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WHAT THE CAR?
Race through hundreds of silly levels as a shapeshifting car in strange worlds populated by …bears? Run, roll, jump, fly and sneeze your way to victory! Join the community and make your own chaotic levels!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-04 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-14.
What reviewers agree on
40 of the 72 reviews raise this.
“I like the adventures on this game, cause it's like open world but better.”
“WHAT THE CAR? is a gleefully chaotic reimagining of what a “racing game” can be, one that treats the entire genre as a setup for a long string of jokes. Developed and published by Triband, it takes the familiar idea of…”
“good and funny and hard”
20 of the 72 reviews raise this.
“Looks like a fun game, sounds like a fun game, acts like a fun game. Turns out to be extremely, dreadfully boring and luck-based. The music is also terrible.”
“WHAT THE CAR? is a gleefully chaotic reimagining of what a “racing game” can be, one that treats the entire genre as a setup for a long string of jokes. Developed and published by Triband, it takes the familiar idea of…”
“good and funny and hard”
7 of the 72 reviews raise this.
“good and funny and hard”
“Hard as balls vehicular Paralympics Recommend. with. much. like.”
“hard”
6 of the 72 reviews raise this.
“it's silly and there's quite a lot of weird cars. worst one so far is giraffe wheels, god those are frustrating. also this game is giant, I'm on chapter 5 I think and it seems like there's at least 2 more. whole game is…”
4 of the 72 reviews raise this.
“10/10 I love this game, I may be glazing this a bit because I'm a top speedrunner but i could play this game over and over and over and never get bored. I would recommend WTC to anyone.”
10 of the 72 reviews raise this · 2 of them still recommend the game.
“Apparently cars can do whatever and be whatever they want. The only limit is imagination and dancing bears. As much as I like this game, most of the levels feels too similar and redundant to capitalize on what made…”
“Looks like a fun game, sounds like a fun game, acts like a fun game. Turns out to be extremely, dreadfully boring and luck-based. The music is also terrible.”
“It's a good game but get's very repetitive and boring after the first few areas”
6 of the 72 reviews raise this · 3 of them still recommend the game.
“it's silly and there's quite a lot of weird cars. worst one so far is giraffe wheels, god those are frustrating. also this game is giant, I'm on chapter 5 I think and it seems like there's at least 2 more. whole game is…”
“More of silly fun like What the Golf? Sometimes frustrating with the difficulty, but usually similar simple and easy to get into fun as What the Golf?”
“The game is really slow and levels are too easy. Cars that change after every few levels are supposed to be different, but gameplay on most of them is similar(you press space car moves forward). It gets boring after a…”
Counted across 72 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 85.2% positive rating · as of 2026-05-14
“I enjoyed this one a little less than I enjoyed 'What the Golf' since this one was less about wacky ideas and more about trying to make a legitimate platformer of sorts. There were also a lot of levels that felt like they did not really need to be part of the game.”
— a player, Steam review · 9 hrs played“Only Danish cars can run this fast. I see a couple of prominent review on here are comparing WHAT THE CAR? disfavorably to the studio's previous outing WHAT THE GOLF?. I don't think that's quite fair; no only is Car significantly cheaper while containing even more content and no…”
— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs played“I desperately want to enjoy this game, and for the first several hours I did. However, I'm not sure any game I've ever played has so thoroughly outstayed its welcome. I'm not sure exactly when my enthusiasm started to wane. By the time the beach and sandstorm levels arrived,…”
— a player, Steam review · 12 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-05.
Price tracking
US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-25. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-14.
| Genres | Action, Adventure, Casual, Indie, Racing |
| Player tags | Funny · Indie · Physics · Comedy · Action-Adventure · Racing · Cute · Adventure · 3D · Colorful · Parody · Singleplayer (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Cloud · Stats · Includes level editor · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Arabic, Dutch, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Catalan |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 35 |
| Official site | https://whatthegames.com/car |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS: Windows 10 Processor: 2.6 GHz Intel Quad Core Memory: 2 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M, 2 GB Memory DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 2 GB available space