Gravel

Amazing game with UEVR injector streaming through Virtual Desktop on my Shadow PC Power tier (a cloud computer). Honestly having more fun with this than Gran Turismo 7 on PSVR2 (which is a great experience too for sure).

A nice little off road racing game, in the middle ground between a sim racer and an arcade racer.
Recommend to fans of Motorstorm, it has that sense of "weight" much like those games, though not as good and with none of the style.
Wait for a sale, the base game goes for £2.

The lovechild of Sega Rally and Colin McRae Dirt, ends up with the arcade goodness of 'Gravel'. Great tracks, classic and modern vehicles, and a sense of speed and fun that few modern games encapsulate. Bought it at a 90% sale reduction; what a wonderful investment! Wonderful game!

Pros
* good car selection
* good track and race type variety. Rally, raid, RX, gate crushing, etc.
* good graphics
* decent career mode, definitely better than latest Forza
* easy to pick up. Casual, arcadey. Not to intense.
* has rewinds
* all cars have cockpit cameras
* campy story and cutscenes in career mode
* RX content is the best in the game. good for some quick arcadey rallycross on real RX tracks.


Cons
* follow camera goes silly on jumps
* physics can get glitchy especially at higher speeds
* all cars in same class drive exactly the same. Stats don't matter.
* car can get stuck on the back of AI drivers
* night races are undriveable. Car lights don't work
* multiplayer achievements
* piss color grading filter and UI that is straight out of 2007.
* to much content in DLCs

Overall Gravel is decent off road racer if you are not to picky. It will feel like off brand product next to Codemasters games. With messier handling, no difference between cars, AI rubber-banding, camera glitches etc. I got the game with all the DLCs for about 5€ on sale, and for that price this seems like decent arcade racer. Anything more than that would make me feel like it's not worth it.

(In night races turn on full race line, otherwise you wont be able to see where you are going. Car lights are useless. It's complete darkness.)

Very decent dirt racing game, at its best moments there’s a feeling of Sega Rally to it. Graphics are good and very much enjoyed some of the car choices that were outside what you’d normally see, like the Vauxhall Astra. Career mode could be a little longer but outside of that it’s a very fun game that’s worth a look.

So the game is good and fun for a driving game.
The issue with it on Steam Deck, is that, it lags a few times per race (in offline mode) and once I got to the final event, I could no longer complete any races at all. I would be doing a race and the game would crash, it happened 8 times in a row, in 4 different events, so I gave up on it.
If you aim to 100% the game, that may be impossible. Only purchase if on sale, $3 is about all it's worth since it becomes unplayable after about 7 hours of play.

Amazing arcade racing game. For me its a replacement for SEGA Rally, and that is quite the throne to take. Graphics excellent, gameplay excellent, music excellent, content excellent. the ONLY part that is less than perfect is that the AI LOVES to pit you way too much. This is now in my top 3 racers along with NFS HP and Outrun C2C.