Driver® Parallel Lines
Worth it · Shooter · 2009
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $2.49.
- Length
- 8.9h
- Value
- $0.28/hr
- Reviews
- 89% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 256 MB of memory, 64 MB DirectX 9.0c-compliant supporting Shader Model 1.1(*see supported list), 4.8 GB of storage. Windows only.
You were the fastest wheelman on the street. You were a legend. You were money. Until they set you up and sent you down. Twenty-eight years inside for someone else's crime. Now you're getting out. Guess what? You got a new job, it's called getting revenge.
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
June 2015 is where it bottomed out, at $2.49. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 79 in the 14 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 9 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 77 percent of its genre. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Mafia II (Classic) ($29.99, scores 70) and Mad Max ($19.99, scores 77).
Critics scored it 61. Players sit 28 points higher at 89 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Of the 418 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 9 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,071 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 190 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 77 percent of the 339 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 23 percent of everything written about it.
8.9 hours to finish it, 35 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.9 times the campaign.
Players
13 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 20:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
An absolute gem from a once known as one of the best companies and now jus a money hungry company called Ubisoft. Drive is what I grew up with and my obsession with racing games draw me into this genre since Driv3er or Driver 3. There is nothing to explain just wish this game wasnt the only Diver on steam and Driver 3 and driver San Francisco was still on steam love them both.
You can still play this game with a PS5 Controller even though it says it is not supported. Its an older game, but still holds up very well. There is a lot of cars to collect, car customizations, missions, side missions, and places to explore. The story is easy to follow. You can complete the game in 10-14 hours.
They don't make them like they used to. Good gameplay, good graphics, good soundtrack.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Driver® Parallel Lines scores 78/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/21780/driver-parallel-linesReviews 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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