Extreme Offroad Monster Simulator

I want to like a monster truck game with Career, Challenge, and Offroad modes and a police escape mechanic thrown in for chaos. That premise practically writes the Saturday night session on its own. Extreme Offroad Monster Simulator, released in late 2019 by A Nostru, pitches exactly that fantasy: big 4x4 trucks, hilly American countryside, jumps, stunts, and head-to-head racing. Then you fire it up and the gap between pitch and product becomes very hard to ignore. The three modes give the impression of structure. Career offers a progression loop of races across marked courses, Offroad lets you roam the open terrain, and Challenge throws obstacle-style tasks at you. The routes are defined by coloured markers, and drifting outside them will trigger a reset, which is a design choice that sits awkwardly in a game advertising free-roaming monster truck mayhem. The countryside setting does produce some satisfying air time over hills, and for about twenty minutes that core loop of catching jumps holds a simple appeal. The problems pile up quickly after those first twenty minutes. The game engine has been widely flagged by players as unreliable, with AI opponents clipping into track-side objects rather than racing cleanly. Visuals sit at a level that is generously described as mobile-grade, and the object-culling behaviour that keeps framerates manageable underlines how close this sits to a phone title rather than a proper PC release. Partial controller support is listed, but with no split-screen and no local multiplayer of any kind, the "fun for four friends" test is an automatic fail here. Remote Play Together technically exists as a Steam feature, but asking a group to stream this particular experience is a hard sell. The police-chase element is genuinely the most interesting wrinkle in the package. It injects a little urgency and unpredictability into what is otherwise a very plain race structure. If the developer had leaned into that mode harder and polished the vehicle handling around it, there would be something worth recommending. As it stands, the handling is floaty in a way that never resolves into satisfying control, steering input feeling disconnected from what the truck actually does on terrain. For casual players or younger kids who just want to watch big trucks bounce over hills, there is a base level of spectacle on offer, and the asking price reflects the product tier. For anyone expecting a genuine monster truck sim, or even a fun arcadey racer with friends, this misses the mark. The Steam community sits around a coin-flip split on whether it is even worth the entry point, which tells you most of what you need to know. Spend your time elsewhere unless your expectations are set extremely low.

Riley · Scout Team

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