Offroad Truck Simulator: Heavy Duty Challenge® Reviews

The handling at walking speed is fine, but it has the same sort of unrealistic speed cap like the Spintires games: higher gears are for decoration, the trucks are not capable of reaching even a mild urban city speeds despite their powerful engines. You're going to crawl and walk the truck, even on tarmac. If you can gain some speed, then the steering will be all over the place. I don't know what's so difficult in simulation anything more than 20 km/h in these games, but they keep failing miserably at it. Btw it has relative steering, so if you think you'll casual this on a gamepad, then think again. It's unplayable on anything other than a proper wheel with absolute steering control. I didn't like the external camera controls either. You can't seem to orbit around the truck as well, like in popular games (GTA, BeamNG, etc.). I barely could see my lines... All in all I might only consider this game if you're a hardcore truck trial fan. Casuals probably won't like it much, due to its quirkiness. The game's performance wasn't great either. I barely got 30-40 fps on a 4070 TiS on Ultra 4K.

This game does not deserve the negative reviews that it has received. It's a fundamentally GOOD game. This is a hardcore, off-road crawling simulator. If you don't deal well with frustration and tend to rage quit, you probably won't like it. If on the other hand, you would like challenging, technical, off-road driving, you will like it. This is not the DiRT series. This is more serious. Drive-train management is necessary and the terrain is ROUGH! Is it perfect? No. It needs some housekeeping. The developers need to REALLY fix the forcefeedback, do further optimization, and tone down the shimmer on some of the vegetation. I turn off the "Eye Adaptation" setting and set the AMD scaling to "Native" and that helps, at least for my nVidia RTX 3060. Otherwise, I run the game on Ultra settings. I hope that the developers realize that they've got a good game here and continue to work on it. The trucks are beautifully modeled, the environment looks good, it's fun to play IF you're into off-road technical crawling in big diesel trucks. I've tried all the modes, they're all fun. My favorite is Sport mode, where you compete in truck trials. But all modes are good. So, if you've been considering this title, but have been dismayed by the negative reviews, go ahead and give it a try. If you're into off-road simulation I think you'll find that it's a worthwhile game. I like it and recommend it.