Dakar Desert Rally

Dakar Desert Rally is the biggest and most epic off-road rally racing adventure ever developed. Experience the speed and excitement of the largest rally race on the planet, featuring a wide variety of licensed…

47 4 October 2022 from $5.99

Arcade Racing Simulator Sport

Dakar Desert Rally is an arcade developed by Saber Interactive, released 4 October 2022 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. It currently starts at $5.99 at Steam.

Verified 1 Oct 2026 Sources: IGDB , Steam

What Dakar Desert Rally is

Dakar Desert Rally is an arcade game developed by Saber Interactive and released in 2022. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 4.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Dakar Desert Rally is the biggest and most epic off-road rally racing adventure ever developed. Experience the speed and excitement of the largest rally race on the planet, featuring a wide variety of licensed vehicles from the world’s top makers, including motorcycles, cars, trucks, quads and SSVs.

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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

How it was received

Dakar Desert Rally holds a critic score of 47 out of 100. That places it above 8% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2022 averaged 74, so it scored 27 points below the year average.

What it costs, and where

The cheapest verified price right now is $5.99 at Steam, 80% below its usual price.

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What it launched against

Dakar Desert Rally launched on 4 October 2022, within three weeks of A Plague Tale: Requiem, Scorn, Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord and Return to Monkey Island. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 2 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: A Plague Tale: Requiem, Scorn, Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord, Return to Monkey Island.

Cheats and codes

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