Every Project CARS game, ranked
All 2 Project CARS games we hold, spanning 2015 to 2017: 2 ranked by the GamingPickz Score and plotted below, the rest listed in release order so nothing in the series is missing. Together they carry 32,867 Steam reviews.
Where to start
- For the best-reviewed: Project CARS 2 (GamingPickz Score 7.4), the highest-rated entry we can score.
- For canon order: begin with Project CARS (2015) and follow the release-order timeline below.
The Project CARS games on the grid
Compare the whole catalogueThe same 2 games, plotted rather than listed. The two axes below are the ones the ranking is built from, so a game sitting high and right is a game the formula placed near the top. Change either axis to see the field a different way. Where we hold a publisher wordmark, the game is drawn as its mark rather than a dot.
2 games have both
Axes are fitted to these 2 games rather than the full 0 to 100 scale, because a filtered list shares a narrow band and would otherwise sit in one corner. End values are marked. A point on the left edge is the lowest of thesegames, not a low score.
Players. The share of Steam reviews marked positive, pulled toward the catalogue average in proportion to how few reviews stand behind it. A game with 200 reviews moves a long way toward the average; one with 200,000 barely moves at all. Without this a title sitting at 100 percent on nine reviews outranks Half-Life 2 at 98 percent on 278,000.
Popularity. A blend of two things that are not the same. Audience is how many people wrote a Steam review, which is a floor on how many played it. Reach is how many language editions of Wikipedia document the game, which is cultural footprint rather than sales. A game can score high on one and low on the other: a huge free-to-play title has audience without reach, and a landmark console exclusive has reach without a Steam audience at all. Where both exist they are averaged; where only one does, that one carries it.
- PC
Every point links to that game's entry. The value map and the reception map are fixed views of the same data.
How positions are decided
No paid placement, no favouritism, live third-party data
- Placed by the published method, not by us. Every coordinate is computed from the axis definitions and weights printed on this site. Nobody moves a point. See the axes.
- Nothing here is paid for. No sponsored placements, no promoted slots, no arrangement of any kind affects a position. If that ever changes it will be labelled and sit outside the ranking.
- No favouritism, including our own. The 16 games we have written full reviews of are scored by exactly the same formula as the other 1,510, from the same third-party inputs, and they land where it puts them. Our own opinion of a game does not enter its coordinates.
- A position is not an endorsement. It says how a game was received and what it costs, not that we recommend it. Where we do recommend something, it carries a written review with a name on it.
- Fetched from live third-party data. Player sentiment from Steam, critic aggregates as published on store pages, prices checked hourly, attention from Wikipedia. Each figure carries its source and the date it was read, and we do not adjust any of them.
2 best Project CARS games, ranked
Ordered by GamingPickz Score. Every figure links back to the source that produced it.
Project CARS 2 at a glance Released 2017 Studio Slightly Mad Studios Player sentiment 81% positive of 18,429 Critics 84/100 Price Not listed Steam Deck unsupported Install size 50 GB Accessibility 0 declared features Raw 81% shrinks to 81.1 on 18,429 reviews, then blends with the 84 critic aggregate, giving 7.4.
Worth checking first- Valve rates it Unsupported on the Steam Deck.
Project CARS at a glance Released 2015 Studio Slightly Mad Studios Player sentiment 79% positive of 14,438 Critics 83/100 Price Not listed Steam Deck playable Install size 25 GB Accessibility 1 declared feature Raw 79% shrinks to 79.1 on 14,438 reviews, then blends with the 83 critic aggregate, giving 7.2.
Best and worst entry
The best-received Project CARS game we can score is Project CARS 2 at 7.4. The lowest is Project CARS at 7.2, a 0.2-point spread across the series. The GamingPickz Score is a composite of player sentiment, critics and popularity, computed the same way for every game.
On a Steam Deck
Valve's own Deck compatibility rating for the Project CARS entries on Steam:
- Playable: Project CARS
- Unsupported: Project CARS 2
Platforms across the series
Where the 2 Project CARS games have landed, counting every entry we hold:
| Platform family | Entries |
|---|---|
| PC | 2 of 2 |
The Project CARS series, game by game
Every Project CARS game we hold, in release order. Each description is the game's own, from Steam where it has a listing and Wikipedia for the older entries, never ours.
- 2015
Project CARS
7.2THE ULTIMATE DRIVER JOURNEY delivers the soul of motor racing in the world’s most beautiful, authentic, and technically-advanced racing game. (Steam)
- 2017
THE ULTIMATE DRIVER JOURNEY! Project CARS 2 delivers the soul of motor racing in the world’s most beautiful, authentic, and technically-advanced racing game. (Steam)
Reception
Reception Project CARS 2 received "generally favorable" reviews from critics, according to review aggregator Metacritic . " Project Cars 2 may do a great many things exceptionally well, but it's hard to look past the mountain of gaffes that quickly pile up on and off the track. Racing, after all, is about results, not potential. (Wikipedia)
Project CARS, head to head
Two entries side by side on score, price, specs and reception:
Project CARS vs other series
How Project CARS stacks up against other series in the same genre, as a whole:
Also: Project CARS vs Sniper Elite, Project CARS vs Age of History, Project CARS vs America's Army, Project CARS vs Burnout Paradise, Project CARS vs eFootball PES, Project CARS vs Euro Truck Simulator, Project CARS vs Forza Horizon, Project CARS vs Heaven Island, Project CARS vs Jurassic World Evolution, Project CARS vs RAGE, Project CARS vs Slime Rancher, Project CARS vs Sniper, Project CARS vs Stronghold, Project CARS vs Transport Fever, Project CARS vs Universe Sandbox
Common questions
How many Project CARS games are there?
We hold 2 Project CARS games in the catalogue, released between 2015 and 2017. 2 of them carry enough Steam data to rank; the rest are listed in release order below, including console-only entries with no Steam listing.
Which Project CARS game is best?
By the GamingPickz Score, Project CARS 2 rates highest at 7.4. That is a composite of player sentiment, the critic aggregate and popularity, computed the same way for every game, not our opinion. The full ranking is above.
What order should I play the Project CARS games in?
Release order is listed below, from 2015 to 2017. For most series that is also story order, but we list dates rather than telling you a canon; the timeline is read from Wikidata.
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