NASCAR 25
Skip · Strategy · 2025
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 25, under the fair line, at $39.99.
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.54/hr
- Reviews▼
- 73% of 1,881
- Genre rank
- Top 61% Strategy
Holding it back: Refunds, AI content
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 25.9h
- To 100%
- 65.8h 2.5x the story
- Achievements
- 17
Price and sales
- Sales
- 4 on record
- Typical cut
- 50% off
- Steam low
- $19.99 October 2026
- Sale every
- 98d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 31 now
- Cheaper than
- 1% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 46% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
80% start to <1% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 4 discounts in the 12 months tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 14 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, MotoGP™23 ($29.99, scores 27) beats it on value, while it beats Dakar 18 ($29.99, scores 23).
More about NASCAR 25
61 of the 793 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2025 to October 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,604 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 68 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 12 of the 61 refunded reviewers were past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. In its first 30 days on sale, 28 of 257 sampled reviews came from refunders. Inside the two-hour refund window, 34 percent of the 339 reviews written there were positive, against 73 percent overall, and those are 19 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 25.9 hours. Doing everything runs 66, 2.5 times as long.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $19.99 (50% off). Predictions like this were right 92% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.
Discounted in each of its last 4 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 29 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
iRacing is proud to present NASCAR 25, the official game of NASCAR featuring ALL FOUR National Series, the ARCA Menards Series, NASCAR Xfinity Series, NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, and NASCAR Cup Series.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 16 GB of memory, 50 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
NASCAR 25 scores 25/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The developer disclosed AI-generated content on Steam, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3873970/nascar-25Reviews 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 Nov 1, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.