Crash Wheels

Crash Wheels

Fair · Short indie · 2018

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $4.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
1.1h
Value
$4.54/hr
Reviews
87% positive
It needs 46% off ($2.69) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
1.1h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
2.5h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$4.54
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$4.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
87%
1,253 reviews, as of Sep 27
Players
150K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2018

Minimum on the Steam store: Nvidia GTX 540M, 502 MB of storage. Windows only.

Arcade racing with the physics of damage
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
Value$4.54/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews87% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 86% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
Length1.1 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach150K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds2 of 380 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

It has never been cheaper than $0.49. That was June 2018. Its cuts run 86 percent off as a rule. There have been 64 in the 10 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 8 percent on value. It is pricier than 66 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 91 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Vecter (free, scores 73) beats it on value, while it beats Lonely Mountains: Downhill ($19.99, scores 57).

This site sampled 380 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 81 percent of the 640 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 55 percent of everything written about it.

Finishing takes 1.1 hours; clearing it takes 3, which is 2.3 times the campaign.

The drop-off

38% start to 23% 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

1 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 16:49 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

This was actually fun, even though it is quite a simple premise. Obstacle course, other cars, get to the end (and make sure to hit at least one box)
AlexanderRecommendedafter 2.9hFeb 2026Read on Steam

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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Crash Wheels scores 59/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/514920/crash-wheels
Embed the live badge

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 27, price as of Oct 1.

A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperQuiet River
PublisherQuiet River
GenreShort indie
Released2018
Achievements1224