- Quick Summary: Rally games remain alive through passionate communities and strong simulators. This list highlights five standout titles, including DiRT Rally 2.0 and EA Sports WRC, as well as older games like Richard Burns Rally. Let’s face it, rally racing games feel like a dying genre. Compared to blockbuster franchises such as F1 or Forza, new releases and content for the Colin McRae Rally and World Rally Championship game series are slowly fading. Dirt racing in games such as Gran Turismo 7 or the newly released Forza Horizon 6 is limited in favor of the more popular tarmac. Nevertheless, I’d like to believe that rally isn’t a dying art form. There’s something to be said about throwing the weight of the car around corners and trying to find grip on surfaces where there is none, on the brink between a fast time and a DNF. More than that, rally attracts the most hardcore and passionate of fans, who risk certain death in real life to see fast cars drive dangerously close down tight roads or up jumps that send a one-ton death machine flying through the air, and although video games can’t exactly replicate that feeling, it does get close. Rallying has found a niche spot in the sim racing community that keeps that daredevil feeling alive by continuously supporting and creating new content online. Whether you’re a beginner trying to dip your toes into rallying, or a veteran looking for something new, here’s my definitive list of the top 5 must-try rally games. DiRT Rally 2.0 Often titled as the “Dark Souls of racing games”, DiRT Rally 2.0 is the tried-and-tested fan favorite of rally enthusiasts. But don’t let the moniker fool you; I think that a better way to phrase it is that rallying itself is the