Recent reviews by Dygear

Now that we are on patch 1.0.6 (hotfix 2) this game is now much more stable. Now worth getting on MacOS as well as on Windows.

It's hard to recommend this game. Given that the graphics do not correlate with what is actually going on or going to happen. There has been no real improvement since this game was released in 2022. The RNG that's under the hood controls everything but not in a natural way. The graphics will show you rapidly approaching the back of another car, and indeed sometimes clipping into them or though other track elements in Monaco with no damage to your car or their (the AI's) car. I can't tell you how many times I've flinched because I was sure that my car going into the back of the other car was going to cause the mother and father of all accidents. But sometimes there is an impossible slow down of the car, or they do touch, but that information is not put back into the game engine for it to handle.

The weekend formats are often wrong, Spa weekend is an example of this where P1 and Q1/2/3 did not happen on the Friday, SQ and Sprint Race did not happen on the Saturday. While I know that was sort of a last minute change, there is an overall problem that the game engine clearly isn't up to the task of being an F1 game at all.

All of that does not even touch the subject of all of the crashes. Null pointer exceptions happening in every gaming sessions, sometimes multiple times, is frankly unacceptable and goes to show the inexperience of the team that is making this game. They should frankly lose their license to the F1 games and someone -- anyone else -- should pick it up because the concept is solid but the execution is flawed. This coupled with the cash grab that was the last game, with the dev team leaving players with no updates around 100 days after release does not give me much hope that this game will go in the correct direction.

If you care at all about your sanity, pass on this game, unless you're a purely hard core F1 fan and need something to do over the summer break.

6 More hours in after this review, and the game and it's saved files have corrupted themselves. Got a safety car in a race that paused the game for the radio message, and now the game will not un-pause itself. I tried loading from a saved game state and all that happens is that I re-load into the safety care situation and the game is still paused. I'm unable to unpause the game at all. ~60 hours of game play will be lost. This is disappointing but hardly unexpected given it's current form. Wait a few months before picking up this game for cheap. It's acceptable if it didn't have these kinds of bugs and was at least half the price it is.

Hours and hours of fun with an open world.

Pretty cool way to learn assembly.

Fun but hard!