When does Dream Car Builder get good?

Give it 1 hour. In the first 2 hours almost 1 in 3 reviews are negative (30%); after 15h it's 1 in 25 (4%). Few early reviews, so this is a rough estimate.

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Dream Car Builder

Sep 21, 2018 Steam: Very Positive

Give it 1 hour

Gets good by 1h almost every game dips in hours 2–3

Started playing 22% of owners

Steam reviews 93% positive of 1,079

What the data shows

In the first 2 hours almost 1 in 3 reviews are negative (30%); after 15h it's 1 in 25 (4%).
Few early reviews, so this is a rough estimate.
Only 22% of owners have even the first achievement — the rest barely played.

When it gets good

Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.

before it gets good opening up fully opened up

Based on all 1,085 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 288 reviews: 21.5h for positive, 5.1h for negative. Almost every game is rated lower in the first 2–3 hours: that window includes refunds and quick first impressions. What matters is how deep the dip is and how fast the game recovers.

Where players quit

Share of players who started the game and reached each story milestone. 100% is the most common achievement (21.5% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.

Story milestones aren't labeled yet; all achievements are listed below.

All achievements (42)

Mileage 2 km (Default map) 100%
10 minutes of race time (Default map) 81%
Mileage 10 km (Default map) 57%
1000 coins in total 54%
30 minutes of race time (Default map) 49%
5 tracks opened (Default map) 47%
Mileage 30 km (Default map) 38%
60 minutes of race time (Default map) 35%
Mileage 50 km (Default map) 34%
Mileage 75 km (Default map) 32%
30 opponents defeated (Default map) 32%
15 finishes (Default map) 31%
Mileage 100 km (Default map) 31%
5000 coins in total 29%
Average track speed: 35 kmh (Default map) 29%
120 minutes of race time (Default map) 27%
200 minutes of race time (Default map) 25%
300 minutes of race time (Default map) 23%
10 tracks opened (Default map) 21%
Average track speed: 40 kmh (Default map) 21%
15000 coins in total 17%
30 finishes (Default map) 15%
60 opponents defeated (Default map) 14%
Average track speed: 45 kmh (Default map) 14%
30000 coins in total 11%
Average track speed: 50 kmh (Default map) 8.4%
20 tracks opened (Default map) 7.9%
50000 coins in total 7.4%
Average track speed: 55 kmh (Default map) 6.5%
120 opponents defeated (Default map) 6.5%
60 finishes (Default map) 6.5%
Average track speed: 60kmh (Default map) 5.6%
210 opponents defeated (Default map) 4.2%
100000 coins in total 4.2%
35 tracks opened (Default map) 4.2%
100 finishes (Default map) 3.7%
300 opponents defeated (Default map) 3.3%
50 tracks opened (Default map) 3.3%
600 opponents defeated (Default map) 2.8%
150 finishes (Default map) 2.8%
300 finishes (Default map) 2.8%
100 tracks opened (Default map) 2.8%

Steam page Updated: 2026-10-20.