Jalopy

Jalopy

Skip · Roguelike · 2018

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 41, under the fair line, at $14.99.

Length
6.1h
Value
$2.46/hr
Reviews
76% positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
6.1h
typical playtime (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
28.8h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$2.46
price ÷ typical playtime
Price
$14.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
76%
11,356 reviews, as of Sep 26
Metacritic
65
critic score
Players
350K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2018

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Dedicated graphics card with 1GB memory, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.

Build, repair, refuel and drive a dilapidated old car on a grand journey through the territories of the former Eastern bloc. Explore Germany, CSFR, Hungary, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria
Description from the Steam store page.

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
Reviews76% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Reach350K+ 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$2.46/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
Length6.1 hours
Typical playtime on HowLongToBeat. Endless games score on players, so hours stay out of it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds12 of 499 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

The value story

May 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $1.49. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 80 in the 10 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart.

It is pricier than 64 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 64 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Long Drive ($15.99, scores 47) beats it on value, while it beats Alaskan Road Truckers ($21.99, scores 6).

Critics scored it 65. Players sit 11 points higher at 76 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.

This site sampled 499 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 12 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written January 2026 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 698 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 49 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 49 percent of the 1,335 reviews written there were positive, against 76 percent overall, and those are 15 percent of everything written about it.

HowLongToBeat players log 6.1 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 29, 4.7 times as much.

The drop-off

72% 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

Players

20 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 12:47 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

A very interesting and cool indie game. You can give it a try if you're good at handling stress
S.T.R.E.L.O.K.Recommendedafter 8.0h5 found this helpfulRead on Steam
very cool game, very friendly with my budget laptop and an enjoyable driving game
MinimumSpecUserRecommendedafter 40hAug 2026Read on Steam

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

Cite this score

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Jalopy scores 41/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/446020/jalopy
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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 26, price as of Oct 1.

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Critics vs players+11
Critics
65
Players
76
Critics and players agree on this one.
Metacritic critics · 11,356 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperMinskworks
PublisherExcalibur Games
GenreRoguelike
Released2018
Achievements23