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The first Dirt Rally was a revelation when it arrived in , departing from the snapback caps and energy drink ads that erstwhile came to define the Dirt series and renewing its focus on the staggering challenge of – well, just keeping a car on the track of a rally course. Dirt Rally 2. Read more: Dirt Rally 2. In our review of Forza Motorsport 7 , James calls it “so vast and all-encompassing that not only can I turn it into a stupid game about vans, I can also make it a game about conquering my van obsession and finally learning how to drive cool sports cars.

The addition of dynamic weather effects transforms the typical race from a technical route memorization test to an impromptu puddle-dodging marathon in low visibility.

Night tracks slowly transition to dawn, sunlight filling out pitch black darkness while Forza looks and plays better than ever. It’s weighed down by an awful progression system too dependent on a hackneyed loot box system, but as the first mainline Forza on PC, Motorsport 7 is malleable enough to absorb the shock of a few speed bumps.

Read more: Forza Motorsport 7 review opens in new tab. Almost a decade after the release of Trackmania 2, Ubisoft Nadeo debuted its semi-reboot of series with Trackmania The new game features some significant graphical upgrades, but the real treat is the addition of daily featured tracks, new track pieces like ice, and improved checkpointing. Most importantly, it’s a fresh start for Trackmania detached from Nadeo’s strange Maniaplanet platform.

But don’t worry, Trackmania is still incredibly weird. I’ve already played tons of nonsensical tracks that require pinpoint timing, endless repetition, and a little bit of luck.

Nadeo is also taking a more hands-on approach to post-release content by releasing new tracks made by the studio on a seasonal basis. If you’re a lapsed fan or new to the series, this is where you want to be. Read more: Players demolish Trackmania’s ‘impossible’ skip and fly over the finish line in reverse opens in new tab. Hot Pursuit is a driving game frozen in a particularly special time for arcade racers. The purest essence of Need for Speed before the series went all open-world, it delivers exactly what the title promises, in race after race, with no downtime.

Enjoy the simple life as you aim a European exotic down a stretch of hauntingly beautiful Pacific coast highway with a train of police cars following in your wake. It’s aged like an oak-smoked A-lister too. The roadside textures and car poly counts might not be able to compete directly with the latest releases, but the overall aesthetic in Hot Pursuit still looks luxurious. And above all, fast. Release date: Developer: Amistech Games Steam opens in new tab.

At least half your time in My Summer Car is spent outside of a car. It all begins with a note from your parents telling you to rebuild the junked car in your garage. From there you construct a driveable, moddable vehicle down to the most minute nuts and bolts, teaching you exactly what an exhaust manifold looks like and what happens when it rattles loose along a lakeside single lane road at 70mph. Car ownership has never felt more satisfying and personal in driving games than in this slightly janky but beautifully esoteric builder-meets-racer.

Autosport is Codemasters’ easiest, most entry-level track racing game. The car handling is very forgiving, but with just enough fight in it to teach you the basics of corner-braking and throttle-control. Outside the car it does as deep as you’re up for, though.

It’s got full-race weekends, typically strong opponent AI for Codemasters, and tons of variety in its racing formats. Read more: Grid: Autosport review opens in new tab. With the ability to “shift” between NPC cars at-will, Driver:SF is one of the only post-Paradise open-world racers to think of something fresh and new to do with the freedom of the open world.

In truth the brilliance of its central idea does outweigh the feel of its handling, which aims for Need For Speed but doesn’t quite excite in the same way. It’s still rough and ready enough to power a brilliantly odd story and bring San Francisco to life, though. Read more: Driver: San Francisco review opens in new tab. Welcome to the Michael Bay Motorsports Hour, where fake sports cars will rocket through desolate, orange-filtered urban wastelands at blinding speed while drivers accumulate enough energy to trigger bomb-drops from overhead helicopters, vicious sweeps from out-of-control cranes, and even the odd explosion of an entire city block.

Release date: Developer: Criterion Games Steam opens in new tab. Racing games aren’t often treated to remasters. The big franchises iterate so often that there rarely seems much point, but in the case of Burnout Paradise everybody was happy to see an exception to the rule. In 10 years, there’s been nothing quite like it. And yet the original model still surpasses its imitators.

It’s so much purer and more exciting than the games it inspired. It doesn’t have any licensed cars, so instead it features car-archetypes that crumple into gut-wrenchingly violent wrecks.

