Vienna, Austria / Helsinki, Finland, March 20th, 2025: Ladies and Gentlemen, the next generation of demolition derby madness is here. Wreckfest 2 is crashing into Early Access on Steam today, bringing next-level car destruction, slicker graphics, improved physics, and a whole lot of new features to fuel your inner petrolhead. And yes, it’s once again developed by Bugbear Entertainment – the masters of metal-mangling mayhem.

Just like its predecessor, Wreckfest 2 will keep evolving throughout Early Access, with fresh content and features rolling in regularly. Bugbear and THQ Nordic are all about making this a game for the players, shaped by the players. We want your feedback – tell us what you love, what you want more of, and what crazy ideas we absolutely need to implement. We’ve got a truckload of ideas (and an actual truck), but we want to hear which ones you like the most!

Are you ready to take the wheel?
Buy Wreckfest 2 on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1203190/Wreckfest_2/

Watch Wreckfest 2's Early Access Trailer on YouTube: https://youtu.be/wEHFrUwU7XU
Visit the official Website: https://wreckfest2.thqnordic.com/


Now, a fair warning: don’t expect Wreckfest 2’s Early Access version to be as jam-packed with content as Wreckfest 1 after nearly a decade of updates, patches, and DLCs. This is just the beginning of an epic ride, and the game will grow with regular updates, guided by our living roadmap - powered by you.

To reflect this evolving journey, Wreckfest 2 is launching at an introductory SRP of $29.99 / €29.99 / £24.99, with a 20% launch discount for the first two weeks (until April 3, 2025), making it an even sweeter deal. As development progresses and major updates roll out, the SRP will gradually increase until the full 1.0 release on PC and consoles.

Here are the Launch System Requirements:
Game modes

• Single-player racing & derby with up to 24 players (bots)
  
• Multiplayer racing & derby with up to 24 players + bot support

3 maps with multiple tracks
Scrapyard map:

• Circuit course with intersections
  
• Crazy course with oncoming traffic

Speedway map

• Figure 8 circuit
  
• Speedway oval circuit

Derby arena

• Sandpit map (new remake of WF1 track)
  
• Circuit long route + reverse variant

1 Singleplayer Map Stunt arena

• Sandbox map with ramps, loopings, etc. (similar to the "Sneak Peak map" of WF1)

4 Cars

• 2× '60s/'70s American muscle cars (as seen in trailers)
  
• 1× '80s EU banger car (compact)
  
• 1× '90s US banger car (intermediate)

Features

• Basic paint customization for all cars (more customization options coming later)
  
• Garage to edit & save car designs
  
• 1st version of Replay mode, including photo mode
  
• Leaderboards

THQ Nordic Content Creator Program
We love to collaborate with content creators from all over the world. If you are interested in Wreckfest 2 (or our other games), please check out our content creator program and be among the first to play and show the game(s): https://creators.thqnordic.com/


Enjoy & stay tuned!

Put the Pedal Through the Metal: Demolition King Wreckfest 2 Goes Early Access in March

Vienna, Austria / Helsinki, Finland, February 4th, 2025: Wreckfest 2, the next evolution of full-contact racing, crashes into Early Access on PC on March 20, 2025. Developer Bugbear has overhauled its physics engine to deliver the most intense crashes, deeper component damage, and absolute vehicular mayhem.

Race on high-speed circuits - or tear through a junkyard filled with, well, junk! Take on wild jumps, try to dodge oncoming traffic at chaotic intersections. Good luck with that! Or embrace total destruction in derby mode, where chaos reigns, and every collision fuels the madness. It’s not just a race - it’s carnage on wheels. With no rules and no mercy, every race becomes a battle to the finish line against up to 23 other players or AI drivers in all-out multiplayer mayhem!

Forget the shiny supercars - In Wreckfest 2, the rides are old, rusty, dented, and patched together. As Early Access progresses, you'll be able to build the banger of your dreams and transform your battered ride into a wrecking machine! New cars and other vehicles will be added as the game evolves.

From day one, Wreckfest 2 will be shaped by your feedback. We're eager to create the greatest demolition derby-style game of all time. Ready to take the wheel?

Join us on March 20th, when Wreckfest 2 launches into Early Access on Steam!

Watch the EA Launch Date Trailer on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Z2PCl64qnng

Wishlist Wreckfest 2:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1203190/Wreckfest_2/

Visit the official Website: https://wreckfest2.thqnordic.com/

Enjoy & stay tuned!

Howdy folks,

We're thrilled to announce that Wreckfest now supports PC multiplayer crossplay. For the first time ever, you can join the same lobbies with your comrades across Steam, GOG, and Epic Game Store platforms, uniting the playerbase. So from now on, it doesn't matter where you bought the game – you can now smash and crash your way to victory with all your friends and foes!

