Racing games - compare prices across 40+ stores

Popularity comes from Steam data: sales, wishlists and player reviews. As of August 2026 the top three are F1 25, Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced and Paradise. This category leans heavily on the calendar, because licensed series ship annually and push everything else aside for a few weeks. If you want something that will not date, switch the sorting to Metascore and look at scores rather than freshness.

The genre stretches between two poles that share little beyond a car. At one end sit sims: Assetto Corsa, iRacing and rally focused Dirt Rally, where the handling model tracks suspension physics and tyre temperature, and a decent lap time is hard without a force feedback wheel. At the other end are arcade racers like Need for Speed and Mario Kart, drifting under a thumb on a pad. In between sits what most people actually play: Forza Horizon and Gran Turismo, demanding enough to be satisfying and forgiving enough to enjoy without an expensive rig. From here it is a short step to sports games, which share the annual release model, and to simulation games.

This is the most spread out category in the catalogue. The median sits at the site-wide level, but the average is roughly two and a half times that median (as of August 2026). That gap says everything: a typical racing game is cheap, and the average is dragged up by a handful of expensive ones. The rest of the numbers agree. The bottom quarter goes for under 27% of the category median, while 2.2% sits in the top price bracket, nearly three times the catalogue rate. Sims sold with track and car packs account for that upper end. The good news is that discounts here are the deepest anywhere, averaging 71%, with 58.1% of them reaching 75% or more.

For 34.5% of racing games the cheapest offer is at a keyshop, and the median saving is 70.7%, the largest gap of any category in the catalogue. It comes from the way licensed series fall in price the moment the next annual edition is announced, with resellers reacting faster than official stores. Watch out for season passes and content packs, which in racing are often separate products with confusingly similar names. The list of stores is on the stores page.

The best moment is the announcement of the next entry. Annual editions lose value overnight once a publisher reveals the follow up, and the difference in content is often small. Sims work the other way round: the base game drops but track and car add-ons hold their price, so price the whole package rather than the base. Before you click, check the historical low and when it happened. If the current price sits above it, set an alert with your own threshold and we will check offers every five minutes.

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