Distance
Worth it · Action · 2018
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 85% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$24.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$3.7485% offBANGER
- Cost per hour▼
- $11.90/hr
- ReviewsS
- 92% of 7,621
- Critics
- 74 players 18 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 3% Action
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $3.74 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 2.1h
- To 100%
- 29.9h 14.2x the story
- Achievements
- 31
Price and sales
- Sales
- 67 on record
- Typical cut
- 60% off
- Steam low
- $2.49 July 2025
- Sale every
- 53d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 12 now
- Cheaper than
- 4% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 98% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
59% start to 1% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
67 discounts in the 12 years on record, a median of 60 percent off across all of them, roughly 8 weeks apart. The math puts its BANGER price at $10.02. The record reaches that level 46 times.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 3 percent. It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, BallisticNG ($14.99, scores 86) beats it on value, while it beats GRIP: Combat Racing ($29.99, scores 54).
More about Distance
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 457 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 5 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 83 percent of the 1,312 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.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $3.74 (85% off). Predictions like this were right 87% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.
Last discount ended 29 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
I didn't know what to expect when i started playing so the spooky main story actually got me a few times even though it is not that spooky. But i really appreciate the little story told there and it engaged me enough to play the arcade levels for a while too. its a fun set of stunt controls, and transitioning between different angles of road never ceases to feel good. the game looks great as well, and seems to have...
2 more reviews
bought game long ago. refunded because of ragequit. ran over a parasite. repeatedly crashed. played game again. 9.99/10, very fun and hard.
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Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Distance is an atmospheric racing platformer. Fusing futuristic arcade racing with parkour, survive a deadly, mysterious, neon-drenched city by jumping, rotating, and flying.
Minimum specs
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.
Cite this score
Distance scores 69/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/233610/distanceReviews 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 Nov 1, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.