It’s not every day you see a sim-racing brand making its debut. At least, not in the segment that offers quality equipment. Speaking of sim-racing segments, the entry-level, i.e. the one with Direct Drive bases developing less than 10 nm of torque, is highly competitive, with players who have been in the industry for years. I’m talking, of course, about Fanatec, Moza Racing and Simagic. These 3 brands compete in several segments, including entry-level.

But now we’re seeing a new player enter the pool, and it’s already keen to stand out from the crowd. It’s Revosim, a French brand born of the collaboration between Nacon and Kylotonn. If you’re a gamer who shops for accessories such as keyboards, mice and controllers, you may have heard of Nacon. It’s a French company that’s been making this kind of accessory for some time now. As for Kylotonn, it’s a development studio, also French, responsible for certain WRC titles and the latest Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crow.

In 2018, Nacon bought Kylotonn, and we had to wait until 2024 to get Revosim, a company that develops and markets sim-racing equipment and peripherals.

During Gamescom 2024, Revosim showed off its first bundle, called RS Pure. It features a 9 nm torque Direct Drive base, an all-round steering wheel and a Load Cell crankset, and the brand has just announced that it will be available in June 2025, with pre-orders starting now.

Revosim: who is it really?

Revosim isn’t a brand that came out of nowhere. It was born from the collaboration of two entities, in fact one, to offer us our first sim-racing bundle. With Nacon’s hardware experience and Kylotonn’s software expertise, Revosim is aiming for a slice of the pie in the entry-level sim-racing peripherals segment. Opposite it, we have Fanatec with its Ready2Race CSL DD (boost kit) and Moza Racing with its R9 bundle. The competition is a bit tough, I must say, and I sincerely hope that Revosim’s bundle can offer us a great battle between these three brands, which will undoubtedly benefit us, the consumers.

The RS Pure bundle

Let’s get down to business: this famous Revosim bundle. It’s a fairly standard bundle, with a Direct Drive base developing 9 nm of peak torque, a touring-type steering wheel, entirely round with numerous controls, and a Load Cell crankset on the brake and a Hall sensor on the throttle. As I’ve said, it’s a basic configuration, and the RS Pure wants to take on the Fanatec CSL DD with boost kit and the Moza R9 and SR-P crankset.

For the record, this battle is certainly not a foregone conclusion for Revosim, since Fanatec’s peripherals are a benchmark in the segment, and Moza has been offering really competitive products for some years now.

The DD base for RS Pure

The design of the RS Pure base is fairly standard in the segment. There’s a black aluminum housing to help dissipate the heat generated by the electric motor, with very square shapes. It’s beautiful, and looks like what other brands are offering.

At the front, a QR takes its place with a mechanism that is, according to the first images, derived from the D1-Spec, which is a guarantee of quality. At the rear, we find the connections to the platform, pedalboard and other as yet unannounced accessories.

The electric motor develops 9 nm of peak torque, as with Moza and Fanatec peripherals. The encoder is a 21-bit one, providing excellent motor responsiveness and detailed information to the driver.

For mounting, Revosim includes a metal clamp in the box to anchor setups on furniture. And if you’ve got a chassis, you’ve got bottom mounting points too.

The RS Pure steering wheel

Let’s move on to the steering wheel. It’s pretty standard in terms of features, with 12 buttons on the outside of the wheel, one rotary and one steering encoder, a RevLED and also 2 aluminum rear paddles that aren’t magnetic. It’s a bit of a shame, but understandable when you consider the price at which the steering wheel is sold. Talking of the rear, the QR is made of aluminum with a color that tends towards yellow, or gold. The latter is most certainly derived from the D1-Spec, as it closely resembles those used by Moza and Simagic.

For the structure, Revosim has used brushed aluminum, giving it a premium look and feel. Perforated imitation leather is used for the sides and standard for the rest of the wheel, with white stitching and a white band at the top.

I think the design of the steering wheel is a real success. It’s sober, even if the buttons are colored, and the brand logo is well centered. As far as I’m concerned, it’s a good-looking, quality steering wheel.

The RS Pure crankset

Let’s finish with the pedalboard from the RS Pure bundle. Visually, it’s basic, with metal for the structure and an all-black finish. Only the pedal plates are gray, and the elastomers come in a range of colors to differentiate them according to their level of resistance.

This crankset is currently available in a 2-pedal configuration only, with the brake in Load Cell and the gas pedal in Hall Sensor. But rumor has it that Revosim will make a clutch kit available once its ecosystem has matured, as well as adding a shifter to its range.

Obviously, you can either use this pedalboard on the ground, which is frankly not very advisable because of the LC, or put it on a cockpit using bottom-mount brackets. It’s pretty standard, I must say, as is the case with our competitors.

The bundle comes with 9 elastomers of different resistances, which should help you find what you’re looking for on the brake pedal. From the pictures, the mechanism isn’t all that complicated to swap the elastomers, which is a good thing I must say. Also, the pedals are adjustable in a number of ways, including angle and spacing.

Compatibility of the RS Pure DD Bundle

For compatibility, Revosim is counting first on PCs running Windows 10 and 11, and then on eventual support for consoles. For this second point, the decision does not come from the French brand, but rather from the console manufacturers (Sony and Microsoft), as it is they who must supply the chips enabling the peripherals to run on their platform.

As far as sim-racing titles are concerned, the bundle is not yet natively supported by games on the market. Developers and publishers will have to release updates to fully exploit the potential of the DD base. Of course, once it’s on the market, you’ll be able to use the base on sim-racing titles without updating, but the experience will be diluted.

Availability and prices

Ah, the part that interests us most: availability and price. For the former, Revosim is announcing deliveries from June 2025, with no exact date. However, the bundle is already available for pre-order for €800.

Of course, you can buy the peripherals separately, but the price will be high if you do that, as the base costs €550, the steering wheel €200 and the pedalboard €150. What’s more, Revosim’s equipment only works with each other at the moment, and I don’t know if this will change in the future, which should make you give up buying each peripheral on its own.

What I think of Revosim’s RS Pure

Well, it’s a good thing to have a new competitor in a market more or less dominated by Fanatec. The base develops a good level of power, and the overall quality of the bundle is very good, rather premium, which should facilitate its adoption by the masses.

The price is right, but as far as I’m concerned, I’d have liked to see it a little cheaper (in the €50 range, for example) to really stand out from the competition, especially Fanatec, which offers bundles at practically the same price. We’ll just have to wait for its release to do our tests and find out for sure.