Wreckfest

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7.5

Generally favorable reviews- based on 267 Ratings

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  2. Mixed: 49 out of 267
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  1. milsani
    Sep 7, 2019
    6
    Wreckfest has identity crisis written all over it. It has no real vision behind it, like the devs couldn't decide what they wanted their game to be.
  2. Shturmovik
    Jun 29, 2020
    7
    The game is great from the point of view of graphics, events and content, but the further along the career the more tedious races of 10-12 laps (especially on the "eight" which is likely to take you quite a long time due to constantly crashing into your side rivals) and some may get bored quite quickly. Another disadvantage is the lack of cloud storage, especially with the introduction ofThe game is great from the point of view of graphics, events and content, but the further along the career the more tedious races of 10-12 laps (especially on the "eight" which is likely to take you quite a long time due to constantly crashing into your side rivals) and some may get bored quite quickly. Another disadvantage is the lack of cloud storage, especially with the introduction of seasons because deleting the game or, in my case, replacing the hard drive, you just lose all your points that you saved for the purchase of new content. Otherwise it is a more modern FlatOut that is developing and I hope it will be even more interesting in the future :)… Expand
  3. MingoJingo
    Jun 24, 2015
    7
    This will be great when it's finished I'm certain. As I write this it's still early access and updates are few and far between. In fact several months, and recent promised updates are delayed over and over again. The devs do run a blog and post updates which is nice and provide a good insight into their activities. Cynical me says they are stalling, positive me is looking forward to theThis will be great when it's finished I'm certain. As I write this it's still early access and updates are few and far between. In fact several months, and recent promised updates are delayed over and over again. The devs do run a blog and post updates which is nice and provide a good insight into their activities. Cynical me says they are stalling, positive me is looking forward to the promised update.

    If you pick this up in early access you'll enjoy the content, but it is limited in this current early access state and then you'll get a bit bored and put Wreckfest on the backburner and keep a look out for the faithful day when Steam updates the game and then you'll get stuck in once again.

    As a driving game it's a ton of fun, and the silly physics of crumpled cars flying through the air is quite amusing. It's unrealistic but that's fine, it's about smashing cars and enjoying racing carnage.

