Assetto Corsa worth? (Steam sale)

My 2 cents.

It's a full on simulator. You CAN play it with a gamepad, but it's designed to be enjoyed with a wheel. It's a completely different game compared to the various grid games, dirt (apart from the last one), or even gran turismo or forza.

Mind you, it's a great simulator. But it might just not be your cup of tea.

Assetto corsa is a full on hardcore racing simulator, if you like tweaking suspension settings and tyre pressures doing laps and laps to reduce some milliseconds off your time and basically do that with all sorts of tracks and cars then thats the game for you.

there is no "story mode", no cinematics, i dont think theres even music.

so by your standards i dont think your going to like that game.

Racing simulation: Forza, Project Cars, Gran Turismo.
It's at least better than Project Cars, but i see it on sale very often, and im in no rush on buying it.
Usually they don't have a fixed predefined Deadzone, so yeah...perfectly fine on a controller (well i guess the free Project cars: Pagani version had that problem)

It's a simulator and a very good one. But I don't think you want to play it without wheel. If you like Grid and Dirt, I don't think you would like this one as both those are very arcadish, this is sim.