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Dakar 18 cover art

Dakar 18

Bigmoon Entertainment · 2018-09-25

SteamPlayStation StoreAmazonMicrosoft Store

AdventureRacingSimulationSports

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer · Perspectives: First person, Third person

Releases: Sep 28, 2018 (PlayStation 4), Sep 28, 2018 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Sep 28, 2018 (Xbox One)

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.

Dakar 18 is an Adventure, Racing, Simulation, Sports game released in 2018, priced at $29.99, with an estimated 50,000 .. 100,000 owners and a Mixed review sentiment (68% of 1222 reviews).

1
playing now
68%
positive of 1.2k reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
61/100
IGDB user rating (8 ratings)
3.55★
PlayStation Store rating (1,355 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$29.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 09:00 UTC (census sample)

Dakar 18 is a racing video game developed by Portuguese studio Bigmoon Entertainment and published by Deep Silver for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Microsoft Windows. It is based on the annual rally raid organized by the Amaury Sport Organisation (A.S.O). It was the first officially licensed Dakar Rally game since Dakar 2: The World's Ultimate Rally in 2003.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 37 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~5/week).
  • · Review velocity up 48% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 12% of 29,019 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 31k–73k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,222 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$24.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $2.99 at Humble Store (2022-05-06) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $29.99 · on sale 46 of 56 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
575720182026Week of 2018-09-01: 57 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 43 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

802026-09-15 18:00 — 2 players2026-09-17 02:00 — 1 players2026-09-18 10:00 — 2 players2026-09-19 17:00 — 6 players2026-09-21 01:00 — 6 players2026-09-22 09:00 — 1 players2026-09-23 16:00 — 5 players2026-09-25 00:00 — 3 players2026-09-26 07:00 — 3 players2026-09-27 15:00 — 6 players2026-09-28 22:00 — 3 players2026-09-30 06:00 — 2 players2026-10-01 13:00 — 8 players2026-10-02 21:00 — 4 players2026-10-04 05:00 — 2 players2026-10-05 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 20:00 — 5 players2026-10-08 03:00 — 2 players2026-10-09 11:00 — 1 players2026-10-10 18:00 — 5 players2026-10-12 02:00 — 1 players2026-10-13 10:00 — 2 players2026-10-14 17:00 — 1 players2026-10-15 09:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
1232Sep 2018Aug 2026Sep 2018 — avg 123 · peak 260Dec 2018 — avg 19 · peak 87Mar 2019 — avg 17 · peak 177Jun 2019 — avg 6 · peak 24Sep 2019 — avg 6 · peak 19Dec 2019 — avg 13 · peak 47Mar 2020 — avg 9 · peak 29Jun 2020 — avg 6 · peak 30Sep 2020 — avg 7 · peak 29Dec 2020 — avg 11 · peak 48Mar 2021 — avg 8 · peak 26Jun 2021 — avg 6 · peak 16Sep 2021 — avg 5 · peak 14Dec 2021 — avg 10 · peak 35Mar 2022 — avg 7 · peak 20Jun 2022 — avg 10 · peak 31Sep 2022 — avg 7 · peak 19Dec 2022 — avg 22 · peak 138Mar 2023 — avg 5 · peak 19Jun 2023 — avg 4 · peak 11Sep 2023 — avg 4 · peak 14Dec 2023 — avg 4 · peak 19Mar 2024 — avg 8 · peak 28Jun 2024 — avg 4 · peak 19Sep 2024 — avg 4 · peak 13Dec 2024 — avg 5 · peak 17Mar 2025 — avg 4 · peak 14Jul 2025 — avg 4 · peak 12Oct 2025 — avg 4 · peak 15Jan 2026 — avg 13 · peak 39Apr 2026 — avg 3 · peak 10Aug 2026 — avg 2 · peak 8
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$59.99$2.992018-07-162026-10-112018-07-16 — best price $59.992018-09-29 — best price $42.882018-11-22 — best price $37.492018-12-24 — best price $49.992019-04-03 — best price $32.992019-09-06 — best price $49.992019-12-13 — best price $50.932020-02-07 — best price $49.102020-05-21 — best price $10.192020-11-25 — best price $8.992021-04-09 — best price $29.992021-10-28 — best price $8.992022-02-02 — best price $29.992022-06-20 — best price $3.892022-10-24 — best price $2.992022-12-07 — best price $31.542023-03-22 — best price $32.322023-05-19 — best price $32.412023-07-14 — best price $2.992023-08-17 — best price $32.692023-10-03 — best price $2.992023-12-01 — best price $29.992024-01-17 — best price $32.622024-03-04 — best price $2.992024-05-03 — best price $2.992024-07-18 — best price $2.992024-09-16 — best price $2.992024-11-27 — best price $2.992025-02-19 — best price $29.992025-05-05 — best price $2.992025-09-18 — best price $29.992026-01-05 — best price $2.992026-04-13 — best price $2.992026-07-09 — best price $29.992026-08-30 — best price $3.742026-10-11 — best price $24.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

2272026-06-01 — 13 pageviews2026-06-05 — 12 pageviews2026-06-09 — 15 pageviews2026-06-13 — 9 pageviews2026-06-17 — 16 pageviews2026-06-21 — 18 pageviews2026-06-25 — 22 pageviews2026-06-29 — 21 pageviews2026-07-03 — 16 pageviews2026-07-07 — 12 pageviews2026-07-11 — 13 pageviews2026-07-15 — 14 pageviews2026-07-19 — 8 pageviews2026-07-23 — 7 pageviews2026-07-27 — 17 pageviews2026-07-31 — 15 pageviews2026-08-04 — 13 pageviews2026-08-08 — 12 pageviews2026-08-12 — 12 pageviews2026-08-16 — 17 pageviews2026-08-20 — 21 pageviews2026-08-24 — 18 pageviews2026-08-28 — 9 pageviews2026-09-01 — 11 pageviews2026-09-05 — 12 pageviews2026-09-09 — 15 pageviews2026-09-13 — 13 pageviews2026-09-17 — 22 pageviews2026-09-21 — 16 pageviews2026-09-25 — 7 pageviews2026-09-29 — 15 pageviews2026-10-03 — 13 pageviews2026-10-07 — 16 pageviews2026-10-11 — 11 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

54
achievements tracked
52.1%
earned "Going places"
0.8%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPShared/Split ScreenSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudStats3 DLC

5 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain

Post-launch support: 3 DLC released, first 2019-01-31, latest 2019-02-02 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,0991%54
Xbox One (Xbox)9980%54

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

VRActionRacingSportsDrivingOffroadAdventureRealisticControllerOpen World

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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