What's Your Most Played Racing Sim in 2022?

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What's your most played sim of 2022?

  • Assetto Corsa

    Votes: 1,053 41.2%

  • Assetto Corsa Competizione

    Votes: 378 14.8%

  • Automobilista

    Votes: 20 0.8%

  • Automobilista 2

    Votes: 365 14.3%

  • BeamNG.Drive

    Votes: 39 1.5%

  • CarX Drift Racing Online

    Votes: 5 0.2%

  • DiRT Rally

    Votes: 3 0.1%

  • DiRT Rally 2.0

    Votes: 37 1.4%

  • F1 22

    Votes: 72 2.8%

  • Forza Motorsport 7

    Votes: 5 0.2%

  • Gran Turismo 7

    Votes: 25 1.0%

  • Gran Turismo Sport

    Votes: 3 0.1%

  • iRacing

    Votes: 128 5.0%

  • Monster Energy Supercross

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • MotoGP 22

    Votes: 4 0.2%

  • MX Bikes

    Votes: 1 0.0%

  • MXGP 2021

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Project Cars

    Votes: 2 0.1%

  • Project Cars 2

    Votes: 20 0.8%

  • RaceRoom Racing Experience

    Votes: 73 2.9%

  • rFactor

    Votes: 10 0.4%

  • rFactor 2

    Votes: 257 10.1%

  • RIDE 4

    Votes: 2 0.1%

  • TrackDayR

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • WRC 10

    Votes: 3 0.1%

  • WRC Generations

    Votes: 14 0.5%

  • Other (specify in comments)

    Votes: 34 1.3%
  • Total voters
    2,553
The year is slowly coming to an end. 2022 has been a year of many ups and downs. Both overall and in sim racing. So let's take a look back at what everyone's year has been like. Today, we're asking the question: What's your most played sim in 2022?

DISCLAIMER: Before anyone complains, this is a large list. It includes some titles that may not be considered "hardcore sims". But that doesn't matter. We are all racing fans at heart. So let's stay united.

With that disclaimer out of the way, let me tell you a bit about my personal sim racing experiences this year.

I have come to the conclusion that my time spent on the rig has decreased compared to 2020 and 2021. Out of the games I played this year, RaceRoom takes the crown. But I have barely touched it in the 2nd half of the year. The reason is simple: the league I raced in now switched to ACC.

Therefore, my 2nd most played sim is ACC since that switch. And there I have been mostly streaming the races. So all of my ACC "seat time" is actually commentating time.

rFactor 2 is 3rd on my list of sims. And the playtime was almost exclusively in Q1 of 2022.

Personally, I just hope I get a bit more free time in 2023 to do what I love once again: Racing.

What have your experiences been this year? Tell us a bit about your sim racing story in 2022 in the comments below!
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Motorsports and Maker-stuff enthusiast. Part time jack-of-all-trades. Owner of tracc.eu, a sim racing-related service provider and its racing community.

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DND said:
I'm glad I waited. It was a real toss-up between this and the dishwasher simulator I have been keeping an eye on.
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Lol, and the power washing simulator and gas station simulator.

Shovas said:
Why GTR1 and not say GTR2?
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I felt like re-visiting GTR1 but of course GTR2 is much better especially with the brilliant work from the HQ and Anniversary mod packs.
 
carlton999
Assetto Corsa. I played rF2 so little that I uninstalled it for taking up too much space on my hard drive. I played GTR2 more than I played rF2. I have an original copy of GTR2 and never connected it to Steam. My biggest gripe about Race Room and ACC is that they are not very Mod friendly. I love making skins.
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Andrew_WOT said:
Steam stats on the other hand are, so is representation of titles in e-sport or events like SimExpo, where the most used titles where AC and ACC and not a single booth using AMS2
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Of course a Expo chooses the most popular titles to show their hardware on. It's all about making sales and why would you try to display a statistically less popular title to showcase your hardware that you want to sell? It's a risk so completely understandable that you didn't see AMS2 there.
Cote Dazur said:
ACC has 10 times the amount of players AMS2 has.
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You two both prove my initial thought again. Which i cannot prove because I don't have the sales figures of Automobilista 2. But I honestly believe (you are both of course allowed to fully disagree with me) that the large majority of the sim racers outside racedepartment simply don't know(enough) about of Automobilista 2 or heard about it once or twice in a negative form from one of the most popular YouTubers (Jimmy something that never played it after version 1.1 or something) and forgot about it already. So they never bought it for that reason. On racedepartment each update get posted, people try it again and it slowly grows because of that. It also generates some extra small sales around the racedepartment crowd. This while outside racedepartment the game is sadly largely unknown. I expect that the sales statistics of Reiza compared to Kunos are shockingly low because of its terrible launch and terrible marketing and because of the tradition of many sim racer to keep stuck to what they know and works well. Without hard sales statistics this is difficult to prove for both sides, who is right or not, so sales statistics are welcome here.

@Andrew_WOT the "all serious simracers" remark was a wink to the racedepartment crowd of course :) I know that there are also serious sim racers outside racedepartment, you don't have to explain that to me :)
 
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gamma123152 said:
Of course a Expo chooses the most popular titles to show their hardware on. It's all about making sales and why would you try to display a statistically less popular title to showcase your hardware that you want to sell? It's a risk so completely understandable that you didn't see AMS2 there.

