SnowRunner Reviews

SnowRunner is ranked in the 79th percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
IGN
Top Critic
8 / 10.0
Apr 29, 2020

SnowRunner's peculiar brand of off-road ordeals is addictive, deep, and rewarding when played in the right spirit.

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Andy Kelly
Top Critic
83 / 100
Apr 27, 2020

This deep off-road sim delights in giving you a hard time, but every victory is all the sweeter for it.

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4 / 5.0
Apr 27, 2020

While SnowRunner has a few quirks here and there, overall it's a fantastic game of exploration and brute-force driving.

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Unscored
Apr 27, 2020

I hope the flickering headlights of a glowing review are enough to help players find SnowRunner through the fog.

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7 / 10
May 21, 2021

SnowRunner is an interesting truck driving game where the environment is your opponent. As long as you can put up with its audio and visual issues and understand that it's an extremely slow-paced game, the rewards for sticking with it are worthwhile.

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GamesBeat
Top Critic
Unscored
Apr 27, 2020

SnowRunner is all I want to play right now.

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8 / 10.0
Apr 27, 2020

SnowRunner has its issues, but its unique brand of truck simulation and off-road adventuring is enough to keep you entertained for hours on end.

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8 / 10.0
May 4, 2020

SnowRunner focuses on certain group of players and dedicates all of its content towards that hardcore fun track driving simulation, but still it does that very good with a great online co-op to raise its value.

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9 / 10
May 5, 2020

Simultaneously relaxing, infuriating, perplexing, and rewarding, SnowRunner is on my shortlist for game of the year.

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IGN Italy
Top Critic
8.2 / 10.0
Apr 29, 2020

SnowRunner is a brilliant off-road truck simulator with a keen eye to entertainment and fun. Deep but accessible, frustrating but rewarding, it's a compelling experience where impossible adventures become possible.

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9 / 10
Apr 27, 2020

SnowRunner is a game thoroughly, single-mindedly, in love with the open road. It just happens that it's the kind of love that's bred by getting that road so thoroughly under your nails, you occasionally have to wonder whether it's actually hate. Care, attention and time will show that SnowRunner is a passion project worth putting the extra mile in for.

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78 / 100
Apr 28, 2020

Snowrunner is not for everybody, even if you are a fan of driving games. But if you are attracted to off road realistic driving it is engaging, and full of strategic elements.

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Apr 27, 2020

SnowRunner is an incredibly challenging and rewarding trucking simulatior despite some minor flaws.

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GameMAG
Top Critic
8 / 10
May 8, 2020

SnowRunner is an exemplary sequel in which the variety of content has increased several times compared to the previous game.

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74 / 100
May 6, 2020

I enjoyed many aspects of SnowRunner and see the improvements that Saber Interactive has made with the new entry into the series. After tackling mud and snow, it’ll be interesting to see where the next title treads.

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8.3 / 10.0
Apr 28, 2020

SnowRunner is a dirty game with spotless physics. A truck-sized open world, tiring, slow yet extremely adrenaline-fueled work simulation. Maybe sometimes too tiring, but capable of giving enormous satisfaction.

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8.5 / 10.0
Apr 27, 2020

Simultaneously a big leap over the MudRunner titles and a compelling effort in its own right, SnowRunner's improved focus on the hard fought conflict between man, machine and nature results in a highly rewarding and satisfying driving simulator that is quite unlike anything else.

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7 / 10
Apr 27, 2020

SnowRunner's glacial pace won't appeal to everyone, but this unique haulage simulation manages to transform everyday terrain into an enemy you need to tame. This is a game that's less about the destination and all about the journey you take; in that sense it's unmatched, and wildly rewarding in a way that few other open worlders are.

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8.5 / 10.0
May 17, 2021

Despite its limitations, SnowRunner on Switch can rightfully be declared as a "late but great" kind of port. This is a rare occasion where Switch owners will feel their patience has been respected. Considering the complexity of SnowRunner's simulation, foliage-dense open maps, and high-quality exterior and interior models, the fact that this is all somehow running on a 7-inch tablet with 2015 hardware is simply amazing to me. This is a feature-for-feature port, so there's nothing that Switch owners are missing out on compared to on the other platforms. Rather, there's only the key addition of portable play. So, is it worth it? By all means!

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May 9, 2020

SnowRunner is the stay-inside game we need right now. Slow, rewarding, and providing just enough resistance to keep the player sharp, it's a singularly zen experience that's made for a particular kind of person -- even those who avoid more genre-standard titles.

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