Carmageddon Max Pack
Worth it · Action · 1997
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $2.49.
- Length
- 19.7h
- Value
- $0.13/hr
- Reviews
- 88% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 236 MB of storage. Windows only.
Carmageddon is the original freeform driving sensation, where pedestrians (and cows!) equal points, and your opponents are a bunch of crazies in a twisted mix of automotive killing machines. The game features anarchic drive-wherever-you-like gameplay and over-the-top surreal comedy violence. It’s the racing game where racing is for wimps.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.99, set in May 2020. It has been discounted 38 times in the 12 years tracked here, typically at 60 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 74 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, BallisticNG ($14.99, scores 90) beats it on value, while it beats Road Redemption ($19.99, scores 66).
Of the 377 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 4 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 74 percent of the 246 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 35 percent of everything written about it.
Players
2 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 09:50 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Full of issues but a lot of fun. I had trouble getting it to start reliably. Sometimes the screen would just go blank and other times it worked. Changing between 3dfx and software rendering seemed to help sometimes. It's also a very low resolution game especially in software rendering mode but it still looks good because it has a lot of character. The cars wobble a lot and are hard to steer and it's annoying but I...
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Cite this score
Carmageddon Max Pack scores 75/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/282010/carmageddon-max-packReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 1.
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