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- Gran Turismo 7. If there's one racing game that absolutely has to sit at the top of this list, it's "Gran Turismo 7." The latest installment in PlayStation's landmark series, "Gran Turismo 7" is more of the same for GT fans, but in a good way.
- Wreckfest. While it's a few years old at this point, "Wreckfest" remains one of the most unique and enjoyable racing games out there. With fully-deformable cars and various game modes to encourage you to smash and crash your way to the top, Wreckfest is great as a solo endeavor, but it's best when you play with friends.
- Riders Republic. The sequel to 2016's "Steep," Ubisoft's open-world action sports racer "Riders Republic" lets you race everything from mountain bikes to snowmobiles across a wide range of terrain.
- Art of Rally. A completely unique take on the racing game genre, "Art of Rally" lets you take a variety of classic rally machinery through picturesque stages in a race against the clock.
- 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...
If you're looking for the best version of the game, look no further than the PS5 edition which makes full use of the console's unique DualSense controller.
- Gran Turismo 7. Developer: Polyphony Digital. Publisher: Sony Interactive Entertainment. Sony’s flagship racing game series, there couldn’t be any other first place entry on the best PS5 racing games than Gran Turismo 7.
- F1 2021. Developer: Codemasters. Publisher: Electronic Arts. If the Netflix documentary series Drive To Survive is anything to go by, Formula 1 is a hotbed for drama both on and off the track, but F1 2021 is the first game to really capture that side of the F1.
- Dirt 5. Developer: Codemasters. Publisher: Codemasters. Codemasters’ Dirt series has been around for a good while now. While some might prefer Dirt Rally, which hyper-focuses on pure rallying, the main Dirt series is more concerned with just offroad driving fun.
- Wreckfest. Developer: Bugbear. Publisher: Bugbear, THQ Nordic. Not all of the best racing games on the PlayStation 5 have to be squeaky clean, respectful races where no one gets their paint so much as scratched, so it’s great that games like Wreckfest exist, which focuses on the destructive elements of racing to make for a wonderful racing experience.
- WRC 9. As we’ve said many times already, WRC 9 marked a significant vehicle handling step forward for the officially licenced series. Using a wheel, you can precisely place your rally car and react to its movements with far greater satisfaction that in any other recent WRC game.
- Ride 4. Playing Ride 4, Milestone’s motorcycle collecting-focussed racing game, I finally felt something I had dreamt of as a PS2-playing teenager. What if you could feel the ripples on a kerb?
- Destruction AllStars. Okay, okay, there’s a (very plausible) argument that Destruction AllStars shouldn’t be on this list because technically it’s not a racing game.
- MotoGP 21. The second entry from Milestone, and this could have been quite easily MXGP 2020 or Monster Energy Supercross 4 as all four of the Milanese developer’s PS5 releases so far use the DualSense to its full extent.
Apr 28, 2024 · Whether you want to sit back on your couch and do some laps with your controller, or you're into sim racing with the whole setup ready for your next track day, a fun racing simulator is a...
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