Assetto Corsa Competizione Now Available in Steam Early Access

Written by Brandon Hofer on September 12, 2018

News: Save some money by buying this game early before the price goes up closer to release.

Assetto Corsa Competizione, the official game of the Blancpain GT Series, developed by KUNOS Simulazioni and published by 505 Games, is now available on Steam Early Access. Available for a limited-time low price of $24.99 USD, Assetto Corsa Competizione offers an incredible ‘buy-now, save-later’ incentive to players, with new monthly free content released to buyers leading toward full launch in Q1 2019.

After the success of Assetto Corsa, the Italian development team KUNOS Simulazioni is ready to deliver the first Early Access version of their latest game. Assetto Corsa Competizione is born from KUNOS Simulazioni’s long-term experience, and it takes full advantage of Unreal Engine 4, ensuring photorealistic weather conditions and graphics, night races, motion capture animations, reaching a new standard in terms of driving realism and immersion, thanks to its further improved aerodynamic models.

The immersive sim game will allow players to experience the real atmosphere of the FIA GT3 homologated championship, competing with official drivers, teams, cars and circuits, reproduced in-game with the highest level of accuracy ever achieved. Sprint, Endurance and Spa 24 Hours races will come to life with an incredible level of realism, in both single and multiplayer modes.

Players opting in at the low early access price will receive a series of free monthly game updates, delivering new cars, tracks, features and gameplay enhancements to players as the game progresses towards official launch in Q1 2019. The early access price on Steam will periodically increase as new features and game enhancements are added with each update. The final Assetto Corsa Competizione game will feature all cars and tracks of the ongoing Blancpain GT Season and will also introduce career and championship modes, progressively providing early access players with a complete game for a fraction of the launch price.

The early access roadmap will look something like this:

September 2018:

New Car: Lambourghini Huracan GT3

New Track: Nurburgring Grand Prix

New Features: Special Evenets, Hotlap and Quick Races

October 2018:

New Car: Bently Continental GT3

New Track: Misano World Circuit

New Features: Super Pole, Virtual Reality Support and Basic Pit-Stops

November 2018:

New Car: BMW M6 GT3

New Track: Circuit de Paul Ricard

New Features: Endurance 3/6h, Basic Multiplayer and Full Pit-Stop

December 2018:

New Car: Ferrari 488 GT3’

New Track: Hungaroing

New Features: Spectator Mode Introduced

January 2019:

New Car: Emil Frey Jaguar G3

New Track: Zolder

New Features: Enhanced Multiplayer Launches

February 2019:

New Car: Honda Acura NSX GT3

New Track: Monza Eni Circuit

New Features: Live Special Events

TBD Q1 2019:

All the Officially Licensed 2018 and 2019 Blancpain GT Series cars, teams and circuits, career mode, championship mode, single player and multiplayer, complete rating and matchmaking systems.

“Behind Assetto Corsa’s success there is also the contribution given by the community, which with its suggestions and constructive criticism has allowed us to refine both the product and the simulation experience", commented Marco Massarutto, Brand & Product Manager and co-founder of KUNOS Simulazioni. "Thanks to the Steam Early Access program we can further strengthen this synergy with our fans: offering them the opportunity to actively participate in the Assetto Corsa Competizione testing. In this way we will not only optimize the game itself, but also work on its functionalities in order to arrive at the launch of final version exploiting in the best way all potentialities that our driving simulation will offer. We consider precious the support of our community and we intend to reward it concretely ".

Racing enthusiasts and players in Germany can get their hands-on Assetto Corsa Competizione at Nürburgring this weekend (September 14 – 16, 2018) for the next round of the Blancpain Championship and at the Sim Racing Expo 2018 with Fanatec, a leading provider of gaming steering wheels, pedals and peripherals specifically designed for sim racers.

Will you be picking up Assetto Corsa Competizione? What do you think of being able to buy-in early with the price slowly going up as more features are released?