Retrowave
BANGER · Action · 2022
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $2.99.
- Length
- 1.5h
- Value
- $1.99/hr
- Reviews
- 95% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, AMD Radeon HD 6450, Nvidia GeForce GT 460, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
Neon lights, palm trees, synthwave, '80s supercars speeding down an endless highway... Welcome to the world of Retrowave!
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 $0.89. That was November 2023. It has been discounted 63 times in the 7 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 78 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Drift86 ($1.99, scores 74) and OutDrive ($2.99, scores 37).
The math says it holds its tier up to $4.22, and you are being asked for $2.99.
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 16 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 95 percent of the 7,782 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 56 percent of everything written about it.
1.5 hours to finish it, 46 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 31 times the campaign.
The drop-off
75% 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
Players
8 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 11:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Okay turn off your brain kinda game, while watching streams or stuff like that. With the worst menu UX I've ever experienced. Genuinely, did the devs ever navigate the menu with a controller?
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Retrowave scores 91/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1239690/retrowaveReviews 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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