Nova Drift Circuit

Nova Drift Circuit leans hard into drifting, and it's better for it. Tracks are designed with long sweeping corners that beg you to slide, and chaining drifts fills a boost meter that makes each lap feel faster than the last. It's arcade to the core, no sim pretensions here.

You can steer by tilt or by on-screen buttons. We preferred the buttons on smaller phones since tilt got twitchy, but both options work and you can remap them. The car handling is forgiving enough for casual players but has enough nuance to keep improving.

This one heats up. On high settings the phone got warm and we saw roughly seventeen percent drain per hour. Turning off motion blur helped both temperature and clarity.

What we liked

• Drift chaining that feels great
• Tilt and touch options both work
• Forgiving handling with room to grow