Race The Sun
Worth it · Action · 2013
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 75% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$9.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$2.4975% offBANGER
- Cost per hour▼
- $2.04/hr
- ReviewsS
- 93% of 6,354
- Critics
- 79 players 14 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 2% Action
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $2.49 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 4.9h
- To 100%
- 12.1h 2.5x the story
- Achievements
- 25
Price and sales
- Sales
- 71 on record
- Typical cut
- 70% off
- Steam low
- $0.99 February 2021
- Sale every
- 56d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 6 now
- Cheaper than
- 24% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 98% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
74% 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
71 discounts in the 13 years on record, a median of 70 percent off across all of them, roughly 8 weeks apart. Past sales have already crossed the $5.35 BANGER line 67 times.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 2 percent. It is pricier than 76 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Music Racer ($1.99, scores 76) beats it on value, while it beats Vecter (free, scores 73).
More about Race The Sun
The press gave it 79; the people who bought it give it 93 percent. A 14-point gap in the buyer's favour.
This site sampled 341 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 87 percent of the 583 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 30 percent of everything written about it.
4.9 hours to finish it, 12 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.5 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $1.99 (80% off). Predictions like this were right 92% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.
Last discount ended 31 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
As much as I loved this game, the fact it's abandoned on Steam and still 10 dollars is hard to defend.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
You are a solar-powered craft. The sun is your death timer. Hurtle towards the sunset at breakneck speed in a futile race against time. Delay the inevitable by catching speed boosts which reverse the setting sun - if only for a moment. Don't crash, stay in the light, and don't slow down!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, SM2.0 (or later) Graphics Card, 154 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
Race The Sun scores 74/100 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/253030/race-the-sunReviews 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 Oct 13, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.