Backseat Drivers similar games & best alternatives

Backseat Drivers

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2025

Should you play it?

Test your friendship in Backseat Drivers, the ultimate co-op driving disaster. One drives, one yells directions, and your car belongs in the junkyard. Smash, shunt, and crash your way around as you yeet into every possible obstacle. Yelling is inevitable. Apologies are optional. The car is terrible.

What works
  • Funny and chaotic multiplayer experience
  • Friend pass allows playing with friends easily
  • Humorous story and characters
  • Engaging cooperative gameplay
  • Good value for price
Things to keep in mind
  • Motion sickness and dizziness reported
  • Bugs and desync issues affect gameplay
  • Controls can be frustrating and unintuitive
  • Some levels feel repetitive or broken
  • Voice chat and technical problems

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Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the same motivation profile as in the “Why this game works” section below. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.

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Backseat Drivers: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Cooperation, Fellowship, Intimacy, Leadership. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Cooperation. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Relaxation, Strategy.

Why this game works

A motivational profile of the game, with the closest similar game for each player motivation.

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  • Creativity

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