Last updated on January 4th, 2026 at 11:26 pm
Thumb Drift – Furious Racing – Racing Game Review
Thumb Drift – Furious Racing is a Racing/Action game from SMG STUDIO PTY LTD, first launched in 17th February 2016.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 3,787+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Thumb Drift – Furious Racing Stand Out
Play the #1 drifting game on the App Store with over 100 unique cars for fast, furious and fun action.
Whether you know how to drift or not you’ll enjoy sliding sideways around the corners to compete for the highest score.
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
"Terrific one touch controls, we can't stop jumping in to see how many coins we can grab' – App Store Editor, Best Of February
"4½ Stars – Thumb Drift is nearly perfect. Ridiculously fun and feels like butter. There’s nothing quite like executing a perfect drift." – Touch Arcade
"It’s satisfying to watch your Thumb Drift skills steadily improve, and you’re sure to come back for more anytime you’ve got a few minutes spare." – Gamezebo
"Thumb Drift does everything just right. Freakin' awesome." – Pocketgamer UK
"Humour me and download this game dude. I'm having so much fun" : Phonecats
“The best drifting game I’ve played” Ken(neth) Block, Ohio
“I want nothing to do with this game. Stop contacting me” : Jeremy Clarkson
WHY PLAY THUMB DRIFT?
- You have an opposable thumb
- Over 60 fully unlicensed cars to unlock + more to come
- Simple one thumb controls
- Addictive drifting gameplay
- Original soundtrack with 4 pumping tunes
- Challenge your friends for the top score
- Cutting edge, flat shaded, low poly graphics
- Groundbreaking Carticle™ Technology
SPECIAL GUEST CARS FROM:
- 1320 Video
- Boss Logic
- Maximum Driftcast
- Rice Pirate
- Cleetus McFarland "Do it for 'Dale!"
- Adam LZ
- OzzyMan Reviews
- Street FX
- 4WDTV
- Rocket Jump
- Yogscast
- Zen Garage
- Domestic Mango
- Street Driven
- Bulletproof Automotive
- King of Nations
- Yasid Design
- Shock Mansion
- Drift All Stars
- The Slap Train
- Car Throttle
- Saudi Gamer
- OMGDrift
- Black Panthaa
- AR12
More to come!
SCORE REGISTER
- 0-50: L plater
- 51-99: Sunday Driver
- 100-199: Training Wheels
- 200-299: Gettin’ Sideways
- 300-399: You feel the need for speed
- 400-499: You’re in the red
- 500-599: Flat out!
- 600+: You live your life a quarter mile at a time! Dom will be proud
“If you’re in control, you’re not going fast enough.” : Parnelli Jones
This Racing game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Thumb Drift – Furious Racing is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 8th November 2024
Recent improvements include:
Hotfix
We're getting everything up to date so we can make proper updates soon. New cars, tracks and modes coming 2025!
Download & Availability
Thumb Drift – Furious Racing is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Thumb Drift – Furious Racing on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Used to play it about 5 years ago but its just not the same.
Ive played this game since launch and still love it.
The game is so fun but we cant keep playing on the same maps. Whatever update your planning please hurry up.
So we played this like 3years ago and we forgot about it but our sister reminded us and we got like 8 cars we n 10 minutes and there is no WiFi needed! Plus the ads come every 30 minutes so its so fun like the cars are CRAZY we think we saw a Bugatti with the hood off WITH A SPOILER YOOO THAT SO COOL AND A SCHOOL BUS that would help for coins somebody pls beat our record its 754.
We love how the game is made and everything. It gets us onto in competitive mood and we can easily play without Internet with the sack thing that we dont like about it. Its only one thing its that whenever youre off-line you you dont get the coins but after that, its very fun to play no matter what it is no lag.
After one of our games we were spamming the retry without it being on screen and now every text in the game is in car noises? We tried to recreate it to revert it back but its just car noises for every title.
It becomes very difficult very fast. An option to slow the pace of the game would greatly increase the fun factor. The ice level is borderline unplayable due to the speed and zero grip. Otherwise its a fun game, it just has some minor issues.
Ads,turning,maps,graphics,car its all just To much.
The game controls are kind of whack, its really difficult to steer. We also have been playing Drifto which has way better controls and an overall feel to the game so we might just be biased.
Easy and simple! Highly recommended!There are no advertisements now.
This game is fire and favorite childhood game.
Guys this app was made for more than just this you need to make it work so people don't just throw it out with you, because you did a lot of work for it but if you're not going through it It's going to be hard for you and us so please don't be afraid.
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The game is fun but challenging we deleted the game then after we deleted it we realized that we had placed in the top 10% so we got it back and Im now in the top 5%.
Its super easy controls and we use it when offline this is a very good game and we recommend it to you also we used to crash alot and now we're getting all the way to 500 400 and our highest is 600 and this game has a little humor because some of the quotes will be funny and even the cars as we got the wiener mobile and this is exactly why we want you to play.
We got our balls stuck in the burger king soda dispenser.
Although it is an amazing game you should make a multiplayer mode to race other people other than that good job.
