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Hey y'all, I’m looking for casual driving simulations which I can use for driving practice and exposure therapy. My criteria: * Needs to support modern VR headsets * Needs to support a racing wheel with stickshift input * Would prefer a wide variety of cars available (everyday cars, not sports cars or long-haul semi trucks) * Gameplay that allows casually driving around cities and highways, rather than anything particularly goal-oriented * _NOT_ a “we will judge you on your performance” type thing either (it’s okay for that functionality to be there but it needs to be able to be disabled, ideally _without_ having to pass a test first) * Having realistic city maps based on real locations would be preferred * Also having NPC drivers who are there to just go from point A to point B and not trying to win a race (at least any moreso than real-life city drivers do that) I’ve been looking for a while and just haven’t found anything that sits in that niche. Below the cut I’ll talk about some of the things I have tried and why they fall flat. ### City Car Driving This comes close to what I’m looking for, but it’s _highly_ technically-oriented and meant to train people to pass a driving test rather than to just enjoy driving, and also it doesn’t work on modern VR headsets; it’s pretty much hardcoded to work on the Rift, and trying to run it on a modern headset means getting the wrong projection matrix, making it super barf-inducing. Also it’s oriented around European driving laws. It has a North America mode but it’s still too much about “here is what you’re doing wrong” and not enough “enjoy driving.” There’s a 2.0 update in early access but it doesn’t seem to officially support VR (although people have modded it with UEVR with varying degrees of success). ### Assetto Corsa This is a fun racing sim that works pretty well and has a wide variety of cars available (including the specific ones I want to simulate), but in order to get any sort of casual/city driving you need to install mods, and even with things like AC Content Manager I cannot get any of the casual driving mods to work. Most other downloadable content is also _super_ complex to actually install, with a tangled spider web of dependencies and no real useful help online aside from people who yell at you for not being able to figure it out yourself. I could give this one another shot, if there’s a good modding guide that tells me _exactly_ what to install (and how!) in order to get casual city driving. ### Assetto Corsa Competizione This was supposed to be the “next generation” of Assetto Corsa with a lot of the AC quality of life improvements installed out of the box, but this one is even more hyperfocused on race driving, and it constantly feels about half-finished. ### American Truck Simulator There are supposedly mods to make it work as a casual driving sim but if there are I cannot, for the life of me, figure out how to get any of them installed. Also the maps are _super_ condensed for the sake of making it an arcade-like long-haul experience rather than a realistic driving simulation. It’s fun though. But not what I’m looking for. But if there’s a modding guide to make this into what I’m looking for, that’d be great. ### Ones I haven’t tried yet but am aware of #### Just Drive VR People characterize it as a casual driving sim but it’s an arcade racer? with no other cars on the road, for that matter? It looks like a fun prototype but definitely not what I’m looking for. #### Road Ready VR This looks like exactly what I’m looking for. If only it were actually available to try out. Also the marketing materials are full of AI slop so I’m not super optimistic about it.

Hey y'all, I’m looking for casual driving simulations which I can use for driving practice and exposure therapy. My criteria: * Needs to support modern VR headsets * Needs to support a racing wheel with stickshift input * Would prefer a wide variety of cars available (everyday cars, not sports cars or long-haul semi trucks) * Gameplay that allows casually driving around cities and highways, rather than anything particularly goal-oriented * _NOT_ a “we will judge you on your performance” type thing either (it’s okay for that functionality to be there but it needs to be able to be disabled, ideally _without_ having to pass a test first) * Having realistic city maps based on real locations would be preferred * Also having NPC drivers who are there to just go from point A to point B and not trying to win a race (at least any moreso than real-life city drivers do that) I’ve been looking for a while and just haven’t found anything that sits in that niche. Below the cut I’ll talk about some of the things I have tried and why they fall flat. ### City Car Driving This comes close to what I’m looking for, but it’s _highly_ technically-oriented and meant to train people to pass a driving test rather than to just enjoy driving, and also it doesn’t work on modern VR headsets; it’s pretty much hardcoded to work on the Rift, and trying to run it on a modern headset means getting the wrong projection matrix, making it super barf-inducing. Also it’s oriented around European driving laws. It has a North America mode but it’s still too much about “here is what you’re doing wrong” and not enough “enjoy driving.” There’s a 2.0 update in early access but it doesn’t seem to officially support VR (although people have modded it with UEVR with varying degrees of success). ### Assetto Corsa This is a fun racing sim that works pretty well and has a wide variety of cars available (including the specific ones I want to simulate), but in order to get any sort of casual/city driving you need to install mods, and even with things like AC Content Manager I cannot get any of the casual driving mods to work. Most other downloadable content is also _super_ complex to actually install, with a tangled spider web of dependencies and no real useful help online aside from people who yell at you for not being able to figure it out yourself. I could give this one another shot, if there’s a good modding guide that tells me _exactly_ what to install (and how!) in order to get casual city driving. ### Assetto Corsa Competizione This was supposed to be the “next generation” of Assetto Corsa with a lot of the AC quality of life improvements installed out of the box, but this one is even more hyperfocused on race driving, and it constantly feels about half-finished. ### American Truck Simulator There are supposedly mods to make it work as a casual driving sim but if there are I cannot, for the life of me, figure out how to get any of them installed. Also the maps are _super_ condensed for the sake of making it an arcade-like long-haul experience rather than a realistic driving simulation. It’s fun though. But not what I’m looking for. But if there’s a modding guide to make this into what I’m looking for, that’d be great. ### Ones I haven’t tried yet but am aware of #### Just Drive VR People characterize it as a casual driving sim but it’s an arcade racer? with no other cars on the road, for that matter? It looks like a fun prototype but definitely not what I’m looking for. #### Road Ready VR This looks like exactly what I’m looking for. If only it were actually available to try out. Also the marketing materials are full of AI slop so I’m not super optimistic about it.