Compare those to the fender-benders that wipe you out in Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Criterion’s attempt at topping themselves and where you get the sense that just depicting a shattered headlight would have entailed hundreds of meetings with Lamborghini’s lawyers. Paradise isn’t an online “social” experience.

It’s not all about collectibles and unlocks. You get new cars, but they’re not the point of the game. It’s about driving around a city populated entirely by cars, listening to a drivetime DJ spin classic and pop rock tracks while you drive hell-for-leather through twisting city streets, mountain passes, and idyllic farmland. It’s violent, blindingly fast, and endlessly entertaining. It’s created the modern arcade racing genre, but the joke is on us, because all we’ve done ever since is try to get back to Paradise.

Read more: Why I love the freedom of Burnout Paradise opens in new tab. Phil ‘the face’ Iwaniuk used to work in magazines. Now he wanders the earth, stopping passers-by to tell them about PC games he remembers from until their polite smiles turn cold. He also makes ads.

He won an award once, but he doesn’t like to go on about it. Jump to: Sim racing games Arcade racing games. Phil Iwaniuk. With contributions from James Davenport. More features. See comments. But that is largely due to the amount of content this free game offers. RaceRoom Racing Experience is a sim racing game in its truest sense that is made for hardcore sim racing fans. Using a racing wheel is highly recommended for enjoying this game.

Trackmania: Nations Forever is a free game in the truest sense of the word. The game offers a range of services with ZERO paid content. The game offers both Solo and Multiplayer modes that you can play with friends.

Not only that, the game has a solid 65 different tracks that are all progressively challenging. The game came out in And despite being a relatively old game, it offers engaging multiplayer races and interactivity between players. You will be able to test the original performance of these cars in a classic head-to-head drag race. Not only that, you will be able to upgrade your vintage cars and increase their speed as you progress. Players can choose from 16 different cars and 45 stages in story mode.

Moreover, the game does not require a high-end PC as it only requires MB of free storage. Project Torque is one of the best free-to-play MMO racing games you can play. Although this too can be played on a potato PC, it requires 10GB of free space.

You can drive around the race tracks of Germany, or the Hungarian and Mexican off-road tracks, in the English countryside, on the rooftops of Shanghai, and more. The game allows you to race against players around the world and interact with them through in-game chat and friend-list.

Rekt: Crash Test is a high-octane and stunt arcade game that lets players perform highly addictive combos and tricks. Set in a retro arena, the game offers various challenges with plenty of room for customization.

Players can also unlock new cars and arenas as they progress. Moreover, the game has a solid multiplayer mode with an active player base of , people. A game that follows similar principles as World of Tanks , Engine Evolution is a multiplayer bike racing game. It allows players to compete against 11 other players in each race.

Players earn experience and credits after each match, which can be used to upgrade their bikes or unlock new models. The player will start off with a model but can slowly upgrade to modern-day bikes, which requires substantial grinding. Although each of these games offers more features than one could possibly ask for in free sim racing, Project Torque, and Trackmania surely stand as our top picks.

Despite being around for over a decade, both Project Torque and Trackmania continue to deliver an abundance of content for a fleshed-out racing experience. Moreover, both games have multiplayer modes to be played with friends. Players can expect an immersive racing experience from Asphalt 9: Legends. The game has realistic graphics, a Career Mode with 60 seasons, and events. Moreover, it also has a 7-player multiplayer mode and car customization options.

 
 

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Set in a retro arena, the game offers various challenges with plenty of room for customization. Players can also unlock new cars and arenas as they progress. Moreover, the game has a solid multiplayer mode with an active player base of , people. A game that follows similar principles as World of Tanks , Engine Evolution is a multiplayer bike racing game. It allows players to compete against 11 other players in each race. Players earn experience and credits after each match, which can be used to upgrade their bikes or unlock new models.

The player will start off with a model but can slowly upgrade to modern-day bikes, which requires substantial grinding. Although each of these games offers more features than one could possibly ask for in free sim racing, Project Torque, and Trackmania surely stand as our top picks.

Despite being around for over a decade, both Project Torque and Trackmania continue to deliver an abundance of content for a fleshed-out racing experience. Moreover, both games have multiplayer modes to be played with friends.

