Fans of racing games and sim racing – get ready because 2025 is about to get heavy. This year is jam-packed with all-new titles, indie gems and significant updates to current platforms.
Here is every new racing game we know of coming in 2025, plus a few educated guesses.
Confirmed
We begin with the titles that are locked in, confirmed, for 2025, and there are some big ones.
Assetto Corsa EVO
Platforms: PC, consoles TBC
Release date: 16th January (Early Access)
2025 starts with a bang with arguably this year’s most anticipated racing game. You guessed it: Assetto Corsa EVO.
We’ve interviewed the team and we’ve even tried it ourselves at the ADAC SimRacing Expo.
Now we wait. And wait some more. Can 16th January come sooner, please?
That’s when the third Assetto Corsa simulation hits PC early access, and then we have the rest of 2025 to test, drive and watch it evolve into its final form like some sort of vehicular butterfly. Consoles should follow, too.
EVO is aiming to be all things to all sim racers. Exacting re-creations of real-world race and road cars, epic on-track battles, freeroam areas and deep online multiplayer options. There’s even set to be a single-player progression system. Modding will be supported too, but via an approval process.
Taking the best bits of the original Assetto Corsa, the spin-off Competizione and Gran Turismo, and melding them into one experience is an intriguing prospect. We hope it comes out like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, rather than ibuprofen and an empty stomach.
Tokyo Xtreme Racer
Platforms: PC
Release date: 23rd January (Early Access)
Shutokō Battle, or Tokyo Xtreme Racer for those outside of Japan, is a much-revered street racing series from the Dreamcast and PlayStation 2 era.
Sadly, it has been dormant for nearly 20 years, but it’s coming back soon with the upcoming Tokyo Xtreme Racer reboot.
Set in some sort of dystopian Tokyo, where the city is shut off save for fans of Japanese sportscars (sounds like heaven to us, honestly), little is known presently other than it hits PC first of all.
It has the right name, a loyal following, hawkeye Imprezas and Toyota Supras – but it’s the gameplay that matters. Prior instalments delivered an open-world re-creation of actual highways with a branching story mode and a rivals system.
JDM: Japanese Drift Master
Platforms: PC
Release date: Spring 2025
Imagine a game filled with tuned cars, authentic drift mechanics and a career mode. Then place those fundamentals within a spectacular open-world setting. Imagine no more, as that is Japanese Drift Master, or JDM for short.
We were mesmerised by its quasi-demo spin-off, Rise of the Scorpion, last year. Since then, the development team has collected official car licences and teased the city-centric areas of the map.
Charmed by its attention to detail, while the Need for Speed franchise seems to be on a hiatus, JDM could very well fill that void. A firm release date is not yet set, but it will be released on PC in the Spring, with console versions mooted.
Will this be triumphant like a Stone Cold Steve Austin return to the ring or a whimper like the Die Hard comebacks? We’ll find out in a matter of weeks.
Monster Energy Supercross 25
Platforms: PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PC
Release date: TBC 2025
After six middling games, one year after the next, it seemed like the official games of the Monster Energy Supercross championship were put out to pasture.
Instead of a Supercross 7 in 2024, there was some official DLC for the evolving MX vs ATV Legends platform.
However, it transpires that it was just taking a career break, with Italian developer Milestone returning with Monster Energy Supercross 25, which has been remade from the ground up including “new physics.”
It will use an upgraded Unreal Engine as its basis, taking lessons from the recent Monster Jam Showdown game. For fans of the American dirt bike series, it’s a relief, as the series was popular but beginning to feel tired.
Endurance Motorsport Series
Platforms: PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PC
Release date: TBC 2025
Imagine mashing together F1 Manager with Le Mans Ultimate. What you get isn’t Le F1 Managetimate, ahem, but instead Endurance Motorsport Series.
Despite having a name straight from a ChatGPT suggestion box, this is actually an all-new game from racing game giant Nacon and developer KT Racing.
