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Project Motor Racing
Developer Straight4 Studios
Project Motor Racing is a 2025 sim racing video game developed by Straight4 Studios and published by GIANTS Software. It was previously developed under the supervision of game director Ian Bell until his departure in 2026, who led the creation of the Project CARS series under his previous company, Slightly Mad Studios. The game officially released on 25 November 2025 to widespread negative reception from critics and… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
340 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon) · newest Oct 7, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
57
Mixed
153 positive · 117 negative
95% range 51–62%
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Steam's own rating
Mixed
1,134 of 2,594 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Mixed: many praise improvements, but others cite bugs and poor launch.
Many players note that the game has improved significantly since its troubled launch, with updates fixing AI, physics, and performance. Some now recommend it, citing a fun career mode and good force feedback. [1][2][4][7][10][14]
However, a large number of players still find the game unfinished, with poor performance, floaty physics, and a lackluster career mode. Some advise waiting or choosing other sims like Automobilista 2. [20][21][22][25][27][28][31][32][34][35]
Praised improvements since launch · career mode · force feedback
Criticised poor launch state · performance issues · physics · career mode depth
Summary drafted by an AI model from the 36 reactions it cites ([n] links open each post), then checked by code: every paragraph cites real posts and every quote is verbatim. Written Oct 8, 2026. Method
Reactions
60 of 340 · most liked firstDisappointment. Pre-ordered it, trailer hyped me up. Biggest expectation was the career mode. Turns out it is a joke. Sponsorship, fight for podium? Nope. Select a playstyle and you don't have to touch it ever again, no management, no managing which sponsor should get on your car or livery. Select a preset and go have "fun". Career would've been something that would move me, but instead it feels dead, no rivalry, the AI is a huge concrete slab, if you get in front of it, you're just a dirt pile…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →What a joke. Day 1 DLC. Bad performance. Horrible menus. FFB feels dead... I was so happy that a game was released for real instead of early access. Even AC Evo 0.1 was more polished than this...
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Just a re hash of Project Cars, save your money and get Assetto Corsa instead
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Review Updated for 2.0.0.6. I have the unique vantage point of working on this game pretty much since the company's inception, it's my voice in some of the game's trailers, I pre-orderered the deluxe edition with my own money on my personal Steam account, left the company on launch day, and now get to experience the "2.0" era and DLC releases purely as a customer. In the interest of fairness I can't recommend it due to a growing list of technical concerns, but there's a very good sim…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Dear devs, we gathered round the track, ready for glory, ready to attack. The trailers were shining, the hype was loud, but the launch felt more like driving through the cloud. The FFB sleeps like it had a long night, the AI sees every player as a target on sight. The graphics feel shy, they refuse to impress, and the menus are stuck, is now time to stress? The cars drift around like they forgot their weight, the replays feel sluggish and never look great. Players jumped in with excitement…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Nope, cars feels floaty, graphics is very poor. Will revisit in future if this title matures
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Absolute garbage, this is at least 18 month from completion. On a 7800x3d, 9070xt, 64Gb of ram runs in mix of High and medium at 5760x1080 around 100 with dips around 50, but it has massive stutter all the time making it impossible to play. if you put everything to low it s ok (still stuttering) but the game is ugly. FFB is absolute trash, you cannot feel anything unless you are hard breaking or hard accelerating, you start feeling things at 220KPH + (finally you feel the bumps at that speed…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Some credit where credit is due: this game just worked with my setup with minimal fuss. I've spent very little time in the menu options and the FFB worked right out of the gate and it even had some preset bindings that carried over from it's calibration. But this is my only good experience with this game. There's a lot wrong with the game but I'm just going to list my deal breakers that I found difficult to believe that any this passed play testing. There's a lot of big talk about it's physics…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is crap... I wouldn't recommend it to anyone... Buy a wooden stick instead, it's more advanced than this game... Don't buy this game, give the money to a homeless person instead.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →2.0+ Update: I've been intermittently trying PMR here and there after the 2.0 update. The game has improved since I wrote this review at around 1.5 but my opinion hasn't really changed much. Some cars handle a bit better. Throttle is still an issue for me. Still can't sign up and practice for online races. Trying to access online straight up crashes the game sometimes for me but game crashes aren't as frequent anymore. Performance is better. No triples or VR yet but I hear VR is coming…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Why Can’t I Recommend This Game? First of all, I would like to ask the developers to open their eyes a little more and try to see the game from the perspective of a new player. What does a beginner actually see when they first enter the game? 1. Ranked Racing – License Test At the moment, there is a test that requires the player to achieve a 1:59 lap time or faster while racing against an AI opponent. This raises an important question: what does a beginner actually learn from this? They…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →New blog Post: That's right, it's time to profile Austin Ogonoski: the neo-nazi that's the Game Design Director for Project Motor Racing. Major CW on this one. Don't buy PMR kiddos. To think there's a lot of stuff I glossed over. 🏁💀🏁 powerhouse-takahashi.ghost.io/project-moto...
