RoadCraft

Saber Interactive have admitted to replacing real human developers with AI while not disclosing it on the Steam pages for those games. Quote from the CEO in regards to the writer they fired to replace with GenAI; “Stella who? I had to ask Claude because I have never spoken to her or seen her. We have already said we are using AI for certain parts of the game and will update the Steam page once we have finalized the feature set.”

Avoid until major bugs are fixed. Trying to play multiplayer is currently a nightmare, especially if you or your friends are on AMD cards, where the game frequently crashes. When it does, other players are forced to constantly re-deploy and clean up dropped cargo. The developers claim this has been patched, but it absolutely hasn't been fixed on my end. The physics are also incredibly janky—sand spills out of vehicles if you look at them wrong, and tracked vehicles ironically completely fail on soft ground. Instead of fixing these core issues, the developer seems focused on shoveling out useless vehicle DLCs that can't even perform the tasks they were designed for. Hold off on this one.

So, as someone who played *a lot* of snowrunner, this game was *extremely* exciting: "Oooh, it's Snowrunner but, instead of just having to deal with the idiotic washed out bridges and the nasty swamps that, for whatever reason, you need to suffer through, you can instead *ACTUALLY BUILD A GOOD ROAD* for your trucks!" And... that would be a great game, but it is not *THIS* game. Not by a long shot. First off, the graphics are *terrible* - on my somewhat older computer Snowrunner almost looks lifelike, but this just looks like crap; the palm leaves in the intro levels are pixelated splotches because apparently the developers couldn't be bothered to spend a few bucks buying a couple pictures of palm leaves to use as assets; better to have a couple blotchy pixels instead! But, far more importantly, the gameplay just sucks; somehow, in spite of promising free-form construction, the developers have created a game that is *even more* railroaded than Snowrunner: you cannot manipulate *MOST* of the roads on the map, and they apparently decided that certain missions require you to tap certain wooden partitions so that they fall over in just the right way for your car to drive up into an incomplete building so that you can drag down a somehow-indestructible generator with a rope to a pickup zone. It's *really* bad coming from a game where everything needed to be carefully loaded into trucks and strapped down, and it seems almost designed to break you out of immersion. On the topic of further bad news for immersion, if you enjoyed Snow Runner's immersive, plodding, methodical simulation of hauling cargo, where you'd repeatedly run the same route, slowly learning its intricacies and how to do it correctly given the hazards that you had to deal with, well, good news! That's almost completely gone! Instead you get the new Convoy system that'll handle that for you. As long as you carefully plan out every single part of their routes. Yes, including multiple points per curve so that they don't stupidly drive over the middle of the curve. Oh, and god forbid that you made a mistake like not realizing that your route is *just slightly* too close to a fence that the convoy will get caught on; once you build the route, you can't modify it until trucks running along it have *repeatedly* failed to get where they're supposed to go because their drivers are, apparently, blind automatons who can't see anything but the waypoints in their heads. It's really dumb. And the terrible gameplay comes *before* you consider what happens if you have the gall to dare playing on anything other than the base difficulty; if you decide that, like in SnowRunner, you want fuel to actually matter because you found the challenge of managing the fuel of your various vehicles to be enjoyable, well, you're in for an unpleasant surprise - most of the levels are *immediately* impossible to complete the minute you run out of fuel. There's *literally* no fuel available anywhere on any of the maps at the beginning if, for example, you pressed escape thinking that it'd pause the game (which doesn't happen for some idiotic reason) and then came back to find your car on empty. I rag on a lot of games for using failure as an excessive punishment, rather than a learning opportunity, but this one is the first I've seen where the designers were utterly apathetic to your possible failure on a given difficulty setting. It's also worth noting that Roadcraft decided to double-down on Snowrunner's strangely high fuel consumption; where Snowrunner is designed to basically require you to refuel once every half hour or so to add complexity to the gameplay, Roadcraft decided that them's rookie numbers, and instead wants you to refuel basically every ten minutes. Where Snowrunner's substantially larger maps can be crossed by a scout on a single tank of gas, Roadcraft's far small maps seem to require *AT LEAST* two or three tanks of gas to be crossed end-to-end. It, once again, fundamentally breaks immersion. There's much more that could be ranted about - the sad-sack cynical dispatcher and her constant bellyaching is (even in spite of my personal anti-corporate inclinations) worth a paragraph by herself - but, to keep this short, this is just a depressingly bad game that is far worse than SnowRunner specifically because there was obviously less effort spent on it and, rather than trying to fix SnowRunner's gaps, it instead *leans harder* into the problems with that otherwise excellent game.

RoadCraft: When you're the boss, but you still have to do every single job because you can't trust your employees... apparently your employees are just decorative. What I don't like is having to drive slowly across the entire map over and over. It gets repetitive fast. It would've been great if AI drivers could simply follow you or deliver vehicles where they're needed, but apparently that's impossible. Despite that, I still recommend the game.

Купил с другом в первый же день выхода игры. Наиграли с ним 30 часов и на протяжении всего прохождения мучались от ИИ. 70% игры нужно проводить маршруты для конвоев которые должны доехать от пункта А в пункт Б, а застрять они могут ВЕЗЬДЕ, ровная дорога или неровная, асфалтированная или же нет, ИМ ПЛЕВАТЬ, они застрянут где угодно. Игра превращается не в расслабление а в вечные оскорбления конвоя которые не могут доставить груз. Прошло уже больше года, а они как были тупыми, так и остались. В игре встречаются постоянные баги с подключениями в аккаун, постоянно страдаешь над 1 дорожкой асфальта которую нужно проложить, а для этого нужно как минимум 4 машины. В игре есть функция где достаточно привезти машины а остальное игра сделает, НО ПОЧЕМУ ЗА 4 КАРТЫ ОНА ВСТРЕТИЛАСЬ ОТ СИЛЫ 4 РАЗА. Постоянно сложные задачи где нужно с 1 края карты САМОМУ доставить тяжелые грузы в другую часть карты. Ближе к концу игра превращается не понятно во что, захочу поиграть, по итогу постоянно страдаю. Чуть не забыл про получение ресурсов. Часто в игре бывают моменты, когда нужно привезти дерево, бетонные плиты, стальные трубы, стальные балки. кто занимается их созданием? КОНЕЧНО МЫ, ЕЗДИМ ПО КАРТЕ И СОБИРАЕМ-СЛОМАННЫЕ ТРУБЫ, ПЛИТЫ, ПЕРЕРАБАТЫВАЕМ И ВЕЗЕМ НА ТОЧКУ. В общем, в начале было интересно но потом просто кошмар

The game idea is perfect. Build roads, replace pipes, explore and rebuild... and all that with your friends! In reality this game is absolutely ♥♥♥♥. Shaders dont load, roads cant get placed perfectly, the NPC-driving just sucks to the point of it being almost impossible of completing some tasks (just because of the NPC, the route is perfectly drivable). Vehicles that should have tons of power can't even push trough a small puddle of mud and the steering is absolutely awfull. I tried playing with my (game supported) g29. Using the preset, nothing functioned. I tried using the custom preset, it worked but it has a lot of flaws. First, the steering feels awfull (it's really slow and non-responsive). When using my keyboard for certain actions (like using a crane) the game bugs while switching the input mode. An example of this is when i use my mouse to look around while driving, the gameturns of the imput from my wheel (because it switches to mouse and keyboard) but every input stays as it was... wich means my throtle is still on 100%, wich results in my vehicle racing along a cliff and getting stuck (making me lose a lot of time). Is it that difficult to implement propper controls and multiple inputs? I'm not even getting into the bugs that apear when playing online. Just know there are way too many, and then probably wont get fixed soon (or just not ever like a lot of bugs). I had fun playing this game while trying to ignore the flaws because it is genuenly a fun game idea, but because of the many bugs and problems (that never get fixed btw, most of them were in since launch) and the constant stream of payed vehicles and content... the game feels like a cashgrab. Buy this game if you can ignore all of these thing, i really can't anymore. :(

All in all, I have to say that the gameplay is still quite frustrating. Not because the game is hard, but because it is still severely lacking in polish and QoL. Many vehicles do not behave as one would expect, suspension for example, is too soft for most vehicles and one of the most infuriating issues is that of differential lock. It has to be engaged like 90% of the time and vehicles that lack a diff lock are almost unusable which is a huge problem for NPC vehicles which don't use or don't have diff lock. To name at least something positive: The vehicles in general are cool and Roadcraft is the only game with tracked vehicles plus paving roads is satisfying and fun. I could go on and on with this about the physics that could still be improved, that there still is no vehicle damage which makes SAR trucks absolutely useless, but nobody is going to read such a long review anyway, so I'm going to cut short and tell you to buy the game as cheap as possible and prepare for headaches. If you really want a good offroading game with fewer features then go get Mudrunner. Still the best Spintires game in my opinion.

Настоящая эволюция жанра! SnowRunner на максималках 🚚🏗️ Если вы провели сотни часов в SnowRunner, пытаясь вытащить свой скаут из очередной грязевой ловушки, то RoadCraft — это именно то, чего мы все так долго ждали. Это не просто шаг вперед, это полноценный сиквел на стероидах! Главная проблема прошлых частей от Saber всегда крылась в легком чувстве безысходности: ты мог возить грузы часами, но дороги оставались такими же непролазными. В RoadCraft разработчики наконец-то дали нам то, о чем умоляло всё комьюнити, — возможность менять мир вокруг себя. Что делает эту игру шедевром: Настоящее строительство дорог: Теперь ты не просто месишь грязь, ты её побеждаешь! Игра даёт полноценный инструментарий для восстановления инфраструктуры. Укладывать асфальт, заливать бетон и строить мосты — процесс невероятно залипательный и приносящий огромное удовольствие. Ты видишь реальный результат своей работы. Спиливание деревьев и расчистка завалов: Забудьте о временах, когда упавшая веточка намертво блокировала многотонный грузовик. Теперь в нашем арсенале есть спецтехника для лесозаготовок и расчистки путей. Мешает дерево? Спилил, убрал, проехал. Физика взаимодействия с окружением вышла на совершенно новый уровень. Тот самый кайфовый геймплей, но лучше: Фирменная физика тяжелой техники, деформация грунта и логистика никуда не делись. Но за счет новых механик созидания игра играется гораздо свежее и масштабнее. Ты чувствуешь себя не просто водителем, а главным инженером глобальной стройки.