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!

I havnt played other mudrunner games so i cant compare. As a game all by itself i would say its fun, i think its worth the money. However, this game does have some serious flaws that are real headscratchers.

There is a lot of truths in the negative reviews for this game such as rocks feeling like ice, the constant up and down shifting of gears in the worst places, Taking damage on smooth terrain for going a speed the devs feel is too fast, a poorly thought out unlock system for trucks, parts, etc. Co-op is a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ nightmare and probably the biggest misstep.
If you play with a friend and you are hosting they will not receive the same saved progress as you do, meaning they wont have the same unlocks, progress, etc as you do and it absolutely should be a priority fix.

The devs want you to go slow and take your time i get it. But i think they messed up with their world size, and what i mean by this is they needed to make everything in the world bigger. The rocks, trees, hills, mountains, rivers, etc. How things are sized going what feels like slow is actually perceived by the game as fast, thus you flip, or take damage.

I dont understand this type of dlc model. Some of these companies do this constantly and its just stupid. A good example being 5 seasons worth of dlc that each cost 20-30 dollars plus the full cost of the game. So new players are faced with over a $100 dollar entry fee. They want money, thats fine, but after a certain amount of time just incorporate old dlc's into the main game and charge for the game plus the newest dlc so the potential buyer is only faced with a normal asking price for a game, I promise you'll make more money its already been tested and studied, no im not going to link my sources. Its not rocket science. I guess i should be thankful its not a mtx game?

I appreciate what they tried to do and I still think the game is fun enough to recommend, only because steam doesnt have a middle ground between yes and no.