Players can expect an immersive racing experience from Asphalt 9: Legends. The game has realistic graphics, a Career Mode with 60 seasons, and events. Moreover, it also has a 7-player multiplayer mode and car customization options. Rebel Racing offers realistic driving physics with fully customizable dream cars. Players can drag-race in a range of different tracks, collect rewards and upgrade vehicles. Moreover, it only requires MB of free space. The game has over million downloads on Google PlayStore, featuring 40 race tracks at 19 real-world locations, a car grid, and over meticulously detailed cars.

While the game does contain in-game purchases, it can be disabled manually. Players can customize their rides and enjoy up to 1, challenging races. However, the game does have pop-up advertisements. One of the best innovations in free car racing video games has been the addition of online leaderboards, multiplayer races, and even persistent open-worlds for players to explore in their virtual cars.

These exciting features have a cost, however, in that their implementation requires that the games be online at all times to function properly. Thankfully there are still several good offline racing games worth playing on smartphones, tablets, computers, and gaming consoles. Here are 10 free offline titles worth downloading today. Asphalt 8: Airborne does contain advertising which younger players may tap on accidentally.

The Asphalt racing games are easily some of the most-popular offline car games on iOS, Android, and Windows devices. Asphalt 8: Airborne is one of the best in the series as it features over cars and bikes and lets players play entirely offline if they choose. A newer Asphalt game, Asphalt 9: Legends , is available but this requires a constant online connection. Asphalt 8: Airborne does contain an online multiplayer mode but its single-player career mode is entirely playable without having to connect to a Wi-Fi signal.

Download For:. Hovercraft: Takedown is a fun free-to-play racing game that lets players create their own hovercraft to use while playing. Vehicles can have their colors and shape changed and even the type of weapons used can be customized. While Hovercraft: Takedown is one of the few racing games where you don’t need Wi-Fi to access most of its content, those wanting to play its multiplayer will have to go online. Traffic Racer is like an endless runner video game but with cars.

Players can choose from over 30 vehicles to drive on a freeway and must then dodge traffic by swiping left or right on the screen or physically tilting your Android smartphone or tablet to steer. This offline car game appears to be very basic at first glance but it does offer some customization options for the cars and a variety of upgrade options that encourage players to keep racing.

Stunning graphics with 4K resolution available on powerful Windows 10 devices. Future updates are unlikely due to major Forza Motorsport and Forza Horizon games now launching on Windows 10 in addition to Xbox One consoles. Read more: Dirt Rally 2. In our review of Forza Motorsport 7 , James calls it “so vast and all-encompassing that not only can I turn it into a stupid game about vans, I can also make it a game about conquering my van obsession and finally learning how to drive cool sports cars.

The addition of dynamic weather effects transforms the typical race from a technical route memorization test to an impromptu puddle-dodging marathon in low visibility. Night tracks slowly transition to dawn, sunlight filling out pitch black darkness while Forza looks and plays better than ever. It’s weighed down by an awful progression system too dependent on a hackneyed loot box system, but as the first mainline Forza on PC, Motorsport 7 is malleable enough to absorb the shock of a few speed bumps.

Read more: Forza Motorsport 7 review opens in new tab. Almost a decade after the release of Trackmania 2, Ubisoft Nadeo debuted its semi-reboot of series with Trackmania The new game features some significant graphical upgrades, but the real treat is the addition of daily featured tracks, new track pieces like ice, and improved checkpointing.

Most importantly, it’s a fresh start for Trackmania detached from Nadeo’s strange Maniaplanet platform. But don’t worry, Trackmania is still incredibly weird. I’ve already played tons of nonsensical tracks that require pinpoint timing, endless repetition, and a little bit of luck. Nadeo is also taking a more hands-on approach to post-release content by releasing new tracks made by the studio on a seasonal basis.

If you’re a lapsed fan or new to the series, this is where you want to be. Read more: Players demolish Trackmania’s ‘impossible’ skip and fly over the finish line in reverse opens in new tab. Hot Pursuit is a driving game frozen in a particularly special time for arcade racers. The purest essence of Need for Speed before the series went all open-world, it delivers exactly what the title promises, in race after race, with no downtime. Enjoy the simple life as you aim a European exotic down a stretch of hauntingly beautiful Pacific coast highway with a train of police cars following in your wake.

