The Long Drive
Skip · Shooter · 2019 · Early Access
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Under the fair line today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 75% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$15.99Skip
Typical seasonal cut
$3.9975% offFair
- Cost per hour▼
- $3.72/hr
- Reviews▼
- 88% of 56,841
- Genre rank
- Top 43% Shooter
Holding it back: Early access, Refunds
Why
Recent reviews trending down: 78% over the last 30 days against 88% all-time.
Watch this gameOne alert at $3.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 4.3h
- To 100%
- 27.4h 6.4x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 31 on record
- Typical cut
- 25% off
- Steam low
- $3.99 June 2024
- Sale every
- 85d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 354 now
- Recent reviews
- 78% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 32% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 78% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 31 times in the 7 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 25 percent, about 12 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score sits in the top 43 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 68 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 78 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 39).
More about The Long Drive
Players rate it 88 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 78 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 1,424 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 127 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.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $3.99 (75% off). Predictions like this were right 92% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.
Last discount ended 31 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
It's playable. That's about it. With the last update being 3 years ago at this point, I wouldn't hold my breath for it to ever be released. The dev is likely to move onto the next project and so on.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Game is a buggy mess and the community has been waiting forever for an update. Dev says that he didn't abandon the game but honestly at this point it doesn't matter any more to a lot of them . He has acted very unprofessional and very combative in the community posts. Honestly he has come off as a bit of a #@%$. 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.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Random generated open world semi-post apocalyptic survival car driving game.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX 650 TI or AMD equivalent, 696 MB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
The Long Drive scores 47/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The developer disclosed AI-generated content on Steam, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1017180/the-long-driveReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.