The Dirt and F1 games are the only ones somewhat comparable. They're both pretty good.

According to ProtonDB, one of the Burnout games should work. I have not played a Burnout game in many years, but I remember the original ones being a blast.

EDIT: I guess that Burnout game was removed from Steam. It's also apparently 11 years old. Ha. Oops.

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Dirt 4 and Dirt Rally have native Linux ports.

Forza Horizon is Arcade game right? more like older NFS games?

Well Grid Autosport might be somewhat similar there. Native also.

I play more of a simulation games myself, but protondb should show what works, i hear Project Cars 3 is now quaite arcadish compared to previous games that were more on the simulation side

Quoting: XpanderWell Grid Autosport might be somewhat similar there. Native also.

I play more of a simulation games myself, but protondb should show what works, i hear Project Cars 3 is now quaite arcadish compared to previous games that were more on the simulation side

Grid Autosport is the most “realistic” of the Grid games, but it's still pretty arcade-y. I've always defended it with the line, “It is a sim, just not a very good one”. That said, I played the heck out of it when it came out on Linux (even though I've since bought Project Cars 1 & 2 and Assetto Corsa, it's still my third most-played Steam game). Definitely worth your time.

But Forza Horizon's “thing” is the open world. I'm not sure there's anything like that on Steam at all, with the possible exception of Burnout Paradise and, as 14 says, the original has been removed. The Remastered edition doesn't work with Proton.

The next Test Drive Unlimited - the series which I'm certain “inspired” Horizon - will apparently be on Steam, but the first two aren't. And it doesn't have a release date yet. So... yeah. From what I've heard, PC3 is probably a good call; the closest you'll get, at any rate.

Quoting: Dunc

Quoting: XpanderWell Grid Autosport might be somewhat similar there. Native also.

I play more of a simulation games myself, but protondb should show what works, i hear Project Cars 3 is now quaite arcadish compared to previous games that were more on the simulation side

Grid Autosport is the most “realistic” of the Grid games, but it's still pretty arcade-y. I've always defended it with the line, “It is a sim, just not a very good one”. That said, I played the heck out of it when it came out on Linux (even though I've since bought Project Cars 1 & 2 and Assetto Corsa, it's still my third most-played Steam game). Definitely worth your time.

I played lots of Grid Autosport also when it came out :) Its not too bad. its arcade-y but not full arcademode.
But yeah Project Cars 2, Assetto Corsa, Dirt Rally 2.0 and the likes are more my thing anyway.

Quoting: DuncBut Forza Horizon's “thing” is the open world. I'm not sure there's anything like that on Steam at all, ...

Doesn't The Crew do somethin similar? From what I remember, those two games are on Steam and work with Proton.

A couple of coworkers were a bit obsessed with the game a while back, and to me it seemed like the big hook for them (in addition to the open world) were daily and weekly challenges with special cars as rewards. And of course the fact that the game was "free-to-play" for Xbox Game Pass subscribers. I base this impression on a couple of short conversations and few minutes of watching one of them stream, so I might be mistaken.

Quoting: Ehvis

Quoting: DuncBut Forza Horizon's “thing” is the open world. I'm not sure there's anything like that on Steam at all, ...

Doesn't The Crew do somethin similar? From what I remember, those two games are on Steam and work with Proton.

Yeah, The Crew... very nice. But unfortunately I haven't Steam version, I have The Crew and The Crew 2 on Uplay and the second on Epic too. I've read on protodb that TC2 doesn't work.

On Steam I have only Dirts (Dirt 4 and two Dirt Rally's) and GRIDs ( GRID, GRID 2 i GRID Autosport).
TDU2 I have in non-steam version.
Those are games with no open world, unfortunately.
I will have to settle down with Dirts and Grids :)

Quoting: Ehvis

Quoting: DuncBut Forza Horizon's “thing” is the open world. I'm not sure there's anything like that on Steam at all, ...

Doesn't The Crew do somethin similar? From what I remember, those two games are on Steam and work with Proton.

I'd forgotten about The Crew. Good call.

hi

only come to my mind is test drive unlimited series (open world, car dealers, houses and other things*)

personally is of my favorite car arcade games