unlabelledView post →I paid half price for this and it was still too much. In it's current state, Absolute garbage. Buy AMS 2 instead.... A few patches in and it has improved, somewhat. There are still issues. However the handling and A.I have greatly improved.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Sorry, ex-SMS, i loved your previous games (exclude project cars 3, it's joke), but THIS game is a alpha-version with release number 1,5. You just had to cross the improved project cars with shift2-style (not pc3, it's like mobile game), But you threw away everything from the really good PC2 and SHIFT2. I cant't recommend this game in current state, I won't, and I can't, make a refund, but you've destroyed the trust of an old fan. While you're fixing the game, don't manage to quit everything…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Do yourself a favour and buy Automobilista 2. It's what this game wanted to be a better version of but instead, became a really bad Temu version of it. Don't buy this game. Wait and see IF the studio is still actually around next year updating the game. They just announced layoffs the day I'm writing this. They've been radio silent since their last 'update' and now we know why. Too busy laying off hard working people who were being ground up and spat out by Ian Bell. This game is marketted…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is furthest from being finished. So many bugs and physics are just awful. Stay away from this game. Not worth your time.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I got it for free, and I still want a refund.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is not worth your time and money. Rather invest in (the 11yo btw) Assetto Corsa instead. This is sad.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →After the 2.0 patch the game on PC isn't much better. The clutch might as well not exist, it's ridiculous for a game that claims to make retro cars. The retro carsihjt as well be GT3 cars. The tracks in the game are very inaccurate - Sebring is barely even recognizable through the first sector and has almost no bumps anywhere. Mid-Ohio is barely recognizable they completely screwed up Madness through the hill and Thunder Valley. The cars are ridiculously inaccurate these people don't know how…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →im the bigger idiot for giving ian bell my money This game doesn't even feel like its out of beta yet, the cars all feel the same, they sound they same, they handle the same and for a game that demands such high requirements for graphics cards and cpus, it looks as realistic as minecraft Has anyone in the development team ever driven a car? its as if the philosophy behind these cars is that if its not unstable and an absolute pig to drive, its not fast. When driving any car in this game, I…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →False advertised game.. everything they said or promoted is fake. I don't think I will play it until there will be big big big fixes but I'm still not sure I will trust the absolutely broken reputation... Won't play right now, let's see if someone creates some good mods for it..