It will feature multi-class AI and online racing; licenced LMDh vehicles and tracks and dynamic weather.
So far, so generic. However, it will have management-style features. When Traxion tested it, we sat on the pitwall, overseeing the strategy and driving style of our team across two different cars, before popping ourselves behind the wheel to drive one of the stints.
The concept is unlike any other game we expect over the next 12 months, with refreshingly different multiplayer support expected. We just hope it has long enough in the garage to be developed thoroughly before launch.
NASCAR 25
Platforms: Consoles TBC
Release date: 2025 TBC
Big one, this. When NASCAR 25 lands at some point soon, it will mark four years since the last official game of the USA’s premier stock car championship – and fans are salivating at the prospect.
Why? Well, this is now under the stewardship of PC motorsport simulator iRacing, which does an incredible job with NASCAR content. It is also being developed by the Monster Games team – the last people to make a decent NASCAR video game.
This will use Unreal Engine for graphics, with laser-scanned tracks and unique vehicle physics. Doesn’t that sound… erm… a bit familiar?
Beating NASCAR 21: Ignition, how hard can it be…?
iRacing Arcade
Platforms: TBC
Release date: 2025 TBC
Now this has us more intrigued than when we’re playing Murdle.
By the developers that created the loveable Circuit Superstars, Original Fire Games, comes, purportedly, a true follow-up for PC and console.
Cute, but competitive, racing, CS is one of the finest multiplayer racers out there – provided you can find a lobby, that is.
With the working title of ‘iRacing Arcade’, we hope the backing of the simulation giant allows the diminutive Canada-based team to flourish with a world-beating accessible racing experience.
Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds
Platforms: PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PC
Release date: TBC 2025
During The Game Awards 2024, Sega announced Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds as a surprise sequel to 2019’s solid but underwhelming Team Sonic Racing.
Little is known about the new kart racer starring the titular blue hedgehog, but the title and CGI teaser trailer showing Shadow the Hedgehog driving through a portal suggest we may be able to seamlessly transport between worlds like in Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart.
Sega says we’ll be racing “across land, sea, air, space, and time,” so the vehicle transformations removed from the last entry are seemingly back, too.
We’ll have to wait until we see some actual gameplay, but this could give the karting genre a much-needed shake-up. Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds is “coming soon,” so we shouldn’t have to wait long.
Not forgetting…
Alongside these big hitters, several esoteric titles are also scheduled for launch in ‘25, such as bombastic karter Hot Rod Mayhem, kei car simulator Honcho, cop chase curio The Precinct, choose-your-route roguelike Reality Drift, top-down dirt racer Super Woden: Rally Edge and underground JDM street racer Night-Runners.
Emerging from early access
Next up, this gaggle of experiences are already available on PC – albeit in an unfinished early access phase. This isn’t a list of every early access racing game, but rather the ones we expect to exit the programme with a version 1.0 release within the next year.
Rennsport
Platforms: PC
Release date: First half of 2025 TBC
“Early access starts in December, and we can’t really commit to a [full] release date yet, but we are aiming for the first half of 2025,” said Rennsport’s Creative Director, Kim Orremark.
You heard him: following a closed beta, an open beta and Steam Early Access, at last, the embryonic PC sim racing game Rennsport is set for a full release in 2025.
2025, honest!
Having been there for the reveal close to three years ago, and progressing seemingly slower than Lance Stroll on a formation lap, impatience is growing. We’re ready. We want another sim racing platform on the scene, pushing the boundaries. Competition improves the breed.
But, Rennsport must start delivering, sooner rather than later, to stay relevant.
GeneRally 2
Platforms: PC
Release date: TBC 2025
Top-down racer GeneRally 2 has a plethora of community-created tracks to install alongside rose-tinted visuals that knowingly nod to the 2002 original.
One element is missing, however – online multiplayer.
A tiny developer for a tiny title, Curious Chicken Games has been prototyping and testing its network-connected modes extensively, and once this is in the public domain and working, we hope for a fully fledged release.
