UNDER the SAND - a road trip simulator

UNDER the SAND - a road trip simulator

Skip · Action · 2020

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 33, under the fair line, at $19.99.

Reviews
79% positive
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Price
$19.99
as of Sep 29
Reviews
79%
1,616 reviews, as of Sep 27
Players
10K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2020
Length + $/hr
No data
no length in our data yet

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 470 GTX or equivalent, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.

You. Your car. And world under the sand.
Description from the Steam store page.

What drives the score

How to read this

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

What we assumed
  • How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. The score is docked for the missing length.
Holding it back
Reviews79% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 78% after the small-sample adjustment
Length unknownNo verified $/hr
No length in our data yet, so the biggest driver can't be verified. A heavy dock until it is
For context
Reach10K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds8 of 572 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

The lowest price on record is $2.24, set in June 2020. Its cuts run 30 percent off as a rule. There have been 20 in the 7 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart.

Value puts it in the top 40 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 92 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 75 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Drive Beyond Horizons ($18.74, scores 39) beats it on value, while it beats Alaskan Road Truckers ($21.99, scores 6).

Of the 572 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 8 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 65 percent of the 492 reviews written there were positive, against 79 percent overall, and those are 32 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

9% start to <1% rarest
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No achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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UNDER the SAND - a road trip simulator scores 33/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. Length is not in our data, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1062960/under-the-sand-a-road-trip-simulator
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Reviews set the ceiling. With no length in our data, value sits at a neutral middle whatever the price, and the BANG Score is docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 27, price as of Sep 29.

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Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperIndieMax
PublisherIndieMax
GenreAction
Released2020
Achievements37