It seems the game remains in real-time throughout. Going down a road, popping into the map to check my location, returning and finding myself in a ditch.
You will need to stop too, as you don’t want to make the same mistake I did. If you want to see where you are going, you’ll need to stop and check your map. You can access a map and plot a route, but don’t expect a mini-map or an on road guide The most you get it a waypoint marker. This is a title that requires a hell of a let of patience and planning if you want to get the most from it. It is only as you progress and open up new areas you see the different environments. You don’t get any snow initially however. It is a game that should be stressful to the more casual player, but somehow even to me I felt relaxed within the world. The very first mission in all fairness does a small amount of handholding.
Then how to use your winch, attach trailers, pick up cargo, etc. You’re told early about how to do the basics, such as driving. Namely as I got used to the harsh environment around me. I found myself needing to call for recovery many times early on. Sure you get a tutorial of sorts, but it isn’t a tutorial that goes deep into easing you in. Sounds exciting right? Yeah, I know… it really isn’t an easy sell.Īs a game it lacks any of the real gamification you expect with modern games.
So just what is Snowrunner? Simply put it is a simulator where you are given various contracts to complete that require you to use various real-world trucks. There are already another accessibility options to let even clumsy idiots like me enjoy it. Not by compromising on what makes it such an interesting game in the first place. The problem a game like this has, is just how to you sell it to the masses? All without losing any of the realism that made it such a unique game in the first place. Hell, it even feels a lot more accessible than the original title. It takes everything good about that games and improves on it. Snowrunner is the follow up to the niche simulator Spintires: Mudrunner.