Xpand Rally

Xpand Rally

Fair · Other · 2006

Steam Deck Unsupported

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $4.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
6h 12.9h to 100%
Value
$0.83/hr
Reviews
83% of 630 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.

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

Raising the score
Value$0.83/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Holding it back
Reviews83% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 355 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Please note as of October 2024, the online features for this game will no longer be supported.Xpand Rally is a breathtaking game that gives you the true to life experience of driving powerful rally cars amidst photorealistic sceneries. Realistic weather effects, rolling hills, and animated scenery all add to game's visual perfection.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Windows only.

The value story

It has been discounted 102 times in the 13 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 80 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 7 percent on value. It is cheaper than 67 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 87 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Dakar 18 ($29.99, scores 22) and WRC Generations – The FIA WRC Official Game ($3.99, scores 19).

More about Xpand Rally

This site sampled 355 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 73 percent of the 255 reviews written there were positive, against 83 percent overall, and those are 47 percent of everything written about it.

Finishing takes 6 hours; clearing it takes 13, which is 2.1 times the campaign.

Players

Players online
2 when we last checked, on Oct 5, 21:54 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

This game is very much a product of its time, the first signs, when you boot it up, being no widescreen support and jittery physics which are assume are caused by higher frame rate. Considering the game is 2 decades old, it didn't age that bad, the car damage model is good, it even has a driver injury indicator, something I have never seen in any other racing game, though it's mostly a gimmick that hardly works...
🥶 Drippy Coo 🥶Recommendedafter 1.8hMay 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews
absolutely worth the money still works perfectly fine in 2026 using a g29 driving force or on keyboard yeah ok bye meow :3
yeetsieRecommendedafter 4.1hMay 2026Read on Steam
Its really not that bad, even if its like over 20 years old but the only problems are that the controls are a little clanky but you'll get used to it after a while of playing. A good thing is that drifting is SO easy you WILL feel like a professional after that first smooth drift around a hairpin. There is also cool little details such as animals crossing your road and people standing at the center of the road to...
Super1stJimRecommendedafter 4.0hMay 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

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Xpand Rally scores 62/100 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/3010/xpand-rally
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Reviews 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 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+1
Critics82
Players83
Metacritic critics · 630 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperTechland
PublisherTechland
GenreOther
Released2006
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate