Spintires Critic Reviews

It’s not survival horror with trucks. It’s survival horror for trucks. You as a driver, as a person, as a foot on a gas pedal and a pair of hands, don’t exist. Whether it’s because Oovee didn’t want to fuss with character models or because it’s an intentional effort to focus on the element of machines vs nature without mere humanity in the middle to muck it all up, the world of Spintires is like Maximum Overdrive, that dopey horror movie where trucks come alive and drive themselves around. Not for the cheese factor, of course.

Spintires is a very good game. It's hard to imagine a better truck driving model - game engine paired with Havok covers up any issues the game might have (and it has some minor ones). Spintires is a game with an original theme and a great example of a simple, but extremely playable product. Great job.

Without a doubt Spintires is the best trucking game I've ever played. When muddy physics are combined with crappy vehicles, the outcome is truly unique. Spintires is a survival game, where you have to make do with big cars in a soft terrain.

Did I just spend 25 hours transporting lumber and getting stuck in the mud? I certainly did, and I don't regret any of it.

Spintires is extreme in every sense. If you love the idea of driving off-road on mud and rocky tracks, it’s your next big-deal.

There's some true, and unusual fun to be had here, but the price tag is a but on the high side, especially considered it's a kind of work-in-progress.

Great mud-parcours for fans of enormous green diesel monsters - needs a bit more "game" though.

It targets a narrow group of gamers but does it expertly and engages them for hours, and even those who don’t know squat about off-road will be impressed by the visuals and physics provided by the game’s engine.

Updates and new content releases would do wonders for Spintires, as at the moment it's little more than a pleasingly ground-churning tech demo. A muddy, messy and fun tech demo that gingerly touches on a deeply held love of playing in the dirt that you might have forgotten about.

Seriously impressive physics, but not much of a game.

Spintires is a simulation game in which you drive through Russia with different off-road vehicles. The in-game physics are a blast and are very realistic, but overall Spintires can be kind of boring to some players. You only have one objective to complete, and all the maps look alike. Still, if you just enjoy riding through dirt, this is the game for you.

I have never grown fond of cars because almost nothing resembles being a car while standing next to Mercury Park Lane from the '59. And to drive Mercury Park Lane from the '59 in the 21st century is not exactly the most practical thing to do with your savings. However, I keep remembering our family Wartburg – a blue station wagon which clawed us through Podkrkonoší or Jeseníky, and that rusty beast did beat everything, weathered from fir branches and mudded from forest roads around Rejvíz. Why so many words? Because it is a must to enjoy the Spintires.

The game is incredibly boring. All you can do is crawling with the speed of turtle to nowhere, overcoming obstacles and cursing at each bump without having any global goal. Every puddle is a personal enemy, because the chances to get stuck are significantly large. The only things that give a certain aspect of fun are the physical models and graphics.

Spintires is a good trucks simulation. It's demanding, difficult, and it boasts an innovative physics engine. However, the content is a little light, some collisions are strange and internal view is absent.

There are quite a few positive aspects: the driving physics feel authentic, the real-time deformation of the surroundings is impressive too. But Spintires lacks depth, be it more varied missions or even the smallest economy system. This is more a tech demo than a game.