The Drone Racing League Simulator on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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The DRL Simulator is the premier FPV racing game and simulator. The DRL Sim offers a robust, evolving feature set, including high-intensity drone racing. It packs tracks that DRL's real world pilots compete on, with more added every season. And, it's the only place to fly DRL's exclusive drone, the Racer4!

The Drone Racing League Simulator is a action, simulation and racing game developed and published by The Drone Racing League.
Released on November 01st 2017 is available on Windows and MacOS in 2 languages: English and Simplified Chinese.

It has received 3,986 reviews of which 3,352 were positive and 634 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.1 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 8.19€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified The Drone Racing League Simulator into these genres:

Action Simulation Racing Sports Indie Flight Multiplayer 3D Competitive VR

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows 10x64 or greater
Processor: Intel Core i5-4460 (2.70 GHz) or better
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 (2GB) or better
DirectX: Version 11
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 15 GB available space
Additional Notes: For best experience, a controller is required and a radio transmitter is recommended. Specs can change over time and with optimizations.

MacOS

OS: MacOS Catalina or newer
Processor: 3.7 GHz or faster
Memory: 12 GB RAM
Graphics: 2x2048MB VRAM
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 5 GB available space
Additional Notes: For best experience a controller or radio controller are needed. Specs can change over time and with optimizations.

User reviews & Ratings

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Feb. 2025

i have only tried a few other sims, however this sim is great for learning the swich into acro(intermedite) is realy confusing as there is no explanation, but it has realy helped me learn how to fly

Jan. 2025

This is the best FPV drone simulator for beginners. It has a very in-depth tutorial on how to fly and it has 29 maps you can select.

Nov. 2024

---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good ☑ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☑ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☑ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☑ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☐ Old Fashioned ☑ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☑ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☑ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☐ Average ☐ Long ☑ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☑ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☑ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☐ 8 ☑ 9 ☐ 10

Aug. 2024

It's probably one of the best FPV simulators for it's price, it's great as a first simulator, offers great drones which you can custom, lots of maps (which are also customizable) and pretty good graphics. Physics are pretty good, but it's focused too much on the DRL Racer 4, and all drones fly more like it (heavy and underpowered, also drifty and harder to control at nigh speed). The damage is great, but once again, it's only available for the DRL Racer 4. Also there are lots of small bugs, which are slightly annoying. I would recommend it if you don't want to spend a lot of money on better sim (it's a great sim, don't get me wrong) and have a lot of customizability, great multiplayer, official tournaments, OK physics and good graphics. If so - it's totally worth the money, especially on sales. Happy flying!

April 2024

Works with EMAX Included ELRS Remote that came with my TinyHawk Freestyle 3 Youll need to do full calibration and define the zero and half stick points for emax throttle. Works with DJI FPV3 for the new AVATA2, it shows as HID interface. activate your remote with DJI first or it wont work. If you own the drone, activate with the goggles. If you only own the controller you must Plug into PC and use DJI assistant 2 For Consumer Series drones to activate. DID NOT work with wireless Xbox 1 controller, did work with a wired controller. It did not work when plugging my wireless controller in, I used a different wired only controller. You can start off on a gamepad, but understand you will not develop the proper muscle memory for FPV throttle. If the day comes that you finally get a quad and remote please for the love of god plug your new remote into the simulator and train with that for another 30m/1 hour. Do not run outside and fire up your new remote and quad on gamepad experience like I did. You wont have proper throttle muscle memory built up, and it can be very dangerous. I got pretty good on XB1 pad and my first real drone flight was a really shameful flyaway that nearly lost me my drone in the first 2 minutes.

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8.19€

8.1

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Developer

The Drone Racing League

Publisher

The Drone Racing League

Release 01 Nov 2017

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