Assetto Corsa EVO

The game is in active early access, so that's what ill be basing my review off. First of all, with the foundation KUNOS has built with this game, i have no doubt, that this will be the best racing sim out there eventually. The car physics, the tracks, the cars, the sounds, everything, makes for this game to be great. The mixed reviews come from that sentence alone. Its not currently ''great'', hence early access, the roadmap plastered as you load the game, and the discounted price tag. You're buying an investment. That being said, before buying this game, the reviews spoke imo, too harshly on the game. Right now even in EA, its still a load of fun. And as mentioned before the roadmap is pretty jam packed. The next update we get another haul of cars and tracks, including Spa. I myself, with 2 1/2 half hours played, with a 4070 super and a 7700 on the highest possible settings get around 110 fps, w/ no encountered bugs. I trust Kunos and the team keep pushing out updates to get this game where its destined to be, and ofc the community's modding support.

Let them cook. This game has lots of promise. It's getting better and better with each update.

It`s still in early days of development but this game gives me best feeling of driving a car i ever had.

the game runs well for an early release, but a bit more content from the beginning would have been nice.

every time i start the game have to setup everything from zero, don't have the patience anymore

Assetto Corsa EVO is alright at the moment. It's still a work in progress, which you can definitely tell. I mainly purchased the game to experience the open world map, which is not released as of right now. At this stage, I wouldn't recommend the game until we get some updates. I can't wait for the open world map.

The driving itself feels absolutely amazing. For me there is no game that feels better than this one. As for the rest. The game is very barebone now. But the driving itself is more than enough for me to recommend this. If you have the money buy it allready, if not, then wait until it has more content to offer.

the vr support was decent at launch. didnt run amazingly but you COULD race in vr. every update since has made the game literally unplayable in vr

ive played beamng and asseto corsa on xbox so im not really a expert but this game as of v. 0.2.2 is absolutely amazing and the best sim racer ive played.

Right, so I think it's time I wrote a review even after only 2 hours of gameplay, it's stellar, absolutely fantastic, that's coming from a guy who's sunk thousands of ours into Assetto Corsa and ACC, having done so much racing and hot laps, but obviously it's not fully ready to go (that's why it's in Early Access you knob heads), so although it's playable and feels good, if you decide to buy and play the game don't expect too much with it only being version 0.2.2, there's still a long road ahead so take the opportunity to play the game as it is and send feedback to the devs, that's the whole reason why it's early access. Basically, don't be afraid to play it based on illogical reviews saying it's but will get better, just play it for yourself and if you don't like it now, just keep it and let updates roll out, but if you're unwilling to do that, just refund it and wait for version 1.0.0 to release.

After the graphics got patched and the game became actually playable, the game is really good now

First and most importantly this game has a realistic physical connection to the road that Ive waited for since Pole Position in 1982, lol. The car feels heavy and as if it has mass that interacts correctly with the tires and the road. This has better "feel" than any sim Ive ever played even at this super early stage. The sound is also top notch and better than anything Ive heard outside of reality. The UI is super clean and a joy to use as well. I very much look forward to this game being completed. Thats the only real problem. Its still far away from being done. Being extra super early alpha software isnt new or unique on Steam thats for sure so to me its not the end of the World, lol. All that said Im going to refund but I know I will buy it when its further along in development than it is. Its more a function that I have AMS2 and LMU running so good in VR its hard to drag me away with software this early in dev. It is very playable in VR if I didnt have other options that were so good. I think this is a great start.

After 100h of use AC EVO i hope we Can become more Variations for H Pattern, and Please integrate a Option to Change the Driver Seat Position from Right to Left or Left to Right. And i miss a mini Map and a Car Data Sheet. The Start from This Early Accses is an Amazing EVOLUTION The Physiks from the Cars, the FFB, Sounds an Thripple Screen Support is in Perfection. Please continue working just like this. THANK YOU KUNOS and 505

Love the settings possibilities of the game, you can set the car to what ever setting , what works for you the feeling of the cars are a pleasure and driving them feels natural, i can't wait for the next udate !!

Love this. The game has a few quirks yet, but the sound and the play is great. I have a motion rig, the DOFReality H3 and I've not felt another game like it. Very immersive and realistic. Looking forward to the full release

very good my first proper sim racing game the only bug that i have encountered is a loading bug wear i can load in to practise. Overall very good game.

It's still a WIP. With that said, I enjoy what it offers at the moment and eagerly await updates.

Not until they fix the constant crashing. You can't complete a race weekend when the game crashes halfway through lap 3.

Great driving but very poor performance. No driving sim has ever been close to this laggy. I have to drop the settings to low, and then even barley get 60fps, also while this game looks much worse than any other game in the genre, while using those settings. For reference I can drive ACC on 150+ fps on high/medium settings, and that looks much better than what i get for 60fps at low in this game. So for me this is very unenjoyable.

For now, I do not recommend to buy A.C.E, at least for now. No multiplayer, no free roam, no mods... there's no real goal. The game feels empty and hard to apprehend especially for beginners, updates arrive slowly which makes me wonder about evo's future (~4 months between 0.1 and 0.2). At this point, just keep your money instead of investing in a promise.

I bought this in the hope that I could at least try it, but I should have avoided for now. Performance is absolutely horrible. The game launches and runs at literally 1 FPS according to the Steam overlay. I can barely get past the initial start screens and cannot even enter my name on the main landing page. I have an 14700 and 4080s, this shouldn't be happening. I'll keep an eye out and try again later I guess. I really want to support the game development, but this is just absolutely unplayable for me.

Where do I even remotely begin with this? The game has promise but under delivers heavily with the lack of content that is currently in the build and what has been shown from Kunos. The simulation when I played it was completely stellar and fun to drive but sadly thats where the pro's of this end. This game should've never been released in the state that it is and should've been released in a complete state, not this hodge podge that they shipped. I'll try it again in a year but to say Kunos dropped the ball on this would be a complete understatement.

beaucoup trop de problème pour le moment, on passe son temps a faire et refaire ses réglages sans jamais jouer.

Completely unplayable in VR with a system that slays the recommended specs...

The game promised the Nordschleife and an open-world environment around it. In practice, we receive small updates with massive delays, yet somehow there’s still time for bizarre promotional videos. Absurd. There was supposed to be detailed tuning, but now you can't even check engine parameters for individual cars—only some dumb indicators straight from Forza. On the positive side, the FFB and graphics are good, as is the functionality of cockpit elements (though often merely cosmetic, unfortunately). There are very few new civilian cars, while new GT3s and similar vehicles keep appearing—probably because they're easier to make, given they already existed in ACC.

THIS IS AN EARLY ACCESS GAME!!! Do not buy it with the expectation that there will be a lot of content and perfectly smooth and sweet operation. That being said I really really love this game and I can easily see it's incredible potential. The car physics and driving feel are outstanding and the realism of factors such as tyre pressure, weather, TC, ABS and other things make it really an amazing experience. The content currently in the game as of the time of this review is limited however the missions that you are given are pretty difficult to 100% and can be a really good challenge for the beginner, intermediate, or even advanced driver. I recommend this game to anyone who wants a realistic and raw racing/track driving experience. I can't wait to see the updates and improvements that are to come for this game.

My PC have settings to play this game ez, but i spend 5h trying play this and ALWAYS crash and close while loading the tracks, i tried put very low/low or off to all graphics options to reduce use of ram but with 16gb is impossible play this. If you have 32gb or more maybe you can play this, if you have 16gb, idk.

bought knowing it was early access, but i didn't know it would be completely unplayable. had to disable my antivirus to get the game to launch, then once it did launch the game would crash whenever i tried to start a race or get into a car

I was actually really hyped to try out this game. Bought it after I had finalised my plan to buy a pc. I finally built the pc a few days back and immediately downloaded the game. As soon as I open the game I'm greeted with missing textures. Confused, I closed the game, only for it to freeze my pc. This happens every single time.

