Road Scars: Origins

Road Scars: Origins

Skip · Action · 2018

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 45, under the fair line, at $0.49.

Length
1.3h
Value
$0.38/hr
Reviews
77% of 346 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.

Full price

Skip$4.99

Today

−90%Skip
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

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

Raising the score
Value$0.38/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set That is today's sale price. Normally $3.84/hr
Holding it back
Reviews77% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 76% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 226 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

Ride day and night, taking on risky jobs for the Road Baron, avoiding traffic and other bikers on endless dangerous roads, all of that while you blast some original punk rock music!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, Compatible with DirectX 9, 205 MB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

It has been discounted 72 times in the 9 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 51 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today's $0.49 at 90 percent off still sits 75 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.

Value puts it in the top 19 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 65 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Arcade Moonlander ($0.99, scores 88) beats it on value, while it beats Polygoneer ($4.99, scores 35).

More about Road Scars: Origins

Of the 226 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to July 2026.

The drop-off

3% start to 1% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

What players say

Its pretty fun but can become extremely repetitive. Theres many achievements to unlock. theyre bottom tier of players who have them unlocked, due to the amount of players. Graphics are eh. 4/10
✪ MordevianRecommendedafter 7.3hJul 2025Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Road Rash This Is Not Not so bad top-down arcade racing game influenced by Knight Rider and Road Rash and maybe some other racing games of old which were forgotten over time. The game has 3 modes : Story , Arcade and Challenges. Story in this game is pretty generic and not so great but its presented in a comic book style "cartoon" which is nice actually. It is also rather short - 30-40 minutes to complete. In Arcade...
SkySymphonyRecommendedafter 12hApr 2025Read on Steam
GAME TOTALLY SUCKS. I BOUGHT IT FOR 52 CENTS AND I'M REFUNDING IT. 1: Night driving with a small headlight totally sucks. 2: Angle of road sucks. 3: Gas appears on the other side of the road often, so of course there's always a car coming to crash you. Sucks. 4: Second quest is to drive 180 Km/h non-stop (KM?? lol) for 2 kilometers. Very hard to do and that's just the second quest. 5: Game is too hard. 6: I loved...
soggywaterNot recommendedafter 9.9h2 found this helpfulRead on Steam

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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Road Scars: Origins scores 45/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/346500/road-scars-origins
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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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

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Details

DeveloperNukGames
PublisherNukGames
GenreAction
Released2018
Players150Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements86