Racing Game Video Games Bucket List

The open-source Elasto Mania: a motorbike, gravity, and levels the community has been drawing since 2005.

The kart sequel: same drift boost, new alien circuits and a story mode split across five teams.

Fifty-four levels of a motorbike on rubber suspension, collecting apples and touching the flower without landing on your head; one Hungarian programmer, and a time-attack scene still going.

Over six hundred cars and a rally discipline, split across two discs for arcade and simulation.

The last on the PlayStation 3, with the Moon rover and a course maker built from real terrain data.

The first with damage modelling and licensed circuits in 3D, six years in development.

Built around the FIA online championships, with a sportsmanship rating that decides who you race.

Cel-shaded smoke and wings drawn over photoreal cars, across four weeks of qualifiers in Lakeshore.

Road & Track supplied the car data and the police arrive out of oncoming traffic; the 1994 original, on 3DO first.

A launch title for the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X, with a career mode narrated by Troy Baker and Nolan North.

Race for pink slips: lose and the other driver drives your car home.

The first made after McRae died in 2007; Codemasters dedicate the game to him and build a tournament in his name.

Two Esprits on a split screen, a password between rounds and a Barry Leitch soundtrack; Magnetic Fields, 1990.

Sanctioned races by day for money, unsanctioned by night for reputation, with police who get worse after dark.

The first of the run without the official WRC licence, so every car carries an invented livery.

RECS builds a fresh course out of a typed-in code, so the trilogy closes with a track generator.

Gymkhana in an empty Battersea Power Station, and the first in the series with the McRae name off the box.

The simulation line continued, with stages that rut and break up as each car in the field runs them.

Japan as the festival map, with Tokyo as the city you drive out of; Playground Games, May 2026.

A damage model that scratches the paint before it bends the panels, and a career that promotes you between championships.

Your Stage: a pair of sliders generate a rally stage nobody has ever driven, then the co-driver reads its notes.

The first Colin McRae on the Xbox, rebuilt for the PlayStation 2 generation around a Ford Focus.

An arcade mode that finally puts a rival on the stage beside you, over the championship the first game shipped with.