Comparing SnowRunner, Mudrunners and Spintires

[? Mark]

Please, can you briefly describe the key differences between SnowRunner, Mudrunners and Spintires and perhaps a bit of a suggestion, in which cases I should be choosing one over another?

[Kranex95]

Buy Snowrunner:
More maps, more vehicles and more anything. Too best graphics.

[HuskyDynamics]

Having only played MudRunner, I can't give my personal experiences for ST/SR, but here's a quick breakdown of some of the features of each game (excluding mods):

SpinTires:

• Original game
  
• Lighting is reasonably bright
  
• Cargo is exclusively logs
  
• 6 DLCs
  
• 29 vehicles (including DLCs)
  
• 11 maps (including DLCs)
  
• No longer available on Steam

MudRunner:

• The successor to SpinTires, essentially SpinTires 2.0 (and has several improvements)
  
• Lighting is rather dull but still looks quite good
  
• Cargo is exclusively logs
  
• Russian and American trucks have different addons
  
• 4 DLCs
  
• 36 vehicles (including DLCs)
  
• 11 maps (including DLCs)
  
• Goes on sale for a really good price every now and then (I got it and the only paid DLC for just $7.49!)
  
• Can run on quite low-grade hardware, low overall game size

SnowRunner:

• The spiritual successor to MudRunner, but many components (including the physics and the winch mechanics, among others) have been substantially changed (the physics in particular have been judged as being far more arcade-like than MudRunner)
  
• Cargo not limited to logs
  
• Nice and colorful during the day but quite dark at night
  
• Russian and American trucks have the same addons
  
• 63 vehicles (including DLCs), all licensed
  
• 24 maps (including DLCs), all based on real-world locations
  
• Maps up to 4x larger than MudRunner/SpinTires
  
• Better interior views
  
• More expensive, especially considering the "Year Passes"
  
• Requires higher-performing hardware, largest overall game size

Hope this helps!

[TheOrangeBox]

I would stay with Spintires and Mudrunner.

Snowrunner has become a different game, uses a different game engine and physics, it has bugs that the dev refuse to fix and unable to, and is more of an arcade drive.

[Rafael]

When I played SnowRunner sometimes the cars felt like they were floating in the mud. In the future I will give the game another chance.

[? Mark]

Thx for all your contributions
I bought Mudrunner

[Diogo Eler]

I prefer Mudrunner and spintires

[Smedinator]

If you want to haul stuff then snowrunner bc graphics and variety of loads. If you want 4x4 offroading then Mudrunner. Snowrunner physics for lighter vehicles is trash.

[pb&j technician]

I feel that you really cant compare the two (spin-tires and mud-runner are essentially the same game so i'm combining them into one entity) they go for entirely different game-play styles and that kind-of why I absolutely despises snow-runner, it feels wrong to me, i guess it could be the new developer its under but it feels too complicated. For me, mud-runner and spin-tires are games were you have an objective to do and the game lets you complete that objective whatever way you want, be it using an big gas guzzling 8x8 or a 2 wheel drive truck from the 50's, or you could just jump in with a powerful vehicle and ♥♥♥ around and have fun; were as in snow-runner the game forces you to play with its own designed way, not to mention you have to BUY all the vehicles basically limiting you to only play the way it wants you to AKA you cant just ♥♥♥ around as you could in mud-runner or spin-tires unless you already completed it(which takes a long Fing time). It also pisses me off that the game can barely get 40 to 50 frames were as in mud-runner with the third party adega graphics mod can make the game look very similar to snow-runner but run three times better. Don't get me wrong I think snow-runner is a very exquisite game but if your looking for a similar experience to mud-runner or spin-tires you will probably be disappointed just as i was; all i'm saying is these two games are just not at all in the same genres. Its the way that snow-runner just locks off everything from you that irks me the wrong way, guess its my own fault for not seeing what type of game snow-runner is.

well anyway that's enough complaining for me today

[ralf_maeder]

Mudrunner is more polished than Spintires in respect to UI, map and game mechanics. I played Spintires for about 80 hours and started now with Mudrunner (12 hours).