Best Open-World Games To Play If You Love Collecting Cars

Whether it’s in racing titles that constantly push the graphical and technical fidelity of gaming, or huge sandbox maps fit to explore with any number of vehicles, there are a host of open-world titles that facilitate gamers with a love of cars, be they fast and sporty or huge all-terrain behemoths.

In open-world titles, what drives players (ha) beyond simply racing or moving in these cars is building up a collection of them, perhaps to ensure they have a car for any mood they’re in, or maybe to experiment with car customization, or maybe simply to show off how splendidly rich they are. For players of any taste, there are a few open-world games with car collecting for those so inclined.

5 Test Drive Unlimited: Solar Crown

A Reimagination Of The Classic Racing Title

Speeding through Hong Kong, this fresh racing title would be a familiar name to any racing game enthusiasts from the 2011 Test Drive 2. As well as being a sprawling, free-roam open-world experience, this title boasts a huge number of cars for the player to collect and drive.

Even the starter cars in this game are incredibly sleek and luxurious, and the title’s recent release has made it an incredibly populated online space for racing through Hong Kong. Fans of open-world racing games will be very pleased with Test Drive Unlimited: Solar Crown. It’s also important to mention that the game will be receiving frequent updates and expansions from here on in, ensuring an even wider array of vehicles will be available to those who stick around for the ride.

4 Grand Theft Auto 5

A Multitude Of Cars Available To Buy And/Or Steal

GTA 5 has a continually expanding online experience that is still being updated to this very day. Within it, as well as the title’s single-player mode, there are droves of cars that can be purchased, showcased in garages, and driven around Los Santos. Vehicles in GTA 5 that are worth collecting can be reduced to an elite handful of the fastest, sleekest, most luxurious cars available, all with price tags that would make even a crime lord cry, but there’s also a huge variety of less typical, stranger cars available to showcase.

There are, in total, a whopping 347 cars that the player can take control of during gameplay, and each of them can be used to aid in ruthless crime sprees or simply drive down Los Santos and take in the sights.

3 The Crew: Motorfest

An Online Open World Brimming With Cars

There is a host of customizable, incredibly powerful vehicles for players to control in The Crew: Motorfest, and while the game has an emphasis on online multiplayer, it’s still more than feasible for players to take on the streets of O’ahu solo. Among the 600 vehicles available in the game, there is bound to be a handful that can go towards an elite collection for any player’s taste, whether they’re going for the fastest cars, or simply the coolest looking.

Almost any car from The Crew 2 can also be transferred over to the player’s garage, meaning that some long-time favorites will be ready to drive immediately.

2 Forza Horizon 5

Mexico Is Free To Explore And Drive Through

The uninhibited freedom that Forza Horizon 5 offers as players speed through Mexico provides a compelling, refreshing experience in terms of both racing and exploration. Car collection in Forza Horizon 5 goes beyond simply amassing a group of them to sit in a garage, as players have the option to sell and auction cars off for an incredible sum of credits, which can go into collecting even fancier cars.

There is nothing stopping players from building the car collection of their dreams and then taking it around a sprawling Mexico unhindered.

1 Cyberpunk: 2077

Untold Luxury Waits In These High-End Luxury Cars

V’s story in Cyberpunk 2077, while obviously changing based on origins and narrative choices, is very much a tale of rags to riches, or at the very least, a tale of starting at the bottom and working upwards from there. The game might be a fairly serious critique of rampant consumerism and the consequences of corporations having unchecked power, but that message might have come across stronger if it wasn’t so satisfying to sink a couple hundred thousand dollars into a prohibitively fast and luxurious sports car.

Whether through special vehicle heist missions, or simply working hard to save up for that car players have had an eye on, there’s a variety of vehicles available to collect Cyberpunk 2077, and unlike any other game on the market, these cars are infused with a sleek, futuristic design that draws from real life but adds a heavy dosage of, well, cyberpunk to the mix.