CarX Drift Racing Online
BANGER · Action · 2017
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $16.99.
- Length
- 5.1h
- Value
- $3.33/hr
- Reviews
- 95% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 960 4GB / AMD RX 470 4 GB, 8 GB of storage. Windows only.
Master realistic drift physics, tune 120+ cars and drift online with up to 16 players across platforms. Compete in TOP-32, build unique setups and explore hundreds of community-made Workshop maps.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $2.99, set in November 2025. It has been discounted 59 times in the 9 years tracked here, typically at 55 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 3 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 87 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. The nearest things to it, CarX Street ($19.99, scores 27) and OverDrift Festival ($9.99, scores 41), are both worse buys on this math.
$37.34 is where it would stop being a BANGER. Today it is $16.99.
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 22 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written July 2025 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 70 percent of the 2,831 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 5.1 hours. Doing everything runs 88, 17 times as long.
9 years after release it still had 1.7K people in it at once.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 5.1 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
85% 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
1,658 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
i don't have a problem and i'm enjoying this game but the community ruined all of the good aspect. there are so many freak/toxic/crazy people in the chat and it has no filtered for the trash talk. this is why you have to get well educated before u trying to talk to someone politely. *again, i don't have a problem with the game but the community is sucks.
Got a couple hours on CarX and I'll say if you don't like the game, then you expect FAAAR too much from drifting games. The game ever since i've played it from PS5 and on PC has had incredible and VERY fast support of DEVS. Total hours accumulated to around 1000 Hours and I've hardly had a complaint. Mods are a great addition if your on steam and very easy to install and add, but really you don't need mods anymore...
Lowkey the best game to paly while in a vc and u dont know what to do, it lets u talk, it doesn't need much attention and u can screenshare it to your friends like a subway surfers reddit story.
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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CarX Drift Racing Online scores 94/100 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/635260/carx-drift-racing-onlineThe 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 12, price as of Sep 24.
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