Inertial Drift
Skip · Short indie · 2020
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 42, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 2h
- Value
- $10.00/hr
- Reviews
- 85% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 550 Ti / Radeon HD 6790 2GB VRAM*, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
An arcade racer that tears up the rule book with innovative twin-stick controls, completely re-imagined driving mechanics and a huge roster of fiercely individual cars and tracks.
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
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $0.99. That was September 2024. Its cuts run 67 percent off as a rule. There have been 45 in the 6 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 26 percent on value. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 88 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Super Woden GP 2 ($12.99, scores 46) beats it on value, while it beats Barro ($4.99, scores 37).
Of the 509 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 8 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 69 percent of the 472 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 36 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 2 hours; clearing it takes 21, which is 10 times the campaign.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 2 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
94% start to 3% rarestNo 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
What players say
Game is extremely fun. my only complaint is that the XC difficulty with ibba is damn near impossible. Im not bad at racing games by any means, Ive owned this game on two different steam accs. The times required to beat the missions are unrealistically high, Id argue some cannot be beaten even with a near perfect line. every other character's XC difficulty feels as if its on easy mode compared to ibba. Other than...
This game reminds me of titles of an era where titles where actually different from each other. Not all the same mechanics in different packages. It's polished, controls are a bit different from what you'd expect, but it's fun to learn them nonetheless. With a bit stronger writing and more involved story, it would've been even better.
This is my favorite time-trial game of all time. If you like racing or time-trial/speedruns, you should play this. I recommend this to everyone as I think everyone can get something out of this gem of a game. The mechanics are simple to use, yet deeper than you can see. There are many different cars, each with their own strengths and weaknesses. Every car has it's own unique set of drift angles, with in-betweens...
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Cite this score
Inertial Drift scores 42/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1184480/inertial-driftReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 1.
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