Dirt Rally
Dirt Rally is a racing video game focused on rallying. Players compete in timed stage events on tarmac and off-road terrain in varying weather conditions. On release, the game features 17 cars, 36 stages from…
Dirt Rally is a racing developed by Codemasters, released 7 December 2015 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux and Mac.
What Dirt Rally is
Dirt Rally is a racing game developed by Codemasters and released in 2015. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux, Mac, Oculus Rift and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Ego Engine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Dirt Rally is a racing simulation video game developed and published by Codemasters for Windows. A Steam Early Access version of the game was released on 27 April 2015, and the full version was released on 7 December. PlayStation 4, Xbox One and physical PC DVD versions were released on 5 April 2016. The Linux and macOS versions, developed by Feral Interactive, were released in 2017. A sequel, Dirt Rally 2.0, was released in February 2019. Official game servers were shut down by EA on November 8, 2025.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are non-fiction. It supports multiplayer for up to 8 players online. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player. There are 170 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Colin McRae series
Dirt Rally is the 29th of 41 entries we hold in the Colin McRae series. It arrived 2 years after Colin McRae Rally. The next entry was Dirt Rally: Legend Edition in 2016. Its critic score of 85 is 8 points above the series average of 77. The highest-rated entry is Dirt 3 at 86.
How it was received
Dirt Rally holds a critic score of 85 out of 100. That places it above 87% of the 1,168 rated racing games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 16 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 83, across 156 votes.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for AMD FX Series or Intel Core i3 Series, 4 GB RAM and AMD HD5450 or Nvidia GT430 or Intel HD4000 with 1GB of VRAM (DirectX 11 graphics card required). At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 50GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Dirt Rally launched on 7 December 2015, within three weeks of Star Wars Battlefront, Just Cause 3, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege and Rainbow Six Siege. It reviewed better than all of them. It arrived 2 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Star Wars Battlefront, Just Cause 3, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege, Rainbow Six Siege.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Dirt Rally yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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