The best arcade games like F-Zero are WipEout Omega Collection, Redout 2 and Fast RMX. Below are 9, each with the reason it is here — and, at the end, what filtering to arcade costs you.
Filtering to arcade means you want short runs and a score, not a campaign. It is the right filter when what you liked was the one-more-go feeling.
What you get: A complete experience in twenty minutes, and a skill you keep. Arcade design is measured in the moment after you lose.
What made F-Zero worth playing in the first place is covered on the full list. This page is the arcade part of that answer, and only the arcade part.
The other pillar of anti-gravity racing, and the closest in speed and feel.
The most honest modern F-Zero successor, and faster than the originals.
Made for Switch by Shin'en specifically to fill the F-Zero gap.
A love letter to the original WipEout, and free to try.
Nintendo's own battle-royale take on the SNES original.
Late-90s anti-gravity racing where you can drive on the ceiling.
For the same obsession with one perfect lap and no opponents to blame.
If the appeal was the SNES-era Nintendo speed rather than the racing itself.
N64 contemporary, bike racing at the same ludicrous speed.
Story and progression. Arcade games repeat on purpose, and if you want to be pulled somewhere they will not do it.
The full list is on games like F-Zero — 9 picks, no genre filter.
WipEout Omega Collection. The other pillar of anti-gravity racing, and the closest in speed and feel.
No. F-Zero released on the Super Nintendo, but a recommendation is only useful if you can play it, so the picks above span platforms and eras. What they share is the genre and the reason.
They were designed to end. A machine that let you play for an hour on one coin did not earn its floor space, so difficulty was the business model.
Constantly, mostly by small teams. Several of the best beat-em-ups and run-and-guns of the last decade are new games built on forty-year-old design rules.
By hand. Each pick was written for the full F-Zero list first, on what the game actually does, and this page is the part of that list that is arcade — never a genre tag lookup, which is how "best racing games like Super Mario 64" used to be a page on this site.
Or read the arcade guide for where to start in the genre generally.