Developer KUNOS Simulazioni took to the stage through the latest SimRacing Expo 2025 to announce that its sim racing franchise, Assetto Corsa, collectively bought 20 million copies. As caught by Traxion, studio CEO Marco Massarutto confirmed that the gross sales figures have been taken under consideration from all the best way again in 2013 when the primary Assetto Corsa was launched as an Early Entry recreation.
“With the discharge of EVO final January, the Assetto Corsa franchise has reached over 20 million distinctive customers. This can be a nice outcome,” Massarutto stated on the occasion. “These numbers are wonderful. In the event you assume that Assetto Corsa is supposed to be a practical simulation, it’s supposed to be for ‘area of interest’ customers. But it surely’s not a distinct segment anymore.”
“It’s not a results of nice physics, visuals, sounds, gameplay and modding. It’s a mixture of all this stuff collectively. But it surely’s particularly the results of a fantastic relationship between a developer and the sim racing group. We created a relationship primarily based on mutual belief that helped us to do what we do. We’re builders. However earlier than that, we’re sim racers.”
This announcement comes on the heels of the latest announcement of rally racing sim Assetto Corsa Rally, which is slated for launch on PC on November 13. The title goes to be an Early Entry launch, and can embody ten licensed autos, as effectively a day/night time cycle, and shifting climate, all of which might have heavy impacts on the driving circumstances due to modifications in visibility and traction.
At launch, among the many 10 driveable autos in Assetto Corsa Rally would be the Lancia Stratos Gr.4 (1976), the Fiat 131 Abarth Gr.4 (1976) and the Peugeot 208 Rally4 (2020). Together with this, the title will even characteristic areas like Asace and Wales with 33 kilometers of “absolutely laser-scanned roads.” The title has been described as making use of the identical physics engine because the highly-praised one from the unique Assetto Corsa.
The corporate has famous main plans for the sport, together with 30 totally different vehicles, a full-fledged profession mode, and greater than 120 kilometers of realistically-recreated roads.
Within the meantime, the corporate can be persevering with its work on Assetto Corsa EVO, which was launched in Early Entry again in January. Massarutto had additionally spoken in regards to the title at SimRacing Expo 2025, noting that the studio remains to be working laborious to guarantee that followers of the franchise get what they need from the title.
“As builders, we all know the challenges of making a simulation like Assetto Corsa,” he stated. “However as sim racers, we all know what we need to drive and play, and we always remember this. That is vital as a result of immediately is a good time to be a sim racer. Assetto Corsa Rally and EVO are the reply to what individuals need.”
“With EVO, through the early entry programme, we’re doing our easiest to suit with the wants and suggestions that we’re receiving from the group. We’re so amazed as a result of due to EVO and the brand new Assetto Corsa Rally, the franchise is rising at a degree we by no means imagined earlier than.”
