Dakar 18
Skip · Strategy · 2018
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 22, under the fair line, at $2.99.
- Length
- 13.3h
- Value
- $0.22/hr
- Reviews
- 68% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 or AMD HD 7870 (2GB VRAM with Shader Model 5.0 or better). Windows only.
Based on the world famous annual rally raid organized by Amaury Sport Organisation (A.S.O.) in South America, DAKAR 18 is a realistic simulation of the biggest cross-country rally in the world and features a variety of vehicles, including motorcycles, cars, trucks, quads and SSVs.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $2.99, set in May 2022. It has been discounted 52 times in the 8 years tracked here, typically at 90 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales.
It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 77 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Forza Horizon 5 ($59.99, scores 82) and DiRT Rally 2.0 ($19.99, scores 81) both outscore it.
Critics scored it 59. Players sit 9 points higher at 68 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
This site sampled 449 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 14 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to July 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,725 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 158 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 2 of the 14 refunded reviewers were past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. Inside the two-hour refund window, 35 percent of the 233 reviews written there were positive, against 68 percent overall, and those are 28 percent of everything written about it.
13.3 hours to finish it, 153 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 11 times the campaign.
The drop-off
52% start to <1% 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
4 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 19:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
if i want to relax in nature i play roadcraft, if i want a simulation in rough environment i play snowrunner, if i want to race i play anything else... this game unfortunately isnt good at anything really... to late to refund.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Dakar 18 scores 22/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/767390/dakar-18Reviews 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 Sep 27, price as of Oct 1.
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