SnowRunner

Engaging off-road delivery sim with meticulous terrain and strong vehicle physics.

An ambitious off-road driving sim, bigger than MudRunner with more vehicles and upgrades, but undercut by frustrating design and bugs. The starting vehicles are near-useless and progression is gated behind grindy level requirements, pushing players toward an overpowered pay-to-win DLC. Quest bugs repeatedly waste long hauls of careful driving, co-op three-way winching is inexplicably disabled, and the tutorials are poor. A great game is buried under the frustration, but as-is it isn't worth the wasted hours.

A compelling, RPG-flavored off-road driving game where conquering brutal terrain delivers real satisfaction; you don't need to love trucks to enjoy it. The watchtower-driven map exploration, 40 upgradeable vehicles, purposeful mission design, and four-player co-op make it a clear evolution of MudRunner, bigger and better in every way. On Switch the performance is solid with a locked 30fps and excellent audio, though it suffers texture and resolution downgrades, noticeable pop-in, and very small, hard-to-read text in handheld.