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Ridge Racer™ Unbounded
Developer BUGBEAR
Ridge Racer Unbounded is a 2012 racing video game developed by Bugbear Entertainment and published by Namco Bandai Games. It was released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. It is the eighth installment of the Ridge Racer franchise following Ridge Racer 7, the first mainline title not to be developed by Namco nor released in Japan, and the first in the series overall to be released on Windows.… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
182 reactions from 1 source (Steam reviews) · newest Oct 3, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
62
Fresh
113 positive · 69 negative
95% range 55–69%
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Steam's own rating
Mixed
1,201 of 1,932 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Summary pending — the reactions are listed below.
Reactions
60 of 182 · most liked firstYou have two ways of looking at this: 1) You want a Ridge Racer game. Ridge Racer rewards flow, driving skill, timing, and practice. This game is not that. Ridge Racer has amazing tracks that stick with you, that look like places you want to go to, that are fun to just cruise around. This game is not that. Ridge Racer looked amazing. The first one was ground breaking, Type 4 pushed the limits, 5 started a new generation of graphics. It has been technical prowess and style. This game is not…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you don't know what decent racing game looks like now you know. Servers down, still playable though.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This entire game spits in the face of Ridge Racer fans. Developed by Bugbear Interactive, now of Wreckfest fame, it is clear that their influences were less from Namco's seminal series of racing games and more the obvious success of Criterion's Burnout, complete with car rolling physics and Hollywood style crash videos. The emphasis here is on destruction, wrecking havoc, with the races tallying your "frags" as you dispatch cars and effectively rack up points while demolishing a city in…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Im a fan of ridge racer an i can tell that isn't a ridge racer game, all of be a finesse driver in all games, well throw it away because is chaos game that combines, burnout, flatout and spilt second. The drifting you cant master it well and is an insult to other titles of ridge racer. Sometimes you can enjoy the game but it gets boring. And other thing that i noticed is that the car never tells you when you reach the max speed because doesnt stop in max revolutions, keeps to the infinite. The…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ridge Racer in name only. Essentially Burnout but not as good. If you want Ridge Racer, then play literally any other Ridge Racer game instead of this
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Dont look at it as a Ridge Racer game, it has nothing to do with those. Look at this as another game by the people that made the OG Flatout games and Wreckfest. Driving is fun, there is lots of action and a nice aesthetic. The tracks are made with the included track editor and the tracks sadly suffer from that. All the tracks feel rather samey and are basically all straights connected by 90 degree corners. Still, this did not hinder my enjoyment. The cars feel very Ridge Racer, both in style…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Unbounded was anything but a Ridge Racer game. With no real highlights on the positive side, the negatives quickly become overwhelming: It delivers Burnout-style racing in a non-Burnout franchise - one that was never known for destruction in the first place; Drifting feels meh, with very limited impact compared to its heyday, when it was practically a trademark of the series; Reflections look good, but the lighting is extremely off and doesn’t feel natural (even if I can accept it as part…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If someone criticizes a simple arcade game, Because it is NOT a simulator, then it seems that this is a problem of a person with a worldview. I think it is a simple fun game for relaxation. When I started it, I couldn't stop playing for Three hours. BUT... IF YOU SUDDENLY decide TO MAKE A MISTAKE and complete ALL THE CHALLENGES with three stars—GOOD LUCK... THIS IS "DARK SOULS ON FOUR WHEELS"......
