Trackmania United Forever
Worth it · Other · 2008
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 50% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$29.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$14.9950% offBANGER
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.97/hr
- ReviewsS
- 95% of 2,815
- Critics
- 80 players 15 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 3% Other
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $14.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 15.2h
- To 100%
- 59.8h 3.9x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 86 on record
- Typical cut
- 50% off
- Steam low
- $8.99 February 2018
- Sale every
- 46d last September 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 60 now
- Cheaper than
- 10% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 98% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
86 discounts in the 14 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. The math puts its BANGER price at $17.13. The record reaches that level 84 times.
Its score puts it in the top 3 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, SpeedRunners ($14.99, scores 84) beats it on value, while it beats TrackMania² Stadium ($9.99, scores 57).
More about Trackmania United Forever
80 from critics against 95 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
This site sampled 384 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 78 percent of the 187 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 15.2 hours; clearing it takes 60, which is 3.9 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 31 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Played this primarily through CD Rom back in the day. It was good. But it no longer holds up against TM2020 (at least for me)
2 more reviews
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Sublime arcade racer with an effectively infinite skill ceiling. Runs beautifully on the deck (90+ fps consistently) at low settings. If you play TM2020 the lack of moving respawn will be jarring, but the official campaigns are well worth the price of admission on sale.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
TrackMania is the most entertaining car racing game ever. Millions of players play it in single or multiplayer modes. TrackMania United Forever is the ultimate TrackMania edition thanks to the numerous additions and innovations it has to offer.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 256 MB of memory, 3D accelerator 16 MB DirectX 9.0c compatible graphics card, 1.5 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Trackmania United Forever scores 75/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/7200/trackmania-united-foreverReviews 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 Nov 1, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.