Switchcars

Switchcars

Fair · Roguelike · 2021

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $8.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
1.4h 6h to 100%
Value
$6.42/hr
Reviews
90% of 467 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

Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 215 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
Reviews90% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 88% after the small-sample adjustment
Reach35K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
For context
Value$6.42/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 72 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

In a science experiment gone wrong, there's only one way to survive - traverse dynamic environments in over 1300 realistic vehicles, as fast as possible.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, GeForce 6600 GT / Ati Radeon 9800XT, 205 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.

The value story

It has been discounted 10 times in the 11 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 33 percent, about 42 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 31 weeks ago.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 25 percent on value. It is cheaper than 66 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 76 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Rogue Legacy ($14.99, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats Trip to Vinelands ($0.49, scores 61).

More about Switchcars

HowLongToBeat players log 1.4 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 6, 4.3 times as much.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

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Switchcars scores 66/100 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/442210/switchcars
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base 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.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperAltfuture
PublisherAltfuture
GenreRoguelike
Released2021
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate