SnowRunner
Worth it · Multiplayer · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $29.99.
- Length
- 82.8h
- Value
- $0.36/hr
- Reviews
- 90% positive
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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.
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!
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $11.99. That was September 2025. It has been discounted 53 times in the 5 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 3 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 3 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, MudRunner ($19.99, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats RoadCraft ($39.99, scores 40).
21 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written February 2026 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 490 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 168 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 52 percent of the 1,788 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 247, 3.0 times as much.
It came out 5 years ago and 3.1K were still playing it at the last check.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.
The drop-off
83% start to 2% 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
3,132 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
⭐⭐⭐ I installed SnowRunner because I thought, "How hard can driving a truck be?" The game looked peaceful in the trailers. Beautiful forests, snowy mountains, relaxing music, and some trucks driving through nature. That was a lie. Five minutes in, I discovered that the real final boss isn't the weather, the terrain, or even the missions... It's a puddle. Not a lake. Not a river. A puddle. I've driven through rivers...
I have spent more then 500 hours in this game. the first +/- 400 on epic and now 80+ on steam. I really love this game. Its a great game to just relax but do enough to keep your brain occupied. It is one of those games that you play for 100 hours than dont play for half a year and then continue playing for 100 hours again.
started this series when spintires was just a test. early early.. played a couple hrs here.. game is good. you can spend many years playing this game.. and new stuff shows up all the time, dlc and/or community maps/mods. many mods.. if you have money to spend then this is for you(lots of dlc), if you don't have that much money to spend then this is for you(lots of mods and dlc can be acquired on sale). if you like...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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SnowRunner scores 74/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1465360/snowrunnerThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 2, price as of Sep 23.
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