Monster Truck Destruction

My honest first take on Monster Truck Destruction is one of tempered enthusiasm. The raw ingredients are genuinely fun: a roster of over 120 officially licensed trucks including Bigfoot and USA-1, arenas full of crush cars to flatten, and a Freestyle mode that plays a bit like a Tony Hawk score-chaser behind the wheel of a several-ton machine. If you have ever wanted a legitimate monster truck game on PC that uses real-world licences and real Monster X Tour track designs, the options are thin, and this one fills a gap that almost nothing else does. The mode variety is better than it first appears. You get Drag racing, Freestyle, Side by Side, Championship tours, online Multiplayer lobbies supporting up to 16 players, and the oddly compelling Floor is Lava mode. A Level Editor with over 700 props lets you build custom arenas and share them with the community, which adds a meaningful content layer on top of the official tracks. The Championship structure runs you through qualifying brackets against 12 AI trucks before an elimination-style final, and winnings fund engine, intake, transmission, shocks, and exhaust upgrades back in the garage. You can also personalise trucks with flags, neon lights, and chassis colour changes, which is a small thing but lands well for truck enthusiasts. Here is where I have to be straight with you though. This started life as a mobile title, and the PC version wears that origin visibly. The handling has a tendency to over-correct on turns, drag tracks are short enough that a single bad bounce can cost you a race, and several reviewers over the years have noted that upgrade differences feel less dramatic in practice than the stat numbers suggest. The Steam user score sits at a mixed 61 percent, and community gripes about the PC build being slower to update than the mobile version are well documented. There are also reports from players about progression loss after certain updates, which is the kind of thing that stings hard if you are mid-grind through the Championship tour. For casual play, the Freestyle mode is where this game is most at home. Chain jumps off ramps, score multipliers by mixing up tricks, and just let the bouncy physics do their thing - that loop holds up for a session or two. The online multiplayer lobbies are worth knowing about if you have a mate or two who are monster truck fans, since cross-platform support is listed. Split-screen is not present as far as I can tell, so the drunk-friends-on-one-couch scenario does not apply here. Controller support is confirmed, which is the right call for an arcade game like this. Wheel and pedal set owners should not bother digging out the rig for this one - a standard gamepad is the correct tool. Bottom line: if monster trucks are genuinely your thing and you catch this at a low price, the Freestyle chaos and the licensed roster will earn back your session. Go in expecting a mobile arcade game with a PC skin, not a polished sim, and you will have a decent enough time. Riley, Scout Team

Valve rates this game Steam Deck Playable. Runs flawlessly on Linux out of the box. Based on 4 ProtonDB community reports.

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