MudRunner similar games & best alternatives

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MudRunner

PlayStation 4, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch • 2017

Should you play it?

MudRunner is the ultimate off-road experience putting the players in the driver seat and dares them to take charge of incredible all-terrain vehicles, venturing across extreme Siberian landscapes with only a map and compass as guides!

What works

  • Realistic and immersive vehicle physics
  • Challenging and rewarding gameplay
  • Strong cooperative multiplayer
  • Active modding community
  • Relaxing and meditative experience

Things to keep in mind

  • Limited variety of objectives and cargo
  • Slow-paced and potentially repetitive
  • Outdated graphics and ui issues
  • Multiplayer community less active
  • No narrative or story depth

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • SnowRunner

  • Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue

  • American Truck Simulator

  • Farming Simulator 22

  • RoadCraft

  • Motor Town: Behind The Wheel

More violent

Games that feels like MudRunner but with more combat and destruction

  • Wreckfest

  • Mad Max

  • FUMES

  • Arma 3

  • Arma Reforger

  • Far Cry® 5

Less social

Games that feels like MudRunner but with less teamwork and cooperation

  • Pacific Drive

  • Offroad Mechanic Simulator

  • Under the Sand REDUX - a road trip simulator

  • Bus World

  • Truck Mechanic: Dangerous Paths - Prologue

  • The Slaverian Trucker

Less survival-focused

Games that feels like MudRunner but with less survival pressure

  • Farming Simulator 17

  • Farming Simulator 19

  • Pure Rock Crawling

  • Construction Simulator 2015

  • Out of Ore

  • Forza Horizon 5

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • SnowRunner

  • RoadCraft

  • John Carpenter's Toxic Commando

  • World War Z

  • Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2

Similarity map

How to compare these games

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Each card is a nearby game on the similarity map, compared with MudRunner. Swipe sideways to move between games. Titles already listed in What to play next are left out.

  • Cover and title: open that game’s page.
  • What works / keep in mind: the same highlights as the desktop comparison panel.
  • Bars: the main motivational differences versus this game.
How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Swipe to compare nearby games with MudRunner. These titles are not in What to play next.

MudRunner: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Cooperation, Fellowship, Intimacy, Leadership. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Fantasy, Violence, Story.

Last update: 21/08/2026