Games Like MudRunner

Get ready for the next-generation off-road experience! Drive powerful vehicles and overcome extreme open environments to complete dozens of challenging missions solo or with up to 3 friends!

Why similar: Automobile Sim 30.4%, Driving 22%, Multiplayer 9.1%, Realistic 7.1%, Simulation 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: MudRunner’s direct successor expands its mud-and-snow physics, heavy-haul objectives, open maps, and cooperative off-road trucking.

Embark on scientific expeditions with this new off-road adventure game. Lead research missions as you drive a variety of all-terrain vehicles, using high-tech tools and managing your camp and crew to ensure your success in the wild.

Why similar: Offroad 33.2% ★, Automobile Sim 14.2%, Driving 12.3%, Moddable 7.7%, Multiplayer 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: This companion off-road expedition game retains the series’ terrain simulation and recovery tools while focusing more on scouting, navigation, and scientific missions.

Pure Rock Crawling is a physics based off-road simulator. Featuring soft body tires, suspension customization that affects your handling, true to life drivetrain simulation and visual addons. Explore a variety of trails in free roam with multiple challenges.

Why similar: Offroad 42.1% ★, Automobile Sim 17.7%, Driving 14.9%, Physics 5%, Realistic 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its low-speed, physics-heavy climbing demands careful throttle, wheel placement, suspension management, and route reading much like MudRunner’s toughest trails.

As the leader of a company specialized in restoring sites devastated by natural disasters, use your construction machinery to restart the local industry. Clear debris and faulty equipment, rebuild roads and bridges damaged by weather, and much more!

Why similar: Automobile Sim 27.1%, Driving 26.1%, Multiplayer 8.6%, Physics 8.5%, Simulation 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: It shares MudRunner’s tactile heavy-vehicle driving and difficult terrain, adding reconstruction work, material hauling, and co-op infrastructure projects.

A dynamic soft-body physics vehicle simulator capable of doing just about anything.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 25.4%, Driving 23.3%, Realistic 7.9%, Physics 7.4%, Moddable 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its exceptionally detailed soft-body vehicle physics and expansive off-road maps let you create the same tense, methodical climbs and recoveries.

Experience unparalleled off-road driving in Offroad Truck Simulator: Heavy Duty Challenge®. This game delivers an exhilarating off-road experience with an extensive fleet of massive and powerful trucks.

Why similar: Offroad 41.3% ★, Automobile Sim 19.1%, Driving 15%, Open World 5.2%, Physics 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: Heavy utility trucks, rugged courses, and obstacle-focused off-road handling make this a very direct alternative for players who enjoy technical vehicle control.

Off-Road Drive, the off-road racing simulation for PC, is the first game ever to deliver a true-to-life, off-road, extreme racing experience. Players will take part in The Russian trophy, Off-Road Trial, Thai Trophy and many other events through the worst driving conditions with a variety of natural obstacles like swamps, rocks, snow and...

Why similar: Offroad 63.5% ★, Automobile Sim 16.4%, Simulation 9.7%, Racing 7.5%, Multiplayer 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: This older simulator centers on powerful 4x4s, difficult natural terrain, cargo tasks, and careful use of vehicle equipment.

Dakar Desert Rally is the biggest off-road rally racing adventure ever developed. Experience the speed and excitement of the largest rally race on the planet, featuring a wide variety of licensed vehicles from motorcycles, cars, trucks, quads and SSVs.

Why similar: Offroad 38.6% ★, Driving 17.2%, Automobile Sim 16.7%, Multiplayer 6.1%, Realistic 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: Open-desert navigation, realistic off-road machinery, and long-distance endurance stages capture MudRunner’s sense of navigating unforgiving terrain.

Brave the challenging conditions of Alaskan life in the definitive trucker simulator. Be the master of your own destiny as you take jobs, transport cargo and experience a sense of freedom on foot and in your cab.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 34.4%, Driving 27%, Realistic 9.5%, Open World 9.5%, Simulation 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: This blends truck simulation with dangerous wilderness deliveries, maintenance, survival concerns, and difficult weather-bound routes.

Take control of big-name buggies and quads to negotiate scree slopes, steep inclines and various obstacles on extreme off-road and technically challenging tracks. Find the best route, and manage your acceleration, differentials and drivetrain to dominate in local or online competitions.

