Racing Master Review: A new age of Realistic Racing with a few bumps on track

I could finally get my hands on Racing Master after hearing about it for so long, and the first thing I wanted to see was whether the game actually played as well as it looked in all those trailers. Because visually, this game has always looked ridiculous for mobile.

My fellow author reviewed it before this multiplayer racing game from NetEase Games and Codemasters, and I thought I had a few words to add. So after spending around 20 hours racing on my Xiaomi 15 Ultra, trying different cars, tweaking controls, drifting badly into walls, and slowly getting the hang of the physics, here’s my full Racing Master review.

If you are starting, check out our Racing Master Beginners guide and learn the basic features and tips. To have the best collection of cars in all categories, read our Cars Tier List for the game. For efficient resource management, we have the Currency guide and Tips to Level Up easily to have a swift progress rate. Additionally, go through our Redeem Codes article to grab any freebies along the way!

The Gameplay involves diverse track Racing but fewer challenges

Straight up, the game offers a realistic racing experience featuring detailed car models and tracks brought to life by exceptional graphics. The controls are fairly easy to get a grip on, but I wanted to try all styles, which I will explain later. No complaints here, it is just the racing experience you think it will be.

The gameplay in Racing Master genuinely gave me an immersive experience because of how grounded the physics and handling feel. The tracks themselves are inspired by real-world locations, so while racing, you move from places and enjoy more technical corners, and that variety keeps the races feeling fresh visually.

The attention to detail within the gameplay is praiseworthy. However, I noticed that it does shy away from offering more challenges to the players throughout the gameplay. Some of the early races were only a few seconds long, and most of them made me jolt for the pole position.

That said, I did feel the gameplay could have offered a few more challenge-based elements outside pure racing. Most early races are quite short, and many of them quickly become a battle for pole position without much variation in objectives. The open-world exploration is left out here, since that’s a different category altogether.

Unlike games like Asphalt, where you constantly get stunt tasks, police escapes, or time-based challenges, Racing Master stays heavily focused on straightforward circuit racing. That realism-first approach works well for immersion, but after a while, I did wish there were a few more gameplay twists to break up the structure a little.

Racing Master boasts authentic Cars of real-world brands

One thing Racing Master immediately nails is the car collection. You’ve got proper licensed cars from brands like Lamborghini, Porsche, Ferrari, Aston Martin, BMW, Nissan, and plenty more. Usually, in mobile games, I unlock cars and instantly move on, but here I genuinely spent time checking them out in the garage. Credit to the makers for that.

The detailing on the models is excellent, the reflections look clean, and the customization surprised me more than expected. You can mess around with paint, wheels, lighting, body kits, tuning, and performance upgrades.

Tons of modifications and customizations also stand out as one of the vital highlights of Racing Master. The garage is packed with upgrade options to improve the engines, tires, chassis, overall acceleration, stability, and more, using specific currencies earned by completing objectives.

It was appealing to witness that each car had a handful of options to add on personalized body kits like wheel styling, part colours, and under-glow lighting. The fine-tuning and finishing touches on the car reflected the best way while I raced on tracks.  

Plenty of content and events keep you engaged

The game does try to build a story around your racing career, introducing NPCs, racing organizations, and progression chapters. But honestly? I mostly just wanted to skip through it. It’s not terrible or anything, but whenever dialogue started, I was just waiting to get back onto the track again. Racing Master is at its best when you’re actually driving, not listening to someone explain racing drama for the tenth time.

Rants aside, there’s a good amount of content to explore. From there onwards, the racing organization holds several events that encourage novices to reach their potential. It was enduring to face the challenges the game throws at the racers. The story has chapters that unfold in stages. Each stage of the career represents an event that pushes your limits higher.

Moreover, the game develops a growth plan for each racer to track their progress. These features seem only when amateurs want to have a taste, but to get into the world completely, a lot of racing is involved. The storyline proved rather insignificant when all I wanted to enjoy was a good amount of racing. 

The visuals are genuinely ridiculous for mobile

I love the look of this game. And I don’t say that lightly because mobile games have become pretty crazy lately when it comes to visuals, excellent job at that. But Racing Master genuinely impressed me during some races, especially night races and rainy tracks.

The car models look great with the classy tints shining in the natural surroundings of the maps. I witnessed a lot of choices displayed to adjust the visual quality to match my device’s compatibility.

I kept messing around with camera settings and graphics options just to see how far I could push the visuals on my Xiaomi 15 Ultra, and thankfully, performance stayed smooth throughout. I would have loved 120 FPS on this one. 60 is nice, but yes, a little extra selfish for visual enhancements. We all are, right?

The audio side is also really strong. Engine sounds feel aggressive, drifting sounds convincing, and collisions actually carry weight to them. Even the small things, like revving before races, added to the atmosphere.

While variety in controls is a big plus, the UI is very clean and handy

As I mentioned earlier, the controls are easy, but it definitely took me a little time to fully settle into because there are multiple options available. Racing Master provides three control options, where I was able to customize sensitivity and dead zone accordingly.

You can adjust sensitivity, dead zones, assists, auto drift, and throttle settings depending on how comfortable you are with the handling style. I switched between layouts quite a few times before finding one that clicked for me, which was the button style.

As for the UI of Racing Master, it is pretty clean and simple. Whatever work I carried out behind the wheel, the UI communicates well with that. Despite the number of menus, upgrades, currencies, and events in the game, navigating around never really became frustrating.

Racing Master’s monetization offers balanced free-to-play options

Racing Master introduces a micro-transaction system that seemed less disturbing to me in comparison to other games recently. It definitely has passes, premium currency, packs, and all the usual systems you’d expect. But I admit, during my time with the game, I never really felt pushed into spending money.

Resources come at a decent enough pace through racing, missions, and progression rewards. Unlocking cars felt fair, and unless you’re desperate for top-tier rare vehicles immediately, the free-to-play experience stays enjoyable. I could draw new and rare cars at a balanced rate, so this is a good plus.

Final Verdict

So, as a “non Racing Master”, I would say it is very well done. The realistic handling, beautiful licensed cars, and stunning visuals genuinely make racing feel rewarding once you get used to the mechanics. Every clean launch off the start, the clean drifts, and perfectly timed turn feels so good when you execute it.

I still wish the game experimented more with challenge-based content outside standard circuit races. After a while, the structure can feel repetitive, especially when compared to racers that constantly throw different objectives at you. The story sections also slowed things down more than I wanted at times.

The open world was genuinely my favorite bit, just roam around in the cars, sit in other cars, and chat as you go on a date. These were moments where I lost track of time, which I definitely suggest you do as well.

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