Crazy Taxi turned “drive a cab” into one of the purest arcade loops SEGA ever shipped: grab a fare, drift through traffic against the clock, and slam the brakes at the drop-off with seconds to spare. We wanted that rush without the install, so we built Fare Rush, an original 3D taxi game that runs right here on this page. It has a real chase camera, drift physics, jump ramps and a low-poly city, and today’s fare routes are the same for every driver who opens this page. Free, no download, no signup.
Play Fare Rush now
Tap start and follow the arrow to your first fare. Best played with sound on.
How to play
Drive to the amber marker to pick up a fare, then race to the blue marker before the clock hits zero. Every drop-off adds time and grows your multiplier, but only if you deliver fast enough. On keyboard, W or the up arrow is gas, S or down is brake and reverse, A and D or the arrow keys steer, and space holds a drift. On touch, drag the stick to steer and gas and hold the DRIFT button through corners.
Chasing every green light is not the point. Clip a ramp at speed for a big-air bonus, hug a corner close enough to graze a building for a near-miss bonus, and hold a drift long enough to bank points on the exit. Today’s route is seeded from the date, so the fare order is identical for everyone who plays today. Your best score and daily streak are saved on your device, and nothing leaves your browser.
How it compares to Crazy Taxi
Fare Rush keeps the parts of Crazy Taxi that made it addictive: a chase camera glued behind the cab, drift-happy handling that rewards sliding through turns, a hard countdown clock, and a chain-the-fares scoring loop where speed is the whole game. Near misses and big air still pay out, the same way dodging traffic and clearing gaps did in the original.
What we left out is everything that turns a five-minute arcade loop into a full game. There is one city instead of two licensed maps, one cab instead of a garage of unlockable cars, and no story mode, no soundtrack of licensed punk bands, and no arcade cabinet leaderboard tying into a franchise. We also kept the city small enough to learn in one run, where the real game rewards memorizing sprawling shortcuts over dozens of sessions.
If a two-minute run of Fare Rush hooks you, that is the whole pitch of Crazy Taxi, just with more content around it: more maps, more cars, and a scoring system built for people chasing a spot on a real leaderboard. Get the original when you want that depth. Keep this tab open when you just want the loop.
Get the full game
Crazy Taxi is available on Steam for Windows and Mac, sold as a one-time purchase with no subscription or ads.
Download: Crazy Taxi on Steam
Frequently asked questions
Can I play Crazy Taxi in a browser?
The official Crazy Taxi requires a Steam install on Windows or Mac; there is no browser version from SEGA. Fare Rush, the game on this page, is our own original taxi game built to run entirely in the browser, on desktop or phone, so you can try the core idea without installing anything.
Is this the real Crazy Taxi?
No. Fare Rush is an original game we built, inspired by the pickup-and-deliver arcade driving genre Crazy Taxi popularized. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to SEGA in any way. All art, physics and sound in Fare Rush are our own code, and the download link above points to the official Steam store page.
How is today's route decided?
Fare pickup and drop-off locations are generated from the current date, so every player sees the same route order on the same day. The city itself never changes, only the sequence of fares, which is what makes it possible to compare your best score against a friend playing the same day.
Is it free?
Completely. No ads, no purchases, no account and no data collection. Your best score and streak live in your browser’s local storage and are never sent anywhere.
Does it work offline?
Once the page has loaded, Fare Rush makes no further network requests, so it keeps running through a dropped connection. Crazy Taxi itself only needs a connection to download from Steam; after that it also runs offline.
