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Mudrunner’s filthy motoring is free on the Epic Games Store this weekPacked your wellies?
Packed your wellies?
To cut a long story short, Spintires creator Pavel Zagrebelny had a bit of a spat with publisher Oovee, leading to the game’s delisting (andeventual relisting). Zagrebelny would eventually take the game to Focus Home Interactive where it would slowly drop the Spintires branding while its arctic follow-up ignored it entirely. Got it?
Watch on YouTube
Watch on YouTube
Anyway. Mudrunner is an excruciating slog through rivers of mud, a driving game where progress is more often measured in inches than miles. Depth and thickness of mud accurately affect the balance and traction of your overpowered trucks and off-roaders, with the challenge often simply to make a delivery from one site to the next without slipping into the treeline.
A sequel, Snowrunner, added ice and snowdrifts to the mix this year. In hisSnowrunner review, Jeremy Peel urged folks to give the game a shot, comparing its trudging crawl to the likes of Kojima’s walk ‘em upDeath Stranding. It might not give you frostbite, but a free week of Mudrunner should be a fine jumping-on point if you’re looking to get your tyres wet.
Mudrunner is free to pick up on theEpic Games Store’til this time next Thursday. After that, platforming classicCave Story+ will be rotated into the store’s free lineup. Not the best timing, considering publishers Nicalis have been reportedly issuing DMCA takedowns against fan mods of the original game’s code, claiming their creators are stealing codeNicalis arguably doesn’t own.
