The closest games to Dirt Rally 2.0 are EA Sports WRC, Richard Burns Rally and Assetto Corsa Competizione. Below, 9 picks with the reason for each — what carries over from Dirt Rally 2.0, and what does not.
Dirt Rally 2.0 is a simulation about being alone. No competitors on the track, just a road, a co-driver reading notes you have to trust, and surfaces that degrade as the stage goes on. It is punishing in a way the main Dirt series is not, and the tyre and damage model is the entire game.
Dirt Rally 2.0 released on the PlayStation 4. The list below is not restricted to that console — a recommendation is only useful if you can actually play it, so it spans generations and platforms.
By the same studio, with the official licence and far more stages.
Twenty years old and still the benchmark for rally physics.
The same seriousness applied to circuit racing.
The opposite approach — top-down, stylised, and about the drive.
Surface-change handling from the arcade, and still a joy.
If you want the simulation with a collection attached.
For competition — the most serious online racing there is.
Contact racing with a proper damage model and none of the discipline.
For the obsession with one perfect run, free and endless.
Several of these have their own page here: games like iRacing.
EA Sports WRC. By the same studio, with the official licence and far more stages.
EA Sports WRC, Richard Burns Rally and Assetto Corsa Competizione are the closest. The full list of Dirt Rally 2.0 similar games is on this page — 9 of them, each with the reason it is here rather than a genre tag that happens to match.
The picks above span platforms rather than sticking to the PS4, because the thing worth copying about Dirt Rally 2.0 is not a property of the hardware. The PS4 list further down is the place to go for more from that library.
Because the thing you liked about Dirt Rally 2.0 is not a property of the hardware. Restricting the list to one console would drop most of the good answers, so the picks above span platforms and eras. If you specifically want more from that library, the PS4 list further down is the place to start.
By hand, one game at a time, on what the source game actually does — its pacing, its movement, its difficulty, its tone. Genre tags alone put Dirt Rally 2.0 next to games that feel nothing like it, so they are not the basis for this list. Each pick carries the reason it is here so you can judge it yourself.
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If you already know what kind of answer you want, these are the same list cut by genre — and each one says what it leaves out as well as what it includes:
More from the PlayStation 4 library, each with its own recommendations page: