World Racing 2 - Champion Edition

World Racing 2 - Champion Edition

Fair · Action · 2022

The verdict

BUY IT.

Fair at $1.99, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Dec 2022. Buy it now if you want it.

Length
16.1h 29.7h to 100%
Value
$0.12/hr
Reviews
85% of 353 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

It is 80% off today.

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

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

Raising the score
Value$0.12/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set That is today's sale price. Normally $0.62/hr
Engagement4% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Reviews85% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 83% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds4 of 307 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

World Racing 2 is back - revamped with a new look! The highly acclaimed racing spectacle makes the streets on your screen glow like never before! The new Champion Edition offers modding and Steam Workshop support. Are you ready to start the race of your life? The roads are waiting for you!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 64MB 3D Graphic Card, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

It has been discounted 32 times in the 4 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today's $1.99 at 80 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.

On value it sits in the top 4 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 70 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 88 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Driftwood ($19.99, scores 70) beats it on value, while it beats GRID Legends ($59.99, scores 36).

More about World Racing 2 - Champion Edition

Steam's global achievement data puts about 4 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 16.1-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. 4 of the 307 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 81 percent of the 126 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 41 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

68% start to 4% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements

Players

Players online
3 when we last checked, on Oct 9, 02:55 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

Rubberbanding and AI are terrible! If they would fix it, it would be a pretty neat nostalgic game... But the AI and rubberbanding are sooo frustrating!
TKNot recommendedafter 1.5hAug 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
This game is an example of how otherwise a nice game is ruined by some bizarre/ill intended devs choices. At he beginning the game is nice because you still dont have to play with fast cars but definitely after the first half you'll only play with those fast cars and everything changes in stacked negative aspects. Some of these are: - when you want to turn your car must must pivot on its axis and then begin to turn...
andrewhipoliteNot recommendedafter 24hJul 2026Read on Steam
Shortcut Racing 2: Prepare to Lose Edition 10 «unfair» «long cut» «extreme driving error» of out 10
DrunkenMaster62Recommendedafter 33hSep 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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World Racing 2 - Champion Edition scores 65/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1301010/world-racing-2-champion-edition
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Reviews 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 Oct 2, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperSynetic GmbH
PublisherUniqueGames Publishing GmbH
GenreAction
Released2022
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements52