SnowRunner
Worth it · Multiplayer · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 60% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$29.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$11.9960% off
- Cost per hour
- $0.36/hr
- ReviewsA
- 90% of 57,427
- Genre rank
- Top 3% Multiplayer
Holding it back: Monetization
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $11.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Typical playtime
- 82.8h
- To 100%
- 243.5h 2.9x the story
- Achievements
- 37
Price and sales
- Sales
- 55 on record
- Typical cut
- 50% off
- Steam low
- $11.99 September 2025
- Sale every
- 36d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 4,190 now
- Recent reviews
- 90% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 3% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 96% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
83% start to 2% rarestA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 55 times in the 5 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 2 weeks ago.
Its score puts it in the top 3 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, MudRunner ($19.99, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats RoadCraft ($39.99, scores 39).
More about SnowRunner
17 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2026 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 52 percent of the 1,835 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (cosmetic); the score docks it lightly for that.
HowLongToBeat players log 82.8 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 244, 2.9 times as much.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 14 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
Personal Rating: Very Positive (90%) The only game where having an IRL driver's license is absolutely meaningless. You are supposed to do tasks and quests for the countryside that just suffered some serious flooding. It is a fun game, but if you're RECKLESS just like me, you'll find yourself hitting the ''Return'' button way too many times for it to make you avoid every puddle. Graphically, the game looks awesome...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
网友推荐我一起玩，还送了礼物券，确实还行，但很折磨，时常会陷泥坑里或者翻车，旁边有人至少可以聊天和相互拉扯，而一个人玩的话真的巨无聊…… 有个运送所有货物的成就如果多人玩可能会错过，因为送有些货的任务只出现一两次，之后就不会再出现（网上搜索说只要装车就算是错的，我实践没用，必须在目的地卸货才算）。 另探索所有原木站的成就，多人下个别站点有人去过后就会失效，就是地图上还显示，但去现场已经没有交互的黄圈了，另注意有些仓库也叫原木站，全摸了还不算，苏联双子工厂西边的锯木厂也算原木站，那个也必须摸。
the game is cool but super hardcore. if you LOVE slow paced games where there's lots of waiting and a slow curve of progression then you will love this. but for casuals, i cant recommend it. i played it with both a controller and wheel + pedals and the wheel feels way better. playing with a controller doesnt feel like a car at all. you will slide all over the place even on a road. thats due to the fact youre...
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About the game
Get ready for the next-generation off-road experience! Drive powerful vehicles and overcome extreme open environments to complete dozens of challenging missions solo or with up to 3 friends!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 2 GB, GeForce GTX 660 / Radeon R9 270, 50 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
SnowRunner scores 74/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1465360/snowrunnerReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base 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.