Circuit Superstars

Circuit Superstars

Fair · Action · 2023

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
8.3h
Value
$2.41/hr
Reviews
85% positive
It needs 65% off ($6.98) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
8.3h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
52.4h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$2.41
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$19.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
85%
2,621 reviews, as of Sep 26
Metacritic
82
critic score
Players
350K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2023

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 or AMD Radeon HD 7850, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.

Circuit Superstars is a top down racing game with a tactile arcade physics model, pitstops, and a pure motorsport approach. It includes 16 categories that span different styles and eras of motorsport.
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

Holding it back
Value$2.41/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews85% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
Length8.3 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach350K+ 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
Refunds16 of 602 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

It has never been cheaper than $7.99. That was June 2026. It has been discounted 31 times in the 6 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 10 percent on value. It is pricier than 92 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 90 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Barro F ($0.49, scores 57) beats it on value, while it beats Barro 2020 ($4.99, scores 42).

16 of the 602 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 70 percent of the 560 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 25 percent of everything written about it.

8.3 hours to finish it, 52 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 6.3 times the campaign.

It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 8.3 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.

The drop-off

81% start to <1% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

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

Players

7 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 13:48 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

This game is kind of fun? I'm unable to find a way to turn off the screen shake, and that ruins the whole game for me.
BASEguy955Not recommendedafter 6.2hJul 2026Read on Steam
This is an ok game. The isometric camera is too much for me to tolerate though. Lack of any meaningful single player "career" style modes doesn't help either. There also seems to be a bug with the controls where accelerating with the right trigger is slightly slower than using the A button. Tested this a few times at the start of races with AI to be sure and even checked on my controller settings. Something goofy...
bingbonglerNot recommendedafter 9.7hJun 2026Read on Steam
Great racing game. Don't let its looks fool you. For higher difficulties you need to apply proper racing techniques. I thought it will be a nice time waster game, but now I am hooked. I have not been able to get an online race. That's a shame. But AI racing is good.
BlinkinRecommendedafter 7.4hAug 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

Cite this score

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Circuit Superstars scores 53/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1097130/circuit-superstars
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Reviews 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 Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.

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Critics vs players+3
Critics
82
Players
85
Critics and players agree on this one.
Metacritic critics · 2,621 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperOriginal Fire Games
PublisherOriginal Fire Games
GenreAction
Released2023
Achievements33