Ridge Racer™ Unbounded
Skip · Other · 2012
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 10, under the fair line, at $9.99.
- Length
- 8.3h 18.4h to 100%
- Value
- $1.20/hr
- Reviews
- 62% of 1,930 positive
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Buy now or wait
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
The latest title in the RIDGE RACER franchise, RIDGE RACER Unbounded gears up to carve its own destructive path with a new breed of arcade racing.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 512 MB RAM, ATI Radeon 4850 or higher, NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT or higher, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
79 discounts in the 14 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is less well reviewed than 87 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Need for Speed™ ($29.99, scores 22) beats it on value, while it beats FlatOut 4: Total Insanity ($29.99, scores 0).
More about Ridge Racer™ Unbounded
The press liked it more than its buyers did, 72 against 62 percent.
This site sampled 511 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 10 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to October 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth. Inside the two-hour refund window, 50 percent of the 477 reviews written there were positive, against 62 percent overall, and those are 41 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 8.3 hours; clearing it takes 18, which is 2.2 times the campaign.
The drop-off
82% 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
If someone criticizes a simple arcade game, Because it is NOT a simulator, then it seems that this is a problem of a person with a worldview. I think it is a simple fun game for relaxation. When I started it, I couldn't stop playing for Three hours. BUT... IF YOU SUDDENLY decide TO MAKE A MISTAKE and complete ALL THE CHALLENGES with three stars-GOOD LUCK... THIS IS "DARK SOULS ON FOUR WHEELS"...
1 more review
This game does not deserve a negative review but it does not deserve it being too positive either. As everyone mentioned before, the game tries to be too much and loses it's own identity. The gameplay is not that bad but it's a shame you don't get to drive any of the old RR cars anymore and little to no RR music from the previous titles. You will also feel like driving on oil very often especially when you drift...
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Cite this score
Ridge Racer™ Unbounded scores 10/100 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/202310/ridge-racer-unboundedReviews 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 Oct 3, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.