You’ll hear your engine heave and groan as you tackle a steep incline or muddy patch, its exhausts belching black smoke as it struggles to escape the sticky gunk. The physics are excellent, creating a nice distinction between the big rigs and the smaller trucks. The muted colour palette, bleak overcast skies, and ageing Soviet machinery remind me of the STALKER games-as does the feeling of being constantly at war with your environment.Īs you chew through the mud, the vehicles feel genuinely heavy and unwieldy. There are trucks with articulated trailers, and big chunky ones that look like they’ve been rusting in the Chernobyl exclusion zone for the last thirty years.
They can cut through forests and wave between trees, allowing them to uncover the ‘fog of war’ that initially obscures the map and reveal wider roads and trails for your big haulers to squeeze through. Your garage is filled with an array of vehicles to plough through the mud in, including nimble jeeps that are good for scouting the area ahead. You can jump freely between vehicles on your own if you’re playing solo, or team up with up to three other people in multiplayer. After accidentally burying my lumber truck in a thick slurry, I pulled the map up with F1, switched to a nearby truck with a winch and yanked myself out. There are simple objectives, like picking up and delivering lumber, but it’s the journey itself where the real challenge lies, and you’ll need some help to heave your oversized load across the uncompromising landscape. It’s a game of feet, not miles-of dragging your bouncy flatbed through just one more exhausting mire of mud and rocks to reach the safety of a garage or refueling station.īut you will get stuck, eventually, and that’s where vehicle-switching comes into play. Clumps gather on your wheels as you drive, and some areas are so caked in the stuff that you’ll be forced to find another route. The heavier your vehicle is, the more it sinks into it, and the more likely you are to get stuck. The way your tires dig into it, and the way it deforms realistically as you move through it, is really impressive.
It is, without a doubt, the best virtual sludge in games. It’s a grueling battle against the elements as you navigate your lump of rusty metal around rickety wooden bridges, dense forests, and swollen rivers.īut the real star of the game is the mud. It could only exist on PC-a simulator so niche it makes Munich Bus Simulator look mainstream-and sees you guiding an array of Soviet off-road vehicles across large stretches of unforgiving countryside. Have you ever dreamed of driving an old truck through a rugged Russian wilderness? Then dream no more, because Spintires is here.
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