sonic-themed kart racer built on the Sonic Robo Blast 2 engine, in the style of Mario Kart.
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Original game imageClone of Crash Team Racing
A native PC port of Crash Team Racing (PS1) for Windows and Linux built on a decompilation; your own disc image is required.
Stars380
Updated1 month ago
LicenseGPL-3.0
Release2026
Genre: Racing
Theme: Motorsports
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Clone of Star Wars Episode I: Racer
A partial open-source port of Star Wars Episode I: Racer that uses CPU emulation to run the original game cross-platform.
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Original game imageClone of Mario Kart
Dr. Robotnik's Ring Racers is a free kart racing game on the Sonic Robo Blast 2 codebase, released as non-commercial fan art under GPL.
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Clone of Micro Machines
Dust Racing 2D is a tile-based, cross-platform top-down racing game in Qt and OpenGL, with up to 11 AI opponents across three game modes.
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Original game imageClone of Danny Sullivan's Indy Heat
Compilable, editable disassemblies of 26 NES games that rebuild ROMs identical to the originals.
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Original game imageClone of F-Zero X
A native PC source port of F-Zero X (N64) with widescreen, 64DD Expansion Kit support and no emulator.
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Clone of Forza Horizon
Pinyon Shift recompiles the Xbox 360 Forza Horizon to run natively on Windows, built on your PC from your own disc.
Stars270
Updated1 month ago
LicenseBSD-3-Clause
Release2026
Genre: Racing
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Clone of Crazee Rider
The official BBC Micro source code for Kevin Edwards' 1986 racer Crazee Rider, written in 6502 assembly, reworked for beebasm.
Platforms:BBC Micro
Stars267
Updated6 years ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2018
Genre: Racing
Theme: Motorsports
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Original game imageClone of Daytona USA
A static recompilation of the Xbox 360 XBLA version of Daytona USA, built with ReXGlue for Windows and Linux.
Stars212
Updated3 months ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2026
Genre: Racing
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Clone of Need for Speed: Most Wanted
A work-in-progress decompilation of Need for Speed: Most Wanted across GameCube, Xbox 360, PS2 and PC builds.
Stars205
Updated1 month ago
LicenseCC0-1.0
Release2025
Genre: Racing
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Clone of Diddy Kong Racing
A static recompilation of Diddy Kong Racing for Windows and Linux that runs from your own US Game Pak image.
Stars200
Updated1 month ago
LicenseMIT
Release2026
Genre: Racing
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Clone of Mario Kart 64
A native Nintendo 3DS port of Mario Kart 64 based on SpaghettiKart, with a dual-screen HUD and touch menus.
Stars198
Updated1 month ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2026
Genre: Racing
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Original game imageClone of Need for Speed: Most Wanted
A native Nintendo Switch port of the Xbox 360 Need for Speed: Most Wanted, statically recompiled and targeting 30 FPS.
Stars195
Updated1 month ago
LicenseGPL-3.0
Release2026
Genre: Racing
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Clone of Mario Kart: Double Dash
A work-in-progress 1:1 decompilation of Mario Kart Double Dash!!, currently supporting the debug version.
Stars193
Updated1 month ago
LicenseCC0-1.0
Release2022
Genre: Racing
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Original game imageClone of The Need for Speed
A C# ground-up remake of the 1995 Need for Speed that runs on the original CD data files.
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Clone of Snowboard Kids 2
A matching decompilation of Snowboard Kids 2 for the Nintendo 64 that rebuilds an identical ROM from C code; needs your own ROM.
Stars189
Updated1 month ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2024
Genre: Racing
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