Distance
Worth it · Action · 2018
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $24.99, a BANGER if it drops to $10.05.
- Length
- 2.1h
- Value
- $11.90/hr
- Reviews
- 92% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT or AMD Radeon HD 3830, 5 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Distance is an atmospheric racing platformer. Fusing futuristic arcade racing with parkour, survive a deadly, mysterious, neon-drenched city by jumping, rotating, and flying.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
July 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $2.49. 66 discounts in the 12 years on record. They run about 60 percent off, roughly 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 6 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 8 weeks. The math puts its BANGER price at $10.05. The record reaches that level 45 times.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 2 percent on value. It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Retrowave ($2.09, scores 93) beats it on value, while it beats Carmageddon Max Pack ($9.99, scores 54).
Critics scored it 74. Players sit 18 points higher at 92 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Of the 454 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 5 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 83 percent of the 1,308 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 22 percent of everything written about it.
2.1 hours to finish it, 30 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 14 times the campaign.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 2.1 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
59% 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
19 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Bought this mainly for the art style, but the actual experience even exceeded my expectations in some ways-the atmosphere is really well done. The racing controls are easy to pick up but have a high skill ceiling, so it's very replayable for players who enjoy honing their skills. For me personally though, it might be a bit too difficult, especially the 'Worthy' achievement. Distance is really a gem for racing car...
This game caught me completely off guard. It mixes high-speed racing with a sci-fi/psychological horror vibe that's incredibly gripping, told almost entirely through the environment instead of dialogue. Flying, wall-riding, and dodging obstacles in sync with the music gives you a feeling I haven't found in any other racing game. And your car can explode, get bisected, or lasered in half a dozen different ways, which...
Incredible Racing game with unique gameplay that is easy to learn and very hard to master. Even though the campaign is short there are a lot of things to do in this game, and also community maps.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Distance scores 69/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/233610/distanceThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 7, price as of Sep 24.
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