Buck Up And Drive!
Worth it · Action · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $7.99.
- Length
- 4.3h 4.6h to 100%
- Value
- $1.86/hr
- Reviews
- 92% of 697 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $5.51 (31% off). Calls like this were right 89% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- 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
About the game
There is time to explain, I just don't wanna.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 512MB, 102 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 25 times in the 5 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 31 percent, about 11 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 2 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 97 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Crash Drive 2 ($0.99, scores 81) beats it on value, while it beats Road Redemption ($2.99, scores 66).
More about Buck Up And Drive!
Of the 353 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 3 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 87 percent of the 368 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 58 percent of everything written about it.
At 4.3 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
73% 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
What players say
It's always nice to see a game inspired by Out Run, especially when it's as fanbloodytastic as this game is! Being able to drift and do hurricane spins is a neat addition. There's also a nice variety of different looking areas, it keeps the game looking fresh. I really enjoyed unlocking all the achievements in this game, a few of them are some of the hardest achievements I've ever personally unlocked! My only real...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Neat little arcade racer. It takes a bit until you get the hang of the drifting mechanics though (especially this "hurricane" move). I also like that the option to "remove" Pride flags just adds more of them
The game is cool, but it gets boring quickly. The controls are clunky, and the option with the LGBT flags is the most useless thing I've ever seen. I don't want to see them in the game, but the game doesn't give me that choice.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Buck Up And Drive! scores 73/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1714590/buck-up-and-driveReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.