Hotshot Racing
Skip · Action · 2020
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 37, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 1.5h
- Value
- $13.33/hr
- Reviews
- 77% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX 770 (1GB) / AMD Radeon HD 7870 (1GB), 8 GB of storage. Windows only.
Hotshot Racing is a blisteringly fast arcade-style racing game fusing drift handling, razor-sharp retro visuals and an incredible sense of speed to create an exhilarating driving experience.
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
The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.99, set in May 2023. It has been discounted 56 times in the 6 years tracked here, typically at 80 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales.
Value puts it in the top 31 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 68 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Circuit Superstars ($19.99, scores 53) and Super Woden GP 2 ($12.99, scores 46) both outscore it.
Of the 575 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 11 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2020 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,814 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 833 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 67 percent of the 559 reviews written there were positive, against 77 percent overall, and those are 43 percent of everything written about it.
1.5 hours to finish it, 28 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 19 times the campaign.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 1.5 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
71% 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
3 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 02:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
It's fun. It's not buggy. It has a good amount of depth without being overwhelming and the handling is surprisingly different between cars. The courses are well thought out and feel just long enough to stay interesting, while not being impossible to learn in an afternoon. I recommend this game to anyone looking for a casual arcade racer that brings you back to those cabinet racing games at your local surf bar.
pretty fun little racing game, cool drifting and all that but god if you play this game on expert, the rubber banding will feel so unfair
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I am not a racing game guy. They all have a very disappointing lack of imagination compared to what I want from them. I want branching alternate paths that act as challenges or shortcuts, and a secret hidden route on each track that is difficult to find and leads to an entirely different themed track that is nearly the same length as the main track and rejoins at the very...
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Cite this score
Hotshot Racing scores 37/100 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/609920/hotshot-racingReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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