WHAT THE CAR?
Fair · Action · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 4.1h 15.3h to 100%
- Value
- $2.44/hr
- Reviews
- 85% of 910 positive
Full price
Today
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each 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
Race through hundreds of silly levels as a shapeshifting car in strange worlds populated by …bears? Run, roll, jump, fly and sneeze your way to victory! Join the community and make your own chaotic levels!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M, 2 GB Memory, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
Across all 20 discounts in the 2 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today's $9.99 at 50 percent off still sits 47 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
On value it sits in the top 8 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 90 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Lil Gator Game ($19.99, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats Totally Reliable Delivery Service ($1.49, scores 38).
More about WHAT THE CAR?
Of the 425 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 3 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 75 percent of the 190 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 24 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 4.1 hours. Doing everything runs 15, 3.7 times as long.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 4.1 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
98% start to 5% 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
- Players online
- 7 when we last checked, on Oct 9, 07:58 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Honestly: 6/10, Steam need a "meh" review. Most of it is in line with What the Golf. It's cute, it's whimsical and non-sensical. However, I feel like but the mechanics aren't as fun and inventive, and a major issue is that a few maps you'll need to 100% the game are a colossal pain the in butt. Levels asking you the same precision as Celeste or Super meatboy, while the controls are a lubbed-up potato, and the...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
This series is on a slope. I would say What the Golf is a 7/10, What the Bat is a 6/10, and What the Car is a 4/10. This is by far the most repetitive of the series despite I think having the least number of levels (at least way less than the first game since you had to do 3 challenges per level). It doesn't have as much creativity either with most levels just being get to the end of a straightish line. Very...
It's a unique, fun game for those of us who aren't gamers. It makes me laugh, I'm challenged and love to explore. What's not to like?
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
WHAT THE CAR? scores 57/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2727650/what-the-carReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.