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Nov 7, 2023 · Rev up your PlayStation experience with our top picks for the best racing games. Thrills, speed, and adrenaline await—start your engines for non-stop action.
- Gannon Burgett
- Associate Testing Editor, Hearst Autos
- Gran Turismo 7
- Need For Speed Unbound
- F1 2023
- Lego 2K Drive
- Dirt 5
- The Crew Motorfest
- Trackmania
- Wreckfest
- Hot Wheels Unleashed 2: Turbocharged
- Riders Republic
Gran Turismo 7 takes advantage of the PS5’s very own horsepower and delivers a pristine racing experience that lands at the top spot on this list. It takes everything Sony’s premier racing game team have learned over the past two decades and improves on it in every way. Even though super accurate and realistic racing is par for the course when it c...
While retaining the Need For Speed formula and tropes we all know and love, 2022’s Need For Speed Unbound looks to inject some new life into the series with a striking new art style and hip, fashion-focused aesthetic. As you’ll learn in our Need For Speed Unbound review, that aesthetic often struggles to land, but it certainly delivers on the gamep...
Developer Codemasters has been in the business of racing games for over 30 years, and with F1 2023it isn’t slowing down anytime soon. Unsurprisingly, with such a large foothold in the racing gaming genre, Codemasters appears on our list multiple times. F1 2023 is the latest in the Formula One franchise and features two brand-new modes, visual enhan...
Lego 2K Drivemight look a bit too family-friendly to be taken seriously as a decent racing game, and while it’s definitely something younger gamers could jump into, it still offers some great action for experienced racers. As well as a Mario Kart-esque Cup Series, which drops you into a series of competitive races and crowns an overall winner after...
Hello to Codemasters once again, but this time we’re heading off of the tarmac and onto the slidey stuff. DiRT 5is an arcade rally racer that, first and foremost, brings heaps of fun for PS5 players everywhere. Travel around the globe, race around some incredible tracks, and do so behind the wheel of some of the world’s most iconic cars. Sounds goo...
At the start of this console generation, PS5 playersglanced across the console divide with envy as Xbox players enjoyed Forza Horizon 5, one of the best open-world racers ever. Well, with The Crew Motorfest, there’s now a more than suitable alternative for those on the PS5. Ubisoft’s The Crew series has always been very popular, and Motorfest is it...
Unlike a lot of the other premium-priced racing games on this list, here’s a completely free-to-play racer for you to try. TrackMania toes the line between frustrating and fun expertly, and while it looks fairly basic on the outside, it actually offers super intricate racing. Gameplay-wise, TrackManiais all about precision, hitting the right angles...
Wreckfest is a demolition derby themed racing game with chaos at the forefront. It’s very pick-up-and-play in nature making it a great, easy choice for a casual online racing game with friends. While smashing up opponents and being the last vehicle standing is probably the route to victory you’ll want to take, this is also still a racing game – cro...
Hot Wheels Unleashed 2: Turbocharged is an exhilarating, vibrant, and very fun PS5 game from the iconic toy franchise. Developer Milestone has created a massively-improved sequel to its arcade racing game that you should absolutely play. There’s a garage of over 130 vehicles, and dozens of diverse tracks that will make you squealing with nostalgic ...
How about a racing game that is open-world, reeks of adventure, and takes you out of those boring old cars and puts you on something a bit more extreme? Well, that’s where Riders Republic steps in. You’ve got a range of sports to compete in from mountain biking, skiing, snowboarding, and wingsuit flying all on offer. This one’s from Ubisoft and the...
- Gran Turismo 7. Best Playstation racing game overall. Gran Turismo 7, Sony and Polyphony Digital's flagship racing series, sped onto PS4 and PS5 in 2022. In addition to the graphical and technical leaps made possible by the latest generation PS5 hardware, GT7 features a more extensive single-player campaign and retains the competitive online GT Sport mode.
- Assetto Corsa Competizione. Best PlayStation circuit racing sim. Assetto Corsa Competizione is a hardcore racing sim that's laser-focused on the world of the Blancpain GT World Challenge.
- F1 2021. Best PlayStation Formula One racing game. Codemasters' F1 2021 builds on its predecessor with new tracks, updated cars and a new My Team mode that lets you build and grow your own F1 franchise, rather than play one of the established teams.
- Project Cars 3. Best PlayStation arcade racer. The third entry in Slightly Mad Studios' Project Cars series takes a hard left turn from its predecessors' realistic simulation trajectory into the more accessible and, for many, more fun world of arcade racers.
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- Crash Team Racing: Nitro-Fueled. Racing games don’t have to be serious business; just ask Crash Team Racing: Nitro-Fueled. In this remaster of Crash Team Racing from way back in 1999, players take control of Sony mascot Crash Bandicoot and his friends and enemies, as they square off against one another on tricky go-kart tracks.
- F1 2021. F1 2021 is one of those video games that’s exactly what it sounds like. It’s Formula One racing; and it has vehicles and drivers from 2021. You can race high-tech cars in a story mode (cleverly titled “Braking Point”), in freeform single-player races or in multiplayer of both the local and online varieties.
- Gran Turismo 7. Gran Turismo 7 thoroughly earns its given moniker as “the real driving simulator.” This latest entry in the long-running racing franchise is the most complete to date, and a must-play for petrolheads.
- Gran Turismo 7. Metacritic Rating: 87 (PS5) Racing Wheel Support: Yes. Many see the Gran Turismo series as being the pinnacle of simulated racing, at least when it comes to realism, anyway.
- Assetto Corsa Competizione. Metacritic Rating: 80 (PS5) Racing Wheel Support: Yes. For the longest time, those looking to play a hyper-realistic racing sim on PlayStation consoles were limited to the likes of Gran Turismo and Dirt.
- Dirt 5. Metacritic Rating: 80 (PS5) Racing Wheel Support: Yes. The Dirt series has come a long way since its Colin McRae Rally days, with very few major bumps in the road.
- Need for Speed Unbound. Metacritic Rating: 77 (PS5) Racing Wheel Support: Yes. There have been some truly incredible Need for Speed games over the years, but there have also been one or two duds.
Aug 5, 2024 · Many will argue that Gran Turismo 7, the latest entry in the franchise, is the best PS5 racing game, but at least 19 other games on this list have something to say about that. It's not a stretch to say when it comes to racing games on PlayStation 5, there is truly something for everyone.
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Oct 8, 2024 · We've checked out the best PS5 racing games, ranking everything from Gran Turismo 7 to F1 24 and all the backward-compatible racers on PS Plus or beyond.
