Burnout™ Paradise Remastered
Skip · Action · 2020
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $4.99.
- Length
- 10.8h
- Value
- $0.46/hr
- Reviews
- 63% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVidia GT 450 or ATI Radeon HD 5750, 8 GB of storage. Windows only.
Burnout Paradise Remastered provides the ultimate driving playground for you and your friends to play online. This remaster includes all add-ons from the Year of Paradise, including the Big Surf Island update, meticulously recreated and ready to wreck in 4K.
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
December 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $2.99. 52 discounts in the 6 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today's $4.99 at 75 percent off still sits 67 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
Take the discount away and it is a 10. With it, 12.
It is pricier than 91 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 91 percent. Need for Speed™ ($7.49, scores 26) outscores it, and so does Need for Speed™ Most Wanted ($4.99, scores 51). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
This site sampled 500 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 34 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2025 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 3,221 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 26 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. Inside the two-hour refund window, 34 percent of the 2,838 reviews written there were positive, against 63 percent overall, and those are 39 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 10.8 hours; clearing it takes 38, which is 3.5 times the campaign.
The drop-off
68% 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
33 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
This was one of my favorite games every when I was a kid playing after school on my Xbox 360. The driving, smashing, and crashing was unlike any other game at the time. Now almost 20 years later I now have it on my PC. This game is still the ♥♥♥♥ and I hope anyone who likes racing games will give this 2008 classic a chance! Its definitely dated, but man is it so much fun!
Best brain-off game I keep going back to. Overlay crashes are an issue with the EA app, but no problems after disabling the apps causing the overlay issues.
A WARNING: Do Not Buy This for Steam Deck, Steam Machine, or Linux! (Current Status: Completely Unplayable) I once had a genuine experience. In February 2025, this game ran flawlessly on the Steam Deck, I even earned my final achievement on that hardware. That experience was proof of its capability. Now, in September 2026, that capability is a cruel, broken illusion. EA (following its recent acquisition by the Saudi...
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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Burnout™ Paradise Remastered scores 12/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1238080/burnout-paradise-remasteredThe 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 18, price as of Sep 24.
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