Motor Town: Behind The Wheel
Worth it · Strategy · 2021 · Early Access
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $19.99, a BANGER if it drops to $9.49.
- Length
- 11.6h
- Value
- $1.72/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 750 4GB, Radeon RX 460 4GB, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
Enjoy realistic driving in the open world. Relaxing cargo deliveries or driving buses and taxis will give you enough money to buy new cars and parts. You can test your driving skills at the race track. It's all about pure driving pleasure!
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 $13.49. That was December 2021. 18 discounts in the 5 years on record. They run about 20 percent off, roughly 12 weeks apart. No sale on record has reached $9.49, the price it would take to be a BANGER.
Value puts it in the top 3 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, American Truck Simulator ($4.99, scores 94) beats it on value, while it beats The Bus ($39.99, scores 19).
27 of the 699 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2024 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 2,725 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 458 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 75 percent of the 517 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
60% start to <1% 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
366 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 02:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Possibly the best driving/management/immersive-sim ever made. It's as chill as you want it to be, or as complex as you like. Community is great, there are some excellent mods available, and it's updated regularly and meaningfully.
The vehicle physics work well and it's fun to buy a new piece of equipment and then figure out how to make it drive through canyons, offroad, far away, or just perform a specific job. Big servers can get laggy but around 40 players is the sweet spot for collaboration and performance. Working together to upright a trailer or clean up a wreck is satisfying. The breadth of vehicles and upgrades allows for a lot of...
PLAY DEMO FIRST in general game is... OK, I wish I could give neutral review. as I don't recommend it in this state, but I also don't reccomend against if you find demo nice, and want more of the same then it's ok. THE GOOD: - There is interlocking economy with production chains, inport/export balance, and demand by towns that when fulfilled increases your money gain. - Vehicle and job variaty, for cargo from pickup...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Motor Town: Behind The Wheel scores 72/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1369670/motor-town-behind-the-wheelReviews 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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