And wait, there's more. We're admittedly big fans of crashing here, but cars and of course not servers, so we've also gone and given the engine under the hood a fresh change of online oil in an effort to further improve server stability and make sure the servers can handle all the heat while you embark on your wrecking rampage on all platforms.

Update now and teach your buddies from GOG and Epic Store how to bend metal!

Hello everyone,

It came to our attention that the server CPU usage was increased after the previous update and after some investigation we identified the culprit - luckily it turned out to be something that was quick enough to address so we decided to release a hotfix right away so that weekend events could be saved. In addition to that aforemention fix, the server ping display in the server browser should be more reliable now.

Thanks for the feedback and happy wrecking!

Howdy folks,

Another year, another rocking Wreckfest update! This admittedly minor update will resolve a number of online related issues we've become aware of as well as make it possible to bind keyboard keys again. The full list of issues addressed is as follows:

- It's possible to bind keyboard keys again.
- Server ping is now shown correctly in the server browser.
- Steam Friends > Recently Played With is now working correctly.
- On Steam Deck, game no longer frequently crashes when entering Quick Match.
- OpenSSL was updated to resolve vulnerability in the previous version.

We hope that the New Year is off to a fine start for everyone!

Ho ho ho, wreckers and racers!

As the year comes to a close, we want to take this opportunity to wish you a great holiday and happy New Year. We are super grateful to everyone who has been playing our game and it still continues to amaze us how much love you all are showing for it. We hope that you and your close ones will have a relaxing holiday and that 2023 will bring you many wonderful things. Indeed, this year might be coming to an end but you can rest assured that you will be hearing from us in 2023 so stay tuned for exiting news. Until then, drive hard and die last!

Happy Holidays from the Bugbear team!

We just pushed out a small update, containing the following enhancements:

- Creating a LAN server now works correctly.
- Avatars are now displayed correctly in lobbies.
- Server name and message are now displayed correctly.

Thanks for all the feedback and happy racing!

Howdy folks,

We hope everyone is doing great today!

It's been a while but today we're releasing a minor update today that paves way for some exciting things. In the not-so-distant future, everyone who owns any of the PC versions of Wreckfest available at different platforms such as Steam, Epic, Xbox Game Pass and GOG will be able to join the same multiplayer servers and play online together! That time is not just yet, but today we're releasing an update that contains the technical, behind-the-scenes work that will make it possible soon. This work naturally affects multiplayer functionality, and while we don't expect any issues please don't hesitate to let us know in case you spot any oddities.

In other news, this update also resolves the issue in which leaderboards often failed to load correctly after launching the game. From now on, they should be always displayed correctly so that's great news for everyone.

And finally, we identified and addressed a rare case in which using a custom steering wheel controller (that is, a device not from the big three of Logitech, Thrustmaster or Fanatec) might have made the game crash so that should be now a thing of past too.

Should you run into any trouble, please do not hesitate to let us know. We're very grateful and appreciative of anyone who is still playing our game after all this time so just so that you know: a big thumbs-up to you!

All the best tournament challenges are back!

In case you're still missing some of the goodies from the tournament shop or just started playing, we have some great news to you: to give more players chance a chance to earn tournament points and reap the rewards, we are retiring the leaderboard based challenges and replacing them with solo challenges that will challenge you to best scores set by us. What this means in practice is that from now on you can complete tournament challenges at your own pace and earn fame to empty the tournament shop. And it's now easier too to score gold since we're pretty shoddy players so what's not to love?

As usual, the challenges are rotated every day, and even the longest lasting ones rotate every two weeks, so if you want to maximize your rewards make sure to check back often. Good luck, happy wrecking and have fun!

HIGHLIGHTS

• New tournament: Wrecking Madness
  
• New free reward bundle for Warwagon

We're excited to announce the availability of a new tournament!

This time we're taking you back to Wrecking Playground so it's time for Wrecking Madness! The monthly event challenges you to score points by wrecking your car, destroying objects and getting airtime, all without without worrying about getting wrecked since resetting the car will repair it instantly. The weeklies offer an entirely different challenge, being timed events in which you need to collect the special Bugbear coins littered around the level as quickly as possible. The tournament shop has been restocked with a rocking new Warwagon "Warrior" bundle containing many cool upgrades and an unique paint job.

Additionally, this update will address a critical issue of the game crashing when quitting.


Game version

PC: 1.289098

• Game no longer hangs when quitting to desktop.

Happy summer to everyone on the northern hemisphere, and winter to everyone else!