Death Road to Canada
Worth it · Roguelike · 2016
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; 80% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$14.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$2.9980% off
- Cost per hour
- $2.50/hr
- ReviewsS
- 93% of 10,559
- Genre rank
- Top 7% Roguelike
Holding it back: Reach
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $2.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Typical playtime
- 6h
- To 100%
- 122.6h 20.4x the story
- Achievements
- 72
Price and sales
- Sales
- 98 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $2.24 June 2026
- Sale every
- 31d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 45 now
- Cheaper than
- 27% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 91% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
20% start to <1% rarestA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 98 times in the 10 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 4 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.
Its score puts it in the top 7 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 73 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 91 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).
More about Death Road to Canada
10 of the 733 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to November 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 72 percent of the 991 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.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 19 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
First run I made it to 3 days left, car was maxed out, stub was maxed, everyone was loaded and then I got robbed completely and the very next event was a rigged flashing red middle of the night totally dark BS encounter so I've got no weapons and its dark so everyone dies. This game was fun until I realized it's strictly luck based, what a waste of my time when the game can just randomly decide you lose without any...
2 more reviews
probably THE single most underrated game in my steam library currently. don't know what volume that speaks to but all i can say is that DR2C is sooo slept on. ngl it's genuinely kind of a crime that this game isn't considered an all-time great like so many other roguelikes of its era or genre. it's THAT good, i promise you the game starts with a generally pretty steep learning curve (as most, if not every game of...
Wish it had steam workshop support for easier mod support, simple and replayable game and you don't need to have good specs to enjoy it either, This is like my main game to play whenever I'm out of my PC and only have my laptop
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 123 MB of memory, Minimum Supported Texture Size 2048x2048, 61 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Death Road to Canada scores 78/100 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/252610/death-road-to-canadaReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 17, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.