Le Mans Ultimate
Platforms: PC
Release date: TBC 2025
Now that the LMGT3 cars have begun their rollout, the first Season Pass is nearing its conclusion, co-op mode has been launched and hosting custom servers is finally possible, Le Mans Ultimate has the required core functionality it needs to succeed.
A few tracks, fewer bugs, an increased number of leagues, and, hey presto, one of the best racing simulators out there should be ready to go. Version 1.0, hit us like an LMDh hybrid system: we’re ready.
Except… this all hinges on parent company Motorsport Games finding a buyer, as do any console ports. It’s a shame to start sounding all funereal or like self-proclaimed ‘money-saving expert’ Martin Lewis in an otherwise hyperbolic preview article, but for LMU to prosper, there must be further investment.
We have everything crossed that this promising driving sim makes it.
And more…
There are several other games that fall into this early access category, such as stylised time-racer #DRIVE Rally, which is expected to be complete and on consoles within the next 12 months, plus throwback Old School Rally.
Then there’s the open-world driving game Underground Garage, which allows you to build a car akin to a Car Mechanic Simulator. You can then drive, or walk, around the area. It seems more than a bit rough around the edges, but it is at least… different.
Oh, and if you’re a hardcore PC-only sim racing fan who thinks we’ve missed nascent Argentinian racer PISTA Motorsport – we have deliberately. That’s not scheduled to leave Early Access until 2026.
Expected
Next up is a series of games that either only have tentative release windows, or haven’t even been announced yet. Here are five games we’d bet our graphics card on appearing soon.
EA SPORTS F1 25
Platforms: PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PC (Expected)
Release date: TBC
Image: F1 24 shown
The yearly official Formula 1 driving game is not going to take a year off next season. You better believe that an EA SPORTS F1 25 is on the way from developer Codemasters.
F1 24 was a bit of a lull, and while we don’t have anything confirmed, we’d be shocked if the two-year cadence for the Braking Point story mode isn’t continued for the next instalment. Evolution, not revolution should be the name of the game here.
Wreckfest 2
Platforms: PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PC
Release date: TBC 2025
Those crazy Finns at Bugbear have captivated us for the last seven years through the original Wreckfest’s early access development and post-release support. Lawnmover destruction derbies, combine harvester racing, a driveable sofa and the complete melee make for enjoyable weekend multiplayer sessions with friends.
The original had it all, and so Wreckfest 2 is highly anticipated. We want to know more – but sadly, not even a release window has been provided. We’re guessing 2025.
All we know so far is that it should feature even more bone-crunching damage, revised physics, local split-screen and enhanced customisation. Count us in.
Project Motor Racing
Platforms: PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PC
Release date: TBC 2025
Don’t worry folks, former Project CARS totem Ian Bell is back to save the sim racing industry!
Only, of course, this is more than one person. Bell may be responsible for gathering the team, plus pulling together the vision and big deals, but this upcoming sim racing game for PC and console is also being published, and sharing technology with, the Farming Simulator creators GIANTS Software.
And while that may sound slightly off-the-wall, the graphics engine used in this year’s Farm Sim title produces spectacular results. Paired with a custom physics engine created by many of the original Project CARS team and it’s got us very excited.
Oh, and the Lister Storm. That’s an extra brownie point there immediately.
We’re tentatively placing Project Motor Racing in the 2025 window, which was initially touted. But we wouldn’t be surprised, or upset if this slid into 2026. Take your time, please – better to be ready with something genre-defining than another Project CARS 3…
Wreckreation
Platforms: PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PC
Release date: TBC
You thought this rampaging, community-driven, smash-a-thon from a team of ex-Burnout developers was dead, right?
So did we, but a recent line-up of upcoming games from its publisher THQ Nordic still listed Wreckreation, the follow-up to two Danger Zone games and Dangerous Driving.
We saw Wreckreation in person at Gamescom two years ago, and being able to create tracks with your friends in real-time as they drive along them is unique. But… it’s been M.I.A. since then. Surely, in 2025, it’s finally time to come back up for air?
