BAJA: Edge of Control HD
Fair · Other · 2017
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $29.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 21.2h
- Value
- $1.41/hr
- Reviews
- 82% of 506 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
Baja: Edge of Control HD is the carefully remastered version of the original off-road racer from 2008. This truly unique game contains more than 1,000 miles of the toughest terrain Mother Nature has to offer, including the steepest mountains, thickest mud and deepest canyons known to man.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, DirectX 11 compatible like GeForce GT 730 1GB VRAM, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 67 times in the 9 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 12 percent on value. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 84 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Dakar 18 ($29.99, scores 22) and WRC 7 FIA World Rally Championship ($19.99, scores 39).
More about BAJA: Edge of Control HD
Steam's global achievement data puts about 5 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 21.2-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 274 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 55 percent of the 107 reviews written there were positive, against 82 percent overall, and those are 27 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
69% start to 5% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
What players say
"Easy" mode should be standard because after almost 20 hours, AI is completely cracked my guy. Career mode is mostly tournaments but out of all the game modes, free roam is my fav to explore and chill.
1 more review, not recommended
Probably one of the worst arcade racing games ever! Avoid it, even if it costs just a couple of bucks - or is completely free. Basically, the game's AI has only one strategy: pushing your car off the track, even if it means sacrificing its own race, instead of following a proper racing line like a normal racing game would. And that's on Easy mode. Imagine playing this piece of s*** on Hard mode. To make matters...
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No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
BAJA: Edge of Control HD scores 53/100 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/623090/baja-edge-of-control-hdReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.