WRC 10 was announced in April 2021 as the official title of the 2021 season, featuring twelve rounds including Croatia Rally, Rally Estonia, Ypres Rally Belgium, and Rally de Catalunya. Rally New Zealand was absent from the main campaign, though some special stages from that location appeared in secondary modes. A major selling point was the game's fiftieth-anniversary celebration of the World Rally Championship, inaugurated in 1973.
The anniversary content introduced in WRC 10 became one of the title's most discussed features. It offered a range of historical rally cars spanning from the classic Group B era through to modern World Rally Cars: the Alpine A110, Audi Quattro, Lancia Delta Group A, and Citroen Xsara WRC among them. The mode placed players in recreated moments from championship history, though critics noted the delivery of these events could feel disjointed and lacked adequate difficulty scaling.
WRC 10 received generally favorable reviews for its PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S versions, while the Windows version drew mixed or average assessments, according to Metacritic.
Eurogamer recommended the game, praising its detail-rich dynamic stages, the variety of rally cars, and overall feel, but criticised the pacing of anniversary events and the sluggish career mode progression. IGN lauded the historically significant car selection and the visual richness of the rally locations while taking issue with the lack of difficulty settings in anniversary events and the inability to skip the WRC Junior series during career play; the publication called it "the spiciest and arguably the strongest official WRC game to date" but acknowledged it was only marginally stronger than WRC 9.
Push Square awarded the PlayStation 5 version eight stars out of ten, highlighting improved handling and physics, DualSense haptic feedback, the historic events and car roster, and the depth of the career mode. Shacknews praised the solid driving physics, e-sports functionality, and volume of content, but pointed to lackluster visuals and performance issues on PC. Hardcore Gamer gave 3.5 out of 5, writing that WRC 10's "small but worthwhile alterations to the formula have at least staved off any fear of an eventual plateauing for the series."
The Nintendo Switch port attracted notably harsher criticism. Nintendo Life called the graphical issues severe enough to distract during driving and described the framerate as unacceptably rough, while also panning long load times. TouchArcade labelled the Switch version a "graphical mess," though both outlets acknowledged improvements over WRC 9 in content and handling.
WRC 10 introduced the Anniversary mode framework that carried forward into WRC Generations, the final Kylotonn-Nacon entry in the official series before the license transferred to EA Sports.