Ice Wheels is a 3D car drift simulator. A randomly colored car does endless donuts in a snowy parking lot, carving tire tracks into the fresh snow. Take the wheel any time, switch between FWD, RWD, and AWD, and feel how each one slides differently. Scatter traffic cones across the lot from the menu and knock them flying for bonus points. It runs entirely in your browser — free, no account, nothing to install.
Ice Wheels is a free, browser-based 3D car drift simulator. A randomly colored car does donuts on its own in a snowy parking lot, carving tire tracks into the fresh snow. You can take over and drive it yourself, and switch between front-wheel, rear-wheel, and all-wheel drive.
Click or tap and hold anywhere and the car steers toward your cursor and accelerates. On a keyboard, use WASD or the arrow keys to throttle, brake, and steer, and the Space bar for the handbrake. Let go and the car goes back to driving itself after a few seconds.
Rear-wheel drive breaks the back tires loose under power, so it slides into lazy donuts most easily. Front-wheel drive tends to understeer and plow, so it needs a handbrake flick to rotate. All-wheel drive splits the power and holds the widest, most controllable drifts. Ice Wheels models these with real per-axle tire physics, so the feel actually changes.
That's the point. Snow and ice have very low grip, so the tires break traction easily and the car slides. Change the surface between Ice, Packed Snow, and Slush in the settings to make it more or less slippery.
Just drive. The wheels leave marks in the fresh snow wherever they go, and the marks get darker and wider where the tires slide sideways. Donuts build up a spiral pattern over time. Use Clear Tracks in the settings to reset to fresh snow. For more winter physics, try Snow Globe.
Turn on Show Cones in the menu to scatter traffic cones across the lot, then plow through them — every cone you knock over adds bonus points, and more during a drift combo. They're real physics objects, so they tumble, roll, and sometimes wobble back upright. Pick how many (Few, Normal, or Lots) and how heavy they are (Light, Normal, or Heavy) to change how far they scatter.
Yes. Open the menu and use Capture & Share to record a clean clip of the action — no menus or HUD in frame. MP4 captures at 4K; GIF comes out smaller, sized for easy sharing. Pick MP4 or GIF and a 3, 5, or 8 second length, or grab a still Photo (PNG) of the moment. Clips download straight to your device. Video saves as an MP4 in Chrome, Edge, and Safari (Firefox saves WebM). Keep the tab in front while it records so the video stays smooth.
Ice Wheels is completely free and runs entirely in your browser. There's no account, no install, and nothing to download. Everything happens on your device.
Yes. On a touch screen, hold your finger on the screen to steer the car toward it, and circle your finger to do donuts. A handbrake button appears on mobile for initiating slides.
Ice Wheels picks a fresh paint color on every visit so no two sessions look the same. Roll a new color any time with the New Color button in the settings.