CarX Drift Racing Online 2 announced for PC and consoles

CarX Technologies has announced a new entry in the expansive Drift Racing series: CarX Drift Racing Online 2.  

Announced in a brief social media post, CarX Drift Racing Online 2 is sliding onto Steam Early Access in Q4 2025, with console versions to follow sometime later. According to the developer, CarX Drift Racing Online 2 represents the “next step for CarX Technologies and the Drift Racing series.”

Presumably, CarX Drift Racing Online 2 will feature enhancements seen in its mobile sibling CarX Drift Racing 3, which launched on Android and iOS last December. These include an extensive damage system, expanded car customisation, enhanced graphics, new locations including free-roam environments and a single-player campaign celebrating the evolution of drift racing culture.

A Steam page is set to go live “very soon”, allowing players to wishlist CarX Drift Racing Online 2.

The sequel will mark the first CarX Drift Racing Online game since the original launched on PC in 2017 before coming to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in 2020 and Nintendo Switch in 2021.

It will also be the eighth game in the long-running CarX series following CarX Drift Racing (delisted in 2024) CarX Drift Racing 2, CarX Drift Racing 3, CarX Drift Racing Online, CarX Highway Racing, CarX Rally and CarX Street.  

In the meantime, players are still waiting for the long-delayed console port of CarX Drift Street, a Need for Speed-style open-world spin-off. Last week, CarX Technologies teased a “huge announcement” with a countdown to 27^th March. Fans hoped the announcement would confirm Car X Street’s console release date, but it was CarX Drift Racing Online 2 instead.

Following its launch on PC last August, CarX Street currently doesn’t have a release date on consoles. Responding to fans on X, formerly Twitter, CarX Technologies said it’s still working on the console port and to “stay tuned for the news.”       

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