GRIP: Combat Racing

GRIP: Combat Racing

Fair · Shooter · 2018

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $29.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
14h 27.4h to 100%
Value
$2.14/hr
Reviews
85% of 5,163 positive
It needs 65% off ($10.60) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $10.60 or less.

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

Holding it back
Value$2.14/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews85% 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
Refunds17 of 618 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

Harness gravity-defying speed in classic combat racing taken to the EXTREME. Master wall-riding, ceiling-surfing tracks, and unleash devastating weapons across 29 blistering circuits. Race solo, split-screen, or online with up to 10 players. GRIP delivers white-knuckle racing like nothing else.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Geforce 560 or Radeon 6850, 8 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

Across all 72 discounts in the 11 years tracked, the median cut is 84 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 36 percent on value. It is pricier than 91 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 65 percent. Among the games that feel like it, BallisticNG ($14.99, scores 90) beats it on value, while it beats art of rally ($24.99, scores 53).

More about GRIP: Combat Racing

This site sampled 618 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 17 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,422 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 377 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 73 percent of the 1,051 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 29 percent of everything written about it.

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

Cite this score

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GRIP: Combat Racing scores 54/100 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/396900/grip-combat-racing
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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 26, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+5
Critics80
Players85
Metacritic critics · 5,163 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperCaged Element
PublisherWired Productions
GenreShooter
Released2018
Players350Kowners, SteamSpy estimate