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Paid 2.99 for this game with all DLC and it still wasn't worth it. Horrible graphical glitches on Steam Deck, cheating AI that doesn't stop rubberbanding even when it's far ahead of you, every light in the game looks like you have massive astigmatism. "Frag" system obviously stolen from Burnout, but in a really horrible way - you literally cannot "frag" your opponents or hit the "collateral damage" buildings unless you're currently actively boosting, no matter if their "health bar" is low, or…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not the best handling even for an arcade racer and the drifting mechanic can be a PITA sometimes if you don't get it right. However, it has SOUL, it's undeniably fun, and the soundtrack has some bops. Worth it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Just my point of view , for the best experience of ridge racer , just download PPSSPP emulator and download ridge racer 2 ISO to play the best experience of modern retro but full HD ,can play on any medium range potatoes PC of ridge racer 2. Im not encourage on pirxde game , but this ridge racer unbound is just cant drift properly mann ;( , some more ridge racer 2 PSP cannot purchase in steam at all, not everyone own PS4 and 5 ..... Like i said for the sake of best experience of ridge racer…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →100% Achievement Review: Based on my experience completing all the (available) achievements. Feel free to follow my [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/45897386/]Steam Curator & [url=https://www.youtube.com/@Awijii]Youtube Channel for more 100% reviews, videos & achievement content! Title: Ridge Racer Unbounded (HAS UNOBTAINABLE ACHIEVEMENTS) (Used a previous save file for the now extinct online servers.) Summary: Destructive arcade racing game Personal notes: Ridge Racer…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The entire game goes completely against Ridge Racer's ethos. There are no mountainous and coastal areas as all races take place within a city (which technically does make the "Ridge Racer" moniker false advertising), there is only illegal racing unlike other entries, and the game features an overly dark and gloomy atmosphere. Not only that, all courses do not have any massive undulations and sharp hairpins, and they are unusually far more open with no barriers, making them not at all proper…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →STAY AWAY! I don't write reviews often, but the amount of frustrations this game caused me compelled me to inform anyone even potentially looking at this game because maybe you're still nostalgic about the pinnacle of the series in Ridge Racer 4 and you saw Bugbear as the developer and thought maybe this was the love-child of Namco's classic arcade racer with Flatout. Well, you would be sorely mistaken because it basically takes all the WORST aspects of both game series and compiles them into…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is overrated. I'm half-joking, but much of the reason I picked this up was because of the sheer number of people posting about how much of an "underrated hidden gem" this game is. I can maybe understand nostalgia for playing this back in the day, but let's keep it real, this didn't review well and never released in Japan for a reason. The biggest problem is this game never comes together under some unified vision of what it's trying to do. It poorly straddles the line of Ridge Racer…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →mix between burnout and ridge racer which i like but it shame that those kind of game have no sequel
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ridge Racer Unbounded is the kind of game your parents would probably find in a bargain bin as a kid with a PS3 when you were wanting Burnout 3 or Paradise. It's also the kind of game you'd never be able to beat as a kid. At all. Fortunately, I've never had the misfortune of coming across this game until the day I decided to get it out of curiosity (note the Key tag by this review, Even at $10 USD, I was never getting this at full price) with the premise of "kind of like Burnout", which it is,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's highly underrated game, mostly because fans of series expected another Ridge Racer with number next to the title, not the spin-off. But it's not their first spin-off. Remember R: Racing Evolution from 2003 and Critical Velocity from 2005? Ridge Racer Unbounded is a mix of Burnout, Ridge Racer (obviously) and Trackmania. Mostly in races you will see the combination of Burnout and Ridge Racer but in some time attack events you'll be jumping on platforms just like in Trackmania. And there's…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →One of the, if not The most challenging and toughest racing game i have ever played, specially the final time attack run! 10/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ridge Racer™ Unbounded is not your traditional Ridge Racer – and that’s both a strength and a weakness. If you're expecting classic drifting on clean circuits, this game will surprise you. What you get instead is a chaotic, explosive arcade racer that feels more like Burnout meets Split/Second than anything in the Ridge Racer legacy. The driving is aggressive, the tracks are destructible, and the emphasis is on smashing through buildings, creating shortcuts, and wrecking your opponents. It's…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a fine game, not a good Ridge Racer, but a fine game. Reminds a lot of Split/Second.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Is this a good ridge racer game? No Is this a good game? Yes Pros: -Fun combat racing -Crashes and takedowns are flashy and fun to watch -Good sense of speed -Track creator is a nice feature but slightly limited on how big you can make a track -Plenty of cars -Plenty of game modes -Destruction is cool -No rubber banding Meh: -Soundtrack is just mid, can't remember a single track -Destruction despite been cool is not on Split second or FullAuto levels -Some time trial levels are not that fun…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →not very ridge racer, dead game, no reiko, no disco ball 2/10
