DiRT Rally 2.0
Worth it · Strategy · 2019
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $13.99.
- Length
- 13.1h
- Value
- $1.07/hr
- Reviews
- 89% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, AMD HD7750 or NVIDIA GTX650Ti, 100 GB of storage. Windows only.
DiRT Rally 2.0 dares you to carve your way through a selection of iconic rally locations from across the globe, in the most powerful off-road vehicles ever made, knowing that the smallest mistake could end your stage.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $1.99. That was October 2024. It has been discounted 64 times in the 8 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Today's $13.99 at 30 percent off still sits 603 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 91 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Assetto Corsa Competizione ($9.99, scores 88) beats it on value, while it beats Dakar 18 ($2.99, scores 22).
Steam's global achievement data says about 14 percent of players ever finish it. On a 13.1-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. 10 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2024 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 61 percent of the 3,179 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
13.1 hours to finish it, 132 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 10 times the campaign.
Still 631 concurrent players, 7 years in.
The drop-off
40% start to 14% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
631 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
Intro Dirt Rally 2.0 is a hardcore car sim that is said to be used for practice by some professional rally drivers. Despite looking more intuitive and approachable than some car sims, thanks to the straightforward menu design, it is not a beginner friendly game. If you don't already have adequate experience with car sims, or at least arcade-sims, there's a good chance you may not like it, since the game does little...
After playing Dirt 4 for many hours, I decided to give Dirt Rally 2 a go. I must admit, at first I struggled with the the handling of the game, deleted it several times before reading on line that the wheel was best set at 540 rather than 900. Once I started to grasp this, and learned how to handle the cars from FWD to modern AWD, the game became very enjoyable, now Dirt 4 has been put away and Dirt Rally 2 is now...
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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DiRT Rally 2.0 scores 81/100 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/690790/dirt-rally-2-0The 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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