HOT WHEELS UNLEASHED™ 2 - Turbocharged
Skip · Action · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 30, under the fair line, at $39.99.
- Length
- 8.9h 22.6h to 100%
- Value
- $4.49/hr
- Reviews
- 76% of 1,075 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 10 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 world’s raddest cars are back and taking the fun to the next level! Race over 130 vehicles with crazy new mechanics and even more vehicle types. Plus, build your tracks with stunning new environments and different game modes to have fun off and online!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 1050 / Radeon RX 460, 30 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 21 times in the 3 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 80 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 10 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 49 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 67 percent. HOT WHEELS UNLEASHED™ ($29.99, scores 40) outscores it, and so does RIDE 5 ($49.99, scores 65). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about HOT WHEELS UNLEASHED™ 2 - Turbocharged
15 of the 521 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2023 to October 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,362 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 444 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 47 percent of the 184 reviews written there were positive, against 76 percent overall, and those are 19 percent of everything written about it.
8.9 hours to finish it, 23 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.5 times the campaign.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 8.9 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
94% start to 3% 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
A very fun game a that has some challenge to it, that or I am ass at the game, who knows. Anyways, the locations are all great, love the fact you can drive around each one. There is so much detail put into this game too. Side boosting and a double jump was something I didn't know I needed in a hot wheels game. The cars I used where fun, but I feel the off-road class is probably the weakest though. However, this game...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I'm a lifelong hot wheels fan and can say this isn't just a kids game despite what the story caters for. When you put the difficulty up to hard it gives a good challenge without the feeling of obvious rubber banding. When I win I feel like I have won because of my skill and when I loose I feel like it's because of mistakes I made or incorrect car choice. There's a lot of call backs and nostalgia in the choice of...
The controller settings mess up on two player mode and there is no fixing them apparently. This is the only game with the problems. This is a game that is supposed to be easy enough for my kids. I can't even fix the darn problem and I don't feel like going down a rabbit hold for a kids game. Uninstalled. Not buying your next game either.
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Cite this score
HOT WHEELS UNLEASHED™ 2 - Turbocharged scores 30/100 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/2051120/hot-wheels-unleashed-2-turbochargedReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.