iRacing
Worth it · Strategy · 2015
The verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $11.59.
- Length
- 100h
- Value
- $0.12/hr
- Reviews
- 85% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 76% over the last 30 days against 85% all-time.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 16 GB of memory, 25 GB of storage. Windows only.
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What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $2.49, set in June 2015. Its cuts run 66 percent off as a rule. There have been 10 in the 12 years tracked, about 19 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 3 percent on value. It is pricier than 71 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 89 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Assetto Corsa Competizione ($9.99, scores 88) beats it on value, while it beats RaceRoom Racing Experience (free, scores 44).
Players rate it 85 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 76 percent. Something recent has soured the room. 7 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 68 percent of the 1,094 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 19 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 100 hours. Doing everything runs 288, 2.9 times as long.
Players
354 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
ATTENTION AND WARNING BEFORE PURCHACSING A SUBSCRIBTION FOR THE FIRST TIME!!! This is not a "videogame" by the traditional sense. The is an actual, true to life, 1 to 1, most realistic racing simulator I've ever experienced and ALL "racing sims" need to use iRacing as a template. If you know NOTHING about racing, its rules, basic car physics, pit crew operating, never sat through an entire NASCAR or F1 race on tv...
Great race sim! great physics, great FFB, pricey though. My advice is wait for a steam sale and forget owning everything, just buy the cars and tracks you want to drive... This is NOT a game for casuals, if you're idea of fun is being lax with your surroundings or intent wrecking others, please don't buy this sim, stick to GT7 And Forza Horizon where you belong. lunging for a corner isnt good racing.
It is basically really good. BUT: - It's crazy expensive - There are to many idiots that just kill you. You also get punished for that with a bad safety rating... reports are useless. I had someone who clearly crashed into me right before the finishline. Reaction from iRacing: " After reviewing the replay, we understand your frustration, but we do not feel that the accident was caused intentionally or with malice."...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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iRacing scores 71/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/266410/iracingThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 7, price as of Sep 22.
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