JDM: Japanese Drift Master

JDM: Japanese Drift Master

Steam Deck Playable

Gaming Factory · Racing · May 21, 2025

Worth it for the right player.

It's at its lowest recorded price, $13.99.

76%
Mostly Positive
6k player reviews
High confidence
Buy it if you like
  • Story and characters: 100 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Graphics: 66 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Controls: 53 reviews raised it, mostly praise
Think twice if you dislike
  • Crashes: 46 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
  • Bugs: 28 reviews raised it, mostly criticism

Based on 6k player reviews · updated 3 days ago

What players think

The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.

Why players love itThings to know
50% of themes are praise33% are divided17% are caveats
Story and characters
Players who bring up Story and characters mostly praise it.
The story offers 0 reasons to play it, I read the first panel and have skipped every single one since, I went back and read a bit of it later, I made the right decision in skipping them.
100 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Graphics
Players who bring up Graphics mostly praise it.
Beautiful graphics, buttery smooth game-play with lots of drifting.
66 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Controls
Players who bring up Controls mostly praise it.
So much drifting, and very satisfying when using gamepad with analogue triggers .
53 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Gameplay
Players who bring up Gameplay mostly praise it.
The overall feeling is great, you can choose the difficulty in order to have a chill/fun drive with the Arcade difficulty, on the opposite you can disable all helps to truly have a sense of 'easy to learn, hard to master' gameplay with the Simulation difficulty or just in-between with the SimCade one.
35 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Difficulty
Players who bring up Difficulty mostly praise it.
The overall feeling is great, you can choose the difficulty in order to have a chill/fun drive with the Arcade difficulty, on the opposite you can disable all helps to truly have a sense of 'easy to learn, hard to master' gameplay with the Simulation difficulty or just in-between with the SimCade one.
25 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Audio
Players who bring up Audio mostly praise it.
+ Good soundtrack.
20 of 300 sampled reviews raised it

Theme by theme

Every theme is scored by what reviewers actually said about it, not just whether they recommended the game.

LovedMixedComplained about
Players love6 themes
Story and characters100 reviews
Graphics66 reviews
Controls53 reviews
Gameplay35 reviews
Difficulty25 reviews
Audio20 reviews
Divided opinion% still recommend
Performance37 reviews
43%
Optimization29 reviews
55%
Multiplayer18 reviews
78%
Interface16 reviews
69%
Players complain% still recommend
Crashes46 reviews
52%
Bugs28 reviews
61%

Ranked by how many sampled reviews mention each topic. A topic sits in a column by what reviewers said about that topic; the percentage beside it is how many of them recommended the game anyway.

Should you buy it now?

Crit’s read on the price, from Steam price history.

Lowest ever recorded

Currently $13.99 (−60%). That's the lowest price we've ever recorded.

6 points recordedtoday · $13.99

The data behind the verdict

For the players who want the receipts.

Player review score
76%
Mostly Positive
Playing right now
Achievements
26
total to unlock
Rarest-achievement stats coming soon
Average playtime
Not tracked yet

We’ll surface hours-played once playtime ingestion ships.