    I'm merely rating this game on it's current state, but I'd happily give it a full blown 10 when it's fully released and shows it full potential, and I have a good feeling it will.    … Expand
  4. HCGMike
    Jun 22, 2018
    5
    4 ans d'attente et enfin la voilà ! La voila la suite non officielle de Flat Out... Et apres quelques heures de courses en multijoueur un doute survient : pourquoi ce n'est pas aussi fun qu'avant ?
    Malgré une réalisation excellente notamment au niveau de la physique des caisses et de l'ambiance sonore je ne retrouve pas ce qui m'avait tant plut dans les épisodes précédents : l'interaction    4 ans d'attente et enfin la voilà ! La voila la suite non officielle de Flat Out... Et apres quelques heures de courses en multijoueur un doute survient : pourquoi ce n'est pas aussi fun qu'avant ?
    Malgré une réalisation excellente notamment au niveau de la physique des caisses et de l'ambiance sonore je ne retrouve pas ce qui m'avait tant plut dans les épisodes précédents : l'interaction avec les éléments destructibles, le génie des tracés des circuits ET la jauge de boost !!!
    Mais ce n'est pas ma seule deception... : qu'est ce que c'est que cette possibilité de foutre des aides à la conduite ?!!? Et pire ! de permettre des courses mixant les joueurs "purs et durs" sans aide à la conduite et les autres ? Comment justifier ce choix et ainsi encourager à prendre des voitures "cheatées" pour ne pas courir avec trop de handicaps qui pourtant font l'interet de la conduite dans Wreckfest. Pourquoi, pourquoi, pourquoi ? toutes ces erreurs au bout de tant d'années de developpement. BUGBEAR a t il cédé à des exigences de pseudo joueurs ?
    L'interet de la compétition est ainsi "tuée" car en plus on ne sait pas le choix des aides fait en début de course de chacun des participants hormis par l'observation du comportement des voitures sur le circuit. Et si vous gagnez en conduite réaliste ben vous ramassez juste plus de crédits ... super ! ...
    ... Déçu.    … Expand
  5. GReviews
    Jun 22, 2018
    7
    A brilliant mix of racing and carnage, Wreckfest is for the sim racing fan who is tired of the norm and wants to hurt people (virtually, obviously). With good visuals and a cracking soundtrack, if you love driving as much as you do smashing things then you have to try this game.
  6. SuperkenGaming
    Feb 20, 2021
    7
    Wreckfest
    The need for.. crashing
    Wreckfest is a demolition racing game with a massive amount of content… sort of… there sa large variety of vehicles from riding lawn mowers.. to tractors.. to couches… its ridiculous… when it comes to game modes however, wreckfest falls a bit flat For starters.. wreckfest is a bunch of dumb fun.. you can compete in challenges online, play solo or    Wreckfest
    The need for.. crashing
    Wreckfest is a demolition racing game with a massive amount of content… sort of… there sa large variety of vehicles from riding lawn mowers.. to tractors.. to couches… its ridiculous… when it comes to game modes however, wreckfest falls a bit flat
    For starters.. wreckfest is a bunch of dumb fun.. you can compete in challenges online, play solo or multiplayer… it doesn’t matter what type of racing fan you are, wreckfest has something for you.. sadly no local multiplayer though… which is a huge deal when it comes to racing games, especially one of dumb fun such as this.. I primarily played career mode, where youll be completing a variety of challenges to earn points to unclock the next cup, each one progressively getting more challenging with faster and more aggressive cars… what makes wreckfust so unique is its pure demolition gameplay.. from demolition derbys to racing, you have to watch you don’t absolutely destroy your car… the rate at which you take damage is adjustable so I personally found the right level for me for it to not be so annoying, but rather a thrill trying to wreck other racers.. and again there is a variety when it comes to the challenges in the form of the vehicles you use… sadly though wreckfest’s charm fades only after a couple of hours… the tracks and game modes just weren’t there to keep my attention… the tracks weren’t much fun or unique, and crashing into other racers in the demolition derby just gets stale after a while.. though wreckfest did managae to hit me qith some thrilling challenges anre races randomly throughout the career… I just wish these moments were more consistent and more varied.. don’t get me wrong.. iwas glued to this game until suddenly I wasn’t.. so there is fun to be had here…
    Wreckfest as a series has tons of potential.
    I would love to see possibly a more arcady route in the future, especially for the racing… we have enough realistic boring race tracks out there…
    I give Wreckfest
    a 7/10    … Expand
  7. fernando8biondi
    Jan 1, 2020
    7
    Good game, with competent physics.
    Too bad the progression of the game leaves something to be desired.
  8. loothor
    Oct 12, 2018
    5
    In a nutshell, Wreckfest has one of the greatest arcade racing engines ever made and mostly wastes it in a shallow game with poorly thought-out design. The really high review will generally come from people who have only played the game for a few hours/days.

    The cars look great, the tracks look good and are (mostly) well-designed, and the driving feel is excellent. The crash physics    In a nutshell, Wreckfest has one of the greatest arcade racing engines ever made and mostly wastes it in a shallow game with poorly thought-out design. The really high review will generally come from people who have only played the game for a few hours/days.

    The cars look great, the tracks look good and are (mostly) well-designed, and the driving feel is excellent. The crash physics are super fun, easily the best created to date.

    Why the 5 then? Because there are a host of design problems that have ultimately led to this game having only short-term play value. I'd highly recommend it if whatever you pay for it is worth a few weeks of fun, but if you need to get more out of it than that you'd likely be making a mistake.

    Wreckfest is ultimately reliant on multiplayer play, as its Career mode and accompanying boring AI is too shallow to serve as anything other than a decent training/practice session to gear up for multiplayer.

    However, less than 6 months after game release, the multiplayer audience is already dying rapidly, to the point where you will often not be able to find a server with a decent crowd of racers. Ultimately, you're left with a game you'd like to play with other racers, but have little opportunity to do so.