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a weird game, it's not necessarily within the Ridge Racer formula of games, but it's a flawed masterpiece, in my opinion. It's a good mix of Burnout with Split/Second, i'd say. I had played the demo back in 2012 in my 360 and i found it fun. The only issue with this is the lack of graphical settings to lower graphics and etc. and the fact the Steam overlay makes the frames drop. Shame the franchise is dead. Bandai Namco should have a renaissance of their dead IPs. It's happening,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Is Ridge Racer Unbounded a good Ridge Racer game? No. Absolutely not. The game is very much a product of its time, the 7th console generation, when Japanese publishers struggled with trying to make their games more relevant to western audiences. For Namco’s part, they would attempt to do this with both their Ace Combat and Ridge Racer series. While fans of both franchises mostly see these games in a negative light, it could be argued that at least Assault Horizon still fundamentally succeeded…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Online services are not working anymore and they are STILL selling DLCs to make extra money out of this mess.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →closest thing to classic ps2 burnout you can get on PC, including paradise ignore that it's souposed to be ridge racer
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I knew what I was getting into when I picked this up in a sale but man, I was not prepared! Not only is this the worst Ridge Racer game ever to hold that moniker, it's not even a good racing game if you remove the moniker. Controls are awful, the 'drift' mechanic is nonsense at the highest level. The AI blatantly cheats to the point that Mario Kart would blush. And the courses are just not fun to race around. Only positives are the graphics are nice and the soundtrack is decent enough. Time to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →"its not a Ridge Racer game" Who really cares? its still pretty fun and chaotic, but yeah it really should have a different title. Honestly really fun arcade racer one of the best tbh (if you ignore minor graphical errors and the piss poor progression or lack thereof)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Terrible car handling and controls.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Oh, my poor BUGBEAR studio... I expected so much more from you when I bought this game considering how I like FlatOut 2 and FlatOut Ultimate Carnage... Even more so when I saw one of the DLC vehicles were a hearse. The DLC vehicles are crap, and while the game itself is just "okay" at best there is an annoying issue where the game tries to connect to the game's online servers which have long since been shut down. It does this until it times out and you can not skip this process. Do not buy ANY…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game does not deserve a negative review but it does not deserve it being too positive either. As everyone mentioned before, the game tries to be too much and loses it's own identity. The gameplay is not that bad but it's a shame you don't get to drive any of the old RR cars anymore and little to no RR music from the previous titles. You will also feel like driving on oil very often especially when you drift. The game overall feels similar to a mobile arcade racer (such as Asphalt or NFS…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is cool. However, online achievements must be removed since it's impossible to achieve due to no servers handling it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Terrible driving physics. Boring and bland music. Unobtainable achievements due to servers being shutdown. Avoid this like the black death.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not Ridge Racer, just Burnout’s awkward cousin who thinks smashing buildings is racing.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Idk why I keep trying to like this. Even if I separate the RR namesake from the title, it's at best a heavy, lumbering Burnout clone.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Blast from the past! Loved this on the 360. For the bargain price of $2 on sale, you too can go about crashing into other vehicles and shouting "Rrriiiiiidgeee Racerrrrrrrr!!" Online servers were shut down many moons ago, which is sad.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →fresh and unexpected combat racing caused confusion among the players because is quite different from major Ridge Racer's games, that doesn't make it a bad game