It’s aged like an oak-smoked A-lister too. The roadside textures and car poly counts might not be able to compete directly with the latest releases, but the overall aesthetic in Hot Pursuit still looks luxurious. And above all, fast. Release date: Developer: Amistech Games Steam opens in new tab. At least half your time in My Summer Car is spent outside of a car. It all begins with a note from your parents telling you to rebuild the junked car in your garage.

From there you construct a driveable, moddable vehicle down to the most minute nuts and bolts, teaching you exactly what an exhaust manifold looks like and what happens when it rattles loose along a lakeside single lane road at 70mph. Car ownership has never felt more satisfying and personal in driving games than in this slightly janky but beautifully esoteric builder-meets-racer.

Autosport is Codemasters’ easiest, most entry-level track racing game. The car handling is very forgiving, but with just enough fight in it to teach you the basics of corner-braking and throttle-control.

Outside the car it does as deep as you’re up for, though. It’s got full-race weekends, typically strong opponent AI for Codemasters, and tons of variety in its racing formats. Read more: Grid: Autosport review opens in new tab. With the ability to “shift” between NPC cars at-will, Driver:SF is one of the only post-Paradise open-world racers to think of something fresh and new to do with the freedom of the open world.

In truth the brilliance of its central idea does outweigh the feel of its handling, which aims for Need For Speed but doesn’t quite excite in the same way. It’s still rough and ready enough to power a brilliantly odd story and bring San Francisco to life, though. Read more: Driver: San Francisco review opens in new tab. Welcome to the Michael Bay Motorsports Hour, where fake sports cars will rocket through desolate, orange-filtered urban wastelands at blinding speed while drivers accumulate enough energy to trigger bomb-drops from overhead helicopters, vicious sweeps from out-of-control cranes, and even the odd explosion of an entire city block.

Release date: Developer: Criterion Games Steam opens in new tab. Racing games aren’t often treated to remasters. The big franchises iterate so often that there rarely seems much point, but in the case of Burnout Paradise everybody was happy to see an exception to the rule. In 10 years, there’s been nothing quite like it. And yet the original model still surpasses its imitators. It’s so much purer and more exciting than the games it inspired.

 

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And Italian superbike specialists Milestone really nail that feeling of terror and bravery of being on a factory MotoGP bike. The Codemasters F1 games are obviously a big inspiration, to put it politely, but the upshot for anyone playing it is a layer of career simulation on top of the racing. Work your way up through slower categories, build a reputation, and hold out for that big team ride.

Release date: Developer: Sector3 Studios Steam opens in new tab. This is the descendant of SimBin’s once-mighty racing empire. Think of it as GTR Online: it’s the ruthlessly-authentic car sim you remember, but retooled for online free-to-play. The GT racing is beautifully modelled and captured through a good force feedback wheel, the online competition fierce and well-structured, and the catalog of cars and tracks deep enough to really specialise in a certain series thanks to that free-to-play model.

Which is also its weakness. Once you get the cars on the track, it’s all terrific and familiar. But off-track, RaceRoom is all about selling you bits and pieces of the game. Pick a series you want to race, and immerse yourself in it. There’s more than enough to learn about vintage touring cars to occupy you for months, if not years, before you need to go dribbling over the in-game store menu again. Read more: RaceRoom Racing Experience: Simbin’s attempt to leave no vroom for improvement opens in new tab.

It’s not a cheap habit, but it will please serious racers. That’s only half the story, though. The sheer volume of user-created mods is enormous, and while the focus is on Formula One throughout the years those with an itch to be scratched in DTM, WTCC, GT racing and other open wheelers will be satiated too. Venerated for decades and still playable in , Grand Prix 3 was a turning point in racing games.

Grand Prix 3 was a new level of fidelity. It modelled things like tyre wear, wet weather grip, and tiny setup tweaks – things that games had only been able to approximate in the broadest manner previously. Simply put, it felt like sitting inside a Formula One car. And to look back on today as a playable museum piece, it has the added incentive of capturing the sport at an especially exciting time, when legends like Schumacher and Hakkinen were battling for top spot and previous champions Damon Hill and Jacques Villeneuve struggled at the back of the pack.

With Phil’s review of Forza Horizon 5 opens in new tab , he zooms in on the level of refinement that’s taken place in the Forza series. No sweeping changes have been made in the newest entry in the series, but a meticulous level of craftsmanship is on display. The Playground team has spent countless hours polishing the hoods of cars until they gleam, and the same is true of the environments in the new setting: Mexico. The seasonal playlist is present and prominent from the beginning, forming the heart of the gameplay.

