Racing simulators: 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.
Assetto Corsa is a racing simulator built on the DirectX 11 graphics engine. Its physics realistically reproduces the behaviour of real cars, including flat spots on tyres, heat cycles and active aerodynamic parts controlled in real time by telemetry. Players drive licensed cars on laser-scanned tracks, such as Monza, through a career mode, special events and challenges, or races in single-player and multiplayer modes.
F1® Manager 2024 is a management simulation where you run one of 10 official Formula 1 teams, or create your own for the first time in the series, picking its origin, design, logo and race suits. You set strategy and watch drivers follow your calls in races, and between them oversee staff, car development and facilities over several seasons. A new Mentality System covers the personalities and needs of your team members, and you develop talents from F2 and F3. The season adds mechanical failures and refreshed circuits, including the returning Shanghai International Circuit.
Forza Motorsport is a racing game in which you take the wheel of more than 500 real-world cars, modern race cars among them, and compete on 30 tracks with multiple layouts. Fan-favourite locations return, including Fujimi Kaido with 144 turns over 16.5 kilometres of Japanese mountain roads, Nürburgring Nordschleife and Sunset Peninsula, where dynamic time of day and weather mean no two laps play the same. In the Builders Cup career mode you build a car with over 800 upgrades, while Featured Multiplayer and Free Play add more racing.
DiRT Rally 2.0 is a racing simulation in which you drive through six real-life rally locations across the globe in the most powerful off-road vehicles ever made, knowing that the smallest mistake can end your stage. You rely on your instincts and your co-driver, with an authentic handling model, tyre choice and surface degradation. Build a team, hire staff, expand your garage, tune and upgrade your cars, then progress through Events and Championships in a single-player Career Campaign or in a competitive online environment, including Daily, Weekly and Monthly Challenges with worldwide leaderboards.
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.
WRC 10 is an off-road racing simulation built on hyper-realistic physics and a reworked sound design. Released for the championship’s 50th anniversary, the Anniversary edition includes a History mode in which nineteen historical events demand adapting to the racing conditions of each era. It adds four new rallies from the 2021 season – Estonia, Croatia, Belgium and Spain –, six historic rallies including Acropolis, San Remo, Germany and Argentina, 120 special stages, 52 official teams and 20 legendary cars. The career mode gains a livery editor, alongside daily and weekly challenges and clubs.
RIDE 4 is a motorcycle racing simulation with hundreds of officially licensed bikes and dozens of tracks built from CAD data down to laser and 3D scanning. You make your own way from regional events up to the professional leagues through races, ability tests and track days, and can even become an official tester for celebrated manufacturers. Dynamic weather and a full day/night cycle, Endurance races with animated pit-stops, rivals powered by the A.N.N.A. neural AI, a graphics editor for sharing bike and rider designs, plus online multiplayer on dedicated servers complete the package.
WRC 9 continues the off-road rally simulation series with an emphasis on realistic driving. Players take control of all the official drivers and cars across three WRC categories, backed by improved physics, redesigned environments and all-new pacenotes. There are more than 100 special stages and over 15 classic cars to tackle, plus three new rallies and the option to build custom championships. New modes aimed at the community include a Clubs system where each player creates their own championship and competes in it online against others around the world.
F1 25 is a Formula One racing game based on the 2025 season and bundled here with the 2026 Season Pack. Players first race the 2025 season, then move on to the 2026 cars, which are lighter, smaller machines with active aerodynamics, along with new teams, driver lineups and the MADRING circuit in Madrid. The Career and My Team modes add Konnersport content, custom livery design and rebuilt tracks based on laser-scanned models, while F1 World introduces co-op races where a squad competes against AI drivers.
CarX Drift Racing Online is a drift simulator featuring realistic physics developed with the CarX Motorsport team. Players tune over 120 cars using a wide range of body kits and parts, five types of modifications, various engines and more than 50 settings. Driving assist is available for controllers and keyboards, while steering wheel setups offer a more demanding experience. Online, up to 16 players can join rooms without restrictions that they create or enter, or compete in TOP-32 mode across 19 tracks and hundreds of community-made Workshop maps.
RIDE 5 is a racing game built around motorcycles: you ride on more than 35 tracks and collect over 200 bikes from world-renowned manufacturers. In Endurance mode speed alone isn’t enough — strategy matters too, as you keep an eye on fuel and pit-stops and can save your progress and jump back in later. Career mode starts in your garage and has you climb the ranks past increasingly skilled rivals, with harder challenges bringing greater rewards. Weather shifts while you ride, so you handle both wet and dry conditions, and improved physics makes the experience more lifelike.