Freeways
Worth it · Strategy · 2018
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $4.99.
- Length
- 6.1h
- Value
- $0.82/hr
- Reviews
- 90% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 128Mb. Runs on Windows, macOS.
You are a traffic engineer. Draw freeway interchanges. Optimize for efficency and avoid traffic jams!
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $2.99. That was June 2018. Its cuts run 25 percent off as a rule. There have been 12 in the 9 years tracked, about 34 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is cheaper than 62 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Mini Metro ($9.99, scores 96) beats it on value, while it beats Train Valley 2 ($14.99, scores 78).
This site sampled 471 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 5 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written October 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 61 percent of the 283 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 13 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 6.1 hours. Doing everything runs 14, 2.3 times as long.
At 6.1 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
7% 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
13 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 07:50 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
This is so much better and so much more difficult than it looks. I'm also partial to the little info thingies and unlockable photos of real-world intersections. It's really made me appreciate civil engineering in a new way, which I absolutely did not expect when I bought a $5 pixel traffic puzzle game. It feels much more satisfying to get the traffic running smoothly than a lot of other similar games I've played. I...
so simple yet so complex, for 5$, this is a STEAL, the best part, your free to do it your own way, pun intended drives smoothly on my laptop too
Actually a lovely game, you can play it on anything, doesn't stress you out, teaches you some cool things too. Recommended.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Cite this score
Freeways scores 81/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/780210/freewaysReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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