You’ll find yourself taking on unexpected challenges, and utilizing your entire stable of cars in pursuit of new rare additions, as Phil put it: “We’ve had plenty of looter shooters, but Forza Horizon is slowly turning into the first looter racer. Read more: Forza Horizon 5 looks like a truly ‘next-gen’ game opens in new tab. The first Dirt Rally was a revelation when it arrived in , departing from the snapback caps and energy drink ads that erstwhile came to define the Dirt series and renewing its focus on the staggering challenge of – well, just keeping a car on the track of a rally course.

Dirt Rally 2. Read more: Dirt Rally 2. In our review of Forza Motorsport 7 , James calls it “so vast and all-encompassing that not only can I turn it into a stupid game about vans, I can also make it a game about conquering my van obsession and finally learning how to drive cool sports cars. The addition of dynamic weather effects transforms the typical race from a technical route memorization test to an impromptu puddle-dodging marathon in low visibility.

Night tracks slowly transition to dawn, sunlight filling out pitch black darkness while Forza looks and plays better than ever. It’s weighed down by an awful progression system too dependent on a hackneyed loot box system, but as the first mainline Forza on PC, Motorsport 7 is malleable enough to absorb the shock of a few speed bumps. Read more: Forza Motorsport 7 review opens in new tab. Almost a decade after the release of Trackmania 2, Ubisoft Nadeo debuted its semi-reboot of series with Trackmania The new game features some significant graphical upgrades, but the real treat is the addition of daily featured tracks, new track pieces like ice, and improved checkpointing.

Most importantly, it’s a fresh start for Trackmania detached from Nadeo’s strange Maniaplanet platform. But don’t worry, Trackmania is still incredibly weird. I’ve already played tons of nonsensical tracks that require pinpoint timing, endless repetition, and a little bit of luck.

Nadeo is also taking a more hands-on approach to post-release content by releasing new tracks made by the studio on a seasonal basis. A game that follows similar principles as World of Tanks , Engine Evolution is a multiplayer bike racing game. It allows players to compete against 11 other players in each race. Players earn experience and credits after each match, which can be used to upgrade their bikes or unlock new models. The player will start off with a model but can slowly upgrade to modern-day bikes, which requires substantial grinding.

Although each of these games offers more features than one could possibly ask for in free sim racing, Project Torque, and Trackmania surely stand as our top picks. Despite being around for over a decade, both Project Torque and Trackmania continue to deliver an abundance of content for a fleshed-out racing experience. Moreover, both games have multiplayer modes to be played with friends.

Players can expect an immersive racing experience from Asphalt 9: Legends. The game has realistic graphics, a Career Mode with 60 seasons, and events. Moreover, it also has a 7-player multiplayer mode and car customization options. Rebel Racing offers realistic driving physics with fully customizable dream cars.

Players can drag-race in a range of different tracks, collect rewards and upgrade vehicles. Moreover, it only requires MB of free space. The game has over million downloads on Google PlayStore, featuring 40 race tracks at 19 real-world locations, a car grid, and over meticulously detailed cars. While the game does contain in-game purchases, it can be disabled manually. Players can customize their rides and enjoy up to 1, challenging races.

However, the game does have pop-up advertisements. Forza Street brings a race-on-the-go Forza experience to your android devices. Enjoy 3D visuals bring the action to life while competing in various races and upgrading your vehicles.

The game also has a 1v1 mode to play with a friend. CarX Drift Racing features a realistic visual style that resembles the Forza and Asphalt car racing games but sets itself apart by its challenging driving style that incorporates slippery roads and requires frequent drifting to making it to the finish line. Naturally, online multiplayer is unavailable while offline but the Drift, Time Attack, and Training modes are fully accessible and provide a lot of content for those who like this particular driving style.

Hill Climb Racing 2 is a free-to-play racing game for Windows 10 devices that can mostly be played completely offline. Its hand-drawn art style and simple controls make it a good video game for all skill levels and age groups though there’s enough of a learning curve involved with completing levels to keep more advanced gamers coming back for more. Unlike most other racing games, Hill Climb Racing 2 is entirely sidescrolling and tasks the player with navigating from left to right while accelerating and decelerating to clear jumps and land right-side up.

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