Bandai Namco announced that Project Cars 3 will be removed in August, and the servers closed at the beginning of 2026 ended with the Project Cars franchise, and the first two titles from the series were removed in 2022.
The statement on the Steam Game website was announced:
Update at Cars Project 3. The entire sale of products will end: August 24, 2025 23:59 UTC. It should be remembered that times may vary depending on the region. If you bought the game digitally, it will remain in your library and can be charged again in the future. Any DLC purchased before August 24, 2025 23:59 UTC will still be available after this date. Online modes games will also remain lively until February 24, 2026.
Although the reason was not given, the most likely situation is the one that affects almost all racing games when licenses for cars, songs and soundtracks expire. With reduced games from games a few years after release, it rarely has financial sense for companies to review licensing offers specific to the game, which are constrained to producers and tracks.
It is melancholy that this is the end of a real blue racing bolt. Starting in 2015, Project Cars was an imperfect, but refreshingly different approach to SIM and Simcade Racer and gained a hearty base of fans on the PS4 and Xbox One generation, two years before the arrival of Gran Turismo Sport, and when Forza Motorsport was still a lighter Racer style. In 2017, there was a continuation quickly, but then everything went a bit of the rails.
SMS was taken over in 2019 by Codemasters before the project of Project Cars 3 in 2020. This game turned towards more arcaded races that did not meet the same audience as previous titles, and after Codemasters purchased by EA, their SIM racing efforts were finally canceled in 2022, and the team broke or released.
In the meantime, the SMS founder, Ian Bell, went away and went to find Straight4 Studios (previously marked as slightly annoyed studies). They are currently working on automotive races, focusing even more on motor sports and on November.
In our review Project Cars 3 Thomas wrote: “Project Cars 3 suffers from the case of incorrect identity. After adapting to the up-to-date direction, you can get to the fun to mark your goals, drifting around hairpins and buying up improvements. However, although the existing platform of the series means that you have a vast variety of circuits, cars and weather conditions, as well as withdraw this.
Source: Couple
