DETOUR
Skip · Strategy · 2011
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 9, under the fair line, at $1.99.
- Cost per hourS
- $1.05/hr
- Reviews▼
- 61% of 1,767
- Genre rank
- Top 90% Strategy
Holding it back: Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 1.9h
- To 100%
- 25.5h 13.4x the story
- Achievements
- 26
Price and sales
- Sales
- 45 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $0.14 October 2015
- Sale every
- 25d last December 2018
Players and genre
- Online
- 0 now
- Cheaper than
- 85% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 8% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
11% start to 6% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 45 discounts in the 14 years tracked, the median cut is 75 percent, about 4 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 409 weeks ago.
It is cheaper than 85 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Pixel Puzzles Ultimate Jigsaw Puzzles (free, scores 42) beats it on value, while it beats gravilon ($2.99, scores 5).
More about DETOUR
Inside the two-hour refund window, 56 percent of the 769 reviews written there were positive, against 61 percent overall, and those are 59 percent of everything written about it.
1.9 hours to finish it, 26 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 13 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 2866 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
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
Detour, developed by Geoff "Zag" Keene and Richard Keene and self-published by Geoff "Zag" Keene, is a unique experiment in the real-time strategy genre that replaces armies and battlefields with highways and freight trucks. At its core, it is a game about logistics, disruption, and tactical improvisation. Players are tasked with guiding a convoy of trucks from their factory to a destination on the opposite side of...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Actually a fun game, albeit the interface could use some work. Short single player content and dead multiplayer base, though.
Trying to figure it out feels like weather in April - everything changes without warning. The graphics are nice but my attempts to understand look like tripping over my own feet in a storm!
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
A true test your wits and spatial reasoning. Detour combines highway-building fun with the excitement of a competitive real-time strategy game. Construct a path for your convoy to reach its destination in this incredibly addictive title. With online multiplayer!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, DirectX 9 and Shader Model 1.1 support. 512 MB required., 164 MB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
DETOUR scores 9/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/92100/detourReviews 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.