(1986) machine alongside other upright arcade machines.The first Le Mans
video game was in 1976 by
Atari called
LeMans, an upright standing arcade game with a steering wheel and white raster graphics on a black background. In 1986,
Konami released the
arcade game WEC Le Mans. The game was subsequently ported to a number of home computers by
Ocean Software the following year, particularly the
Amstrad CPC,
Commodore 64,
MSX, and
ZX Spectrum. The game broke down the race in four laps, two on daytime and two after sunset, divided into three checkpoints. Due to the limitations of the hardware, all cars had the same 3D model, although they did feature different liveries corresponding to those used by real-world sports cars. The advertising in both sides of the road were also limited to the name of the game and its creators. Over ten years later, in 1997,
Sega released the arcade exclusive
Le Mans 24. As a Japanese publisher, the game marked a debut for the 1991 winner, the
Mazda 787B, before appearing in subsequent driving games including the later
Gran Turismo series, the 1971 JWA Gulf
Porsche 917K appears as a bonus car. Two years later, the French video game publisher
Infogrames, who incidentally absorbed Ocean Software, released
Le Mans 24 Hours for
PlayStation and
PC. The game was developed by British company
Eutechnyx. In the United States, the game was released under the name
Test Drive: Le Mans. In the following year, Eutechnyx released the game on the
Dreamcast. This version of the game was originally planned to be a port from the PlayStation, but was eventually developed from scratch by Australian company
Melbourne House which had been purchased by Infogrames at the time. As with the previous PlayStation version, the
Dreamcast game was released in the US under their
Test Drive brand as
Test Drive: Le Mans. This was one of the most critically acclaimed racing games on the Dreamcast, often hailed as the single best driving game available for the Dreamcast system. Following the release of the Dreamcast version of
Le Mans 24 Hours, Infogrames and Melbourne House developed and released a port of the Dreamcast game on the
PlayStation 2 in 2001. In 2002, a PC port of the
Le Mans 24 Hours game was created by another Australian video game developer, Torus. While itself not a Le Mans game,
rFactor 2 previously hosted the
24 Hours of Le Mans Virtual, an
esports sim racing event simulating the
24 Hours of Le Mans hosted by
Motorsport Games, and officially sanctioned by the
Automobile Club de l'Ouest and the
FIA World Endurance Championship. The first installment in 2020 saw two red flags, with the 2023 edition of the race seeing the servers suffering a security breach and rFactor 2's stability being called into question. In July 22, 2025,
Motorsport Games and Dutch developer Studio 397 released
Le Mans Ultimate, an officially licensed simulation of the
24 Hours of Le Mans, as well as the
FIA World Endurance Championship and
European Le Mans Series. The game became notable for its in-depth simulation of the
Le Mans Hypercar and
LMDh hybrid systems and tire model behavior.
Other games featuring Le Mans Several racing games in the modern era have featured content related to (such as
Circuit de la Sarthe), and sometimes loosely depicting, the
24 Hours of Le Mans. One of the earliest examples of the event's host track
Circuit de la Sarthe being featured in a racing game is in
Gran Turismo 4, released in 2004 by
Polyphony Digital. It used the then-current layout and could be run with or without the two Mulsanne chicanes. The game was the first example of a racing video game featuring the ability to run a full-length 24-hour race, which the player could do against five other opponent cars. The opponent vehicles ranged from
Le Mans Prototype cars, such as the
BMW V12 LMR and the
Audi R8, to
Group C sports prototypes, such as the
Sauber C9 and the
Mazda 787B. Future installments featuring layouts from when the game was released also featured the circuit, those being
Gran Turismo 5,
Gran Turismo 6,
Gran Turismo Sport, and
Gran Turismo 7.
Race Driver: Grid, released in 2008 by
Codemasters, also featured the ability to race all 24 hours, as well as condensed versions running 12 minutes, 24 minutes, one hour, and so forth. According to the time scale chosen, day and night occur at different times. Cars and drivers from the
2006 24 Hours of Le Mans are featured. The Circuit de la Sarthe depicted in the game, however, is much wider, with corners such as Dunlop and Arnage having a much shorter run in, and with significant elevation changes on the track, such as the Hunaudières curve, almost imperceptible. The circuit is also featured in the
Forza series, beginning in
Forza Motorsport 3, later included in
Forza Motorsport 4,
Forza Motorsport 5,
Forza Motorsport 6,
Forza Motorsport 7, and
Forza Motorsport in 2023.
iRacing, released in 2008, saw the addition of the Le Mans circuit in 2016.
Project CARS and
Project CARS 2 from
Slightly Mad Studios included Circuit de la Sarthe under the project name Loire. == List ==