JDM: Japanese Drift Master
by Gaming Factory · 21 May, 2025
174 downloads
About the Game
Explore the birthplace of drift and dive into Japan’s iconic car culture!
JDM: Japanese Drift Master is an homage to Japan, Japanese street racing culture and drift. It’s an open world, story-driven experience, blending Tōge (mountainous) serpentines, with narrow rural roads and vast highways leading to a modern cityscape. With licensed cars and robust tuning options it’s a drifting paradise come true!
Driving Models
Designed primarily for gamepads, JDM boasts two driving models to choose from: Arcade, suited for a more relaxed experience and drift beginners; and Simcade in which all assists are off, trading full control over the car for more skill requirements to manage drifting. Players can switch between both models at any time during the game.
Open World
Soak in the atmosphere of Japan with the fictional prefecture of Guntama, created through mixing real-life locations from all over the country. With over 250 km of visually stunning main roads, standalone racing tracks and instanced events, set across winding mountain passes, rural areas and the city's bustling streets, you’ll explore diverse landscapes featuring traffic, dynamic weather, and day-night cycle systems.
Licensed Cars
Sit behind the wheel of legendary Nissan, Honda, Subaru and Mazda cars. Tune them mechanically with new parts and then fine tune the details. Experiment with visual parts: from hoods, through lights to full body kit swaps. Adjust the suspension, wheel camber, gear ratios and more. Finally, paint the car however you like using a free pick color palette. You want underglow? It’s at your disposal as well.
Story-driven Campaign
Step into the shoes of a foreigner determined to make his mark on the Japanese drifting scene. Compete in 40+ narrative-driven events and additional sidequests against the top drifters in the area. Experience this journey through hand-drawn manga pages, which add a unique and artistic touch to the game.
The Audio Purr
Experience authentic car sounds, captured through original recordings and brought to life with attention to detail, making you feel like you're truly behind the wheel. Cruise along picturesque roads while tuning in to genre-themed radio stations, including unique soundscapes of J-music, Phonk and even Eurobeat - choose the perfect soundtrack for your drive!
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Version Information
Steam Patch Notes
Official update history
Ossu!
The year slowly comes to an end but we still have one quick patch for you fine folks. There were some minor issues with the 1.8.2 update and we have some fixes for them. So without further ado:
Patch Notes
All Platforms:
Fixed issues with invalid run times being displayed after entering the Grip Leaderboards.
Fixed an issue with the Akina Phantom Hachi Z ‘handmade’ bodykit - it should now display its proper livery (you can find the skin in the Tuner Shop under body kits for the car).
Xbox:
Fixed the issue with the Xbox splash screen.
Fixed issues with manga pages on Xbox.
Added the missing loading screens, which came from the community Photo Contest (sorry guys!).
And this is a wrap for fixes this year. We will be taking a few slower days for the Holidays to regenerate and then we’re back to working on the PlayStation 5 version of the game, as well as the expanded Paint Shop (livery system) and the multiplayer component for all platforms.
Have a fantastic Holiday break - enjoy your free time and get some good drifting practice before you can compete against other players in 2026.
Let’s Drift!
The Gaming Factory Team
Ossu!
There's been a lot going for us recently with the launch of our first ever DLC and the upcoming release of JDM on Xbox, but we’re definitely not forgetting about the base game.
Today, we bring some very much needed bug fixes, so without further ado let’s go over the patch notes.
Patch Notes
Cars
Fixed an issue where the Nissan GTR R35 EBA was inaccessible through the Car Dealer.
Fixed an issue with the Nissan GTR R35 EBA’s distance travelled tracker which showed a static number.
Gameplay
Fixed an invisible collision on one of the parking lots in the Open World.
Fixed an issue with Underground Race Side Missions which could spawn the player at a random position on the map, after starting the event.
Campaign Events
Fixed an issue that occurred on select Tiger’s Side Story missions where crossing the time limit for the event would be considered as an event success.
Fixed an issue during Mission 07 of the Tiger’s Side Event Campaign where the player would be spawned in the wrong location after completing the event.
Fixed an issue during Mission 08 of the Tiger’s Side Event Campaign where restarting the event would trigger an “Out of Bounds” game notification.
Fixed an issue during Mission 07 of the Honey Badger’s Side Event Campaign where the game would incorrectly spawn Touma as the driver.
As you read this, the patch is already live, so please update your game.
For the latest news on JDM and an awesome JDM oriented community head to our Discord server.
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PS. If you don’t own the base game or you’re thinking about grabbing the Made in USA DLC - they are both on sale until November 20.
Let’s Drift!
The Gaming Factory Team
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