Truck Racer
Skip · Other · 2013
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 43, under the fair line, at $0.99.
- Length
- 5.8h 8.7h to 100%
- Value
- $0.17/hr
- Reviews
- 75% of 418 positive
Full price
Today
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
Take control of five tons of metal and power, and floor it until you reach the finish line!Drive fully destructible trucks in Championship, Time Attack, Elimination and Quick Race. Get rid of opponents trying to block your way and make a reputation for yourself!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 8800 series or ATI Radeon 4870, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 79 discounts in the 13 years tracked, the median cut is 75 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today's $0.99 at 90 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
On value it sits in the top 21 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 67 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, GRIP: Combat Racing ($29.99, scores 54) beats it on value, while it beats Need for Speed™ Most Wanted ($19.99, scores 41).
More about Truck Racer
Steam's global achievement data puts about 11 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 5.8-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Inside the two-hour refund window, 66 percent of the 106 reviews written there were positive, against 75 percent overall, and those are 50 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 5.8 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
61% start to 11% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
What players say
Decent arcade racer as long as you upgrade your trucks asap to blast ahead of the crazy AI that sometimes like to suicide into walls. Then enjoy drifting and racing around, until you eventually almost lap the CPU and are greeted with dirt effects that block just about everything in your fov, so just slow down a bit and watch as they randomly wreck themselves. This was more amusing for me that I thought it would be...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Welcome to Truck Racer An arcade truck racing game with top-tier janky gameplay. It's not a simulator game . The drifting? These trucks have better drifting than 99% of cars from Need for Speed. Choose between 6 available trucks and 13 playable championships. Minus/complaints: [*] The sky, in some maps, it is literally beaming/glowing/radiating (whatever you want to call it) into my screen in a very buggy, flashing...
little indie racing game with trucks, kill 7 hours if you go for a full platinum run, however the bouncy physics and the fact the enemy AI trucks are immovable walls if you touch them and that the AI is bad and theyre always crashing and blocking the track makes the game very tedious
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Cite this score
Truck Racer scores 43/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/256070/truck-racerReviews 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 Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.