Trailmakers
BANGER · Action · 2019
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $7.49.
- Length
- 14.4h
- Value
- $0.52/hr
- Reviews
- 92% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GTX 660, 8 GB of storage. Windows only.
Build the ultimate vehicle and explore a vast open world filled with challenges and adventure. Play solo or team up with friends in multiplayer to conquer the toughest obstacles. With a thrilling campaign mode and endless creative possibilities, Trailmakers is the ultimate sandbox for adventurers.
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
March 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $2.49. It has been discounted 81 times in the 9 years tracked here, typically at 60 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Today's $7.49 at 70 percent off still sits 201 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart ($59.99, scores 51) and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge ($24.99, scores 64).
The math says it holds its tier up to $52.69, and you are being asked for $7.49.
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 34 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2026 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 51 percent of the 1,059 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.
14.4 hours to finish it, 62 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 4.3 times the campaign.
Still 903 concurrent players, 7 years in.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 14.4 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
53% start to 2% rarestNo 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
903 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
Too many paid dlc's. I know running a game costs money but im still paying money for the game. I dont want to spend any more on features that should just be free
Devs come off as pretentious and greedy despite having the worst and buggiest physics engine out of most engineering games ,Scrap mechanic, Space Engineers, besieged, hell even Minecraft mods like (aeronautics) beat them. all much cheaper options/free in some cases. my issue is most of the building problems you will face will be fighting the weird physics(ive made 5 mech variants with 20 core maximums which me n my...
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.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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Trailmakers scores 87/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/585420/trailmakersThe 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 Sep 14, price as of Sep 24.
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