Why similar: Offroad 47.8% ★, Automobile Sim 19.6%, Driving 12.6%, Physics 5.2%, Realistic 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: It replaces hauling with competitive events, but its technical rock, mud, steep slopes, and slow precision driving strongly suit MudRunner fans.

Load, drive, and deliver through a huge open world with up to 24 players in cross-platform multiplayer. Join your friends in exciting heavy transport convoys. Jump into the driver's seat of more than 30 unique vehicles and carry out complex loading tasks to deliver a variety of cargo.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 25.7%, Driving 18.9%, Multiplayer 8.1%, Moddable 7.9%, Realistic 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its multiplayer cargo hauling, trailer handling, and delivery planning provide a co-op logistics alternative with a similarly deliberate pace.

Experience legendary American trucks and deliver various cargoes across sunny California, sandy Nevada, and the Grand Canyon State of Arizona. American Truck Simulator takes you on a journey through the breathtaking landscapes and widely recognized landmarks around the States.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 31.1%, Driving 24.4%, Moddable 10.8%, Open World 8.6%, Realistic 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Although largely road-based, its focus on long-haul freight, large vehicle handling, and relaxing delivery progression suits MudRunner’s logistics side.

Junkyard Truck is an open-world off road driving and mechanic simulator. Build, upgrade, and maintain your old off road truck. Make money using your skills in driving, scavenging, gambling, or moonshine brewing. Try to build a truck capable of taking on the difficult challenges around the map.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 42.1%, Driving 30%, Open World 11.8%, Simulation 9.6%, Exploration 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: Building, repairing, and driving an old truck through rough backcountry creates a hands-on, vehicle-centered off-road survival experience.

Service off-road vehicles and take them for a drive! Offroad Mechanic Simulator lets you modify many classic off-road vehicles and prepare them for daunting tasks that no normal car could ever hope to complete. Test your work and climb steep cliffs or drive through rivers and deep layers of mud.

Why similar: Offroad 45.7% ★, Automobile Sim 21.2%, Driving 16.3%, Realistic 5.4%, Simulation 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on restoring and modifying 4x4s for difficult wilderness routes, making it a good fit for players who enjoy MudRunner’s vehicles as much as its driving.

DiRT Rally 2.0 dares you to carve your way through a selection of iconic rally locations from across the globe, in the most powerful off-road vehicles ever made, knowing that the smallest mistake could end your stage.

Why similar: Offroad 34.1% ★, Automobile Sim 25.6%, Driving 14.6%, Multiplayer 6.9%, Racing 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: Demanding rally physics and constantly shifting gravel, mud, and weather surfaces make every stage a test of disciplined vehicle control.

Travel across Europe as king of the road, a trucker who delivers important cargo across impressive distances! With dozens of cities to explore, your endurance, skill and speed will all be pushed to their limits.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 30.2%, Driving 25.5%, Moddable 11.2%, Realistic 8.8%, Open World 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: This is another strong cargo-hauling alternative for players who value methodical driving, route planning, and gradual fleet progression over racing.

Construction Simulator has returned – larger and more impressive than ever! Fulfil your ambition to become a successful construction entrepreneur by establishing your business from scratch, assisted by your mentor Hape.

Why similar: Driving 22.5%, Automobile Sim 21.8%, Multiplayer 12.2%, Simulation 9.7%, Open World 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Operating heavy machinery and hauling equipment around large worksites delivers the same weighty, practical vehicle feel from a construction perspective.

Create your farm and let the good times grow! Harvest crops, tend to animals, manage productions, and take on seasonal challenges.

Why similar: Moddable 19.7%, Multiplayer 17.8%, Co-op 15.7%, Simulation 13.4%, Open World 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its heavy tractors, forestry equipment, muddy field work, cargo transport, and multiplayer give it considerable overlap with MudRunner’s working-vehicle appeal.

Enjoy realistic driving in the open world. Relaxing cargo deliveries or driving buses and taxis will give you enough money to buy new cars and parts. You can test your driving skills at the race track. It's all about pure driving pleasure!

Why similar: Automobile Sim 31.2%, Driving 28.1%, Open World 9.9%, Multiplayer 9%, Realistic 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its open-world driving jobs, deliveries, changing conditions, and varied vehicle types offer a more casual but similarly vehicle-driven sandbox.