How do the devs release a driving game where the force feedback doesn't work on the most popular Wheal and Pedals, Logitech G29. is beyond me. I mention that my device works fine on any other game, even Assetto Corsa 1. Updated software, everything.

Driving experience is better here than in Competizione I experience no lag between rotating the wheel and seeing it being turned on the screen But optimization is better in Competizione as of today My lower range PC struggles even on low quality settings So, Kunos, I hope you can afford to optimise your fantastic game a little more for folks like me Amazing job so far Probably best racing sim ever

This is still a bare bones sim in many ways.The current content is quality but not enough yet for me to spend a long time in it. To be clear it is not bad, I just find the two issues for me are the lack of cars and tracks. Obviously this goes hand in hand with being in early access.I feel the UI needs refining too but this I guess could be reworked on full release. I had no issue setting up the steering wheel and pedals. I do fully expect improvements as the road map reaches its various milestones.

Most unrealistic feeling driving sim I've ever played. FFB is awful. Feels like a gen 1 xbox arcade game. What a let down after playing ACC and AMS2. Hopefully they fix it by the time it comes out of early access. But it is basically July 2025 so this is not looking good.

Very promising to be the new gold standard again ! :) I really don't understand all the negatives reviews. If I remenber the first AC in early access got only one car the Lotus Elise and one track "Magione" (and I was hotlaping hours and hours with only one car and one track because of the fabulous, shocking realistic physics fot that time). There's a lot more here and with already an oustanding quality. The last realease v2.2 fixed for me all the stutters and it's now really smooth (had to disable experimental shadows - between 90- 150 fps with a lots of stuff on ultra on 2K screen with 7800X3D - RX 9070 XT - 32 Go) Yes it's very demanding on hardware but AC was very demanding too when in EA and when it launched. Only after years and years of GPU update can we now play it maxed out and it still very very good for it's age and i think AC Evo is gonna be the same, will be still incredible in ten years. Sure it's not perfect and everybodies want more content, online, free roam., more adjustability for wheel/brake gamma/curve, adjustable onscreen info display like in AC and a ton of others things ... and i'm sure there 'll be all of this ! Just patience. It's only in 0.2, far from the final release. How can people be so rude for negative reviews for this futur jewel and praise other games with shitt.y physics that i don't want to name here to not to be rude in turn ;) I hope there will be Magione and Hermanos Rodriguez historical and actual :P

The mechanic and sound is spectacular. Wait to play the full version soon

Very good and accurate driving. Beautiful cars and tracks.

the physics are not there the game runs like shit even tho it's a beta dam this bad

Not now. Just no content and nothing to do in the game right now.

the idea of this company doing the same stuff they did in past is beyond me or anyone living in the 2020s. probably should of just not of released this game the way it is. its like they our not trying to make games good anymore

Once again devs ignoring controllers. If they dont intent on giving a proper controller experience idk why they bother implementing it in the first place ?)

