Demolition Derby 3

Review by eFreeware

Demolition Derby 3 is a free racing game from Beer Money Games!, the studio behind the earlier Demolition Derby titles. It mixes banger racing with open world driving and full-contact destruction, and the developer describes it as a follow-up that carries over features from a predecessor which passed 15 million downloads. The game has been installed more than 10 million times and holds a 4.7 average rating from a large pool of voters.

What makes it worth a look is the scale of the package. There are 100 vehicles to drive and wreck, more than 50 tracks and demolition arenas, a campaign, multiplayer and a first person view. That is a lot of content for something you can download without paying, and it points to a game designed to be picked up for short, loud sessions rather than studied like a racing simulator.

Crashing as the main event

The core of the game is contact. You race and you wreck, and the destruction is not an accident that ends your run; it is the point. The mix of banger racing and demolition arenas suggests events where the last car running matters as much as the order you cross a line in, and the open world driving gives you somewhere looser to push a vehicle around between structured events.

Performance upgrades matter here because a heavier or quicker car behaves differently when it is being hit. The developer gives you both upgrades and cosmetic customization, so you can tune a vehicle to survive a pounding and then change how it looks. A first person view is included for players who want the crashes closer to the screen.

I would expect the handling to lean arcade rather than realistic. The appeal of this style of game is immediate feedback: you steer, you hit, something breaks, and the next run starts quickly. Anyone hoping for careful throttle control and tire modeling is looking at the wrong genre, but that is a matter of taste rather than a fault.

Campaign, multiplayer and the long game

Two broad ways to play are offered. The campaign gives structure, moving you through events. Multiplayer puts you against other drivers, which is where a demolition game tends to find its best moments, since a predictable opponent is less fun to send into a wall than an unpredictable one.

Daily rewards are part of the design as well. They give a reason to open the game on a regular basis, and they fit a title that is built for repeat visits rather than one long sitting. The soundtrack comes from several composers, including Entropy Zero, Maks_SF, Jay Ray, Rob Sampsell and Dedderz, which suggests the audio has had more attention than the average free racing game.

The game was released in December 2018 and was still being updated in August 2026, with the most recent changes adding a nitro sound and making minor fixes. That long run of updates is a reasonable sign that the project has not been left to sit.

What the free download includes

Demolition Derby 3 costs nothing to download and it carries ads. In-app purchases are also available. That is the shape of the deal for a game of this size.

The content rating is Teen, which fits a game about deliberately smashing vehicles into each other. I would not read the free price as meaning the game is small; the vehicle count, track count and mode list are the kind of thing that would have been sold as a full package not long ago.

The driver this is built for

This is for someone who enjoys arcade racing and wants the crashes to be the highlight rather than a punishment. If you like the idea of collecting and tuning a garage of cars, then taking them into arenas where the goal is to outlast everyone else, the combination of campaign progression, upgrades and multiplayer covers that ground well.

It also suits players who want a game they can dip into for a few events at a time. The daily rewards and the open world give you something to do without committing to a long championship, and the first person view adds a bit of variety when the standard camera starts to feel routine.

Players who prefer precise, simulation-style driving, or who want a quiet, low-contact racing experience, will find the emphasis on destruction works against them. That is not a flaw in the game so much as a description of what it is.

A loud, generous arcade racer with ads attached

Demolition Derby 3 gives you a lot for a free download: 100 vehicles, more than 50 tracks and arenas, a campaign, multiplayer, upgrades, customization and a first person view. The 4.7 average rating across a large number of votes suggests the formula has landed with its audience, and the continued updates point to a game that is still being worked on.

The trade-offs are the ads and the in-app purchases, which come with the free price, and a Teen rating that reflects the deliberate destruction. If you want a racing game where contact is the main attraction and you are happy to play in short bursts, this is an easy one to try. If you want realism and clean lines, the demolition focus will not be what you are after.

What's new in version 1.1.187

*1.1.187 -Added nitro sound -Minor fixes