Zero Gear
Skip · Multiplayer · 2010
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 46, under the fair line, at $4.99.
- Length
- 1h 21.5h to 100%
- Value
- $4.99/hr
- Reviews
- 78% of 879 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 $1.24 (75% off). Calls like this were right 86% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in 7 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
Zero Gear is physically-fueled, online multiplayer kart combat madness. Deck out your kart and character before jumping into one of many different game modes. Outrageous kinematic gameplay and weapons make every round a blast. The potential for tiny vehicular mayhem has never been so humongous!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Shader Model 2.0 capable, 502 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 50 discounts in the 14 years tracked, the median cut is 75 percent, about 12 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 22 percent on value. It is cheaper than 64 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 75 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Golf Gang ($9.99, scores 55) beats it on value, while it beats Drift Streets Japan ($0.49, scores 12).
More about Zero Gear
Inside the two-hour refund window, 58 percent of the 116 reviews written there were positive, against 78 percent overall, and those are 36 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 1 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 22, 22 times as much.
The drop-off
21% 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
I love this game! As with all Kart racers, it isn't about perfect physics simulation, but fun and charm, and this game delivers in spades! It takes a little getting used to, because once you are in the air you cannot steer (unlike most Kart games), but you *CAN* still turn your wheels, so you have to pay attention, because if you try to turn left in the air, when you land your wheels will be facing left and will...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Zero Gear scores 46/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/18820/zero-gearReviews 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 Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.