Nacon Revosim RS Pure Direct Drive Sim Racing Bundle
design
I’ve unboxed a full grid’s worth of sim racing wheels at both ends of the price spectrum and usually it’s pretty clear where the money has or hasn’t gone. Budget wheels look and feel like budget wheels, and expensive premium kits feel exactly that. The Nacon Revosim RS Pure upended that expectation from the moment I lifted it out of the box. If you told me it was a thousand pounds’ worth I wouldn’t have questioned it, the vibes and build quality here feel far more expensive than its actual price tag.
The wheelbase is the understated star here. It’s nothing unique or flashy, instead it follows the standard design tropes we’ve come to know from top-end options: it’s just a black metal box with some mounting grooves. But it’s heavy, solid, and every bit as premium-feeling as competitors like the MOZA R12 that’s become my daily driver. As you’d expect, all the connections are tucked neatly around the back, and while the standard inclusions are here, there are a couple of bonus additions too that again defy the RS Pure’s price. The basics are the USB-C output, power, and the proprietary port for the pedals. There are also ports for a Nacon shifter and handbrake, though at the time of writing, both are announced but neither accessory is actually on sale or has a firm release date.
Things get jazzier though as Nacon has added a couple of thoughtful extras to the base as well. There’s Bluetooth built in for pairing with your phone for making quick adjustments to settings or trying to monitor telemetry (more on that later), and even a 3.5mm headphone jack—something I’ve only seen before on Turtle Beach’s VelocityOne. If, like me, you race in a dedicated seat setup a few feet away from your PC, this is a brilliant quality-of-life touch to be able to run your audio through the wheelbase rather than wirelessly or trailing another cable along the floor.
The included Revosim RS Pure steering wheel is equally impressive. It’s a 30cm GT-style rim covered in soft, padded faux leather with dot-matrix texturing for grip. Build quality is impressive. The stitching feels far nicer and less rough under your fingers than wheels I’ve tested at much higher prices like the Logitech G Pro. Around the back, while the main housing is plastic it avoids feeling cheap. I’m sure I sound anti-plastic in a lot of my reviews, I’m not, I’m anti the wrong kind of plastic. The plastic here is solid, thick and slightly textured and I’ve got no problem with it.
The metal shifter paddles on the back of the Nacon Revosim RS Pure are light, clicky and a good size with a relatively short travel distance. Some racers might prefer more resistance to these, they’re noticeably easier to activate than say the MOZA R12, but personally I enjoyed that lighter touch when rapidly downshifting into a hairpin in F1 25. The green anodised quick-release is chunky, secure, and nicely designed. I keep saying it, but it feels more expensive than it is and it even holds itself open when detached, which makes swapping rims easier than on some pricier systems.
The Revosim pedals continue this theme of surprising quality. The set is a two-pedal design (though there’s a third pedal add-on that’s been announced but also not yet released) with a metal build, a detachable heel plate, and a no-nonsense industrial look like the MOZA SRP-Lite. They’re perhaps not as flashy on the styling front as the Logitech’s G Pro pedals, but they feel robust and dependable. Crucially, the brake uses a 100kg load cell for proper pressure-based input and Hall effect sensors for precise throttle control. Nacon even includes a set of different elastomers so you can tune the resistance to your liking. That’s the sort of feature I usually expect from far pricier kits.
Have I mentioned the Revosim RS Pure bundle feels incredible value for money so far?
performance
As a bundle, the Revosim RS Pure racing wheel comes impressively well-stocked. You get the base, the rim, the pedals, and even some bonus accessories like a desk-mount too. That said, I wouldn’t recommend bolting this to a desk unless you’ve got one built like a tank (the Secretlab MAGNUS Pro, for example). At 9Nm of torque and with plenty of weight to it, the wheelbase packs enough punch to shake your monitor loose and send your mouse flying across the room. A proper racing seat or sturdy rig is really the only sensible way to mount it.
Fitting it to my Playseat Formula Instinct was straightforward enough, though the fiddly T-slot nuts on the wheelbase did test my patience. These are supposed to make mounting easier, but I found them harder to work with than a classic bolt straight in. The pedals were similarly awkward to secure and needed quite a lot of hand yoga, but once in place, everything sat rock solid and never shifted under load.
