Arcade racing games: about the games
Forza Horizon 5 is an open-world racing game set in Mexico. Players drive hundreds of the world’s greatest cars while completing challenges and Horizon Story missions. The landscapes include deserts, jungles, historic cities, hidden ruins, beaches, canyons and a snow-capped volcano. Changing seasons bring dust storms and tropical storms, and the world evolves every week. Players can team up in the Horizon Arcade, use the EventLab toolset to build custom races, challenges and game modes, and customize their cars.
The Crew Motorfest is an open-world driving game set on the Hawaiian islands of O'ahu and Maui. It features more than twenty themed campaigns, among them street racing, offroad and drift, plus hundreds of iconic vehicles to collect and customize to show off your own style. Players take the wheel of many vehicle types and compete in the Grand Race against 28 other drivers, in Demolition Royale where eight teams fight to be the last one standing, and in the Summit Contest, where completing challenges decides the leaderboards.
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is a flight simulator in which players can build an aviation career, from missions such as Medevac or Aerial Firefighting up to becoming an Airline Passenger Transport Pilot. It offers races and challenges across several modes, including the Red Bull Air Races and the Reno Air Races. Players can also photograph natural scenery and famous landmarks. The game is built on a detailed recreation of the planet, with advanced physics and aircraft systems.
Forza Horizon 6 brings the Horizon Festival to an open world of Japan, the largest map in the series so far. Players start out as tourists, qualify at the Horizon Invitational and climb the ranks through ever faster cars and new Wristbands until they reach Legend Island. More than 550 real-world cars are on offer, including popular JDM classics, Forza Edition builds and rare Aftermarket Cars. The campaign can be played solo or in co-op, with Car Meets, Touge Battles, a Valley Estate with customizable garages, and creative tools in EventLab and Horizon CoLab.
Trials® Rising is a racing game from the Trials series in which the player takes a motorcycle and performs over-the-top, physics-bending stunts. New tracks carry the action to exotic spots around the world and bring more ways to compete. There is also the Tandem Bike, where two riders share control of a single machine, and online competition lets the player beat opponents everywhere from a local backyard to stadiums worldwide. In Track Central, players create and share their own levels from a catalogue of items.
GRID Legends is a racing game full of wheel-to-wheel battles on tracks around the globe. Players can design their own race events with the Race Creator and join live multiplayer races with up to 21 friends, including cross-platform play. It offers the dramatic virtual production story Driven to Glory and its largest Career yet, with hundreds of events. The game also includes new city locations such as London, the Elimination, Boost and returning Drift event types, and the Photomode Update for snapping pictures of cars in the game.
Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown is a massively multiplayer racing game that follows up on the earlier installments of the series. Players drive around Hong Kong Island and Ibiza, both recreated at a 1:1 scale, from narrow traditional alleys to expressways and beaches. Alongside races, off-road races and time trials, it offers vehicle deliveries, Taxi missions and weekly events with exclusive prizes. More than 120 cars from 30 brands are available, ranging from 1960s classics to hypercars and off-road vehicles, and players create their own avatar and meet others in places such as the Solar Hotel or the Casino.
Wreckfest is a demolition derby themed racing game. It relies on soft-body deformation, sophisticated driving dynamics and in-depth upgrading, and covers both demolition derbies and traditional track races full of over-the-top crashes. Career mode has you fighting for titles, multiplayer pits you against friends, and challenge modes include a lawn mower. The cars are old and banged up – from American heavy-hitters to European and Asian machines – and armour plating protects them at the cost of weight and handling. Bugbear, maker of FlatOut 1 & 2, developed it, and Steam Workshop mods are supported.
Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds is a racing game set across land, sea, air, space, and time. Travel Rings warp racers into new dimensions: on the second lap a course with special rules and challenges awaits, while the final lap returns to the first course, where some track aspects have changed. Players build their own vehicles and gadgets and choose from 23 characters from the Sonic series. Races can be run solo, in co-op, or online with up to 12 players.
Trailmakers is a sandbox game in which you build vehicles from hundreds of blocks that affect aerodynamics, functionality, speed and combat ability in a world driven by reliable physics. You can use pre-made machines from the game and the community workshop, or create your own, customized with skins, colors and patterns. In the open-world Pioneers campaign with NPCs and enemies you join the Trailmakers, an elite society of engineers, and help the population of the Gregory community – peaceful frogs invaded by the evil BOTNAKs, who ruthlessly mine the planet and steal its resources. Play solo or with up to eight players, in PvP with fourteen weapons or on Race Island with fourteen tracks.
DIRT 5 is an amplified, arcade-style off-road racing game created by Codemasters. Races take place on more than 70 routes across 10 global locations, with surfaces such as gravel, ice, snow and sand. Players drive a varied lineup of cars, from rally icons and trucks to GT models, and in Career mode they earn sponsorships while battling a fierce rival. Local split-screen supports up to four players, online races support up to 12, and the game includes a Photo Mode and a livery editor.
V-Rally 4 is an off-road racing game from studio Kylotonn Racing Games, combining rallies, rallycross, drifting, buggies and hill climbs. Players take the wheel of more than 50 historic and modern cars and tackle demanding routes in harsh conditions, from Kenya to Sequoia Park. The package includes a Career mode, 22 environments and a Stage Generator, a livery editor for customising vehicles, quick races, and online play for up to 8 players or split-screen multiplayer.