MotoGP 25
Platforms: PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PC (expected)
Release date: 2025 TBC
Image: MotoGP 24 shown
A new year, a new official MotoGP game – but of course!
The premier motorcycle grand prix championship has an agreement with game developer Milestone – also creating the aforementioned Monster Energy Supercross 25 – that runs until 2026.
That means MotoGP 25 is a mere formality. Last season’s main feature added a career mode rider market for the very first time but removed the ability to create your own team. Maybe next time it has both? That would be welcome.
While we’re on bikes, keep an eye on KT Racing. The first of its new official motocross franchise, MXGP 24, released last November, so there will presumably be a follow-up MXGP 25 at some point.
F1 Manager 2025
One game we sadly won’t be seeing in the coming year, seemingly, is a fourth F1 Manager game by Frontier Developments.
Following a promising F1 Manager 2022, 2023 didn’t move the needle far enough. 2024, however, was the franchise’s apogee, so it’s a shame that this is set to be the final instalment.
It seems like a combination of a yearly release schedule, shareholder satisfaction, sales numbers and licencing fees combined to form a Marty Byrde-style web of complex issues, and a serious case of Arrested Development…
Keep an eye on…
Time for a sojourn, now, into the realm of unannounced games that we know are on the way. These could arrive in 2026 or even 2027, but we’re willing to say that at least we will start to hear more about these in 2025 and we hope at least one releases.
And we begin with the decimation of Forza Horizon developer Playground games. Several high-profile team members have departed the project in recent years.
Lighthouse Games
Perhaps none more so than original Playground co-founder Gavin Raeburn who left to found a new company called Lighthouse Games.
Several Forza Horizon developers from both Microsoft and former third-party support team Sumo Digital have joined the project, which according to job listings appears to be a multi-platform open-world game using Unreal Engine with at least some element of driving. It also has backing from Tencent.
Maverick Games
Then there are former Forza Horizon Creative Director Mike Brown, Senior Producer Tom Butcher and former senior Sumo Digital member Harinder Sangha, who are now at startup Maverick Games. It recently secured a publishing deal with Amazon for its… open-world, but narrative-led, AAA driving game.
Forza Horizon 6?
As for Forza Horizon – well, Forza Horizon 5 will continue to be supported, and do we think there’s going to be a Forza Horizon 6? Definitely. But when? Well, there are no guarantees yet.
Stellar Entertainment
UK porting and remaster experts Stellar Entertainment, purveyors of the superlative Burnout Paradise Remastered, teased in January a new project that could be interpreted as a racing title. Let’s see.
Funselektor
To wrap up this speculation section, let’s look at Funselektor’s next project. Creator Dune Casu, responsible for Absolute Drift, Art of Rally and Golden Lap, appears to be teasing his next project on social media, and it looks like an off-road exploration driving game. Keep your eyes peeled.
DLC and ports
Let’s end with some updates and DLC for our favourite existing simulations and games. There are a lot of new titles to look forward to, but EA SPORTS WRC will receive additional stages and cars through DLC, although at the time of publication, we do not know which vehicles, yet.
Then there’s simulation behemoth iRacing, which has announced several tracks that are still in the works, such as Australia’s The Bend and the Miami Grand Prix venue. Plus, then there’s its expanded relationship with Ferrari – what could that mean?
Open-world games The Crew Motorfest and Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown are also set to receive fresh content throughout the year, while perennial Traxion favourite RaceRoom will launch its licenced drift content near the beginning of the year. Automobilista 2 and BeamNG.drive will undoubtedly create more weird and wonderful additions, too.
Popular open-world mobile game CarX Street was ported to PC in 2024 – surprisingly successfully, too. We hope that this will hit consoles within the next year, alongside a PC and console conversion of its CarX Drift Racing 3 title. Finally, smash-em-up Trail Out should finally make its way to PS5 this year.
Which new racing games are you looking forward to playing in 2025? Let us know in the comments below.
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