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 30.3%, Driving 21.9%, Multiplayer 9.3%, Simulation 7.1%, Realistic 7%

Why You'll Like It: It is the clearest step up from MudRunner, expanding the same deep off-road hauling and terrain-physics formula with more maps, vehicles, and co-op content.

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 32.8% ★, Automobile Sim 14.3%, Driving 12.4%, Moddable 7.7%, Multiplayer 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: This keeps MudRunner’s deliberate low-speed traversal and vehicle management but shifts the focus toward scouting, route planning, and remote exploration.

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

Why similar: Automobile Sim 25.3%, Driving 23.4%, Realistic 7.8%, Physics 7.6%, Moddable 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: If MudRunner’s appeal for you is believable vehicle weight and physics-based traversal, BeamNG offers some of the best rough-terrain driving simulation on Steam.

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 26.9%, Driving 25.9%, Physics 8.7%, Multiplayer 8.6%, Simulation 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: It shares Saber’s heavy-vehicle feel and terrain interaction, emphasizing slow, methodical machinery work across rough ground in a way MudRunner fans will immediately recognize.

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 41.6% ★, Automobile Sim 17.8%, Driving 15%, Physics 5.1%, Realistic 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the same patient, mechanical satisfaction of inching capable 4x4s over hostile terrain where every slope and surface matters.

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 62.8% ★, Automobile Sim 16.7%, Simulation 10%, Racing 7.5%, Multiplayer 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its core appeal is technical off-road driving over brutal surfaces where throttle control, wheel placement, and momentum matter more than racing lines.

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 33.3% ★, Driving 22.2%, Automobile Sim 16.1%, Open World 7.7%, Simulation 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: This is built around carefully maneuvering specialized off-road trucks through difficult natural obstacles, much like MudRunner’s slow-burn challenge.

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 8.3%, Moddable 7.8%, Open World 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its job-based co-op driving, cargo handling, and large vehicle focus make it a strong fit if you enjoyed MudRunner’s practical transport gameplay.

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 10.7%, Open World 8.6%, Realistic 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its focus on long-haul vehicle handling and cargo delivery gives a similar sense of operating heavy machinery across vast, immersive landscapes.

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 11.1%, Open World 8.7%, Realistic 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: While mostly on-road, it shares MudRunner’s relaxed but demanding transport loop, map-driven progression, and satisfaction of completing difficult deliveries.

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 47.4% ★, Automobile Sim 19.7%, Driving 12.7%, Physics 5.4%, Realistic 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: Rather than traditional racing, it is about surviving punishing off-road courses with realistic suspension behavior and careful vehicle control.

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 34.5%, Driving 27.1%, Open World 9.4%, Realistic 9.3%, Simulation 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: It blends trucking with harsh-weather route management and a rugged, lonely-road atmosphere that scratches a similar endurance-driving itch.

Identify the best routes and balance of power, speed and precision to overcome obstacles at the controls of a UTV, ATV or Rock Bouncer. In both solo and multiplayer mode, your talent and choices of technique will make the difference.

Why similar: Simulation 37.2%, Racing 32.7%, Multiplayer 27.9%, Singleplayer 2.2%

Why You'll Like It: Like the first game, it emphasizes technical off-road traversal and machine handling over speed, making it a good pick for terrain-focused drivers.

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 22.3%, Automobile Sim 21.6%, Multiplayer 12.3%, Simulation 9.8%, Open World 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Operating heavy equipment and trucks through job sites offers a similarly grounded, machinery-first experience even if the terrain is less hostile.

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 25.4%, Open World 9.1%, Realistic 7.3%, Simulation 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its appeal also comes from treating the car as a physical object you live with, maintain, and wrestle down imperfect roads.

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% ★, Automobile Sim 18.8%, Driving 13.6%, Multiplayer 5.7%, Open World 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: Navigation-heavy desert driving and endurance-focused off-road events give it a slower, more exploratory feel than most racing games.

Transport oversized cargo in a variety of missions across a 175km² open world. Drive customisable, highly detailed trucks through dynamic weather and day and night. The official cooperation with Gruber Logistics allows you to get behind the wheel of real-life heavy cargo transports.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 35.6%, Driving 27.9%, Open World 9.5%, Simulation 8.9%, Realistic 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Oversized load transport and careful route execution make it appealing to MudRunner players who like deliberate, high-consequence 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 8.6%, Multiplayer 6.7%, Open World 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: If the realism and low-speed control of MudRunner mattered more to you than the mud itself, this is a solid pure driving-sim alternative.

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

Why similar: Moddable 19.2%, Multiplayer 18.1%, Co-op 15.8%, Simulation 13.6%, Open World 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its heavy vehicles, muddy fields, utility-focused driving, and co-op play make it a good alternative for players who enjoy working machines rather than racing them.

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 31.1%, Driving 28.2%, Open World 9.8%, Multiplayer 9.1%, Realistic 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: This offers a surprisingly satisfying open-world driving sandbox with multiplayer jobs and a laid-back, vehicle-centric progression loop.

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 33.7% ★, Automobile Sim 25.5%, Driving 14.8%, Multiplayer 7%, Racing 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: It is much faster and more competitive than MudRunner, but its demanding surface physics and constant battle for traction still make it relevant for realism-minded drivers.

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 21.5%, Driving 21.1%, Simulation 11.7%, Multiplayer 11.6%, Realistic 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Like MudRunner, it turns heavy utility vehicles into the main attraction and rewards methodical work over speed or spectacle.

