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ThunderWheels

Arcade Injection · 2017-11-02

Steam

CasualIndieRacingSimulationSportsEarly Access

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Releases: 2018 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

ThunderWheels is a retro racing game with a classic top-down racing perspective plus third and first person view, realistic physics and really fun circuits full of 80's nostalgia.

ThunderWheels is a 2017 Casual, Indie, Racing, and Simulation game priced at $8.99, with a Mostly Positive review sentiment (77% of 57 reviews) and an owner estimate of 20,000 .. 50,000.

0
playing now
77%
positive of 57 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$8.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 09:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 6 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 33% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 43% of 29,137 Casual games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-02

Estimated sales: 1.4k–3.4k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 57 total reviews — how this is computed.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
8820172024Week of 2017-11-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 09:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$8.99$0.002015-01-012021-02-152015-01-01 — best price $0.002017-11-03 — best price $8.092017-11-09 — best price $8.992017-12-21 — best price $8.092018-01-04 — best price $8.992018-02-15 — best price $8.092018-02-19 — best price $8.992018-06-21 — best price $8.092018-07-05 — best price $8.992018-10-30 — best price $8.092018-11-01 — best price $8.992018-11-21 — best price $8.092018-11-27 — best price $8.992018-12-20 — best price $8.092019-01-03 — best price $8.992019-06-26 — best price $8.092019-07-09 — best price $8.992019-10-28 — best price $8.092019-11-01 — best price $8.992019-11-26 — best price $8.092019-12-03 — best price $8.992019-12-19 — best price $8.092020-01-02 — best price $8.992020-06-25 — best price $8.092020-07-09 — best price $8.992020-10-29 — best price $8.092020-11-02 — best price $8.992020-11-25 — best price $8.092020-12-01 — best price $8.992020-12-22 — best price $8.092021-01-05 — best price $8.992021-02-11 — best price $7.642021-02-15 — best price $8.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

8
achievements tracked
74.6%
earned "Welcome to ThunderWheels"
6.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPShared/Split Screen PvPCo-opShared/Split Screen Co-opShared/Split ScreenSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading Cards

4 supported languages: English, Spanish - Spain, Spanish - Latin America, Simplified Chinese

Player tags

FunnyIndieArcadeCasualRacingSportsColorfulTop-DownDifficultSimulation

Census log

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

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