Open-world racer JDM: Japanese Drift Master secures March release

JDM: Japanese Drift Master now has a PC release date: 26th March 2025.

This follows a free prologue released last year, Rise of the Scorpion, which the Traxion team was charmed by. It mixed licenced, customisable and tunable, Japanese sportscars with luscious Unreal Engine graphics and a detailed environment to explore.

The driving experience, then, proved to be simultaneously accessible when simply driving around the environment, but a challenge to nail the perfect drift. This was all layered between a mange-style narrative.

The full game will see a much larger area to explore – not just villages and countryside, but seemingly a city environment too. Over 250km of roads, mixed with some recognisable real-world landmarks, is included.

This time, the story will follow a Polish driver, Touma, trying to make his way up the street racer ladder – appropriate, as the Gaming Factory development team is also from that same European nation.

For now, the car roster includes Nissans, Mazdas and Subarus, although the team has teased that more will be announced ahead of launch. It also emphasises the word done to accommodate both those with a gamepad or a wheel peripheral.

It follows the likes of CarX Street and Tokyo Xtreme Racer as a single-player-focused driving game with vehicle modification at the forefront.

Unlike Tokyo Xtreme, however, this will not be an early access launch, but instead a full release across Steam, Epic Games Store and GoG.

Pricing has not yet been confirmed, nor have console versions.