The Crew™ 2
Skip · Action · 2018
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $8.99.
- Length
- 21.6h
- Value
- $0.42/hr
- Reviews
- 78% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 or AMD HD 7870 (2GB VRAM with Shader Model 5.0 or better). Windows only.
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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
September 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $1.00. It has been discounted 61 times in the 9 years tracked here, typically at 80 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today's $8.99 at 70 percent off still sits 799 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
This sale is doing real work. 41 at list, 47 today.
Value puts it in the top 18 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 72 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Forza Horizon 5 ($59.99, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats OverDrift Festival ($9.99, scores 41).
Steam's global achievement data says about 11 percent of players ever finish it. On a 21.6-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. This site sampled 799 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 11 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written February 2026 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 27 percent of the 11,724 reviews written there were positive, against 78 percent overall, and those are 14 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (cosmetic, currency); the score docks it lightly for that.
21.6 hours to finish it, 79 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.6 times the campaign.
8 years after release it still had 873 people in it at once.
The drop-off
78% start to 11% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
873 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 shallow, terrible gameplay, clunky as hell UI. Its a good idea but terribly executed. Its pretty, but just plain not fun to play. I gave it a bit, but I can't see myself playing it again. The UI is terrible and clunky, and unintuitive. The races are somehow worse than an arcade racing game, while still feeling slow and a bit cheap. Also, why do I HAVE to have Battleye anitcheat running in a SINGLE player world...
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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The Crew™ 2 scores 47/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/646910/the-crew-2The 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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