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →People are saying this game is getting better... it's not. Singleplayer gets so dry and repetitive and that's the main selling point for the game. Braking and force feedback is what I can only describe as dreadful including the physics model. AI are more blind than Stevie Wonder, If i got a pound for everytime I've been taken out, I'd buy the studio that made this crap and shut it down. Tracks are outdated and inaccurate
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →absolutely TERRIBLE release with bugs, terrible physics, terrible performance, and generally was really bad. But it's actually impressive how much they have improved the game, the AI is better, the modern cars now have much much better physics, I had hope for the game since the start and it seems it's working out.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Project Motor Racing clearly has potential, but at its current price point, it feels hard to justify. This is a work in progress title, and it shows. Core elements are still rough, features feel incomplete, and overall polish simply doesn’t match what’s being asked financially. Charging a near full-price tag for a game that is still evolving is a risky move, and unfortunately, Project Motor Racing falls into that trap. This is where the developers could have taken inspiration from Kunos…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Before the most recent patch the AI was so bad I could not get in front of anyone. After the fix I can actually recommend the game. Here are my thoughts. Physics - (Great) _Feels_ very good and isn't slidy like PC2. Also cars don't rotate from the center of the car either- again huge step up from PC2. WARNING Hypercars are terrible for now though. Graphics - (Decent) they are definitely a step back from PC2. I assume this is due to the engine. The cars look pretty good though. Career -…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A timely lesson for other developers: Don't lie, over promise and don't let the marketing spiel override the poor reality of your game. The reason I am super disappointed with this game is it was hyped as the next coming of the sim messiah, more realistic, better handling than anything before, sets a new standard for the genre etc. None of that is actually true. If the car handling and the poor AI had been A LOT better then this would have been a great start for the game, indicating promise…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Project cars brought back from the dead and revamped. Just got the game today and was hesitant because I’m a bit picky about racing sims. Firstly everyone is entitled to their own opinions. This is mine. CAREER MODE BABY!!!!! why the ♥♥♥♥ do all these racing sims lack a basic career mode? AMS2 and LMU are my favorite racing sims and yet they lack a damn career mode. Some might say “it’s all about multiplayer” yeah sure that’s fine for you. But I like single player and a career mode with…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Dont waste your money. This should never have been released in this state. Multiplayer doesnt work, Single player AI is a joke. The whole package is a mess and is 98% unplayable. Optimisation hasnt been carried out at all!. Question is how on earth where they allowed to take peoples money for a falsely advertised unfinished product. Surely theres consumer laws for this type of practice. Avoid until online reviews say its ok.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Was told this game released, I seem to have received a very early access title instead
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Absolute garbage! Every lap at Zolder got a track limit violation at he same chicane. Literally tried a few laps keeping the car dead centre on track, Again track limits! Visual tearing , AI that are completely set on the racing line and ffb that feels so off its unbareable. A franchise that was amazing with PC1/2 ruined by PC3 and this muck.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Where is a game lmao "It's drive like a pig. It's a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. Understeers like crazy and the weight distribution's a disaster. Amazing, all these facilities and you make a piece of crap like this"
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've made box cars in boyscouts with more self awarness than this A.I. The A.i. dosnt really race each other and single files on racing line. In fact they are so committed to the racing line that they will wreck you off the track just to get back to it. For instance lets say your going down a straight side by side. Their on the line and a corner is coming up. Instead of taking the corner side by side they will ram you off the track to stay on line....im also seeing that the player has to worry…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →June '26; This still needs some serious improvement - 1) I've only driven the Porsche and MX5 in career mode, and they are just 'ok' but definitely could be improved, they both feel a bit too floaty to drive. The connection with the road & driving responsiveness is still missing somewhere. Devs need to try R3E, AMS, rF for themselves, and re-work their physics feel. (BTW I'm using an Asetek Forte wheelbase - a default profile would be appreciated, but I don't think the problem comes…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The single biggest sim racing disappointment in my entire life Disclaimer: I was really optimistic and looking forward to PMR ever since it was announced. I was also a backer on the original Project CARS. However, as the