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →maybe not a typical ridge racer game, more like a burnout 3 takedown, but how this game is "mixed" is beyond me. kind of like a arcade racer hidden gem at this point. runs out of the box (unlike those other racers from that era - i am looking at you split second). so if you want to race, drift, smash and crash other cars at 60-120 fps - grab this one!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Still fun after all these years, a really fun racing game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Is this game phenominal? No. It is however WAY better than 62% positive would have you believe. Absolutely. People were just salty that it doesn't play like a normal ridge racer game. It's great value Burnout, and guess what? That's still pretty good.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I can't play Offline again... I don't know who to point or what happened... You can now play this game (and others like classic SNK games) Offline. Thanks, Valve! Split/Second, but rather then "Red Shells" it's "Power Stars". I understand where the hate come from the RR community, but I do believe this is overhated. It's not that bad of a game. It's good. But Shatter Bay can be old and boring to stare at for too long... Beware, an update from Steam has bugged this game and you can't play it…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm really sorry but I tried really hard to like this game but theres so much wrong with this game: -The graphics in this game are great however, the graphics is not good compared to Blur and Split/Second which were released an entire year before this game -The Drifting Physics and Corners is awful in this game, in my 7 hours of gameplay i don't think i went through a corner perfectly because of this really garbage drifting physics and if you would drift a second early it would usually…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have been spoiled by burnout on the PlayStation 2. And because of it, the review is going to be a reflection of that. The rubber banding in this game is terrible. Meaning, you are ahead of the vehicle after you crash them, and yet they manage to be right behind you and overtake you after you slow down to make a turn, despite being five to eight seconds behind you. The vehicles feel like you're driving a boat. You have to practice using the Spacebar, or what you assume is the brake button,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Classic arcade racing with burnout like destruction from the devs that gave us Flatout. MAGNIFICENT!!! This is better than a lot of current gen arcade racers.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i've never played a ridge racer game before so i'd say this is the best one however no ridges, but many racers also has dubstep (be warned for trace amounts of epic) 😎
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Wow... I mean, just wow. This game absolutely slaps. Some of the most over the top, fun wrecks in a game I've ever seen. Destructible environments, environmental takedowns, stylish visuals. Whats not to love? Full video review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKPIcd-6U0Q
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very basic. I've only played for an hour and I already feel like I've seen everything the game has to offer and I know I won't get much out of it, but I won't hate it either. This is one of those that is worth the symbolic price they charge when a sale is taking place. And it's far from being as bad as the reviews claimed. The biggest crime here, in fact, was having received the brand name of another IP in a failed attempt to boost sales of this thing with no identity. It's a poor…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hate to put a negative review but this game is forcing me to. I cannot connect to their live services, plus it got too aggressive AI which makes it difficult to finish even the first race for the first place. Long drifting makes the car out of control and once you're spun, good luck catching up the opponents. Go play Split/Second if you are in search of hidden racing game gem.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have to say....i don't get it? What is this game? It isn't RR, it isn't fun, it's not challenging and i don't feel at all connected to its purpose, whatever that may be. Some games leave you wondering "what am i supposed to be working towards?". This is definitely one of them. Horrible drifting dynamics which you need to do to get boost but it's just so poorly executed. I've tried to persevere but i can't see the point...i'm not having fun or feeling any sense of achievement. Cannot recommend…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's Ridge Racer meets Burnout. I'm easy to please.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ridge Racer™ but it's FlatOut 2
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is really dissatisfying to play. Coming in, with the word surrounding it, I was not expecting Ridge Racer. This isn't Ridge Racer. That didn't really help. DLC: I bought this on sale through the pack containing all DLC and either you have to unlock certain DLC after purchase or most of them just don't work, because I didn't get to try out all of the cars. Either way, that's lame. Controls: Wonky. On Xbox controller, you can play with two different pre-mapped controls. Layout…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Superb game, if you're desperate for a burnout-alike. Easy to pick up, hard to master.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A racing game where drift is 50% of the gameplay and drifting does not work at all, It is impossible to win without drifting, the core mechaincs of the game is shaped arround that, I fell robbed fro buying this ♥♥♥♥. This could have been a decent Burnout like game, because aside from drifting, the rest is fine.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Does not even start. >:(
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →this game would've probably been successful if wasn't called ridge racer
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Realistic? No. Fun? Hell yeah! You can destroy stuff, enough said ;)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →this game is a blast plain and simple banger racing at its finest for sure tried to be alot like split second tho other then that very fun game
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →grew up with RR from the first game. Not sure why they made this game this way. Just a burnout clone. Not a RR game I was expecting. Glad it was only 2€.
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