FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage Collector's Edition
Worth it · Other · 2008
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $19.99.
- Length
- 14.1h
- Value
- $1.42/hr
- Reviews
- 90% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 81% over the last 30 days against 90% all-time.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, DirectX 9.0c. Windows only.
Ready for the aggressive, adrenaline-filled ride that leaves you breathless? FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage Collector's Edition is all about destructive action. With carnage modes like the Deathmatch derby, Carnage Race and Head-on races are pure wreck-filled, adrenaline-pumping rides of maximum mayhem.
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
February 2019 is where it bottomed out, at $1.99. It has been discounted 128 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 80 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 2 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 3 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 81 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, FlatOut 2 ($9.99, scores 95) beats it on value, while it beats FlatOut ($7.49, scores 63).
Critics scored it 79. Players sit 11 points higher at 90 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Players rate it 90 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 81 percent. Something recent has soured the room. This site sampled 650 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 5 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 74 percent of the 1,208 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 18 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 14.1 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
25% start to 2% 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
Players
42 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
I hope that this Steam game will last for a very long time and will work and function like usual ok?
Overall: 8/10 Story: Just like the first two games, there's no narrative at all. The campaign provides no background, cutscenes, dialogue, or personal motivations explaining why you're racing, and like in Flatout 2, the career mode here is sorted into three car classes/tiers to race through: Derby, Race, and Street. Speaking of similarities to Flatout 2, this game features the same roster of characters as before...
It starts out like it's a really fun game. But the more you play, the more you'll realize how broken the game is. Evening events where you have a hard time seeing the track because the lack of decent lighting (and no headlights on the car?!?!...what the hell idiot thinks this is a good idea?), the physics are bad. You know how when you are in a 2,000 lb car and you hit a cardboard box and your car goes tumbling in...
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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FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage Collector's Edition scores 72/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/12360/flatout-ultimate-carnage-collector-s-editionThe 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 Sep 15, price as of Sep 24.
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