release for PMR grew close I thought that something felt "off" in the way it was being advertised, how in-game footage looked, etc. Suffice to say, the release was universally recognized as a trainwreck, so my growing cautious was actually justified. I only got to 'play'…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →How to start this... I barely scrape 50FPS on balanced graphics (second lowest option) with a 7700XT and a 7600X CPU. AI needs to be worked on, the penalty system is way too harsh and I feel like I drive floating cars apart from the MX5. I got my online license only to get disconnected every time the racing session launches. Will get a refund and wait until the game reaches a playable state to buy again. Edit, Feb 27th, 2026 : Game is now in a playable state after repurchasing, stable frame…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not gonna lie, the beginning was rough and i didn't touch it anymore until more updates came.. Still i kept believing it could be a great game. And today i did a ranked race in the Mazda Global Cup and actually had the same vibes as iRacing. So i would recommend it in the state it is now and i can only see it getting better from here. Also the lobby with 21 cars was filled super fast ^^
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Horrible. So much hype only to release something this bad. Physics like Forza. Not close to a good sim. Mediocre graphics. If the price was 70% off it would still be to much for what it curently is.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I decided to take the plunge after reading all comments/reviews, and watching some Youtube videos. I bought the game at full price, loaded it up, and was surprised at how good the game was after reading mostly negative comments. I'm not saying it's perfect. For me the positives far outweigh the negatives. First the negatives: The graphics are very good after some tweaking. Not great. Not as good as AMS2. But very good. I'm not even sure if this is a negative, but compared to all of today's…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →even after all the updates alot of things are just plain simply not working properly or are broken e.g. Hadron is so cpu and disk heavy you get serious stutters so you cant even race the career mode with AI because if you add cars Hadron eats even more ressources.. this causes either Total Crashes on alot of systems.. or heavy Freezing and really low performance. on my End i cannot for the life of me Drive with AI in career mode nor can i bother driving with Real People on Multiplayer because…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I’m speechless: one of the worst racing games I’ve ever played. I believe this title has hit rock bottom, and I’m not talking about the driving or the physics which are actually very good, on par with Project Cars 2 but everything else, which is simply trash. The career mode is decent on paper, but the AI turns it into a miserable experience. Cars follow the racing line as if they were on rails, and the moment you try to overtake, you get instantly pushed off the track. Dynamic collisions…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →not good at all, the handling and ffb especiallly, to be fast you have to use driving methods that you would never in real life, wish i could get my money back
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Don't waste your money, annoying penalties that can't be switched off. I'll stick with Project Cars 2, it has a thing called "OPTIONS", superior wet road and rain effects, a hell of a lot less pop in on scenery and a much better selection of tracks, plus it feels better on my wheel too. The more people can customize a game to suit their personal preference, the bigger the fan base, simple logic, developers nowadays seem to lack a thing called common sense, and this is currently limited to a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Three cheers for the VR team... 120 fps in vr on a 3080! This really blows evo away for me. Really love the constant updates..Having a lot of fun. Please have a hot hatch dlc down the line.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Can't recommend this game in its current state. Maybe if it was advertised as an early access title and sold for half the asking price - but even that’s a stretch. Refunded
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not the best sim, but every update is a better game. I enjoy so much with classic cars. Although bad reviews, due to the horrible early access, it is a good game. Give it a chance. And now Aris is on board! ;-)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm not sure what the bad press is all about, but i've played 13 hrs, and i highly recommend this game/sim. The AI seems to race realistic, and the cars handle amazing. The graphics are great. I love the career mode with the need to earn cash to buy your cars.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Update 2.0 is a nice change and a step in the right direction for the game,. That being said unless you are already into playing PMR, I doubt it will really convince people who dropped the title to return. This games bread & butter is the vintage GT car classes, the handling for them is superb and I often returned before the 2,.0 update just to drive GTO & N-GT cars. Even with that being said there is more to be desired in terms of the AI in singleplayer. The modern cars seem to be moreso…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Bought PMR when first released. Although it was far from perfect it was still playable. But now I find that it is unplayable. It runs in slow motion. No joy. Uninstalled and re-installed but still is in slow motion and unplayable. So buy this at your peril. PC is Ryzen 7 7800X3D and RTX5070ti.