On the software side, the Revosim app is functional but a little rough around the edges. It feels very much like a beta of an app that will end up being perfectly good. It recognised my bundle instantly and offers four preset profiles for different racing styles. These work fine as a starting point, but be careful, the rotary encoder on the wheel doubles as a profile switch, and it’s far too easy to change accidentally mid-race. I found this out the hard way during a session in F1 25 when my handling suddenly went haywire and I couldn’t work out why. Keep an eye on the four white diagonal lights on the wheel face, they tell you which profile you’re currently in.
Game compatibility is the area where Nacon still has rather a lot of work to do. Officially, the list of compatible titles on the website looks decent, but “compatible” here often just means the game recognises the wheel exists. In reality, only a handful of games are truly plug-and-play with full button mapping right now. I had the best experience with F1 25, EA WRC, and Forza Horizon 5, where the Nacon RS Pure wheel was ready to go from the start. In other titles, you’ll need to spend time manually configuring inputs, which is frustrating but admittedly fairly typical for a new sim ecosystem.
When everything is dialled in though, the performance is seriously impressive for the price and in fact, I’d go as far as to say the performance is just seriously impressive full stop. The 9Nm direct drive motor delivers more than enough torque for most racers, and while it doesn’t quite match the fidelity of something like Logitech’s G Pro Wheel and TrueForce, it gets surprisingly close. I could feel the slow change in grip as my tyres went off in F1 25, and the change of surface in EA WRC came through clearly. It’s not the absolute pinnacle of realism, but it’s an absolute joy to drive with and feels like a huge step up from entry-level belt-driven wheels and even some other direct drive wheels I’ve tested.
Nacon plans for Revosim to become a racing ecosystem, not just one and done with this bundle, though it’s a walled garden with no option to use wheel’s from other brands. That means for now you’re limited to just the one round option that comes in the RS Pure bundle. That’s not ideal for formula-style games, but the GT-inspired wheel here does do a decent job as an allrounder. It stayed comfortable through longer racing sessions, though even with my reasonably large hands I felt like the buttons were all largely just a little further out of reach than I’d like.
Cleverly though, the RS Pure buttons feature removable caps and Nacon includes a range of colourful extra caps in the box, along with a couple of sheets of stickers. This means being able to change your button layout between games and physically reflect the wheel rather than remembering what does what in what layout, a lovely touch and great for multi-series racers.
The Revosim RS Pure pedals also deserve praise. The load cell brake has an excellent feel underfood and this only improves once you’ve dialled in the elastomers you like best. The softest options are installed out of the box, which makes sense, but it’s worth setting aside a few sessions to try out different combos as it does make quite a big difference. The accelerator’s Hall effect sensor ensures smooth, accurate input with enough resistance to make throttle control feel detailed and responsive.
Nacon has some great ideas with the RS Pure and even throws in a clever phone mount that slots into the grooves on top of the wheelbase, turning your phone into a telemetry screen or dash display. That’s excellent, it’s a really cheap way of achieving what some other brands will charge upwards of £100 or £200 for. The problem is that at launch, support for this is incredibly thin on the ground, almost to the point of it being little more than a tech demo. It feels like a feature that isn’t fully baked yet, something they thought would be great to add but ran out of time to properly establish with developers. The potential is there though if more games get onboard.
summed up
The Nacon Revosim RS Pure bundle is an incredibly strong first outing for Nacon in the sim racing world. They’ve stuck it on the podium in their debut race and if it wasn’t for a few scrappy laps they may well have looked at the top step. Build quality is top-notch across wheelbase, rim, and pedals, and the 9Nm of torque on tap delivers a convincing racing experience that feels closer to premium gear than its price suggests.
The Revosim RS Pure is a bit like an F1 car with a poor strategy from the pit wall at the minute. The hardware is all there, it’s just not well supported enough on the software side. This bundle has the potential to dominate the market but with so few games being natively configured, and even fewer taking advantage of the dash option at the minute, it’s being a little let down.
For £699 though, the Revosim RS Pure offers a level of hardware and performance that would have seemed unthinkable at this price just a couple of years ago. If you’re upgrading from an entry-level wheel or starting fresh with sim racing, this bundle deserves serious consideration and the longer you leave it the better it’s going to get.
