HOT WHEELS UNLEASHED™
Skip · Other · 2021
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 40, under the fair line, at $29.99.
- Length
- 10.3h
- Value
- $2.91/hr
- Reviews
- 79% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 960 / GeForce GTX 1050, 22 GB of storage. Windows only.
Collect the best vehicles in the Hot Wheels™ universe, build spectacular tracks and dive into breathtaking races.
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
The lowest price on record is $5.99, set in November 2023. 40 discounts in the 5 years on record. They run about 85 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 24 percent on value. It is pricier than 88 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 78 percent. Among the games that feel like it, RIDE 5 ($49.99, scores 65) beats it on value, while it beats HOT WHEELS UNLEASHED™ 2 - Turbocharged ($39.99, scores 30).
Of the 399 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 5 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 58 percent of the 913 reviews written there were positive, against 79 percent overall, and those are 17 percent of everything written about it.
10.3 hours to finish it, 36 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.5 times the campaign.
Players
22 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 23:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
HOT WHEELS UNLEASHED™ scores 40/100 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/1271700/hot-wheels-unleashedReviews 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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