    The basic problem lies in the fact that Wreckfest makes wrecking instead of racing fun and easy enough to create an environment in which people who don't want to put in the effort required to drive well to be able to completely destroy races for players who are actually trying to compete. The wrecking is fun, but that experience grows tiresome with repetition, leaving what should have been the meat of the audience stuck usually trying to wade through a mess of new players/trolls driving backwards around tracks, setting up their vehicles as roadblocks, or just piling into the nearest vehicle on every corner. The players that should be carrying the game end up leaving relatively quickly and now the "community" is typically less than 100 players at any given time divided into 3 groups: "Clean" racing with a lot of rules that suck most of the fun out for anyone who isn't in the top 3% of racing ability, "Dirty" racing in which any interest in actual driving will only frustrate you, and once in a while the fun medium that should have carried the game. Unfortunately, that is becoming rare enough that you cannot depend on being available very often with enough player to make for a fun game.

    A few simple better design decisions would have avoided this, but unfortunately Bugbear seems much better at making racing physics than making games. Perhaps future updates will address these issues, but I think THQ's focus is on getting console versions released, not fixing the current audience-killing issues, and the window for saving this game in an online market may have already passed.

    Some simple things that could have really helped:

    Front-end collisions should have been much more damaging to vehicles than side or rear collisions (at least in race modes), this would have limited the ability of non-racers to destroy races simply by full-speed piling into every corner.

    Buses and harvesters should never have been added. The SUV should have been less powerful.

    Car setups should have been saveable and be selectable during multiplayer play to facilitate racing in different classes.    … Expand
  9. Corrado_F
    Jun 13, 2019
    7
    Uno dei pochi giochi automobilistici che mi piacciono. Il punto forte è senza dubbio la distruttibilità delle mappe e delle auto. Il gameplay e la grafica sono fatti molto bene.
  10. Kelen
    Feb 13, 2022
    6
    [PL]
    6/10 - Nieźle
    Zobaczyłem filmik o niesamowitym modelu zniszczeń i wiedziałem, że muszę w to zagrać (po 23h grania i ukończeniu gry) Złe pierwsze wrażenie. Zagrałem i entuzjazm opadł :( Screeny piękne, taka rozwałka... Na nich latają w powietrzu części z wielu samochodów na raz, ale z botami tego nie było. Nie miały chęci mordu. Zero emocji. Nuda. Aż odechciało mi się    [PL]
    6/10 - Nieźle
    Zobaczyłem filmik o niesamowitym modelu zniszczeń i wiedziałem, że muszę w to zagrać
    (po 23h grania i ukończeniu gry)

    Złe pierwsze wrażenie.
    Zagrałem i entuzjazm opadł :(

    Screeny piękne, taka rozwałka...
    Na nich latają w powietrzu części z wielu samochodów na raz, ale z botami tego nie było.
    Nie miały chęci mordu.
    Zero emocji. Nuda.
    Aż odechciało mi się grać :(

    Jak zmieniłem zdanie?
    Spróbowałem multi i to była inna bajka - na starcie wszyscy w siebie wjeżdżają, co któryś trafia w ścianę, ktoś przelatuje nad nami, a inny leży dachu - coś pięknego.
    Niestety, na serwerach czasem bywa mało graczy.

    "Naprawiłem" granie w singleplayer
    Po zwiększeniu "poziomu trudności" SI na "Ekspert" nie jest trudniej, a nagle botom urosły jaja.
    Zwiększenie poziomu zniszczeń, zmniejszenie wszystkich wspomagań jazdy, ogarnięcie tuningu (zwłaszcza regulacji hamulców w tył) i jazda stała się naprawdę przyjemna.
    Teraz gra z botami zaczęła być efektowna i dawać sporo frajdy.

    Oldskulowe podejście do wyścigów.
    Brak otoczki fabularnej, brak otwartego świata, brak tworzenia postaci, brak charakterystycznych przeciwników.
    Wybieramy wyścig, wygrywamy/przegrywamy, wybieramy kolejny... Czasem kupimy jakiś samochód spośród podobnych do siebie.

    Udźwiękowienie ujdzie.
    Głośne i raczej nieprzyjemne ryki silników. Muzyka dobra, z przytupem    … Expand
  11. 3t3rnal
    Apr 9, 2022
    7
    This game is a FlatOut 1+2 remaster. Not a remake though. What's the difference you ask? Well, it has both the good, but also the bad, and while the graphics are new and pretty good and the game has DLCs including (overpriced and with stats better than base-game) carpacks, essential things for any remaster, the game also fails to improve pretty much everything that plagued the old racingThis game is a FlatOut 1+2 remaster. Not a remake though. What's the difference you ask? Well, it has both the good, but also the bad, and while the graphics are new and pretty good and the game has DLCs including (overpriced and with stats better than base-game) carpacks, essential things for any remaster, the game also fails to improve pretty much everything that plagued the old racing titles. This game is a love-letter to crash-racers of olden days, but love is blind to any imperfections.

