Even after spending over 100 hours in this game, I have to leave a negative review. The developers just slapped a lot of details together without much thought. You spend most of the time driving the Mule. AI trucks take corners completely unpredictably and sometimes even lose control on straight roads. They’re totally hopeless when facing oncoming traffic. Sand ends up being more of a hindrance than a help. The tree remover excavator constantly bugs out, with its parts floating in the air. Asphalt laying is usually bugged and just painful, since the vehicles respond so poorly. Route planning gets blocked if there’s already a waypoint or truck in that spot. No trailers and no winches on most trucks.

In the games current state i would not recommend playing. The whole point of the game it to clear, repair, and add new infrastructure to area struck by disasters. But what you can do to accomplish those goals is so limited and head ache inducing. The heavy equipment selection is limited and can interact with a very small portion of the environment. You can't clear large boulders or structure obstacles. The actual road building is terrible, you can spend hours trying to flatten sand to get a sub par road that the ai vehicles still can't path. They have pipes but you can only drain areas that are part of main objectives nothing else and the logic behind some of the decisions to restore areas just don't make sense. Let's not clear a road and restore it. Lets just do a 3 mile detour through swamp and mud and get every vehicle stuck or flipped over. I think the devs need to polish their game and make it make more sense, they need to listen to some of the feed back and actually apply it to t...

Pretty cool game, great concept, but far far away from the goat Snowrunner. If anything, this game makes me think of Construction Simulator. Is highly similar. If you're looking for a Snowrunner like game, then stay away from this game. If you enjoyed Construction Simulator, then this game will scratch that itch once again. If you're like me, and just enjoy a good game, then try it out. You have 2 hours to refund it. The game is packed with content and it will keep you engaged and very busy.

After 10 hrs, I feel like I can start forming a real opinion on this game. I 100%ed the tutorial and the first map Aftermath, and I'm 75% done with Incommunicado. My feelings from the demo are still exactly right: there's a lot in here that's fun, but as with every Saber game (but especially this and Expeditions) there's a lot of stupid little bullshit that feels like it would be so easy to fix. For context, I have 750 hrs in Snowrunner and 40 hrs in Expeditions (fuel for the "IT'S NOT SNOWRUNNER" fanboys to ignore my review). The biggest issue is that the controls are *almost* as bad as they were in the demo. I get the need for changing controls to fit a new game, and the basic controls are *fine*, even though it would be nice to have more alternate control options that I might already have muscle memory for. What is not fine is the awful sub menus: various controls require chords to activate, RB or LB combined with a face button, but RB/LB seems completely random, and there are ple...

I think there is a good game in there somewhere, but it feels to much like early access to an unfinished game. The FPS go down the longer the game is running. The AI trucks drive like drunk and have problems following the waypoints. The most prominent controls on the gamepad are to toggle on and off diff-lock and AWD. I don't get why you would need that option at all? There is no penalty for having it on at all times. Instead crane controls are split into obscure hold L1 or R1 modes which you have to always switch between and operating two axes at once is like playing twister on the gamepad. The whole road and bridge construction could also be fun, but the actual fun parts are much better handled by letting the AI do it. It does not run out of sand and copes much better with the paving machine. The idea of the game is promising but it feels very unfinished and untested.

Are you an aspiring dad who spends too much time in hardware stores? Are you seriously considering which type of fastener to use for your deck / shed / yard structure? Roadcraft may be the game for you! But seriously, imagine Snowrunner, but if you're using a road that just STINKS you can gather your vehicles and F I X I T. The game really lets you build dirt roads, paved roads, and bridges just about anywhere you want to help you navigate the map! Questing is somewhat basic, but the real joy is finally turning a nearly impassable route into a beautiful navigable road. Or, making a road SO GOOD that even the fairly primitive AI pathing on pathetically underpowered vehicles can navigate it! Highly recommend, 10/10 dad game energy

*EDIT* * Limited to no Wheel Steering Support. You have to override the game with hardware adjustments to make it bearable. * Brake pedals are shared with reverse and you can't split them apart. * No gearbox on the game whatsoever. * Accelerator pedal is On/Off, even while using the steering wheel one that is adjustable. * Game Controller support is a joke. You need to force it through steam and cannot custom key-binds. * Physics are a shameful point, considering having played the Mudrunner series. Mud deformation and other stuff are so badly apart that is hard to believe that it is a sequel from the same publisher. The game graphics is beautiful and the idea is nice. That's the only good points I can make to the game. After 2 hours dealing with controlers, steering wheel and the disbilief of how arcade the series has become, I've spent 15 minutes on keybord just for the sake of trying. -- EDIT AFTER 75h -- Tried to refund, and the negative forced me to play this thing. The game h...

Buggy, no fixes in months and under delivered on features. Abandoned and moved onto a new game, The Saber interactive playbook.

Completely joyless. While the things you can do in the game are fun (using the cranes, hauling, building roads and infrastructure) they are all unfortunately all locked behind a control scheme and simulation that seeks to rob you of any joy you could possibly take from the game. The fundamental problem is that the control scheme is aggresively optimized for "casual" play, in that it is impossible to do anything precisely. There is NO gear box, if you hit the brakes long enough you will go into reverse, and there are no options to change this. The steering (atleast on controller) is some aggresively smoothed thing that ends up making you turn harder and more suddenly than you ever wanted to. Trying to maintain any speed while driving is impossible because the slightest steering input will have you flinging yourself off the road and into and off of cliffs. And there are no options or settings for any of this. It is painfully impossible to operate any vehicle with any degree of precision....

+ Better played with friends + Chill game for chilling together and talking + Cool vehicles - Performance isn't great - could really be better - Not happy about the big sand truck being a DLC -.- Still fun as long as you don't expect a Snowrunner or some kind of Miracle game.