MudRunner
Worth it · Strategy · 2017
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $19.99, a BANGER if it drops to $13.73.
- Length
- 17.3h
- Value
- $1.16/hr
- Reviews
- 92% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT or equivalent, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
MudRunner is the ultimate off-road experience putting the players in the driver seat and dares them to take charge of incredible all-terrain vehicles, venturing across extreme Siberian landscapes with only a map and compass as guides!
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
It has never been cheaper than $3.99. That was November 2021. 71 discounts in the 9 years on record. They run about 80 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. 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. The math puts its BANGER price at $13.73. The record reaches that level 64 times.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is pricier than 91 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Farming Simulator 15 ($12.99, scores 84) beats it on value, while it beats Bus Simulator 16 ($9.99, scores 33).
53 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written February 2025 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,864 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 564 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 68 percent of the 3,583 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
17.3 hours to finish it, 45 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.6 times the campaign.
Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.
The drop-off
40% 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
280 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
Mudrunner is the ultimate off-road game, and it is far superior to all of it's successors such as snowrunner. Positives + One of the big things is that the audio in Mudrunner is great, the engines actually sound alive. + The vehicle physics (suspension and transmissions with torque) are probably some of the best representations of heavy machinery in off road conditions. + Mud physics are surprisingly interesting and...
Snow runner may be slightly better in some aspects but Mudrunner isn't drowning in DLCs
Советую брать игру по скидке, распродажи очень частые, весьма реалистичная механика офроуда
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.
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MudRunner scores 79/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/675010/mudrunnerThe 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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