
Discover Japan’s legendary car culture in JDM! Take on challenging mountain roads, visit Japanese legendary drifting spots in licensed JDM cars and immerse in the story about second chances told through manga pages. Explore an open world where every turn invites you to master the art of drift.
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JDM: Japanese Drift Master is an homage to Japan, Japanese street racing culture and drift. It’s an open world, story-driven experience, blending Tōge (mountainous) serpentines, with narrow rural roads and vast highways leading to a modern cityscape. With licensed cars and robust tuning options it’s a drifting paradise come true!

Driving Models
Designed primarily for gamepads, JDM boasts two driving models to choose from: Arcade, suited for a more relaxed experience and drift beginners; and Simcade in which all assists are off, trading full control over the car for more skill requirements to manage drifting. Players can switch between both models at any time during the game.
Open World
Soak in the atmosphere of Japan with the fictional prefecture of Guntama, created through mixing real-life locations from all over the country. With over 250 km of visually stunning main roads, standalone racing tracks and instanced events, set across winding mountain passes, rural areas and the city's bustling streets, you’ll explore diverse landscapes featuring traffic, dynamic weather, and day-night cycle systems.
Licensed Cars
Sit behind the wheel of legendary Nissan, Honda, Subaru and Mazda cars. Tune them mechanically with new parts and then fine tune the details. Experiment with visual parts: from hoods, through lights to full body kit swaps. Adjust the suspension, wheel camber, gear ratios and more. Finally, paint the car however you like using a free pick color palette. You want underglow? It’s at your disposal as well.
Story-driven Campaign
Step into the shoes of a foreigner determined to make his mark on the Japanese drifting scene. Compete in 40+ narrative-driven events and additional sidequests against the top drifters in the area. Experience this journey through hand-drawn manga pages, which add a unique and artistic touch to the game.
The Audio Purr
Experience authentic car sounds, captured through original recordings and brought to life with attention to detail, making you feel like you're truly behind the wheel. Cruise along picturesque roads while tuning in to genre-themed radio stations, including unique soundscapes of J-music, Phonk and even Eurobeat - choose the perfect soundtrack for your drive!
Multiplayer
The prefecture of Guntama is now open for up to 8 players in the lobby. Cruise around, drift on mountain passes or set up car meets - the world is your playground.
*Additional game modes are coming in future updates.
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Reviews
手感不行但地圖設計很棒 吊大FORZA6 以小公司來說這樣其實很棒了 比擠牙膏地平線好多了
this is the best game for people who really love JDM and drifting, I love that it is from a smaller developer. You can really feel the love they put into this game. I cant recommend it enough from the Physics to the Manga give it a shot!
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Jdm is a high recommend for all the fans of Japanese drifting culture. It offers fun drifting mechanics, a good story presented in manga panels and a banging soundtrack with Eurobeat and everything you need to feel like you're in an Initial D episode. Every car feels different and it was fun to try different cars during my playthrough. I think I got lost in this game and I had to take some time off the main story to just drive around the open world. I found it just so chill viewing beautiful scenery while drifting around and having the eurobeat banging in my ears. At the moment of writing this they even added multiplayer and they have more to come later, though I myself prefer playing alone. There is more good on this than bad, but if one annoying thing must be said, there were some glitches that tried to ruin my playing experience. If you like drifting then you found the best game for you.
Game is fun to play, sometimes the meachanics are a little wonky but overall its good. I played this game on a Xbox 360 controller. The AI is kinda difficult for me to beat on medium difficulty, maybe its just me whos bad at the game so I played the game on easy mode. You can bug the AI car, when you force them into a crash. Sometimes they won't do anything after that. Kinda funny. But why I vote it negative is if you want 100% of the Achievements then good luck the "I am Speed" achievement ist bugged for over 2 weeks now.
JDM stands out for the accessibility of its drift. Unlike other games, it has much more advanced physics, but it helps a lot to understand the car. By testing key combinations, we can do some really impressive things. And once you've got that, you'll get there without any problem in any car game with drifting.
The graphics is nice, the feeling and handling is also nice, the story is ok. However there is a big issue which is EITHER: - a very bad physics - a super bad wheel support - my skills issue Because no matter what I do, I can't initiate a drift with a steering wheel / simracing setup (fanatec) Drifting works just fine with a controller (xbox or dualsense) but with a wheel it is just frustratring. Also, there is no actual drifitng lessons, you just have a goal (eg: x distance while drifting) but the game doesn't tell you how to do it or what you're doing wrong. So you have to know how to drift before playing this game or you'll have a very bad first experience (at least with a wheel). Also the "reset car on road" feature doesn't work in race event which is stupid The story is based on manga pages, which is ok I guess but the drawing seems inconsitent between pages. Also the GPS work half the time, or super slow to update directions. I might retry after some patch/updates
ИГРА ИМБА! Манга, Япония, кайф какой!
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Languages: English*, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Korean +3 more
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