RoadCraft is SnowRunner with a new physics engine

Last updated:30/08/2024

Saber Interactive has dropped the RoadCraft trailer for its latest game. Here is what we know so far about the standalone SnowRunner sibling.

This is not a drill, people. Publisher Focus Home and developer Saber Interactive have revealed their latest game at Gamescom 2024. Known as Roadcraft, this entirely separate SnowRunner spin-off combines off-road trucking with a far superior physics engine.

RoadCraft may sound like it is about tarmac. However, it is actually about restoring industrial sites ravaged by natural disasters such as floods and sandstorms. Your job is to clear debris, rebuild infrastructure and generally save the day using heavy equipment.

Please note: This is the script from my YouTube video, click here or press play above.

Sounds a bit SnowRunner, yes. Except in RoadCraft we get an ‘evolved physics engine’, according to the official press release, which allows you to push debris out of the way and flatten terrain. You even use materials such as sand, wood and tar to create and improve pathways and roads. Something I wish the UK government would bother doing.

Anyway, it appears you can do more than just drive from A to B (or tip over). The press release also mentions that you get to plan the route of your transport trucks, point-by-point, and let them do the rest. Assuming, of course, you have cleared the way sufficiently.

RoadCraft-y by nature

New roads are not the only thing you can construct, as Focus Home and Saber Interactive have also mentioned bridges. Both can be utilised in up to four-player co-op, a feature of SnowRunner and Expeditions: A MudRunner Game.

RoadCraft will have more than 40 vehicles and eight maps, each claimed to be 4km squared. Unless the press release really means a 4km square, which would mean 2 by 2 kilometres of space to tip over in – a more typical SnowRunner amount.

The RoadCraft release date is currently listed as ‘2025’, which is vague. It will be available on PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store, PS5 and Xbox Series X. No Nintendo Switch this time around – at least not yet. I suspect that fancy evolved physics engine will be partly to blame.

And that is all we know so far, here are some official screenshots to whet your whistle. Feel free to put your RoadCraft trailer observations in the comments. Be sure to like and subscribe. I shall be finding out as much info as I can so stay tuned.