Dakar Desert Rally
Skip · Other · 2022
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 2, under the fair line, at $29.99.
- Length
- 19.3h
- Value
- $1.55/hr
- Reviews
- 57% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 67% ($9.89)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 80% ($5.99)
- Last discount ended
- 24 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 1050 Ti (4GB)/ Radeon RX 570 (4GB), 50 GB of storage. Windows only.
Dakar Desert Rally is the biggest off-road rally racing adventure ever developed. Experience the speed and excitement of the largest rally race on the planet, featuring a wide variety of licensed vehicles from motorcycles, cars, trucks, quads and SSVs.
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
March 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $5.99. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 36 in the 4 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 87 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 93 percent. Dakar 18 ($2.99, scores 22) outscores it, and so does TrackDayR ($24.99, scores 42). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
34 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2022 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 101 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 6 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 4 of the 34 refunded reviewers were past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. Inside the two-hour refund window, 33 percent of the 428 reviews written there were positive, against 57 percent overall, and those are 29 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
70% 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
6 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 16:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
if you go to Nexus mods and pick up one of the nexus mods to fix the 2 render engines crashes that prevents playing the game overall its a great game just needs fixing
Put the slipper on the floor, let's go. Great rallies with a large selection of cars and motorcycles. The game is worthy of attention, the nature and landscapes are very beautifully made, and the car setup system is well thought out. Your race depends on the correct setup. Recommend it for review.
A huge disappointment. Do not recommend. I had been waiting for Dakar Desert Rally for a very long time and was really looking forward to finally playing it. Unfortunately, due to the difficult situation in my home region, I wasn't able to play the game at release or for a long time afterwards. I finally got the chance to play it three years later. And what a disappointment it turned out to be. The graphics are...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Dakar Desert Rally scores 2/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1839940/dakar-desert-rallyReviews 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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