Racing
Project CARS 2
The first 3 hours are a test
Gets good by 3h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Fully opens up by 7h rated like by long-time players
Started playing 97% of owners
Steam reviews 81% positive of 18,438
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 2 reviews are negative (54%); after 10h it's 1 in 8 (12%).
- Fully opens up by hour 7.
- The opening is criticised more than in 83% of games we track.
- The game has no story achievements, so drop-off points can't be measured.
- 97% of owners got the first achievement.
When it gets good
Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.
before it gets good opening up fully opened up
Based on all 18,560 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 296 reviews: 46.4h for positive, 10.9h for negative. Almost every game is rated lower in the first 2–3 hours: that window includes refunds and quick first impressions. What matters is how deep the dip is and how fast the game recovers.
Where players quit
Share of players who started the game and reached each story milestone. 100% is the most common achievement (97% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
This game has no story achievements, so we can't tell where players quit.
All achievements (47)
story milestone ending side
- Raving Rookie Earned your Rookie License 100%
- This Is The Start Created a new driver in Career and signed your first contract 68%
- May I Ask You Something Used the Race Engineer in Tuning Setup and made changes based off their recommendation. 42%
- Accoladed Earned your first Career Accolade 26%
- Rest On Your Laurels Won your first Championship. 25%
- Invite Only Unlocked your first Career Invitational Event 24%
- Done One Online Completed your first online race 22%
- I'm Seasoned Completed the first season 21%
- I'm Just Here To Watch Joined an in-progress online race as a spectator 17%
- Snap Snap Snap Taken a photo in photo mode 16%
- Strategic Mind Created a pit strategy and then used it when coming into the pits 12%
- One-Man Show Used 3 different custom car setups for a single car 12%
- Manual All The Way Completed a successful pit stop with manual control 12%
- Two Affinity And Beyond Earned Affinity with two manufacturers 9.8%
- Brand Advocate Became a Brand Advocate for a manufacturer 7.7%
- I Want To Know Your Secret Downloaded another players setup from within Time Trial. 5.8%
- All Year Round Completed a race around a single circuit in all 4 seasons 4.7%
- No Man's Fly Did a Rallycross jump longer than 20 metres 4.1%
- Jack Of All Trades Won three Championships in three different Motorsport disciplines 4.0%
- National Pride Finished on the podium 50 times in a single drivers Career 4.0%
- Results Are In, You're Clean! Finished 1st in an online race over 5 laps without making contact 3.9%
- Get That Dirt Off Your Shoulder Successfully completed a Rallycross season 3.0%
- Factory Driver Completed the Factory Drives set of events for a single manufacturer 2.4%
- No Longer a Rookie Earned your Amateur License 2.3%
- Hall of Fame Earned four Lifetime Goals 2.1%
- Zero to Hero Completed the Zero to Hero lifetime goal (start in Tier 6 and go on to win a Tier 1 Championship) 2.0%
- What's Yours Is Mine Saved a car setup received from a friend 1.9%
- Mr Popular Completed 10 Career Invitational Events 1.8%
- Best Indy World Became an Indycar Champion 1.6%
- Definitely Not a Rookie Earned your Pro-Am License 1.4%
- Twice At The Top Won two different Tier 1 Motorsports 1.4%
- Diversity Completed a Championship in every Motorsport discipline within Career 1.3%
- Cream Of The Crop Won all Factory Drive events for 3 manufacturers 1.2%
- Safety First Earnt a B Online Reputation Safety Grade. 1.2%
- Viva Ferrari Drove 4 Ferrari cars, around Imola 1.1%
- Car Zero Raced for 4 laps in the Lamborghini Veneno around Red Bull Ring GP 1.1%
- Gimme 50! Earned 50 Accolades 1.1%
- Triple Crown Won the Indy 500, Le Mans 24 Hours and Azure Circuit Grand Prix 0.9%
- Hunting For Grip Drove a clean lap around Fuji in Storm conditions, in a time less than 2 minutes 0.8%
- I'm a Pro Earned your Pro License 0.8%
- Advanced Experience Completed an event in a Mercedes car at the Mercedes-Benz Driving Events Ice Track 2 0.7%
- Straight Six Drove a Porsche 911 GT1-98 at 24 Hours of Le Mans Circuit for 24 minutes at 60x time progression. 0.7%
- The Director Used the Director mode for a full race 0.7%
- Seen It All Earned your Veteran License 0.6%
- Winter Soldier Drove a clean lap around the Nordschleife in the snow, in less than 8 minutes 0.6%
- One More For The Road Earned all other achievements 0.5%
- The Milk Man Won a full distance (200 Laps) Indy 500 race 0.5%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-18.