Explore, survive, and push the boundaries of the horizon in a vast, procedurally generated world. Customize your vehicle, face unpredictable events, gather resources, and embark on a unique adventure, alone or with up to 4 players.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 27.1%, Driving 22.7%, Multiplayer 8.4%, Open World 7.7%, Realistic 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its open-ended vehicle exploration and survival-oriented road travel make it a fitting choice for players who enjoy remote driving adventures.

Based on the world famous annual rally raid organized by Amaury Sport Organisation (A.S.O.) in South America, DAKAR 18 is a realistic simulation of the biggest cross-country rally in the world and features a variety of vehicles, including motorcycles, cars, trucks, quads and SSVs.

Why similar: Offroad 38.4% ★, Automobile Sim 18.7%, Driving 13.5%, Multiplayer 5.5%, Open World 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its vast rally-raid stages emphasize compass-based navigation, isolation, and traversing hostile open terrain rather than simply following a race line.

Experience the thrill of the 2024 rally season with new locations, moments, stages, high-performance vehicles, new liveries, and licensed crews. Brace yourself to embark on your continued rally journey.

Why similar: Offroad 52.5% ★, Automobile Sim 24.9%, Multiplayer 7.4%, Simulation 6.1%, Racing 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: Realistic rally-car handling over loose, wet, and changing surfaces offers a more competitive take on reading terrain and controlling traction.

From legendary game creator Hideo Kojima comes a genre-defying experience, now expanded in this definitive DIRECTOR’S CUT. As Sam Bridges, your mission is to deliver hope to humanity by connecting the last survivors of a decimated America. Can you reunite the shattered world, one step at a time?

Why similar: Open World 52%, Multiplayer 15.7%, Atmospheric 9%, Exploration 8.4%, Third Person 8%

Why You'll Like It: Its central challenge of transporting cargo across harsh, pathless landscapes makes it an excellent thematic match despite its science-fiction setting.

Build, repair, refuel and drive a dilapidated old car on a grand journey through the territories of the former Eastern bloc. Explore Germany, CSFR, Hungary, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria

Why similar: Automobile Sim 38.7%, Driving 30.8%, Open World 7.9%, Simulation 7.2%, Realistic 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: Maintaining an unreliable car and undertaking a long journey gives it the same intimate connection with a vehicle and its mechanical limitations.

Random generated open world semi-post apocalyptic survival car driving game.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 30.4%, Driving 27.1%, Multiplayer 10.7%, Open World 9.5%, Realistic 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A vehicle-dependent road trip through a harsh procedurally generated world offers similarly solitary, improvisational travel and maintenance.

Build the ultimate vehicle and explore a vast open world filled with challenges and adventure. Play solo or team up with friends in multiplayer to conquer the toughest obstacles. With a thrilling campaign mode and endless creative possibilities, Trailmakers is the ultimate sandbox for adventurers.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 20.6%, Multiplayer 18.7%, Open World 16.6%, Physics 16.5%, Racing 10%

Why You'll Like It: The physics sandbox lets you build custom vehicles and test them over difficult terrain, rewarding experimentation and recovery-oriented design.

Race your way to victory on bikes, ATVs and UTVs in MX vs ATV Legends! Featuring massive new open environments, plus a career mode that lets you experience all the risks and rewards of becoming a world-famous professional rider. Become an off-road racing legend in your own right! Your time is now!

Why similar: Offroad 48.2% ★, Driving 21.1%, Realistic 8.5%, Racing 6.9%, Multiplayer 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its broad outdoor environments and rough, deformable-feeling tracks provide accessible off-road action across trucks, ATVs, and bikes.

Face the supernatural dangers of the Olympic Exclusion Zone with a car as your only lifeline in this driving survival adventure! Scavenge resources, load up your trusty station wagon, and drive like hell to make it through alive.

Why similar: Driving 68.4%, Simulation 10.2%, Sandbox 6.9%, Exploration 4.9%, First-Person 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: This vehicle-survival adventure centers on upgrading, maintaining, and carefully driving a station wagon through dangerous wilderness anomalies.

My Summer Car is the ultimate car owning, building, fixing, tuning, maintenance AND permadeath life survival simulator. You start the game with hundreds of loose parts and assemble both car and engine.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 38.6%, Driving 25.3%, Open World 9.2%, Realistic 7.4%, Simulation 7%

Baja: Edge of Control HD is the carefully remastered version of the original off-road racer from 2008. This truly unique game contains more than 1,000 miles of the toughest terrain Mother Nature has to offer, including the steepest mountains, thickest mud and deepest canyons known to man.