You two both prove my initial thought again. Which i cannot prove because I don't have the sales figures of Automobilista 2. But I honestly believe (you are both of course allowed to fully disagree with me) that the large majority of the sim racers outside racedepartment simply don't know(enough) about of Automobilista 2 or heard about it once or twice in a negative form from one of the most popular YouTubers (Jimmy something that never played it after version 1.1 or something) and forgot about it already. So they never bought it for that reason. On racedepartment each update get posted, people try it again and it slowly grows because of that. It also generates some extra small sales around the racedepartment crowd. This while outside racedepartment the game is sadly largely unknown. I expect that the sales statistics of Reiza compared to Kunos are shockingly low because of its terrible launch and terrible marketing and because of the tradition of many sim racer to keep stuck to what they know and works well. Without hard sales statistics this is difficult to prove for both sides, who is right or not, so sales statistics are welcome here.

@Andrew_WOT the "all serious simracers" remark was a wink to the racedepartment crowd of course :) I know that there are also serious sim racers outside racedepartment, you don't have to explain that to me :)
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I can confirm that I've found several hardcore racers (using ACC and iracing) and big motorsports fans that will not follow online magazines or YTers totally unaware of AMS2. I'm sure there's many.
 
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Pete Conway said:
I'm sure I remember from 'No Grip' days when Durge Driven would post piccies of GTR2/GTL with 100 cars on various tracks including Nordschleife, personally I have 'many' dozens of cars on various tracks with races of an hour or more, with an i5 3400 and 1050 card, my favourite by far.
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I wish I could catch the NoGrip days of GTR2, seemed like the go to source of good stuff. Thankfully now we have other new sources that try to be what NoGrip once was.
 
VirtuaIceMan
I had some god awful asset swap arcade racing game at my most played on Steam this yeah (Race Maniacs), as I was trying to unlock F1 cars in it for a YouTube video!
 
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MadDriver11 said:
I can confirm that I've found several hardcore racers (using ACC and iracing) and big motorsports fans that will not follow online magazines or YTers totally unaware of AMS2. I'm sure there's many.
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The video that is constantly playing everytime I open this website is perhaps the first serious piece of advertisement I have seen from Reiza on AMS2. They don't pay YouTubers for promotion, and this is how you get someone like Jimmie to label it as simcade and disregard it. Which nowadays sends a more powerful message to the crowd than what the product actually is.
 
Peter Kerényi
Ah, a thread where some sim comparisons are "legal". To be honest 2022 has been my least sim focused year in a long long time.

AC is still there with awesome support, but there are things in the core of it (mainly) AI that cannot be solved with flashy cars, tracks, rain, effects, etc.

ACC just got... boring. When the AI lines on some of the new tracks are bad and you cannot even fix it via mods... ah. Where's the new Zandvoort, missing Magny Cours, hell even the updated Catalunya which would probably take like a week to update. I really really hope they are hard at work at AC2 and it's going to be a hell of a sim.

AMS2 would be the 3rd on my list, but what makes it strange is still there even though there were lots of improvements made. Think of it when CGI was at the state when it looked real but something was off and you weren't even sure what's off but you felt it. That's what I feel with AMS2. Still looking very much forward to further development, latest dev update was great from a content side but I need a bit more to get the Season Pass.

GT7 is something I want to get into more, I have played it on PS4 but I am getting a PS5, so I want to give it a new go with better everything. Loading times really ruined the experience on the PS4 it should be much better with 5.

F1 is probably my favourite AI experience so it does get some playtime, but it's basically the same thing every year with marginal improvements (evetually after a couple patches... duh) so it's not something to write about too much. Still very enjoyable with a wheel.

rF2 is in a state where I am afraid to spend money on it. Content parity - quality wise, AI improvements are needed very much to convince me. Too bad because some of its new content seem really cool, but I know I don't enjoy the experience itself. Did a reinstall a few weeks ago, with DLC car on DLC track, single class race, it was still all over the place with pile ups etc.

R3E is something that also has lots of interesting content but I haven't been playing it for years now mainly due to stuttering. Did a reinstall, the performance is butter smooth in Vulkan (unofficial via DXVK version 2, released not long ago) on my system. But everything around it just got so outdated that I gave up on it. AI was terrible as well so that made the decision for me to not invest time and money into it.

I also tried DR2.0 again but some of the graphics are just too outdated, especially interior details incl. dash displays. That and the tarmac physics take me out of the immersion. And the 100+GB install size does not help either.

PC2 is still installed on my PC, ready for the annual Daytona multiclass AI racing when the real race takes place. But the content is getting really outdated now, and those sounds... ah well.

All in all not really satisfied with the current state of simracing, playing lots of other genres nowadays. I fire up a sim from time to time but they don't seem to keep my attention. Hopefully it's going to get better. PC gaming in general sucks as well with hardware getting extremely expensive, games being unoptimized and having stuttering issues. I am really looking forward to the PS5. Maybe it becomes my main gaming machine until I can upgrade my 5700 XT for a sane price.
 
2stains
AMS2 if you add the beta to the main but rF2 has the highest number.

Oops i read the title better, i have a even split between AMS2 and rF2 in 2022
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Andrew_WOT said:
Looks like R3E gets the least love.
Wake up call for Sector3 Studios, move all that great content to a proper graphics engine.
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I would play Raceroom, but an update broke it for me in VR so I can't play it now at all. And I know a few other people with high end kit who now can't play in VR as well. I logged a ticket but had no response. Shame, as I bought a lot of the content and really liked it.

iRacing probably wins for me, but only because I only discovered RF2 in November when LFM picked it up. Now RF2 is all I'm playing pretty much, the newest content looks amazing in VR and the game feels much more alive than any other sim to me. LFM schedule for season 9 is so good I'd play all the series if I could, but as it stands, the BTCC content is what is drawing me in. I own a fair bit of iRacing content and still have an active account, but its not got the pull for me of RF2.

AMS2 I have tried a few times and really like, but there is no purpose to the game for me ( no structured online etc ). I reckon if they work on that AMS2 could compete with RF2 for my time for sure.
 

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