WRC 10 FIA World Rally Championship (for PC) Review (2025)

With WRC 10, developer KT Racing celebrates 50 years of the World Rally Championship. In addition to new tracks and challenges, WRC 10 features classic races and cars from the event’s storied history, refined controls, and beautiful, photorealistic graphics. The $49.99 PC game isn’t radically different from its immediate predecessors (WRC 8 and WRC 9), but its minor improvements create a better overall racing game. WRC 10 has nearly everything rally racing fans would want, but bugs and frame rate issues sully the experience a bit.

Race Around the World

Though a driving simulator at its core, WRC 10 lacks a demanding control scheme. WRC 10 isn’t a pick-up-and-play arcade racer like Burnout Paradise, but it's easy to acclimate to the controls. Plus, its cars, from the classic 1980 Fiat 131 Abarth to the modern Volkswagen Polo GTI R5, are distinct and enjoyable to drive. If you play WRC 10 with a gamepad, you'll enjoy immersive rumble as you drift gravel roads.

Career mode tasks you with working your way up to the big leagues. In it, you schedule events on your calendar, make sponsorship deals with car manufacturers, and train your crew. Managing these aspects appears daunting at first, but they become second nature before long. You can start in either the WRC Junior league or the WRC 3 series. This is a bummer for experienced players who would prefer to jump straight into the WRC Championship portion of career mode. That said, if you've never played the previous series entries, you probably won’t mind climbing the WRC ladder.

Don’t want to muck around with career mode? Jump over to Season mode. There, you lead a team and work your way up the World Rally Championship. Unlike career mode, you simply need to focus on driving. Quick Play is a no-frills mode where you’re free to race any car on any track. Yes, this means racing classic roadsters on modern tracks (or vice versa).

Glory Days

50th Anniversary Mode is where you’ll relive the WRC’s legendary races. If you’re a WRC fan or just dig classic vehicles, you’ll no doubt appreciate this mode. It’s disappointing that this is effectively a glorified time trial mode. The time restrictions make logical sense since you’re trying to replicate the times set during the original races. Still, from a gameplay perspective, it’s frustrating to feel that you’re doing well in a race only to end up losing because you’re two seconds behind. Racing classic cars outside of this mode is much more enjoyable.

In multiplayer mode, you’ll challenge other people and see how you stack up on the leaderboards. You can create your own club or join someone else’s. Co-op modes include a split-screen mode where you and another player go head-to-head. Co-driver mode is interesting since it has you and another player team up to drive a car. The multiplayer modes aren’t particularly robust, but they don’t need to be; you'll spend most of your time in the Career or Season modes.

Attention to Detail

WRC 10 sports highly detailed photorealistic graphics. Remove the user interface and you’d swear you were staring at live footage. Croatia's long, winding roads and thick, surrounding forests are stunning, as are Estonia’s rugged cliffs and gravel paths. Each vehicle also has an exacting amount of detail and flourishes, too.

Though the graphics impress, visual blemishes occasionally sour the experience. In addition to low frame rates, there are instances of screen tearing (even with V-sync enabled) and environmental pop-up/pop-in. Given the game's photorealistic visual quality, these graphical hiccups stand out more.

Can Your PC Run WRC 10?

To play WRC 10, your gaming rig needs at least an Intel i5-2300 CPU, an Nvidia GeForce GTX 650 Ti GPU (with 2GB of memory), 8GB of RAM, 37GB of storage space, and the Windows 10 operating system.

On my gaming PC, a desktop computer with an Intel i7-4790 CPU and Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 GPU, I had to drop the graphics settings to Medium to get WRC 10's frame rates to hover in the 40fps range. This is strange considering that my rig meets or exceeds the recommended system requirements (i7-4790k CPU, Nvidia GTX 1070 GPU). WRC 10 may need additional patches to get it running as intended.

Race to the Top

WRC 10 is packed with numerous features that simulation racing fans want. Its sizeable career mode and various solo and multiplayer options provide hours upon hours of playtime. The game is graphically impressive, though technical issues sometimes stain the presentation. That aside, this is another impressive effort from KT Racing that honors the World Rally Championship's legacy.

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