RIDE 5 - Season Pass (DLC)

I'll be straight with you: season passes live or die by how much you actually play the base game, and RIDE 5 is the kind of title that either grabs you for hundreds of hours or gets shelved after the first frustrating weekend. So before we talk DLC, a quick reality check on what you're expanding into. RIDE 5 landed in August 2023 as a genuine step forward for Milestone's motorcycle sim series - better accessibility through neural riding aids, a reworked career mode with escalating rivals, dynamic weather that actually matters when you bin it on a wet Stelvio hairpin, and, crucially for anyone who wants a second body on the couch, a return of two-player split-screen that had been missing since RIDE 2. That last point matters more than any DLC. The Season Pass itself adds 33 bikes delivered across a run of monthly packs that wrapped up in February 2024, six additional tracks including Vallelunga, Estoril, Fuji Speedway, the Nevada road course, and the Stelvio mountain circuit, plus a credits multiplier that doubles end-of-race earnings so you are not grinding the same opener for spare change. The packs cover a decent spread of disciplines: the King of the Hills Pack loads you up for tight mountain hairpins, the Far East Pack drops in Japanese race-spec machines, the Short Track Pack throws supermotards and a scooter into the mix for something completely different, and the Born to Race Pack brings dedicated track-day hardware. It is thorough without being transformative. Where the Season Pass earns its keep is in variety. The base game already ships with over 200 bikes from more than 20 manufacturers, so the pass is not filling an embarrassing content gap - it is pushing the garage past 270 models and the track roster past 40, which for anyone building time trial records or chasing specific championship events is genuinely useful. The credits multiplier is the quiet hero here: RIDE 5 has a slower grind than most sim-racers in its class, and the 2x boost meaningfully accelerates bike unlocks, particularly if you want to experiment across categories without replaying the same three events repeatedly. Honest caveats: the AI in RIDE 5 still has moments of baffling behavior at race contact points, something critics flagged at launch and patches only partially addressed. The Season Pass does not fix that. For casual players who are new to two-wheel sims, the pass is arguably premature - spend the time with riding aids, learn the braking distances on a standard-kit bike, and reassess once the career actually demands more machinery. The game is considerably more approachable than RIDE 4 with assists enabled, but committing to expansion content before you have fifty hours in the base game is a gamble. For veteran RIDE players, the Estoril and Fuji Speedway additions alone are likely worth the conversation.

Riley · Scout Team

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