Why similar: Offroad 79.1% ★, Racing 14.5%, Open World 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: Long, punishing off-road races through rough desert terrain capture the endurance and suspension-testing side of MudRunner’s driving.

City Car Driving – realistic car driving simulator, which will help you master the basic skills of the car driving in various traffic conditions, with plunging into the environment most closely resembling the real one.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 31.3%, Driving 31.1%, Simulation 8.4%, Multiplayer 6.6%, Open World 6.6%

Take on the role of a modern farmer in Farming Simulator 17! Explore farming possibilities in a new North American environment. Drive over 250 farming vehicles and equipment from over 75 manufacturers, including new brands such as Challenger, Fendt, Valtra or Massey Ferguson.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 31.6%, Driving 17%, Simulation 10.4%, Multiplayer 10.2%, Moddable 7.4%

Build and expand your repair service empire in this incredibly detailed and highly realistic simulation game, where attention to car detail is astonishing. Find classic, unique cars in the new Barn Find module and Junkyard module. You can even add your self-made car in the Car Editor.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 41.2%, Driving 19.7%, Simulation 9.5%, Multiplayer 7.9%, Realistic 6.4%

My Winter Car is the ultimate challenge for project car owning, building, fixing, tuning and maintenance simulator. Sequel to My Summer Car, but with added challenge for those who can master the original game!

Why similar: Automobile Sim 34.9%, Driving 25.7%, Realistic 9%, Simulation 8%, Open World 7.4%

Work your way to a service empire. Get your hands dirty in a highly realistic simulation game that pays major attention to details. Pay a visit to a new Auction house and buy cars in various conditions. Expand your range of services by investing in a new work space and equipment.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 39.4%, Driving 17.8%, Simulation 8.9%, Moddable 8.9%, Realistic 7.9%

Take the wheel in this ultimate off-road automotive experience designed for VR, with all-new vehicles and tools to navigate harsh landscapes.

Why similar: Simulation 39.3%, Racing 25.5%, Open World 21.5%, Adventure 6.6%, First-Person 5.7%

Welcome to the new generation of Farming Simulator!With a brand new graphics and physics engine, Farming Simulator 15 offers an immense open world, filled with details and visual effects transporting the Farming Simulator franchise to a new era.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 45.1%, Simulation 9.6%, Driving 8.4%, Multiplayer 7.5%, Mod 6.1% ★

Experience the job of a bus driver in a vast and freely drivable urban area. Drive original licensed city buses from the great brands: Mercedes-Benz, Setra, MAN, and IVECO BUS. Transport your passengers safely and punctually, either solo in single player mode, or in multiplayer mode.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 38.9%, Driving 24.5%, Multiplayer 9.1%, Simulation 8.9%, Realistic 6.5%

The best-selling franchise takes a giant leap forward with a complete overhaul of the graphics engine, offering the most striking and immersive visuals and effects, along with the deepest and most complete farming experience ever.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 21.6%, Driving 21.2%, Simulation 11.5%, Multiplayer 11.4%, Realistic 8.4%

Take on all the challenges of the 2017 World Rally Championship: the official cars and drivers, 13 countries, 52 Special Stages, every surface, more powerful cars, more demanding physics, longer races, and an eSports mode to keep you on the edge of your seat all year round.

Why similar: Offroad 39.8% ★, Automobile Sim 21.8%, Driving 12.7%, Multiplayer 6.9%, Racing 6.2%

Master realistic drift physics, tune 120+ cars and drift online with up to 16 players across platforms. Compete in TOP-32, build unique setups and explore hundreds of community-made Workshop maps.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 22.9%, Driving 18.1%, Moddable 11.7%, Multiplayer 10.1%, Simulation 6.8%

MY GARAGE is a car simulation game with main focus being simulating real car repair, maintenance and physics.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 31.6%, Driving 16.9%, Realistic 7.8%, Open World 7.7%, Multiplayer 7.6%

Get behind the wheel of one of the most iconic trucks on the road with this highly detailed Scania R-series truck simulation by SCS Software, developers of Euro Truck Simulator 2.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 57.1%, Driving 22.9%, Simulation 12.9%, Open World 3.8%, Realistic 3%

The original Euro Truck Simulator - the game which has become the classic of the genre and is still relevant today. The first truck simulation game in a European setting, with European long haul trucks!

