Trackmania United Forever
BANGER · Other · 2008
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $14.99.
- Length
- 15.2h
- Value
- $0.99/hr
- Reviews
- 95% positive
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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.
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.
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
The lowest price on record is $8.99, set in February 2018. 86 discounts in the 14 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today's $14.99 at 50 percent off still sits 67 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
Take the discount away and it is a 75. With it, 87.
Value puts it in the top 1 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 ($2.99, scores 93) beats it on value, while it beats TrackMania² Stadium ($4.99, scores 66).
The math says it holds its tier up to $16.98, and you are being asked for $14.99.
80 from critics against 95 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
This site sampled 385 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 78 percent of the 183 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 4.0 times the campaign.
Players
75 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
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)
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I watch Wirtual's videos and go "I bet if I really set my mind to it, I can be really good at this game" and then I play Trackmania and realize I will never amount to anything in this game
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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Trackmania United Forever scores 87/100 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/7200/trackmania-united-foreverThe 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 3, price as of Sep 24.
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