GRID Legends

GRID Legends

Skip · Action · 2022

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The verdict

SKIP IT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

It scores 36, under the fair line, at $59.99.

Cost per hour▼
$9.68/hr
Reviews▼
75% of 3,931
Genre rank
Top 34% Action

Holding it back: Cost per hour, DRM

Why
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Time and effort

Main story
6.2h
To 100%
78.3h 12.6x the story
Finish
14% reach the ending
Achievements
90

Price and sales

Sales
38 on record
Typical cut
80% off
Steam low
$5.99 December 2023
Sale every
45d last October 2026
Lowest now on Steamall-time low $5.99 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
29 now
Cheaper than
1% of its genre
Better reviewed
64% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

91% start to 14% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

A normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

38 discounts in the 5 years on record, a median of 80 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.

Its score sits in the top 34 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 64 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including KartKraft™ ($24.99, scores 29) and Disney Speedstorm (free, scores 16).

More about GRID Legends

Steam's global achievement data puts about 14 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 6.2-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 25 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2023 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,368 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 575 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 54 percent of the 346 reviews written there were positive, against 75 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.

6.2 hours to finish it, 78 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 13 times the campaign.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

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 we assumed
  • Steam lists in-app purchases but we have no detail on them. Small caution applied.
Raising the score
Replayability~37h to replay
Co-op and replay time. The value score counts hours well past the 6.2h main story
Engagement14% finish
How far players get (achievements). It can only add points
Holding it back
Cost per hour$9.68/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
MonetizationIn-app purchases
Steam lists in-app purchases and nothing more is known, so a small haircut
DRMEA account needed
Denuvo copy protection, a small friction discount
For context
Refunds25 of 800 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

What players say

i like it, but i dont think the driving model is for everyone, its worth trying if its on sale for the graphics, maps and overall sensation alone
IgluinRecommendedafter 24hJul 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I really enjoyed the physics, it mimics the real driving feel very well, though e-braking is quite finnicky. I'd say it's a more polished GRID 2019. Photo mode in this game is otherworldy good, try it out. Also drifting is as fun as it was back in 2008. Wouldn't call it worse or better than GRID 2008 or GRID 2 - they're all different and they all deserve to be played. Overall, i've enjoyed the time i've spent in...
sApieNzRecommendedafter 13hJul 2026Read on Steam
Truthfully there isnt enough effort put into this game beyond the story mode - which im not overly interested in - if you do enough races you'll create your own stories anyway - a story mode is usually how a poor racing game tries to cover up its flaws - which leads to the biggest flaw you can have in a racing game. Poor handling - DO NOT use a wheel - this is a controller game and even then, the cars feel VERY...
Mr PibblesNot recommendedafter 40h4 found this helpfulRead on Steam

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

About the game

GRID Legends delivers thrilling wheel-to-wheel motorsport action. Create dream race events, hop into live races, experience a dramatic virtual production story, and embrace the sensation of spectacular racing.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 950, AMD RADEON RX 460, 50 GB of storage. Windows only.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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GRID Legends scores 36/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1307710/grid-legends
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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 31, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Details

DeveloperCodemasters
PublisherElectronic Arts
GenreAction
Released2022
Players150Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements90