Race The Sun
Worth it · Action · 2013
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99, a BANGER if it drops to $5.36.
- Length
- 4.9h
- Value
- $2.04/hr
- Reviews
- 93% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, SM2.0 (or later) Graphics Card, 154 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
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!
What drives the score
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
February 2021 is where it bottomed out, at $0.99. 70 discounts in the 13 years on record. They run about 70 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks. Past sales have already crossed the $5.36 BANGER line 66 times.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is pricier than 74 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, My Summer Car ($14.99, scores 94) beats it on value, while it beats Phantom Abyss ($19.99, scores 54).
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 339 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 88 percent of the 585 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.
The drop-off
74% 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
6 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
As much as I loved this game, the fact it's abandoned on Steam and still 10 dollars is hard to defend.
Fun game for the first few levels, but the difficulty doesn't scale well; it's impossible to consistently get beyond the first few levels. As a result you end up playing the first 3-4 levels over and over again, which gets old fast. Also, the leaderboard server is defunct, so you can't compare your scores to others. I'm not even sure your old high scores are saved.
Brushing my teeth has left a bigger impact on me than this game. Also, having an updated version of this game for free on the Play Store while this version is left to rot and costs 10EUR is super scummy.
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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Race The Sun scores 74/100 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/253030/race-the-sunThe 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 16, price as of Sep 24.
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