AudioSurf
BANGER · Short indie · 2008
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
A BANGER today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 75% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$9.99BANGER
Typical seasonal cut
$2.4975% offBANGER
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.25/hr
- ReviewsS
- 96% of 11,105
- Critics
- 85 players 11 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Short indie
Watch this gameOne alert at $2.49 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 8h
- To 100%
- 16.9h 2.1x the story
- Achievements
- 19
Price and sales
- Sales
- 59 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $0.99 December 2014
- Sale every
- 84d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 12 now
- Cheaper than
- 11% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
80% start to 2% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
59 discounts in the 14 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 12 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 1 percent. It is pricier than 89 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Beat Hazard ($9.99, scores 93) beats it on value, while it beats Audiosurf 2 ($14.99, scores 66).
More about AudioSurf
The press gave it 85; the people who bought it give it 96 percent. An 11-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Of the 402 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 4 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 88 percent of the 1,816 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 20 percent of everything written about it.
8 hours to finish it, 17 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.1 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $2.49 (75% off). Predictions like this were right 92% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.
Last discount ended 31 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
What a nostalgic throwback to when we kept out songs as mp3 files on our devices. This was THE rhythm game to play those songs with, since it generates tracks for you to ride based on mp3 files on your computer. The decoration around the track also reminds me of those weird psychedelic visuals that Windows XP would show while an mp3 was playing. For the gameplay, you drive along a road and swap lane to catch some...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
It is the year 2012. You boot up Audiosurf and turn Toby Fox's music into a rhythm game rollercoaster. It is the year 2026. You once again boot up Audiosurf and turn Toby Fox's music into a rhythm game rollercoaster. Within that span of time, a lot has changed, and yet not a lot at all, if you really think about it. It is as though, upon revisiting this silly little game, you have come right back home. This one's...
just not my vibe at all. was innovative back then but now it feels hella dated and didn't hold up for me. not my style so i couldn't get into it fr
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Ride your music. Audiosurf is a music-adapting puzzle racer where you use your own music to create your own experience. The shape, the speed, and the mood of each ride is determined by the song you choose.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 32 MB NVIDIA GeForce 2 (support for Pixel Shader 3.0 recommended). Windows only.
Cite this score
AudioSurf scores 86/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/12900/audiosurfReviews 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 Nov 6, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.