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 56.9%, Driving 22.9%, Simulation 13.2%, Open World 3.7%, Realistic 3%

Why You'll Like It: Its emphasis on precise truck handling challenges and vehicle mastery fits players who love the technical side of driving large machines.

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

Why similar: Automobile Sim 30.4%, Driving 26.9%, Multiplayer 10.9%, Open World 9.3%, Realistic 7%

Why You'll Like It: Its open-ended road-trip structure and rough, unpredictable driving create a similarly immersive vehicle journey, though in a more surreal and chaotic style.

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 38.2% ★, Driving 17.4%, Automobile Sim 16.7%, Multiplayer 6.2%, Realistic 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its long-form off-road navigation and rough-surface vehicle control echo the adventure side of MudRunner more than typical stage racers do.

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 38.5%, Driving 30.8%, Open World 7.9%, Simulation 7.4%, Realistic 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers the same vulnerable, vehicle-dependent travel feeling where the journey itself and keeping your machine going are the main point.

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 41.6%, Driving 30.1%, Open World 11.8%, Simulation 9.9%, Exploration 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: This mixes rough-road driving, vehicle tinkering, and backroads utility in a scrappy way that MudRunner fans may find charming.

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 38.8%, Driving 24.5%, Multiplayer 9.3%, Simulation 9%, Realistic 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its realistic, routine-driven vehicle operation scratches a similar simulation itch even though it trades wilderness for city streets.

Bus Simulator 21 Next Stop offers the most comprehensive bus fleet in the history of the series with 30 officially licensed buses. Drive on two vastly different maps, alone or with friend. Play with extended management elements or just enjoy your time on the road.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 34.9%, Driving 24.1%, Simulation 9%, Realistic 8.4%, Multiplayer 7%

Why You'll Like It: It offers another grounded, job-based vehicle sim where mastering a large machine and route efficiency is the core pleasure.

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 25.2%, Driving 18.8%, Simulation 18.7%, Multiplayer 10.9%, Open World 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: It is another strong heavy-equipment sim for players who like practical machinery, logistics tasks, and steady, process-focused gameplay.

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 19.9%, Simulation 9.8%, Multiplayer 7.9%, Realistic 6.3%

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 34.8%, Driving 25.8%, Realistic 8.8%, Simulation 8.3%, Open World 7.3%

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 31.5%, Driving 17%, Simulation 10.6%, Multiplayer 10.4%, Moddable 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 39.3%, Driving 18.2%, Simulation 9.1%, Moddable 8.8%, Realistic 7.7%

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 40.1%, Racing 25.2%, Open World 21.3%, Adventure 6.3%, First-Person 5.8%

CarX Drift Racing Online is your chance to immerse yourself in the real world of drifting. Get together with friends, tune your car and burn some tires!

Why similar: Automobile Sim 22.8%, Driving 18%, Moddable 11.6%, Multiplayer 10.3%, Simulation 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%, Simulation 9.7%, Driving 8.4%, Multiplayer 7.7%, Mod 6% ★

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 22.5%, Multiplayer 8.5%, Open World 7.7%, Realistic 7.5%

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 45.2% ★, Automobile Sim 21.3%, Driving 16.5%, Realistic 5.3%, Simulation 4.4%

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 46.4% ★, Driving 15.6%, Moddable 7.5%, Multiplayer 6.4%, Physics 5.5%

You. Your car. And world under the sand.

Why similar: Offroad 32.1% ★, Automobile Sim 24.5%, Driving 18.9%, Open World 5.6%, Simulation 4.5%

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 16.6%, Realistic 7.8%, Multiplayer 7.7%, Open World 7.7%

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 39.6% ★, Automobile Sim 21.7%, Driving 12.9%, Multiplayer 7.1%, Racing 6.2%

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% ★, Automobile Sim 20.5%, Driving 15.7%, Physics 5.1%, Simulation 4.4%

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% ★, Automobile Sim 22.4%, Driving 11.4%, Racing 9.4%, Multiplayer 4.6%

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 30.2%, Multiplayer 16.8%, Open World 13.9%, Physics 12.7%, Sandbox 8.5%

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 38.3%, Driving 22%, Racing 9.7%, Multiplayer 9.3%, Physics 7.3%

‘Ultra Off-Road’ is an Indie simulator of off-road driving in the land of Alaska.

Why similar: Offroad 44.7% ★, Automobile Sim 22.4%, Driving 14.5%, Simulation 4.9%, Realistic 4.6%

A co-op adventure about driving your Recreational Vehicle home.

Why similar: Offroad 28.7% ★, Driving 18.9%, Multiplayer 18.7%, Co-op 14%, Online Co-Op 8.6%

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 44.1% ★, Driving 21.3%, Online Co-Op 8%, Physics 7.2%, Multiplayer 5.3%

Take control of a Soviet locomotive and embark on a dangerous journey along the world's longest railway line. Face mafia rivals, bandits, wild animals, constant breakdowns, severe frosts, hunger, and... a hangover. How far will you get before your supplies run out?

Why similar: Driving 39.1%, Open World 12.7%, Realistic 12.4%, Physics 10.7%, Simulation 10.6%

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 14.3% ★, Simulation 6.3%, Moddable 5.8%

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 43.5%, Driving 24%, Simulation 9.7%, Multiplayer 6.9%, Open World 6.6%

Farming Simulator 25 invites you to join the rewarding farm life, single-handedly or cooperatively in multiplayer. This Farm is Your Farm!

Why similar: Multiplayer 21.8%, Simulation 20.5%, Realistic 19%, Online Co-Op 10%, Moddable 9.5%

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 26.3%, Simulation 8.7%, Realistic 7.2%, Moddable 5.9%