6 Simulation games like Drive Beyond Horizons that you should try

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Ranking compiled by Lluis Enric Mayans, Founder & Head of ContentUpdated May 19, 2026How this is calculatedOrdered by an attribute-similarity model, not editorial opinion.

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We filtered the 50 games similar to Drive Beyond Horizons down to the 6 that fit the “Simulation” category. Trailmakers, Jet Island and Need for Speed™ top the list, ranked by affinity and similarity score to Drive Beyond Horizons.

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The best simulation games like Drive Beyond Horizons

6 similar games foundUpdated May 2026

Handpicked by our similarity algorithm, these are the titles with the highest gameplay match to Drive Beyond Horizons. Each one has been evaluated across 19 real attributes — from combat style and progression mechanics to world structure and visual perspective — so every recommendation is based on how the game actually plays, not just its genre label.

#1TrailmakersClosest overall match

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GenreActionSubgenreOpen World Action

Co-opSoloOnlineMultiplayerMeleeOpen WorldExploration

Steam👍 92%· 36KRAWG👍 59%· 70OC69· 5

Year 2020Dev FlashbulbPlaytime ~3hOn PC · PS · Xbox

✓ Same family of open-world action games: adventure storytelling, deep simulation and racing gameplay

≠ Its own twist: sandbox freedom, sandbox world and setting space, while skipping shooter

Welcome to the Ultimate Expedition! Journey over grueling mountains, hazardous swamps, and bone-dry deserts on a distant world far from civilization - it is just you, your fellow adventurers and the amazing, jet-powered hover-buggy you built yourself.

Where it drifts furthest from Drive Beyond Horizons: setting.

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#2Jet IslandClosest on tone

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GenreActionSubgenreOpen World Action

SoloMultiplayerCo-opMeleeCasualOpen WorldExploration

Steam👍 96%· 1.7K

Dev Master IndiePlaytime ~2hOn PC

✓ Fits the open-world action games cluster, with adventure storytelling, deep simulation and racing gameplay

≠ Where it differs: brings sports simulation, while skipping survival mechanics

Jet Island is a giant land mass, floating in space. Nearly 16 km across, stone structures and ruins are scattered across this ancient land. Scientists are baffled as to why a long forgotten alien race created this place. However, for those who have made the journey to this world, one thing is clear.

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GenreActionSubgenreOpen World Action

MultiplayerSoloCo-opMeleeOpen WorldExplorationFirst Person

Steam👍 69%· 28KRAWG👍 50%· 824MC66OC65· 78

Year 2015Dev Ghost Games · Electronic ArtsPlaytime ~4hOn PC · PS · Xbox

✓ Fits the open-world action games cluster, with racing gameplay, deep simulation and adventure storytelling

≠ Its own twist: visual third person and visual topdown, while skipping survival mechanics

Become the ultimate icon of today’s urban car culture in Need for Speed™, featuring Five Ways to Play and a huge open world to race and explore from dusk ‘till dawn. * FIVE WAYS TO PLAY – Earn reputation and master all Five Ways to Play - Speed, Style, Build, Crew and Outlaw - to win your own way.

On reception: its Steam reviews are mixed, against mostly positive for Drive Beyond Horizons.

It predates Drive Beyond Horizons by 10 years, with what that implies technically.

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#4Need for Speed™ PaybackClosest on visuals

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GenreActionSubgenreOpen World Action

MultiplayerSoloCo-opOnlineMeleeOpen WorldExplorationFirst Person

Steam👍 85%· 31KRAWG👍 43%· 741MC61OC60· 110

Year 2017Dev Ghost Games · Electronic ArtsPlaytime ~4hOn PC · PS · Xbox

✓ Fits the open-world action games cluster, with racing gameplay, deep simulation and adventure storytelling

≠ Its own twist: sports simulation, sandbox freedom and strong narrative focus, while skipping survival mechanics

Need for Speed Payback is an action-driving racing game and the twenty-third part of the NFS franchise. ###Gameplay Despite the trend made by NFS' before Payback features an offline mode. The game is set in a fictional city named Fortune Valley.

Where it drifts furthest from Drive Beyond Horizons: tone.

It predates Drive Beyond Horizons by 8 years, with what that implies technically.

Genre100Combat100Progression100Game mode81Visuals69World60

GenreActionSubgenreOpen World Action

MultiplayerSoloCo-opMeleeOpen WorldExploration

Steam👍 94%· 23KRAWG👍 53%· 129MC76IGDB77· 3OC74· 23

Year 2019Dev RageSquid · No More RobotsPlaytime ~2hOn PC · PS · Xbox

✓ Fits the open-world action games cluster, with racing gameplay, deep simulation and open world exploration

≠ Where it differs: brings sports simulation, roguelike runs and vibe relaxing, while skipping adventure storytelling

From the developers of Action Henk, Descenders is a fast-paced extreme downhill biking game that's easy to pick up, but difficult to master.

Where it drifts furthest from Drive Beyond Horizons: tone and visuals.

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GenreActionSubgenreOpen World Action

MultiplayerSoloMeleeOpen WorldExploration

Steam👍 85%· 652

Year 2009Dev Synetic · Kalypso MediaPlaytime ~1hOn PC

✓ Same family of open-world action games: racing gameplay, deep simulation and open world exploration

≠ Its own twist: offline, while skipping adventure storytelling

Like its predecessors, Crash Time 3, the new installment of the well-known action racing game series, offers varied gameplay in top quality. The German game forge Synetic has once more taken the graphics engine a significant step further.

It predates Drive Beyond Horizons by 16 years, with what that implies technically.

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