Current state of SimRacing in Linux (Updated to 2022-2)

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VDrift

Vdrift: Another veteran game, based on the Vamos physics engine. With almost 15 years behind it, the game allows players to drive lots of cars through detailed scenarios based on real circuits. The physics of the game are quite realistic as it corresponds to a simulator, and of course we will be able to use it with multiple devices such as keyboards, controllers and steering wheels, including the experimental support of Force Feedback. The project that looks in certain aspects like a commercial game, is stopped, with small corrections in the code as we can see in the page of the project. As we have heard from its main creator, Joe Venzon, it would be ideal if someone resume the project or make a fork to create something completely new. Hopefully this will happen and that this remarkable project will continue and not be forgotten. More info in the VDrift website and in his project page.

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TORCS

TORCS: It is the pioneer simulator of free software. With a development with more than 20 years, and with several names behind it (RCS, ORCS and finally TORCS), in this game we can play single races, championships, endurance ... With a wide variety of cars and circuits in a completely 3D environment. The game can be controlled with a wide variety of peripherals such as gamepads, steering wheels and of course keyboard and mouse. In most of distributions we can easily install your packages (e.g. In Ubuntu with "sudo apt install torcs"), but there is also a Flatpak and of course its code on the project page if we want to compile it. You have more information on their website.

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Racer

Racer: Although this free simulator had a native version for Linux years ago, this support was abandoned and the latest version can be enjoyed perfectly thanks to Wine. It can still be found in his page.

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