If you liked the Mudrunner game, this game is very different. It forces the objectives down your throat and doesn't give you an option for free roam or vehicle upgrades until you find them and unlock them. The Multiplayer works when it wants to, and overall the game is not what I wanted from a Mudrunner game. Review done on 1/1/2025, in case they update the game and make it not a steamy pile of garbage.

You like Mudrunner?

You like Snowrunner?

Well then STAY AWAY from this garbage!

I really wanted to try this game after so many others said it's bad to see for myself because I have hundreds of hours in Snowrunner and "it can't be that bad" right?

But HOLY S*** I was wrong!

The positive: the vehicles have a much better or "realistic" suspension than in Snowrunner.
... that's already it

The negative: the UI feels incredibly bad if you play with keyboard/mouse. If you start an expedition with multiple vehicles you have multiple icons on the map inside of each other, making it basically impossible to switch to them, also there is no other way to quickly switch to other vehicles besides using the map because the key to "switch to closeby vehicles" is also the same key for using modules(base), trading with airdrops, getting fuel from the base, etc... incredibly bad and frustrating design! And switching vehicles with the map UI is also very annoying because you first have to switch to the right base on the map, then switch through contracts, missions and other unnecessary stuff just to find the vehicle and then the UI often doesn't react at all!
Next negative point: The vehicles all feel very weak, even with the biggest engines they often feel like they would get stuck on a grain of sand!
Again! NO possibility to manually switch gear 1-4 etc... And because the engines are so bad the vehicles constantly try to switch to higher gears just to immediately go back to first gear!
Next negative point: even on a mostly flat surface all vehicles feel like a paper boat on the ocean! Every single little bump, every uneven survace or small rock will send your vehicles jumping around!
COOP is just as bad as in Snowrunner! Invite multiple people and at some point someone just randomly gets kicked, IF they can join at all in the first place!
Rock surfaces feel like ice! It doesn't matter what tires you use, your vehicles will just slide around and have no grip at all. Only chance would be a winch point but especially on the first area those are very rare! ...desert and such... removable anchor points are also mostly useless because in many cases you can't place them becasue the whole surface is marked as red/can't place anchor. Same for the jack screw if you flip the vehicle!
Next point: every single time I start the game I get the annoying Epic Games popup at the start of the game trying to connect my steam and Epic accounts! EVERY! SINGLE! TIME! One single "NO" should be more than enough! I have the game on steam, I don't want Epic Games or whatever!

In total at the moment I highly encourage everybody to stay far away from this game!
It looks nice, the concept sounds like fun but it's extremely frustrating, has bad UI, very limited choice of vehicles, buggy coop and UI and bad physics!

2/10 from me!

Ich kenne MUDRUNNER UND SNOWRUNNER, dachte dieses Spiel hätte einiges schöne zu bieten, aber die Nutzung von MODs ist bei den Missionen nicht erwünscht besser gesagt es geht nicht, Ich versuchte an der PAK-Datei etwas zu ändern, angeblich geht dies nur mit einem Packer den ich mir besorgte, doch eine Änderung und die Datei ist beschädigt.
Die beiden Vorgänger Mud- & Snowrunner waren MOD-Freundlich, man konnte einfach viel ändern, da dies hier nicht mehr möglich ist, teste ich das Spiel ohne MODs.
Ergebnis, man fährt sich oft den Tank leer (kleine Tanks und viel Verbrauch), auch mit Ersatz-Kanistern ist es nicht so einfach. Ich war von diesem Titel einfach nur enttäuscht und war froh das ich das Game gerade noch zurückgeben konnten.
Dafür bin ich nicht gewillt zu zahlen, wenn sollte das Game so sein wie seine Vorgänger, halt mit mehr Funktionen, etwas anderen Aufgaben, dann hätte es Spaß gemacht, aber dieses Ziel wurde extrem verfehlt und ich kann jeden Verstehen der bei diesem GAME klar NEIN sagt.
Überlegt es Euch daher gut, ich habe nun erst mal wieder MUDRUNNER gespielt, da gibt es viele extra Fahrzeuge und Karten, auch Snowrunner hat mehr zu bieten und beide Titel sind wirklich MOD- und Veränderungs-Freundlich. Veränderungen sind gemeint mal ein größer Tank, mehr Schadenspunkte usw.