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Collect the best vehicles in the Hot Wheels™ universe, build spectacular tracks and dive into breathtaking races.

HOT WHEELS UNLEASHED™ is a racing, arcade and driving game developed and published by Milestone S.r.l..
Released on September 30th 2021 is available only on Windows in 14 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Portuguese - Brazil and Korean.

It has received 7,249 reviews of which 5,693 were positive and 1,556 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.7 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 39.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for less on Gamivo.

The Steam community has classified HOT WHEELS UNLEASHED™ into these genres:

Racing Arcade Driving Multiplayer Split Screen Family Friendly Third Person Local Multiplayer Singleplayer PvP Controller Level Editor Funny Co-op Epic

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System requirements

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Windows

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS *: Windows 8.1 64-Bit or later
Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K / AMD FX-6350
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: GeForce GTX 960 / GeForce GTX 1050
DirectX: Version 11
Storage: 22 GB available space
Sound Card: DirectX compatible

User reviews & Ratings

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Dec. 2025

There is a lot to like about this game, but mainly it's a hell of a lot of fun. I'm playing on the Steam Deck. No need to change any settings, it plays perfectly straight out of the box.

Dec. 2025

While Unleashed 2 improved some things from 1, the tracks and environments are way, WAY better in this game! And you can also mod this game while 2 is unmodable due to anti cheat. Theres a mod that transfers all of the cars (not ATV & Bikes) from 2 over to this one!

Aug. 2025

Short and fun arcade racing. The tracks evolve the further you progress. You're either racing against other cars doing laps, or doing one long continuous run, or against yourself and the clock. Some of the time trials in the later stages are super strict with basically no room for error. One if not two races you'll definitely need to look up a shortcut because without it you'll be 5 seconds behind. I wish more races had cool shortcuts, but there are checkpoints all over the track you have to pass through otherwise you respawn. I felt my adrenaline spike multiple times. It's pretty fun drifting into a crowd and bumping cars over the edge and off the track. You'll definitely get turtled at some point, so don't even worry about when it's your turn. On some tracks you'll end up driving upside down and have to rotate mid air to right yourself when landing. Another track you'll need to pitch downwards while coming over an incline. Not too many course obstacles, but the spider traps got me almost every time and I didn't learn how to escape it consistently until the very end. I'd say about 80% of each track has walls on the sides so bumping into everything can be forgiving. Starting with all the DLC cars was nice and definitely felt like cheating. At the end I definitely favored a car with plenty of boost. If you're in a rush you can grind the rest of the coins and gears with 2 people boosting online, there's a track that's a straight line and you just have to wait 20 seconds before crossing the finish. After completing the campaign, it took me maybe 3 hours with a friend going back and forth, both first and second place gets plenty of dough. There are a ton of community maps, you can make your own, so if that hits your interest there's plenty to dig into. Beep beep! Out of the way, coming through with full boost!

July 2025

I'd only recommend it tentatively. $40 is kind of steep. It's a solid arcade racer. The controls are great, and the graphics are kind of impressive. The community features like the track builder and livery editor are easy to use, though I was mostly interested in the livery editor. This game's been out for so long, it's kind of offline only. The servers are up at time of writing, but I couldn't find a match. So, I wouldn't expect to play much multiplayer if you buy this one unless you arrange it yourself. There are a bunch of vehicles in the game, but not many of them are viable, even for the offline modes. Unlike in a lot of other racing games with cars that have different levels of performance, there's no separating the bottom-tier cars and the top-tier cars, so the low- tiers have little value after you find something better. This is also a problem because the main way to obtain cars is via loot box. There is a rotating selection of cars you can buy outright, but there's no guarantee you'll find one of the few viable options, and the store takes a long time to refresh. This is pretty clearly intended to be a game for children, but the loot boxes make me think that kids shouldn't be playing it unattended. The track design is kind of hit or miss in the offline mode. A lot of time trial tracks have a bunch of obstacles that are meant to force you to restart. Some of them are 100% possible to avoid consistently, but other times there's enough randomness involved that you can just find yourself in a situation where it's borderline impossible to avoid ruining your run. There are also time trials where I don't actually think it's possible to finish by following the course as it's laid out. The game never tells you to find your own shortcuts (at least not that I remember) so I have no idea if you're intended to find shortcuts that involve skipping over large sections of track, but I don't really see how some of the expected times are possible otherwise. TL:DR - It's fine. It's not great, it's not terrible. If you're buying it for a child, then just make sure they don't have your credit card info stored in the game, and be wary of the loot boxes if you care about that kind of thing. Otherwise... maybe consider waiting for a sale before buying. I feel like $40 might have made more sense when the online still had a lot of active players, but now it feels like it's due for a price cut.

May 2025

it runs fine on steamdeck not sure why it says unsupported

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HOT WHEELS UNLEASHED™ is currently priced at 39.99€ on Steam.

HOT WHEELS UNLEASHED™ is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 39.99€ on Steam.

HOT WHEELS UNLEASHED™ received 5,693 positive votes out of a total of 7,249 achieving a rating of 7.66.

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HOT WHEELS UNLEASHED™ was developed and published by Milestone S.r.l..

HOT WHEELS UNLEASHED™ is playable and fully supported on Windows.

HOT WHEELS UNLEASHED™ is not playable on MacOS.

HOT WHEELS UNLEASHED™ is not playable on Linux.

HOT WHEELS UNLEASHED™ offers both single-player and multi-player modes.

HOT WHEELS UNLEASHED™ offers both Co-op and PvP modes.

There are 67 DLCs available for HOT WHEELS UNLEASHED™. Explore additional content available for HOT WHEELS UNLEASHED™ on Steam.

HOT WHEELS UNLEASHED™ does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

HOT WHEELS UNLEASHED™ does not support Steam Remote Play.

HOT WHEELS UNLEASHED™ is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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