
As much as MudRunner made me want to give up, it also kept egging me on to pull through. Even at its slowest moments (which are very, very slow ), the subtle sense of fear and nervousness that you have because you’re trying to figure out how to move a several-ton metal behemoth out of a hole you dug yourself into is very exciting. MudRunner doesn’t have any explosions and definitely doesn’t get up to speed very often, but I wouldn’t hesitate to call it an exhilarating action game. I don’t really understand it, but somehow MudRunner makes plodding along at less than 5 MPH somehow feel really entertaining. Even so, trudging through the dense forest roads, raging rivers, and rocky mountains of the virtual Russian terrain never once felt boring. Even after I thought I learned the best routes to take around the various maps, I found myself in incredibly infuriating situations all because of making just the slightest error in judgment. Prepare to spend several minutes going absolutely nowhere fast. But of course, you’ll eventually make a mistake anyway and end up getting totally stuck. Indeed, this game is all about carefully planning your next move and constantly ensuring you’re not making mistakes.

These beasts are built for off-road environments, but Spintires: MudRunner most certainly lives up to its name. Navigating through the rugged terrain is not a simple task despite the fact that you’re behind the huge wheels of massive logging machines. On paper that may sound like the most boring thing ever, but as I said in the beginning, MudRunner has no intention of being your friend. Your overall objective is to navigate through different maps (like a swamp, island and mountain just to name a few) delivering logs from Log Stations to the Lumber Mill.


Even so, despite being built for harsh conditions, these behemoths still have a hard time navigating the treacherous terrain of MudRunner ’ s open-world recreation of remote Russian environments. Most of these are repurposed ex-Soviet military vehicles, so they have a lot of horsepower and can definitely take a beating. MudRunner is all about navigating the incredibly rugged terrain of Russia’s wildlands with massive off-road vehicles. The old saying ‘slow and steady wins the race’ definitely applies here.
