RACE - The WTCC Game

RACE - The WTCC Game

Skip · Other · 2006

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 22, under the fair line, at $39.99.

Length
4.6h
Value
$8.69/hr
Reviews
75% of 201 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 2114 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

How to read this

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Holding it back
Value$8.69/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews75% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 74% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 18 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

The Official WTCC Game | RACE is the first ever game to be focused on the hard hitting, intense action of the exciting WTCC championship which is exploding in popularity all over the world. Based on WTCC, one of only three official FIA world championships next to Formula 1 and WRC, RACE features the complete WTCC championship season of...
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Windows only.

The value story

It has been discounted 20 times in the 13 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 19 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 302 weeks ago.

It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 61 percent. Among the games that feel like it, RACE 07 ($7.99, scores 64) beats it on value, while it beats V-Rally 4 ($29.99, scores 20).

What players say

Good game, certainly worth the $3. However I would recomend you don't make the mistake I made and purchace this instead of Race WTCC 07. That game basicly includes everything in this game plus another game, and also has a wealth of mods on the internet, including the excelent 2012-2013 mod. For only $1 more it's an amazing value, and I ended up just purchacing that one and uninstalling this, because there was...
GrantSucksAtVideoGamesRecommendedafter 4.9h41 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews
Totally worth the money. - Good driving physics - No Rubberband AI - Good amount of tracks - A lot of Settings for race rules and stuff - Good graphics for a game released in 2006 Would buy it again.
SkeletorRecommendedafter 5.9h17 found this helpfulRead on Steam
I bought this racing simulator on sale, I am very positively surprised by this simulator. Okay the graphics are outdated, but the psychics are great and the FFB really isn't bad. You can still find mods and yesterday only adjusted the AI and FFB slightly, then did a quick race. You don't notice the difference with the human opponent very quickly, the AI does not drive the ideal line in a train, no, it really entered...
LeenRecommendedafter 2.7hNov 2023Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

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RACE - The WTCC Game scores 22/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 20, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/4230/race-the-wtcc-game
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Details

DeveloperSimBin
PublisherSimBin
GenreOther
Released2006
Players10Kowners, SteamSpy estimate