    The racing is great. It's just fun, pure fun. The cars handle great and there is an okay variety of them in terms of body types, etc. and they are all pretty distinct, the tracks are awesome and pretty varied, the graphics are pretty good for a smaller studio, the damage model is well done - detailed and there's very little of surface stretching and objects sticking or melting into each other that happens a lot in BeamNG for example.

    On the other hand, the economy is, as in the old FlatOut games, not that good, and it requires you to re-run races repeatedly in the career mode already, and you only really need a couple cars to get through the career. Sure, completing the garage and unlocking all upgrades etc. should take some time, but in C class races with only 2 cars, you will already be counting every single dime, and I came here to race and crash cars, not count coppers. The base car roster, though varied, is also a bit limited in some categories, a couple more cars would be welcome - in the base game, not as "micro"transactions.

    The design of the menus is also atrocious and stuck in times even before FlatOut was a thing, and sometimes you spend as much time clicking through menus and trying to find something or switch cars, etc. as you spend racing. It's like the UI designer got put into cryostasis sometime in the first half of the 1990's and then got thawed out to make the menus in this game without being allowed even a glimpse of the progress that was made in this field. In addition, the game often freezes in the menus, mostly not leading to a crash, just freezing and then not allowing you to do anything, but to back out of the menu, so you have to retry that menu sometimes several times in a row until it starts working...

    So why 7/10, when I complain so much? Well, as I said, the game is just pure fun. When you are in a race, and don't have to fight stupid menu design or make complex financial plans for buying a digital exhaust for a digital car, when the engines roar, tires squeal and metal bends and cracks, the game just pulls you in, and you want more.

    In the end though, the game comes as a whole package and there's only one thing I can say about it in conclusion: It's a nostalgia trip. A fun and good looking nostalgia trip, but still a nostalgia trip. Eventually, the rose tinted glasses come off, and the issues of yesteryear which we have since dealt with will rear their ugly head again. Where you will stand on the scale between enjoyment and frustration will then depend on your ability and willingness to suffer their presence.    … Expand
  12. Goshan220
    Aug 16, 2021
    7
    Прикольные гонки с "реалистичной" физикой повреждений и управления машиной. Рекомендую проходить в Реалистичном или extremal режиме повреждений - так хоть чуть-чуть переживаешь что можешь не доехать, а иначе скучно. Как игра вроде прикольно, но быстро надоедает - режима всего два - сражайся до последнего или просто победа в гонках. Можно пройти компанию и спокойно удалить.
    p.s. онлайн    Прикольные гонки с "реалистичной" физикой повреждений и управления машиной. Рекомендую проходить в Реалистичном или extremal режиме повреждений - так хоть чуть-чуть переживаешь что можешь не доехать, а иначе скучно. Как игра вроде прикольно, но быстро надоедает - режима всего два - сражайся до последнего или просто победа в гонках. Можно пройти компанию и спокойно удалить.
    p.s. онлайн режим кишит то ли задротами, то ли читерами, я не разбирался    … Expand
  13. Pmstz
    Jan 25, 2023
    7
    very fun game
    Destruction Derby vibes.
    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Awards & Rankings

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#46 Best PC Game of 2018
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#57 Most Discussed PC Game of 2018
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#88 Most Shared PC Game of 2018

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Generally favorable reviews - based on 32 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 27 out of 32
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 32
  3. Negative: 0 out of 32
  1. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Dec 31, 2018
    100
    There is so much fun in Wreckfest. A racing "deathmatch" which originated on the top demolition technology is full of crashes, tension, but also humor and DIY work. [Issue#287]
  2. CD-Action
    Oct 25, 2018
    70
    This technically superb tribute to Destruction Derby could use some more insanity (especially in terms of unimaginative, repetitive arenas and challenges) and a broader color palette. The default driving model (with active assists) is both believable and satisfying and the destruction model is very detailed. [09/2018, p.60]
  3. games(TM)
    Aug 9, 2018
    80
    A fantastic reimagining of arcade racing. [Issue#203, p.83]
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