RiMS Racing - Japanese Manufacturers Deluxe Edition

This package is for the rider who already knows the base game clicked and wants the Japanese half of the grid in one purchase, and it is not for anyone still deciding whether they like RiMS Racing at all. That is not me hedging for the sake of it. The base game is one of the most polarising racers Nacon has put its name on, sitting at a Mixed 58% positive across roughly 1,271 Steam reviews, and doubling down on an edition upgrade before you have ridden a single lap is how you end up with an expensive bounce off your library shelf. Quick context on what you are actually buying into. Nacon Studio Milan released this in August 2021 with a pitch that the garage matters as much as the track. You are not picking a livery and hitting race. You are pulling parts off a litre bike in first person, swapping brake components, exhausts and rubber from real suppliers, then reading telemetry afterwards to work out whether the change made you faster or just louder. Components wear. Tyres, pads and chain degrade over a career, and if you ignore the maintenance side the bike quietly gets worse underneath you while you blame your own riding. The handling model is stiff and unsentimental. Lazy braking into a corner on a 200-horsepower superbike gets punished immediately. So what does the Deluxe half actually get you. The edition is built around the Japanese end of the manufacturer roster, bundled in with the base game instead of sold as separate add-ons you buy piecemeal. The thing I would flag hard is that the listing here does not itemise every component line by line, and "Deluxe" on a Nacon racing title has historically covered a spread of bike content, rider equipment and cosmetic extras rather than one clean headline addition. Read the exact contents panel sitting next to this review before you commit, and read it twice if you already own any of the packs individually. Overlap between bundle editions and standalone add-ons is a real trap in this catalogue, and nobody refunds you for buying the same bike twice. Here is the honest split on value. Extra machinery in a sim like this is not decoration. A different manufacturer means a different engine character, different weight over the front, and a different setup puzzle to solve, so if the tuning and mechanic loop is the reason you are here, more bikes is straightforwardly more game. That part earns its place. Soundtracks, wallpapers and rider skins do not, and any edition leaning on those to pad the value is selling you a menu screen with extra steps. Count the bikes, discount the trinkets, and judge the upgrade on that number alone. The bit almost nobody covers, and the bit I care about most, is the multiplayer. The feature set includes online PvP plus shared and split-screen play, both casual and competitive, with full controller support. Split-screen superbike racing is rare enough in 2026 that it deserves a mention on its own. In practice, though, it is an awkward fit for a loud Saturday night. This is a sim that expects you to have learned a bike and built it, so handing pad two to a friend who has never ridden one usually ends with them in the gravel on lap one while you vanish over the horizon. It fails the four-mates-on-a-sofa chaos test, and I would not pretend otherwise. What it passes is the two-people-who-both-care test: one screen, two riders who have each spent an hour in the garage, trading lap times and arguing about brake compound. Wheel owners can leave the hardware in the cupboard, a gamepad is the sensible input here, and the extra Japanese bikes give you more to disagree about when you swap seats. Bottom line on the package. If the wrench-and-telemetry loop already has you, this is a reasonable way to widen the garage in one go. If you are curious rather than committed, start standard, ride twenty laps, and see whether you enjoy maintenance schedules before you pay for more of them.

Riley · Scout Team

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