Geoff Crammond Racing Titles Return, Launching on Steam in 2026

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No release date announced as of yet but all the titles are available to wishlist on Steam. It appears that due to licensing, liveries, and driver/team names will be altered to fictional ones, but it appears that Steam Workshop support is there to cater for the vast modding scene that these games have. They have also been renamed Geoff Crammonds Racing.

Geoff Crammonds Racing
Geoff Crammonds Racing 2
Geoff Crammonds Racing 3
Geoff Crammonds Racing 4

I am very excited about this, my favourite F1 series of all time.

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This is amazing especially if they've made sure to get them running easily on modern systems and with modern controllers.
If these have Steam Deck support I'm done!
 
These games were so ahead of their time back then.

I have the most nostalgia for 4 as it was the I played the most.

As already said before I hope its Steam Deck compatible and im sure being a PC game there will be a mod for real liveries and drivers at some point.
 
That's the best piece of news of the year, I remember the countless hours spent on GP2 on my Pentium 75Mhz !
If the games are as modable as they were back then, finding accurate liveries or track extensions shouldn't be too difficult
 
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These games were so ahead of their time back then.

I have the most nostalgia for 4 as it was the I played the most.

As already said before I hope its Steam Deck compatible and im sure being a PC game there will be a mod for real liveries and drivers at some point.
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If the file structures are the same as the original games then there's already 3 decades of mods out there.
 
I used to have a demo of GP3 back when we had these mythical devices called CDs and when I used a joystick to play racing games. Seeing them return for modern systems is a big surprise

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I'm happy for the people who are getting GCR back but when they said MicroProse Crammond games were returning I was hoping for some SCR as well. That was my jam.

 
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Stunt Car Racer was soooo good!

What a cool story to wake up to. I only ever played the first Geoff Crammond game, it was a great game, nothing like it at the time really even though I was a kid and barely understood a lot of it.
 
I used to spend hours on GP3Edit, making fictional F1 teams and making liveries, setting all the parameters for each team, drivers and their abilities, what a time that was.

Interesting point of note in the description of Geoff Crammonds Racer 4:

Dive into various game modes, including a comprehensive career mode where you can manage your team, develop your car, and compete for the championship title.

I know it's been a while, but I don't remember it having this type of career mode, indicating this may be more than a light refresh and re-release.

Not to mention, in the Microprose full press release:

This reunion marks the beginning of a long-term partnership between MicroProse and Geoff Crammond, with further announcements in the series to come.

Geoff Crammonds Racing 5 on the horizon?
 
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I used to spend hours on GP3Edit, making fictional F1 teams and making liveries, setting all the parameters for each team, drivers and their abilities, what a time that was.

Interesting point of note in the description of Geoff Crammonds Racer 4:

Dive into various game modes, including a comprehensive career mode where you can manage your team, develop your car, and compete for the championship title.

I know it's been a while, but I don't remember it having this type of career mode, indicating this may be more than a light refresh and re-release.

Not to mention, in the Microprose full press release:

This reunion marks the beginning of a long-term partnership between MicroProse and Geoff Crammond, with further announcements in the series to come.

Geoff Crammonds Racing 5 on the horizon?
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I think the descriptions are completely AI generated, I wouldn't read too much into them. It seems like they've pushed this basically before they have anything to even use as actual material.

The pictures on Steam are just ones lifted from Google with alt. logos lazily photoshopped over existing ones.
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To be honest it's a bit worrying in terms of what the actual product will be like.
 
Great news. Hopefully will work on steam deck. At one point GP3 was going to release on Xbox. There is even footage out there.

AudiMan2011
I used to have a demo of GP3 back when we had these mythical devices called CDs and when I used a joystick to play racing games. Seeing them return for modern systems is a big surprise

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Keyboard all the way !!!. A accelerate, Z brake. N left, M right. I remember F4 was indestructible.
 
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Had to search out the MicroProse Grand Prix (which is what the first game was called here) theme music, on Amiga, for the memberberries:



Remember it like it was yesterday...
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The PC version was my childhood. I didn't realize the intro was so different to the Amiga one.
 
OMG, what fantastic news that is. If it were April 1st I might have dismissed it. Geoff Crammond was way ahead of his time. I have played every Grand Prix game that was released in the US and still have my copy of GP4.

GP4 was cutting edge, with insane graphics for its time, unbelievable lifelike AI cars that would realistically block you. The first F1 racing game to feature live garage side telecasts of other drivers out on the track, weather where it could rain on different parts of the track and be sunny in other parts. It had grip levels inside the racing line and it went away outside of the line. Before Ray Tracing was a thing, he developed his version in GP4 with reflections.

One of the things he made unique to his games was, he developed it around the keyboard. I'm glad to see his games are back. I hope he decides to get back in development.
 
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