DCL - The Game

DCL - The Game

Skip · Multiplayer · 2020

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The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 47, under the fair line, at $7.49.

Length
5.1h
Value
$1.47/hr
Reviews
79% positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
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Length
5.1h
typical playtime (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
100h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$1.47
price ÷ typical playtime
Price
$7.49
as of Oct 1
Reviews
79%
1,126 reviews, as of Sep 27
Players
75K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2020

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce GTX650, 12 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

DCL - The Game is the official videogame of the Drone Champions League - the world’s leading series for Drone Racing Teams. Fly the original tracks from DCL and experience Drone Racing like a professional pilot. Join the flying revolution!
Description from the Steam store page.

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

Holding it back
Reviews79% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 78% after the small-sample adjustment
Reach75K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
For context
Value$1.47/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
Length5.1 hours
Typical playtime on HowLongToBeat. Endless games score on players, so hours stay out of it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds6 of 472 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

It has never been cheaper than $2.99. That was November 2023. 49 discounts in the 7 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart.

On value it sits in the top 19 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 77 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Forza Horizon 5 ($59.99, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats Disney Speedstorm (free, scores 16).

6 of the 472 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 36 percent of the 165 reviews written there were positive, against 79 percent overall, and those are 17 percent of everything written about it.

HowLongToBeat players log 5.1 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 100, 20 times as much.

The drop-off

72% start to <1% rarest
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No 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

10 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 04:50 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

DCL - The Game is a specialized racing simulation developed by Drone Champions AG and Climax Studios and published by Drone Champions League together with THQ Nordic. Released on Steam in February 2020, the game attempts to capture the thrill and technical challenge of first-person-view (FPV) drone racing, a rapidly growing motorsport where pilots control high-speed drones through complex obstacle courses using...
xxadonisxxRecommendedafter 12hMar 2026Read on Steam
If you are into FPV racing, this game is a must, weekly trials are held throughout the season for both solo pilots and teams! There is usually an annual draft to become a pro pilot and race at real life events! I have raced all over the globe with DCL now, so if you have the passion.... its time to SEND IT!
Mr BambiRecommendedafter 4740hFeb 2026Read on Steam
Really great graphics and maps, but the physics really need work. Also the Fact that you can only use the 3 pre-made Drones which all feel really sluggish makes this not a worth it Sim for practicing.
CaptayneNot recommendedafter 95hOct 2025Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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DCL - The Game scores 47/100 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/964570/dcl-the-game
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base 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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Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperDrone Champions AG
PublisherDrone Champions League
GenreMultiplayer
Released2020
Achievements39