We love this game. Ive been playing for almost a month now. Highly Recommend. This Drifting game is great for mobile and great for playing anywhere.
Its good because not much ads and really good graphics And good crashes thats all we got.
So we were going on a five hour road trip and we were bored so we were looking through the App Store games and then we saw thumb drift. This game is amazing there is almost no ads and a bunch of different cars to unlock.
We need updates we need multi player we need more maps and cars pleaseeeee.
This is probably one of the best games Ive downloaded this is our go to game for any time we love this game and highly recommend playing it the only thing we wish was added into the game is a customizable car and crash dummy option that would truly make this game perfect.
We love the game, very good, however we would like a way to sort for our owned cars only if possible.
We think this is fun but it would be cool to have the option to tilt screen to fit one handed or two horizontal or vertical this would be fun thanks.
Definitely our favorite mobile game Ive ever played. The UI is not confusing and very easy to use. Its challenging gameplay and very fun to play in general. We think the free car system is very useful and its how Ive gotten most of our cars. Great game and tracks.
Just listen to Tokyo Drift while playing and youll beat your high score.
Ive been playing Thumb Drift for a while now, and you know what, its pretty fun, Its a little repetitive, but the tracks are Creative. The Cars are awesome, and hilarious. So all in all, its pretty fun.
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Dope game. We like to play it time to time when Im bored but we would reduce the amount of coins it takes to unlock all the money cars. We feel like its a lot to unlock considering the fact your going faster and faster every couple seconds and end up crashing. Though nonetheless really fun game and love the collab cars.
Hi! Im a big fan of car games and usually write reviews on them. Developers are doing a great job with the game.
This a very great game but we have a question can you possibly update Thumbzilla so that it will work on newer versions of iOS and Android please and thank you for Thumb Drift.
Such a easy made game, but so fun.
Recently we have just been soooo bored and installing games and later on deleting them or not play them ever again but this game tho. Is like the heart of our life Bru we love it there are so many carssss you can winn and we won our dream car and we love it this game is definitely one of the best games to ever exist we love the neo map and others too and it doesnt give much ads as we expected Im glad yall arent greedy. You could also put the song Tokyo drift over it and makes it BETTTERRR with obviously the game song off its sooo amazing we love the controls love the maps and graphics and ESPECIALLY love the cars :) for anyone reading this if your a really big fan of fast and furious: Tokyo drift like us then we suggest this game for you Also can you like add the knight rider (KITT) we would love it and this game even more :>>>> Thank you for making this game and making us happy :).
Pls add more maps and more cars pls that would be amazing and this game is amazing.
Just a thing you could add, could you please add a first-person feature, so the drifting looks cooler, thanks.
We love this game, but maybe dial back the ads a bit.
Change the location of the settings button! Its so easy to hit after crashing and you can tap it before it loads on screen literally accidentally hit settings after almost every race and then have to go back to the main menu. Just move the setting button to the left of the leaderboards button please for the love of god.
Game is fantastic is always our go to if Im bored or something but we accidentally changed the language from English when we were paying attention and it wont change back. Ill go to the language menu and we can pick any language and it works fine except English. Ill press it and itll take us back to the Home Screen but itll still be in the language is was before. None of the others do this except English.
You know we gotta respect the fact that once you hit a certain speed in the 5-9 cruiser, it lights up and you can see the building motion blur. And for that, we give you 4 stars and leave. Good game.
One downer is no extra characters but besides that a fun game to play.
This is such a fun game, but it has an annoying bug that you cant change steering sensitivity in settings. Please fix this bug and this would be a perfect drifting game.
A map with no obstacles would be cool, itd be fun to see how far you can make it when the road is clear of obstacles. To make it more enticing a leaderboard would be a nice addition.
Game is pretty fun but we cant change steering sensitivity as it just exits settings every time we try. Plz fix this bug.
We absolutely love the design and art of the game but the car physics are a tad bit weird, cars feel really plasticy if that makes sense.
Good game overall, need to add a unique sound for each car.
The exit button on the settings screen is too big so you can not change the sensitivity but it is a great game.
Ads are very annoying to watch it comes on every second fells like so plz fix it to where there are absolutely no ads plzzzzz!!! Also also other than that every thing good game.
In selecting the car menu, it would be nice if there was a better option to see all the cars in a grid version or something instead of having to scroll through all the cars to pick out one.
Fix the leaderboards and glitch spots you are ruining any competitiveness this game has. You could add a multiplayer mode for drift battles. Also you need to make your maps more consistent every map after forest road is garb.
We really love this game its super addictive and the choice of cars is really nice, the gameplay feels good and the ui is clean and easy to navigate. For us there is one big problem that drops the fifth star off of this review, that being the difficulty vs the actual reward for all the different tracks, all of the tracks give you the same score/amount of coins but the 4-7 tracks are waay more difficult than the first 3 and there is no real reason to play on them.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.7.5
- Size: 216.34 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: AR, EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, PT, RU, ZH, ES, ZH
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: SMG STUDIO PTY LTD
Last updated: 8th November 2024 | Genre: Racing, Action | Developer: SMG STUDIO PTY LTD