Drift Streets Japan
Skip · Multiplayer · 2015
The verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $4.99.
- Length
- 0.6h
- Value
- $8.32/hr
- Reviews
- 64% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Nvidia Geforce GTX275, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
Racing Game about Illegal Night Street Racing. Nice Cars and Advanced Engine Tuning. Most Realistic and Best Physics. Most Quality Graphics. Drive the Large Japan Highway with traffic. Feel the Real experience, try to drift with car cockpit camera.
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
The lowest price on record is $0.49, set in April 2022. Its cuts run 90 percent off as a rule. There have been 61 in the 11 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 4 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
It is cheaper than 63 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 82 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. CarX Street ($19.99, scores 27) and OverDrift Festival ($9.99, scores 41) both outscore it.
Of the 500 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 6 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 38 percent of the 849 reviews written there were positive, against 64 percent overall, and those are 31 percent of everything written about it.
Players
2 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
This game is decent for its price , has ok graphics and the drifting physics is a bit overboard , assuming the game was the developers first game , this is good has a nice variety of upgrades and customization . 7/10 :)
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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Drift Streets Japan scores 12/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/412880/drift-streets-japanThe 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 Aug 1, price as of Sep 24.
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