[h1]I really wanted to avoid writing a negative review of this game, but in the end, it has to be done. The developer of this game is a studio with vast experience. They’ve released 2 successful games, tons of DLCs, and they know what they’re doing. Or do they actually [b]know?[/b][/h1] [h2]1. A Rough Start[/h2] The early access launch was poor. Online mode didn’t work, tons of bugs, crashes, people couldn’t even launch the game. What has changed since then? Surprisingly, online mode now works. The bugs are still there, although I have to admit they’ve fixed some. People still have trouble launching the game to some extent. [h2]2. Updates[/h2] Initially, the roadmap had 6 phases + the release. Currently, it's 8 phases + release. The average gap between each phase has been around 2 months. Let me remind you that even other early access games, and titles like GTA 6, have clearer deadlines. I suspect they overestimated their goals, but more on that in point 4. [h2]3. Communication with players [i](Important from an early access perspective)[/i][/h2] There’s simply [b]none[/b]. Only for a short while, Stefano Casillo [i](CTO of Kunos Simulazioni)[/i] was talking to players. Now – radio silence. Why is that? That’s coming in the next point. [h2]4. Developers’ (and players’) attitude[/h2] In my opinion, The developers of this game give the impression that communication with players is not their priority. The only thing we get is vague statements like [i]"yeah, the update will come next month, but we don't know when, so just keep waiting"[/i]. No clear dates or timelines. No communication, [b] the disappearance of the roadmap from the Steam page[/b], they’re making tutorial videos on YouTube about driving on tracks (which I think is a cool idea, but not in the current state of the game). It seems they avoid openly communicating potential delays to ACE, possibly to maintain the public image of a perfect, flawless game that Kunos is trying to push right now – whether through posts on X about this being the most realistic racing sim ever made, or by organizing events at real-world races [b]where new content is sometimes made available at events before reaching those who purchased the game in early access[/b], making tutorials and generally [b]behaving as if the game is already several months past its 1.0 release[/b]. And what about the players? It feels like some players are uncritically supportive of the developers' actions, despite the visible issues. Where there’s true freedom of speech, you can find factual criticism of this game. But where the speech is limited, people rave about 3 tracks, terrible VR performance, and poor multi-screen support. There are people who would probably even cheer and applaud if Kunos announced they were ending development on ACE — that’s how blindly loyal they are to the studio. [b]At least on Steam, you can find honest comments about the state of this game.[/b] [h2]Is it worth buying?[/h2] If you're thinking of buying this game, I recommend you pick up Le Mans Ultimate, F1 25, WRC Generations, EA WRC, or even go back to ACC or modded AC. Why? Because there you won’t be as disappointed as with this [strike]game[/strike]. That’s right, Assetto Corsa EVO is [b][u]NOT A GAME[/u][/b], it’s a standalone DLC for the original Assetto Corsa, more like a remaster. Now you might ask, "Why did you buy it? Just refund it." And I’ll answer: Take a look at the game’s description and ask yourself – doesn’t it sound convincing? [i]Assetto Corsa EVO pushes the boundaries of realism even further, the very realism that made the franchise one of the most popular driving simulations of the last decade.[/i] With that mindset, I truly believed Kunos wanted to create such a game. But now I know – they either won’t deliver it, or it’ll take far longer than anyone anticipated. If I had to sum this game up briefly, I’d describe it like this: [i]A separate add-on to the original AC, playable but with serious issues, developers in no rush, and pride that takes your breath away. If you enjoy simcade and don’t expect anything better than NFS Heat, this game is for you. If you expect something new, groundbreaking – look elsewhere, because you won’t find it here and you’ll be disappointed.[/i]. In three emotes: 😠😔😘

buggy mess right now. crashes 95 percent of the time i launch a race using triple screens

Cannot even start the car on PC. Not built for this system, maybe, but still sold for it and no refund available.

This game has lack of contents. the company that made the game should take responsibility and make a complete game. It's been over half a year since it was released, but it's still early access and you can't play it properly, but they're taking your money. smh..

killed off modding + minimal to no improvements outside of graphics.

Big improvements over initial pre-release. Still have to fix issues getting DD1 Fanatec to wrok w/out a lot of hassle but VR has improved. VR still needs a lot of work however. I run a 9800X3d and a 5090 so why is GT7 so much better in VR?? on a standard original PS5? I get GT7 is optimized for PS5 but the cost of my machine compared to a very high end PC? I'm really hoping they do better with VR in the final release than they did with ACC. Triples on 2k looks awesome though and the sound and driving is a lot of fun for a pre-release.

Id say so far so good love the sound of the Cars best sound of any game I've played

I can play with a regular controller now. I bought this ahead of time before I buy my racing sim.

keeps crashing, idk why, cant even get pass the menu

no multiplayer terrible UI AI's behave strangely so far it's crap