Le Mans Ultimate

Pricing comes up in 24% of the longer reviews and in 32% of the negative ones, more than any other complaint among them. What players object to changed over time. In 2024 the anger focused on paid DLC and a season pass sold while the game was still in early access: "Paid DLC and a season pass for an Early Access game are absolute deal breakers for me." After the full release, the focus moved to how much content the base game leaves out, with GT3 cars and tracks sold in packs and online races that require owning them. "Around 80% of the actual content is locked behind expensive DLC," one player wrote; another found "a bunch of tracks are locked behind paywalls and so is the entire GT3 class!" Some also object that cars and tracks are bundled together instead of sold separately, and that new track packs keep arriving. A smaller group, 5% of the longer reviews against 8% who attack the model outright, defends the prices by pointing at iRacing ("If you're a sim racer, this is part of the hobby") or at what the free cars already offer.

The rating, penalty and ban system comes up in 22% of the longer reviews, and the share climbed over time: 11% of longer reviews written during early access, 39% of those written in 2026. At its center is the way contact counts against everyone involved, so a driver who is rear-ended or divebombed loses safety rating, picks up a warning badge and can be suspended automatically. "No game should have you fearing getting banned for another player's incompetence." Players describe starting races from the pit lane or letting everyone past just to protect their rating, a report window that opens hours after the race, and bans with no appeal. A minority says the badge system works once you get through it: "If you start out by focusing on SR and getting the trusted badge, you will end up in races with 100% trusted racers, it's beautiful." These complaints come mostly from players with many hours in the game.

Bugs and crashes come up in 22% of the longer reviews, falling from 28% during early access to 14% in 2026. Early complaints were crashes to desktop, tracks that never finished loading and a game that would not start. Later ones are about online sessions: frozen "join event" buttons, crashes at the switch from qualifying to the race, FFB vanishing mid-race and audio dropping out. Several reviewers say each big update fixed some problems and introduced new ones. "Every race is a coin flip if you get kicked for no reason," one wrote after the full release. Others say the game runs fine for them.

Performance comes up in 17% of the longer reviews (21% during early access, 11% in 2026), and slow loading in another 4%. Players describe a game that runs well alone or in one class, then drops frames with full multiclass grids, in rain or in the pit lane, while memory use climbs. "Its a multiclass racing game i can't race multiclasses," one player wrote. Players with only a few hours raise this more often than veterans. Reviewers credit later updates with cutting load times, though a couple say versions 1.3 and 1.4 brought stutter back.

About 12% of the longer reviews complain about other drivers: divebombs into turn 1 at Monza, rammers, unsafe rejoins and hypercars bulldozing GT traffic. The share doubled from 8% during early access to 16% in 2026, and several reviewers blame an influx of new players after the full release. "The driving standards in this game just ruin everything for me," one wrote. Some tie it to the rating system, saying reckless drivers face too little consequence while their victims lose rating. A few say the racing is close and fair once you reach the top split.

The subscription comes up in 11% of the longer reviews. Several note that the daily ranked races work without it, but players object to what sits behind it: custom liveries, early race registration and practice servers, protests, online championships and team endurance events. "Why do I have to pay extra if I want my own paint job?" Paying for hosted servers through a credit system, with no self-hosted option, adds to it: "there is no option to host your own server, and you have to pay them to host it for you." Players who just want a private race with friends make this point.

Single-player content comes up in 10% of the longer reviews. Offline play is limited to single race weekends, with no career, no championship and no hotlap mode, and reviewers say a promised career mode kept slipping. "With a championship mode, I would have bought all the DLC. No question." Some call it an online-focused title until the career mode arrives.

Menus and UI come up in 13% of the longer reviews. During early access the complaint was lag: menus that ran at a few frames per second or froze. Later complaints include menus that can't be driven with a wheel or controller ("I own a controller, why am I forced to navigate every menu with my mouse and keyboard???"), camera settings, and too many loading screens between clicks.

About 5% of the longer reviews describe being kicked from servers, losing connection between practice, qualifying and race, or being unable to join a registered event, often with a rating penalty for the missed race. "I join and get kicked in practice, quali, and can make it to turn 1 in the race if I'm lucky, before I am kicked back to the main menu." A player in Australia adds that there are no servers there.

A small group says the WEC focus leaves too few tracks for daily races, which repeat the same circuits for a week: "Needs more tracks otherwise the multiplayer will get stale soon." Some ask for the Nordschleife, Daytona or IMSA content.

A small cluster of reviews from late 2025 objects to Easy Anti-Cheat arriving after purchase, for privacy reasons and because it stopped Linux players from racing online: "now i discover the devs implemented Kernel level anti-cheat since I bought the base game."