Move over every other 2024 game, the next great mud trucking sim just shot to the top of my wishlist

pcgamer.com:

Some people took up gardening in the first months of the pandemic. Others learned to cook, built Lego sets, or got buff. My pandemic fixation was SnowRunner, the sequel to off-road trucking sim MudRunners that's essentially Death Stranding with killer mud deformation tech. It's a challenging, gorgeous, and surprisingly tranquil driving game that we wholeheartedly recommend, but my eyes are now firmly fixed on the next entry announced yesterday at Geoff Keighley's Opening Night Live stream—Expeditions: A MudRunner Game.

Were this just another off-road delivery sim I'd only be a little excited, but Expeditions appears to leave the log-hauling behind to focus on what I considered the best aspect of SnowRunner: scouting. The Expeditions announcement trailer and Steam page suggest smaller vehicles will take center stage in missions revolving around surveying and exploration.

Sounds perfect. SnowRunner featured literally dozens of big-rig monstrosities that plowed through snow and mud like melted butter, but my favorite vehicles were the smaller trucks that had to treat every bog like it could be its last. In SnowRunner, scout vehicles were used to reveal more of the map and make fuel runs for larger trucks. They weren't the most important vehicles to have around, but they were the most fun, and I'm glad Saber Interactive is realizing that too.

The trailer shows us a few examples of Expedition's new emphasis with truck-mounted metal detectors, deployable drones, and sonar for testing the depth of water bodies (a mission type returning from MudRunner). But I expect the meat of Expeditions to be getting from A to B, not so much what you do once you're there. To that end, I'm especially interested in Expedition's new winch tech.