Why similar: Automobile Sim 43.6%, Driving 23.9%, Simulation 9.5%, Multiplayer 6.8%, Open World 6.7%

Do whatever you want in a physics sandbox full of chaotic destruction, endless player-made creations and unpredictable adventures. Build, destroy, roleplay and mess around solo or with friends!

Why similar: Driving 30.3%, Multiplayer 16.4%, Open World 14.1%, Physics 12.7%, Sandbox 8.6%

Build your crappy vehicle into a race car, install the parts yourself. Make money by cutting wood, racing at night or delivering pizza. Maybe you want to manage a sugar shack or build yourself a big garage?

Why similar: Automobile Sim 35.9%, Driving 27.8%, Open World 7.9%, Physics 7.1%, Multiplayer 5.6%

Gravel is the ultimate off-road experience. The most extreme racing game that will let you try out amazing stunts in the wildest places on the planet!

Why similar: Offroad 50.3% ★, Automobile Sim 22.3%, Driving 11.3%, Racing 9.5%, Multiplayer 4.5%

The world of coach drivers awaits you! Drive along motorways and country roads to the bus stations in over 40 cities in Germany. Thanks to the cooperation with FlixBus and true-to-the-original MAN buses, you will experience the game world in a realistic way.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 42.3%, Driving 26.2%, Simulation 8.5%, Realistic 7.3%, Moddable 5.9%

Offroad Mania — off-road 4x4 driving simulator based on realistic car physics. Modes: Classic (240 levels), Free Roam, Racing, Endless, Winter (rocks, mud, snow, water, logs, trees, bridges, ramps). Vehicles: 10+ amazing 4×4 cars for your driving fun. Free updates!

Why similar: Offroad 46.4% ★, Automobile Sim 20.4%, Driving 15.6%, Physics 5%, Simulation 4.3%

New cars, new tools, new options, more parts and much more fun in the next version of Car Mechanic Simulator! Take your wrench! Create and expand your auto repairs service empire. Car Mechanic Simulator 2015 will take you behind the scenes of daily routine in car workshop.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 55.7%, Driving 17.4%, Simulation 11.4%, Multiplayer 3.2%, Racing 3.2%

Deep snow snowmobiling with real physics. Ride licensed sleds from Lynx, Polaris, and Ski-Doo across massive open backcountry maps. Find your own lines, climb steep mountains, ride with friends online, and chase the perfect run in untouched powder.

Why similar: Offroad 46.7% ★, Driving 15.4%, Moddable 7.6%, Multiplayer 6.2%, Physics 5.4%

Wreckfest is a demolition derby themed racing game with soft-body damage modeling, sophisticated driving dynamics and in-depth vehicle upgrading, featuring both demolition derbies and more traditional track races. It’s all about fun, breakneck racing and over-the-top crashes.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 38.4%, Driving 22%, Racing 9.8%, Multiplayer 9.1%, Physics 7.1%

In Construction Simulator 2015, you take the controls of 16 realistic construction machines made by LIEBHERR, STILL and MAN with high-quality 3D graphics.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 25.3%, Driving 18.8%, Simulation 18.4%, Multiplayer 10.7%, Open World 8%

Put your truck driving skills to the test in Trucks & Trailers! Complete basic training and set on the way to master the wide variety of challenges that lie ahead.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 55.7%, Driving 27%, Simulation 16.8%, Singleplayer 0.5%

Physics based, off road truck and bus simulation.

Why similar: Driving 33.2%, Automobile Sim 32.9%, Physics 9.9%, Simulation 9.8%, Realistic 7.3%

Embark on a chaotic co-op drive in Chained Wheels, where two vehicles are chained together and every move turns into a shared adventure or a DISASTER.

Why similar: Offroad 44.6% ★, Driving 21.5%, Online Co-Op 7.9%, Physics 7%, Multiplayer 5.3%

Get behind the wheel of 13 realistic city buses licensed by known city bus manufacturers such as Mercedes-Benz and MAN. Keep an eye on the traffic code and drive your passengers safely to their destinations through five characteristic city districts.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 27.6%, Driving 15.6%, Mod 14.5% ★, Simulation 6.2%, Moddable 5.9%