5 crashtastic games like Drifty Chase

Drifty Chase is speeding its way up the iTunes charts with its addictive car chase action and general sense of mischief. It’s easy to pick up and and master in just a few minutes, making it an instant hit.

If you’re looking for something to change things up, though, there is a slew of other racing games that delight in causing fiery roadside havoc. We’ve done all of the heavy lifting and chosen five of the best.

Highway Crash Derby is simple fun, putting you behind the wheel of a number of zany vehicles, including a tractor trailer carting explosives, an ice cream truck blasting music, or a “hacker van”. Your goal is to ride down the highway for as long as possible while cooking up the most extravagant highway pile up you can imagine. Each vehicle’s different characteristics means there’s a lot of variety and silliness for multiple playthroughs.

This pretty little voxel racer gives you free reign to build your own hovercraft before equipping it with a weapons arsenal to blast your opponents off the road. You can have six weapons at the same time, and the variety is quite impressive. Load up your craft with rocket launchers, sniper rifles, guided missiles and more to wreak havoc. This is definitely one for folks who like to both create and destroy.

With its variety of ridiculous trucks, vans, and 4x4s, Offroad Legends 2 is a blast as you try to maneuver through a variety of nearly impossible offroad tracks. You’ll find four different gameplay modes -- Lava Jump, Destruction, Transporter, and Racing -- all of which present unique challenges in the game’s 64 different tracks. If you ever wanted to see an ice cream truck sailing over a pit of lava, this is the game for you.

Crazy Taxi comes to mobile in this colorful little crash-em’ up. Drive as recklessly as possible to earn the most points. As you progress, you can customize your taxi, or build up a fleet of cabs that you can send out to earn cash for you as you focus on other missions. It’s over-the-top fun, as any Crazy Taxi game should be.

Blocky Highway gives you a number of different, bizarro vehicles to drive around in this endless voxel runner. Each round inevitably ends in a crash, but you can score extra points if you do your best to go out in a blaze of glory.

Racing cars and smashing them together in games has a timeless appeal, regardless of your age or how mature you think you are. These crash-happy racers will delight your inner-child as you speed around the countryside running into walls and flipping into mud pits.

What’s your favorite racing game on mobile? Let us know in the comments.