Split/Second
Skip · Action · 2014
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $19.99.
- Length
- 9.6h
- Value
- $2.08/hr
- Reviews
- 81% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2.5 GB of memory, 6.5 GB of storage. Windows only.
Split/Second is an intense action racing game set within a reality TV show. Competitors vie to be the first to the finish line in a set rigged to blow. Players don’t just collide with other vehicles to knock them from the track, but can also trigger devastating events that alter the race dynamics.
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
It has never been cheaper than $4.99. That was November 2015. Its cuts run 70 percent off as a rule. There have been 20 in the 12 years tracked, about 15 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 15 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 17 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 82 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Need for Speed™ Heat ($6.99, scores 62) beats it on value, while it beats Need for Speed™ Rivals ($6.99, scores 41).
Of the 449 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 11 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 3,221 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 519 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 59 percent of the 378 reviews written there were positive, against 81 percent overall, and those are 22 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 9.6 hours; clearing it takes 21, which is 2.2 times the campaign.
Players
5 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
CHAOS + Awesome shortcuts and planning the destruction of fellow racers. +1 for nostalgia too as I had this on my 360 back in the day :D
I recommend downloading some mods to enhance the gameplay such as 60 fps mods as well as borderless window mods.
THIS GAME IS ♥♥♥ PEAK. even if the AI Rubberbanding is insanely unfair, its still fun to play to this day. Overall a really good game.
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.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Split/Second scores 47/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/297860/split-secondThe 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 20, price as of Sep 24.
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