Death Road to Canada
Worth it · Roguelike · 2016
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $14.99.
- Length
- 6h
- Value
- $2.50/hr
- Reviews
- 93% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 123 MB of memory, Minimum Supported Texture Size 2048x2048, 61 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Control a car full of jerks as they explore cities, recruit weird people, rescue dogs, argue with each other, and face gigantic swarms of slow zombies. Randomly generated for a new story and rare events every time you play!
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How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
June 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $2.24. It has been discounted 96 times in the 10 years tracked here, typically at 70 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 3 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 13 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 73 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 87 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Risk of Rain (2013) ($9.99, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats Never Split the Party (free, scores 44).
10 of the 731 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 72 percent of the 989 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 6 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 123, 20 times as much.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 6 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
20% 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
269 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
Fun little game with surprising depth, haven't played much of it yet but looking forward to exploring different traits.
made it to Canada with Alvis Presley and Lunk (from Lugend of Zulda) then immediatly died when I got there. 10/10
Genuine classic, made it to Canada on my first run back after not playing for years STILL GOT IT BABY YEAHHH
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.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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Death Road to Canada scores 78/100 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/252610/death-road-to-canadaThe 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 20, price as of Sep 24.
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