RiMS Racing Reviews
RiMS Racing doesn't reinvent the wheel, but it... disassembles it! A unique take on racing genre, far from perfect but with a huge potential for future releases.
Review in Italian | Read full review
RiMS Racing is an absolutely unique combo of engineer simulation and road race action and a breath of fresh air in the bike sim marketplace.
Rims Racing is a game intended primarily for motorcycle and mechanical enthusiasts, ready to spend hours on the track or in the workshop. The title stands out from the competition thanks to features that we would like to see more often in other productions of the genre. Unfortunately, light content, a fragile technical part and especially a failed AI tarnish the game experience.
Review in French | Read full review
RiMS Racing is a decent first attempt into the racing simulation genre by Raceward Studios, with good racing, a detailed career mode and attention to detail on the bikes higher than any other game in history. On the track, it's rare to find a game that gives you the feel of a bike as good as this. However, with this attention to detail comes an inherent need to feature accessibility, which the game lacks with a terrible tutorial, and a need to balance and reduce the indulgence. The biggest culprit of indulgence comes with bike customisation, which - while valuable for those who want to know about bike parts - acts as a barrier to fun and the playing of the game. This is one I recommend to fans of bikes and racing sims, just go into it warned that there are things that could get in the way of your fun.
Incredible attention to detail, an impressive physics model and a focus on the bike maintenance make RIMS Racing a strong first entry for a new IP; however, the erratic AI and self-harming design choices reduce the overall enjoyment of the game. Also, day one DLCs are never a good look.
Review in Italian | Read full review
While RiMS Racing has an enjoyable core racing mode, the addition of motorcycle maintenance and plenty of technical issues on PS5 prove a dealbreaker. If you’re looking for a realistic racing game that is still enjoyable, look elsewhere.
Some racing sims split the difference between arcade-like accessibility and realism, but RiMS Racing leans pretty hard towards the latter. While not entirely unfriendly to novices, this is a game geared towards the motorcycle enthusiast. With its emphasis on what happens in the shop between races at least as much as on the races itself, RiMS Racing has a supply-your-own-drama career mode, but excels in supplying an exacting and sometimes thrilling simulator of racing on two wheels.
RiMS Racing is a super complex motorcycle sim that provides players with a ton of depth in terms of tinkering, tuning and customising. However, once on the track, this Switch port is let down badly by performance issues that make it a frustrating, messy experience. There's definitely a market for this type of in-depth motorbike action on Nintendo's console but, in this state, it's very hard to recommend diving into this particular offering.
RiMS is a title that is overshadowed by its direct rivals and is that although it is not a comparison, there are exponents with better technical section or more content if we talk about the number of vehicles or tracks.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
Finally, it seems we have some competition in the superbike video game space. RiMS Racing is a solid start from RaceWard Studio, and they should be proud of what they have built. From here, expanding upon the bike roster should be priority number one, because we are spoiled for choice in other bike racers. Just the thought of this team getting their hands on new bikes to scan, model, and record gets me excited in much the same way as hearing Polyphony Digital does the same thing to add to their roster of cars. You just know it's going to be given the royal treatment! The parts removal/installation mechanic is neat, but a way to speed on past it would be great for those who play games to get away from the more mundane portions of a hobby. One thing is for sure: it's an invigorating time to be a superbike fan, and RiMS Racing is a great example of why.
RiMS Racing is not a perfect simulation but it is a good starting point for the future. Despite a number of limitations and problems, Raceward Studio's course is distinguished by a driving model that will be loved by some, hated by others. Overall we liked it, despite a rather challenging learning curve. The Career mode offers a good number of contents even if a greater differentiation would have been appreciated, while the possibility of mounting and disassembling your own car has exalted us a lot, especially at the beginning.
Review in Italian | Read full review
RiMS Racing has a lot of good ideas, but ends up being very disappointing for players who thought it would be an alternative to RIDE. It doesn't look great, feels very limited and really gets boring with a lot of dispensable and redundant QTE.
Review in French | Read full review
There is plenty to do here regardless of your approach, be it single or multiplayer, and the career mode will consume you if you allow it. Adding RiMS Racing to your rotation is an easy sell if you understand full well the level of dedication and effort it will take to master each bike and venue.
RiMS Racing is the most immersive motorcycle gaming experience to date, with the DualSense pushing this even further.
RiMS Racing makes an honorable attempt at raising the bar for customization but it comes at the cost of nearly everything else.
The graphical downgrade on the Switch casts a pale shadow on what is otherwise a solid yet difficult game with occasional obtuse vehicle handling. If you are a bike-racing enthusiast and don't mind a challenge in its single race, career or online play modes, this game is for you. Casual bikers (myself included) need not apply.
RiMS Racing has potential as a series, but it just doesn’t do enough here to make it worth more than a one-time playthrough
Realistic racing which is not very comfortable for casual players.
Review in Slovak | Read full review
If you are an arcade-style racing fan, Rims Racing is not for you, period. But if you are a motorcycle nut who enjoys racing simulation you will have lots of fun with Rims Racing's super deep career mode and detailed design of its motorcycles. Be warned though that on the technical side there are tons of issues, and either wait for patch updates or expect some major frame rate drops to the point of breaking the gameplay.
Review in Persian | Read full review
RiMS Racing is not a bad game, but I completely did not come up - the developers have failed me in many respects, but I realize that the production will satisfy some recipients with its unusual solutions.
Review in Polish | Read full review