Project Motor Racing season pass: what the maths says

The Project Motor Racing season pass costs more than five times what the game it attaches to does. That is not a sale quirk. Reading our own record on 1 November 2026, the cheapest figure we have ever logged for Project Motor Racing is $6.59, on 28 September 2026, and the median across all 34 readings we hold since 18 June is $7.99. The Year 1 Season Pass has never been tracked below $39.99, a figure it touched once, on 8 July 2026, before settling higher.

Straight4's sim launched on 25 November 2025 under GIANTS Software and has not had an easy year — 2,624 Steam reviews sit at 44% positive, which is "Mixed". The base game's price has behaved accordingly. The DLC has not followed it down, and that gap is the whole decision.

The driving model is the part nobody argues about. The content strategy around it is the part people do. (Official Steam screenshot)

What the Project Motor Racing season pass is competing against

There are three ways to buy into the Year 1 content, and they are priced as if they were designed by different people.

You can buy the six packs individually. You can buy the Year 1 Season Pass, which bundles them but requires the base game. Or you can buy the Year 1 Bundle, which is the game and the pass together.

Here is the lowest price we have logged for each pack, cheapest first. These are historical readings with the date we took them, not today's prices — check each pack's own page for what it costs right now.

• Group 5 Revival Pack — $3.99 on 8 July 2026
• GTE Decade Pack — $4.79 on 8 July 2026
• Japanese Prototypes Pack — $6.53 on 4 October 2026, at Gamesplanet
• GT Icons Pack — $9.48 on 9 October 2026, at GameBillet
• V8 Power Pack — $9.68 on 8 October 2026, at Playsum
• World Endurance Pack — $14.20 on 30 October 2026, at GameBillet

Those six floors add up to $48.67. The season pass at its own floor of $39.99 beats that by roughly nine dollars, so on the narrow question — pass versus buying all six at their cheapest — the pass wins. It is the wider question where it falls apart.

The number that settles it: the bundle's floor

The Year 1 Bundle is the row with real history behind it: 129 readings going back to 22 June 2026, against three for the season pass. Its tracked low is $23.09, set on 22 June 2026, and its median across those 129 readings is $48.75.

Read that against the pass and the arithmetic is uncomfortable. The bundle's cheapest reading is sixteen dollars below the cheapest the season pass has ever been — and the bundle includes the game. At $23.09 you were getting the base sim and all six packs for less than the pass alone has ever been listed at.

That is a wide gap and it is not an accident of one bad day. The bundle is heavily listed by resellers; the pass barely is. We hold only three readings on the season pass and the most recent is from 1 August 2026, which tells you the grey market has largely not bothered stocking it. When a product only exists at official-store pricing, it does not get cheap.

The World Endurance Pack is the newest and most expensive of the six, and the only one we have a single reading for. (Official Steam screenshot)

Where the cheap listings actually reach

One more structural quirk worth knowing before you shop. We hold 22 listings for the base game in the US row and 23 in the euro row, and in both the cheapest seller is a reseller well under the official price. In the Canadian, Australian and New Zealand rows, the cheapest listing we hold is the official store — the resellers who set that sub-ten-dollar floor simply do not serve those regions at that price.

If you are shopping from one of those three, the floor you read about in articles like this one is not a floor you can reach without buying a key tied to another region, and that carries its own risks. Are keyshops safe covers what to check on the seller; the short version is that an authorised reseller like Gamesplanet or GameBillet is a different proposition from a grey-market marketplace, and three of the six pack floors above were set at one of those two.

The release trailer, from the game's own ProjectMotorRacing channel. (ProjectMotorRacing)

Which packs are actually worth the money

If you are buying selectively rather than wholesale, the price order above is also roughly the value order, and that is unusual.

The two cheapest — Group 5 Revival and GTE Decade — are the ones that add car classes the base roster does not cover, and between them their floors come to under nine dollars. Buy the game near its median and add both and you are under seventeen dollars for a meaningfully larger sim.

The World Endurance Pack is the expensive one and the hardest to justify on its own, because endurance racing is the format that most needs a populated online lobby and this is not a game with one. If you race offline against the AI, it is a lot of money for cars you will see alone.

The GT Icons Pack sits in the middle on price and is the one Google shows our page for most often, which suggests it is the one people most want. Its floor was set at GameBillet in October; it has not been near that since.

Six packs, and the two cheapest add the most. That is not the usual shape of a season pass. (Official Steam screenshot)

Before you spend anything, check the game first

A 44% review score on 2,624 reviews is not a verdict you should spend fifty dollars of DLC through. At its median of $7.99 the base game is a cheap way to find out whether the handling suits you, and that is the correct first purchase whatever you eventually decide about the pass.

If the answer is no, Assetto Corsa Competizione is the obvious alternative and is cheaper still in our record — we broke down which of its nine packs are worth it, and the pattern there is the opposite of this one: ACC's packs all bottom out together in seasonal sale windows, so you wait and buy the lot. Project Motor Racing's do not move in step at all.

Buy the game, learn the car, then decide. In that order. (Official Steam screenshot)

The World Endurance Pack reveal, also from the official ProjectMotorRacing channel. (ProjectMotorRacing)

The bottom line

Do not buy the Project Motor Racing season pass. Buy the base game, which our record says lives under eight dollars, and add Group 5 Revival and GTE Decade if you want more cars — that is the whole sim for a fraction of the pass. If you genuinely want all six packs, watch the Year 1 Bundle instead and wait for it to approach the $23.09 we logged in June, because at that price it undercuts the pass by sixteen dollars and throws in the game. The pass is the only route here that has never been cheap, and the only one you can safely skip. If you want the alerts that make waiting easy, our price-tracking guide sets them up; the same logic applies to Ready or Not and Planet Coaster 2, both of which price their add-ons the same awkward way.