The Long Drive
Fair · Shooter · 2019 · Early Access
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $15.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 4.3h
- Value
- $3.72/hr
- Reviews
- 88% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 80% over the last 30 days against 88% all-time.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX 650 TI or AMD equivalent, 696 MB of storage. Windows only.
Random generated open world semi-post apocalyptic survival car driving game.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $3.99, set in June 2024. It has been discounted 30 times in the 7 years tracked here, typically at 25 percent off, with about 12 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 12 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 29 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 67 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 80 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Mad Max ($19.99, scores 77) beats it on value, while it beats Drive Beyond Horizons ($24.99, scores 46).
Players rate it 88 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 80 percent. Something recent has soured the room. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 33 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2026 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 725 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 31 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 3 of the 33 refunded reviewers were past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. Inside the two-hour refund window, 61 percent of the 4,617 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 4.3 hours. Doing everything runs 27, 6.4 times as long.
Players
377 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
It's playable. That's about it. With the last update being 3 years ago at this point, I wouldn't hold my breath for it to ever be released. The dev is likely to move onto the next project and so on.
Game is a buggy mess and the community has been waiting forever for an update. Dev says that he didn't abandon the game but honestly at this point it doesn't matter any more to a lot of them . He has acted very unprofessional and very combative in the community posts. Honestly he has come off as a bit of a #@%$. I have never conversed with him personally but from just reading his replies to the community asking for...
died because i forgot to piss. urine for a good time if you buy this game. heh, get it? i'm so clever. just buy the damn game.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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The Long Drive scores 56/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1017180/the-long-driveThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 1, price as of Sep 24.
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