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Wreckfest

byBugbear Entertainment•2018

Wreckfest is a racing video game developed by Bugbear Entertainment and published by THQ Nordic. It features demolition derbies and traditional races with a strong emphasis on vehicular damage and realistic physics. The game includes various modes such as career, multiplayer, and custom events. Released in 2018, Wreckfest is notable for its detaile...

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Released
June 14, 2018
Genres
Action · Racing · Sport · Indie
Platforms
PC · PS4 · Xbox One · Switch · PS5

How it plays

18h
main
22h
main + extras
77h
completionist

Time to beat · 3 player times (IGDB)

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A perfect continuation of what Bugbear has done previously with the Flatout series. They may no longer hold the license to that IP, but they definitely still have the spirit of it. This is a perfect blend of customisation and carnage, with something for everyone. I can’t recommend it enough, and it deserves to be just as popular as the games that came before it.

Dec 5, 2019

Not only one of the best racing games of the generation but for once one that feels genuinely different to any of its major rivals – unless you count spiritual predecessor FlatOut.

Aug 27, 2019

I suspect that at some point while playing Forza or Gran Turismo or one of those other snooty racing sims with their car-porn focus on slippery reflective metal and engineered curves, you’ve had the urge to turn the race into a cacophony of screaming tires twisted metal. You know, to transform the Indy 500 into the world’s most expensive bumper car arena. When Wreckfest appeared on PC in 2018, and on consoles a little later, it allowed players to do just that: indulge their demolition derby fantasies of gleeful automotive destruction without the inevitable years in traction and physical therap...

Jun 14, 2021

Wreckfest is a demolition derby-themed racing game with special attention paid to soft-body damage modeling, sophisticated driving dynamics and in-depth vehicle upgrading, featuring both demolition derbies and more traditional track races.

Sep 17, 2019

Wreckfest is one of the more impressive Switch ports we've seen, taking a game that already had performance issues on more powerful hardware and delivering a relatively stable version with reasonable loading speeds and all its debris-flinging carnage fully intact. Handheld play is a little less visually acceptable, and the Switch tax rears its ugly head again, but just like the rough-and-ready roadsters in the game, we ultimately had a great time behind the wheel.

Jun 27, 2022

Wreckfest is back with a fine next-gen port, going that extra mile with some wonderfully chaotic gameplay.

May 7, 2021

Wreckfest is one of those games that everyone was anticipating and I, for one, am highly amused by the endless wave of destruction that one little car, or in

Sep 2, 2019

Wreckfest proves that sometimes all we need is a good smash.

Aug 25, 2019

Mechanical animalsEach of the following harbingers of a shoddy game applies to Wreckfest:Early Access titleFailed Kickstarter campaignLengthy development cycleOriginal [...]

Aug 24, 2019

Wreckfest has everything.

Aug 23, 2019

WRECKFEST is simple awesome, aggression is encouraged.

Aug 29, 2019

Bugbear Entertainment, the developer behind Flatout, is back with Wreckfest, a return to the glory days of Destruction Derby while also feeling like a successor to Flatout itself. While the title can certainly offer a trip down memory lane, its technical problems and last gen visuals hold it back fr

Aug 31, 2019