FlatOut 2
BANGER · Other · 2006
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $9.99.
- Length
- 12.4h
- Value
- $0.81/hr
- Reviews
- 96% positive
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Windows only.
Experience the drive of your life as you throw yourself around on and off the track causing fences to shatter, tyre walls explode, water tanks and barrels fly across the track into other cars.
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
October 2018 is where it bottomed out, at $0.99. 128 discounts in the 14 years on record. They run about 80 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 2 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 99 percent of its genre. It outscores the games it most resembles, including FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage Collector's Edition ($19.99, scores 72) and FlatOut ($7.49, scores 63).
The math says it holds its tier up to $16.83, and you are being asked for $9.99.
The press gave it 76; the people who bought it give it 96 percent. A 20-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Steam's global achievement data says about 5 percent of players ever finish it. On a 12.4-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. This site sampled 794 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 14 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 106 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 97 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 91 percent of the 4,132 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 21 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 12.4 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
6% start to 5% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 12.4-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
85 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
I very much recommend this game but it has some cons for me: - Bad handling and I play with an XBOX series X controller. It's like the car is barely responsive. Like the wheels don't turn all the way EDIT: after upgrading the handling and even purchasing the weight reduction upgrade it feels slightly better, but it still feels like the wheels don't turn all the way. - The races don't feel satisfying because the cars...
The game is speedy, thrilling and has a lot of variety in terms of car gameplay and race tracks. Also, if you're looking for console session in form of split-screen local multiplayer, you can download a free mod to this game from Steam that makes the ps2 and Xbox experience come directly to your modern PC monitor.
0/10 game about racing a car vs minecarts. I don't know where the "best racing game" sentiment comes from (not to mention the love this game receives). this is a subpar amalgamation of racing and demolition derby with clunky controls, weird physics and an absurd amount of rubberbanding. final race is borderline impossible to win as whichever car gets ahead will stay ahead no matter what - even if it crashes, it...
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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FlatOut 2 scores 95/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2990/flatout-2The 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 15, price as of Sep 24.
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