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Project Motor Racing

Straight4 Studios · GIANTS Software · 2025-11-25

SteamPlayStation StoreEpic Games Store

RacingSimulation

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Nov 25, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Nov 25, 2025 (Xbox Series X|S), Nov 25, 2025 (PlayStation 5)

All the passion, beauty & intensity of pro motorsport merging the most iconic cars & circuits with a new benchmark in handling performance.

Project Motor Racing is a Racing and Simulation game released in 2025, priced at $39.99, with a Mixed review sentiment (43% of 2541 reviews).— census verdict as of 2026-09-20

43%
positive of 2.5k reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
72/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
3
Nexus mods (351 downloads)
2.69★
PlayStation Store rating (3,115 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$39.99
steam price (US)
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 players.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 107 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~13/week).
  • · Review velocity up 95% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (700 reviews).
  • · Top 7% of 2,386 Racing games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 51k–114k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,541 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $15.45 at GameBillet (2026-06-08)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $59.99 · on sale 52 of 64 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
51851820252026Week of 2025-11-25: 182 positiveWeek of 2025-11-25: 518 negativeWeek of 2025-12-02: 32 positiveWeek of 2025-12-02: 31 negativeWeek of 2025-12-09: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-12-09: 15 negativeWeek of 2025-12-16: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-12-16: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-12-23: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-12-23: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-12-30: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-12-30: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-06: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-06: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-01-13: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-01-13: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-01-20: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-01-20: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-27: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-01-27: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-03: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-10: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-02-10: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-17: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-02-17: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-24: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-24: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-03: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-03-03: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-10: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-10: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-17: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-24: 24 positiveWeek of 2026-03-24: 15 negativeWeek of 2026-03-31: 20 positiveWeek of 2026-03-31: 13 negativeWeek of 2026-04-07: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-04-07: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-04-14: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-04-14: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-04-21: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-04-21: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-04-28: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-04-28: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-05: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-05-05: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-05-12: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-05-12: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-19: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-05-19: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-26: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-05-26: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-06-02: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-06-09: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-06-09: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-06-16: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-06-16: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-06-23: 20 positiveWeek of 2026-06-23: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-06-30: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-06-30: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-07-07: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-07-07: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-07-14: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-07-14: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-07-21: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-28: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-07-28: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-08-04: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-08-04: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-08-11: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-11: 2 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$59.99$13.992025-04-292026-08-142025-04-29 — best price $44.622025-05-05 — best price $42.492025-05-16 — best price $59.992025-06-30 — best price $46.742025-07-14 — best price $46.742025-07-25 — best price $59.992025-08-02 — best price $46.742025-08-15 — best price $51.932025-09-10 — best price $51.932025-10-02 — best price $51.932025-10-20 — best price $50.602025-11-02 — best price $51.932025-11-20 — best price $52.792025-12-03 — best price $59.992025-12-25 — best price $59.992026-03-02 — best price $59.992026-03-26 — best price $24.292026-04-10 — best price $29.992026-04-14 — best price $35.892026-04-21 — best price $35.892026-04-28 — best price $35.892026-05-22 — best price $39.992026-06-08 — best price $15.452026-06-13 — best price $19.882026-06-21 — best price $35.992026-06-30 — best price $33.692026-07-09 — best price $17.992026-07-13 — best price $35.992026-07-16 — best price $35.882026-08-07 — best price $33.692026-08-11 — best price $35.882026-08-14 — best price $35.88
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

91192026-05-18 — 54 pageviews2026-05-22 — 62 pageviews2026-05-26 — 54 pageviews2026-05-30 — 48 pageviews2026-06-03 — 40 pageviews2026-06-07 — 34 pageviews2026-06-11 — 42 pageviews2026-06-15 — 36 pageviews2026-06-19 — 39 pageviews2026-06-23 — 88 pageviews2026-06-27 — 85 pageviews2026-07-01 — 61 pageviews2026-07-05 — 49 pageviews2026-07-09 — 55 pageviews2026-07-13 — 39 pageviews2026-07-17 — 51 pageviews2026-07-21 — 19 pageviews2026-07-25 — 33 pageviews2026-07-29 — 70 pageviews2026-08-02 — 44 pageviews2026-08-06 — 47 pageviews2026-08-10 — 30 pageviews2026-08-14 — 39 pageviews2026-08-18 — 37 pageviews2026-08-22 — 37 pageviews2026-08-26 — 59 pageviews2026-08-30 — 63 pageviews2026-09-03 — 33 pageviews2026-09-07 — 31 pageviews2026-09-11 — 34 pageviews2026-09-15 — 47 pageviews2026-09-19 — 50 pageviews2026-09-23 — 48 pageviews2026-09-27 — 43 pageviews2026-10-01 — 44 pageviews2026-10-05 — 40 pageviews2026-10-09 — 38 pageviews2026-10-12 — 40 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

30
achievements tracked
15.4%
earned "Modern GT License"
1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opOnline Co-opCross-Platform MultiplayerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportDualSense Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportSteam Cloud6 DLC

22 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean…

Post-launch support: 6 DLC released, first 2025-11-25, latest 2026-06-23 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
PS5 (PlayStation)3355%31
Xbox Series (Xbox)2102%30
Steam (Steam)1471%30

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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