rFactor 2

Its a struggle to start and close the game but uninstallation process was perfect, thank you steam...

They say comparison is the thief of joy, so I'll do my best to review this game as a standalone racing sim. On startup, big surprise. The game asks you if you want to download all the content - so you just have to sit and wait for it to download an additional 25 gigabytes. No problem, game finishes downloading, and now we can get to racing, right? No, turns out you can't actually use those 25 gigabytes of content because you haven't PAID for them yet. Monza, Spa, and most of the content you know and love, is PAID. Not a problem, because there's kind souls that offer free mods on the steam workshop of other tracks. So you wait again and download those as well. And right as you're about to go racing - oh wait! You forgot to bind your tcs-abs-throttle-whatever, and the car won't do its thing. So you have to bind your wheel (like in any other sim) to the controls in the game. Pretty easy right? Until you get to the Force Feedback settings and realize why this game is called Rfactor 2. Rfactor 1 is quite possibly the best low budget sim experience there is - it even runs on android. And despite having zero to none officially licensed content, modders have managed to include famous tracks and cars in the game, allowing you to play with licensed cars and famous racetracks you all know and love. The force feedback settings might not be the best, but they do make you feel slip angle and under/oversteer. Motorsport games managed to make this game even worse than a sim title released in 2004 when it comes to overall experience. But there's more, as they've now released Le Mans Ultimate (LMU) as a "not so discrete successor" to this game. So, to sum it up, you are essentially paying for a severely limited car racing game, which has no online community, almost zero modding support, and has been superseded by a game where you have to pay (again!) in order to gain access to most of the content. And don't even think of letting it download the available mods on workshop because it will absolutely fill (and destroy! :3) your ssd. Fair to say this title fails on being a portable sim, a proper sequel, and a proper racing/sim title, all at once. Please just wait for a steam sale on LMU or (i'm not making this up) get a "repacked" version. That one at least will not try to download 250 gigabytes of content at once.

While it's a decent sim at its core, there are too many issues around this game for me to recommend it. Technical issues aside, this game is a complete and utter scam, they ask you 30 euros for this game, and it comes with nothing. Even when you subscribe to all of their steam workshop pages, all you're left with is some generic cars and obscure tracks no one gives a sh*t about. All the "good" stuff is behind a paywall and they're not even worth it because most other racing sims' base content is wayyy more high quality than this old crap. To add even more insult to injury, they released a blog post announcing new Formula E cars and allegedly they're supposed to be free content. Well guess what? I couldn't find this 'free content' anywhere and all I could find is a 25 euro Formula E pack in the store section in the hopes of squeezing extra money out of this dying fanbase. Don't buy this crappy game, it's a dead project and all they care about is getting more money.

Game was fun. Key word here is the word "was". When I upgraded from a Logitech G29 to a moza R5, I had reverse force feedback. Fixed it, then was met with no force feedback. I have not found a solution and I have tried everything. DLC purchased and hours played have been flushed down the drain because of a stupid bug this game studio can't fix. I, along with many others have had this problem. For these reasons, I can't recommend this game.

While yes the pyhsics of this game are cool and all. you cant really play with people anymore without opening your wallet. i spent money to get server minutes and there is no way of getting nor your minutes nor your money back so go ahead and turn around and look else where because a gaming company that just takes peoples money can just kiss my you know what.

Game won't even start, watched endless videos on how to fix that issue & none worked. Be smart & buy AC instead

The game looks great and still holds up for a 2013 game, but it refuses to work with my new Moza wheel and pedals. Like other reviews have said, even when it does work, it will randomly stop or change your settings. I want to love it, but be for real. My entire play time was spent trying to fix this nonsense, smh.

Don't buy, not even in a sale, game has the same issues for Years now and they wont be fixed since they focused on Le Mans Ultimate, DONT BUY