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Me personally, I really like this game. It reminds me project cars 2, which controversially was one of my favourite racing games. Not because it was the most realistic game ever made, but because it conveyed a real sense of speed and panic when driving the cars. I am not a real racer, I will probably never be a real racer and never get to drive a real dodge viper, or ferrari f40 or (insert your favourite car), so being able to play a game that makes me feel what it might be like to drive one…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →PMR has come long ways since day1 terrible launch. cars drive better optimization is better , FFB fidelity is something that keeps bringing me back to this game. i have put over 100hrs on pc and my ps5 so i’m definitely enjoying the journey and it’s only going to get better with further patch updates.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game runs like absolute trash. I cant even finish a race with all the blips and lags this game has. DO NOT BUY THIS GAME. UPDATE: GAME IS STILL ABSOLUTE GARBAGE. STILL NO FIXES FOR ALL THE GLITCHING AND FREEZING
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Honestly No, just no. Besides all the let downs and massive disapointments at launch, improvements have been coming through HOWEVER there are still many core parts of the games physics especially the throttle model that are broken where as you get no throttle responce at all for 50 to 60% of pedal travel. Preformance is hit and miss, game crashes are random for many. I really was looking forward to this game since the " GTR revival " was announced. and im not too sure at what stage this…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Despite the early hiccups in game. I have had verey few issues with this sim. It looks great, runs well and I can be competitive with the AI if I dial the difficulty back from 100 to a level closer to my non alien 90. This is not a jump in and win type sim. It will require time to get your setiup right in car. This is how real racing works. This is not a Gran Turismo or Forza simcade with dopey AI. Do not drive on a joypad or keyboard. Wheel and pedals are a must.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Bad game, just as Project Cars was, but it's even more bad. The huge price increase they did at the last moment is a bad move, they are disrespectful and they deserve nothing, don't even pay for this game even if it ever get on sale for 5$, not worth it. Ask for a refund if you've got less than 2 hours, it's just not worth it and even updates won't save this game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Well, it was a tight fight between Assetto Corsa EVO, Rennsport, and Project Motor Racing to see who can release the most unfinished game into early access - but having to put out a statement on day one is championship material projectmotorracing.com/newsArticle....
unlabelledView post →Don't waste your time, they really should refund everyone, scrap the game and start over. The whole game is a complete lie, they said it was designed to be a serious sim but you can play bumper cars and hit walls head on at 100+ and just keep driving. The physics are pathetic, the tire models are trash, there is no damage which makes the already bad races even worse. There is nothing about this that is a "racing sim" its an arcade POS that was sold under false pretenses and empty promises. You…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Wish that I could refund but I bought a key, it has crashed twice in 40 mins of gameplay, the AI in career is ridiculous, will ram you into the grass as long as you are on the racing line as if they have no actual awareness of what is happening on track other than riding the racing line perfectly like a train, feels like a demo or 0.1 early access, I highly regret spending my money on this game, it is awful. If you manage to dodge the 15 train carts on track, the game will just crash as you…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Played for a while now, I still can't do 1 clean lap around spa in any GT3 car. Setups don't work. They seem to drive like I'm on a dirty track with constant wheel spin. Traction control seems none existent. The game looks amazing and with the AI turned down and not using any setup you can have a good race. But I want to get faster and I just can't. Playing ACC, RaceRoom and Le Mans Ul I can use my setups and other peoples and yes feel the difference, but this game for me has no feeling...yet!…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →after being aware of the terrible launch state, i put off buying until a sizeable update was released. Safe to say this is now an enjoyable game, still some fixes required in terms of vehicle handling. But i think this game has a great future ahead given the devs support and aims of delivering improvements.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →After spending so mutch on Deluxe version, to get all the dlc's...this doesn't deserve it...it's bad...even project cars 2 can beat this... the worst is many tried it, made alot of noise around it...and in the end this comes out?!!! Really bad where this is going... Edit: After more 10 hours and now with update 1.5.0.2, feel something is changing... but will not save the day...is not possible that nowadays we get always this theater; buy something, and just months after can be used as is…
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