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Wreckfest
Wreckfest is a demolition derby themed racing game with soft-body damage modeling, sophisticated driving dynamics and in-depth vehicle upgrading, featuring both demolition derbies and more traditional track races. It’s all about fun, breakneck racing and over-the-top crashes.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
What reviewers agree on
68 of the 102 reviews raise this.
“Do you like driving games? Do you like driving games with realistic/fun damage? Do you like driving games with realistic/fun damage taken by your opponents? Do you like driving games with realistic/fun damage taken by…”
“Wreckfest feels like it was built by people who get old-school driving. Whoever designed this game clearly had road warriors in mind. I can’t count how many times I’ve been sideways in my ’72 Nova on some back country…”
“Game is +++ Vehicular combat similar to Flatout series, but depicts a more realistic full-contact/banger racing type of gameplay instead of being an arcade racer like Flatout games. Not a fast paced racing game so if…”
15 of the 102 reviews raise this.
“Wreckfest feels like it was built by people who get old-school driving. Whoever designed this game clearly had road warriors in mind. I can’t count how many times I’ve been sideways in my ’72 Nova on some back country…”
“hands down the most underated multiplayer (and also single player) racing game for pure fun. still worth getting even with the new one on a key shop”
“great fun, a barrel of laughs. awesome when playing with mates and online.”
6 of the 102 reviews raise this.
“I think this game is a fantastic rump. If you love crashing, destruction, and a lot of variety. This game is right up your alley”
“I love this game its my favourite racing game. I like the details and realism for damage on vehicles it has many types to choose from like , monster truck , semi truck , racing cars , derby cars , double stacked cars ,…”
“Just pure fun man. One of the most satisfying racing games out there. Drifting feels perfect, destruction is dope, and mods keep you coming back.”
5 of the 102 reviews raise this.
“Game is +++ Vehicular combat similar to Flatout series, but depicts a more realistic full-contact/banger racing type of gameplay instead of being an arcade racer like Flatout games. Not a fast paced racing game so if…”
“hands down the most underated multiplayer (and also single player) racing game for pure fun. still worth getting even with the new one on a key shop”
“Brilliant fun, hitting the perfect sweetspot between simulation and arcade. 60+ hours well invested.”
5 of the 102 reviews raise this.
“Growing up with the PlayStation 1, we had Destruction Derby in our games rotation heavily. I think it ran at 10fps or something, but still, great times! Wreckfest hits the same way. There is Wreckfest 2, but I haven't…”
“Brilliant fun, with or without a racing wheel setup. Its a chill racer you can play if your not in the mood for a serious rally or formula 1 game where you need to focus the whole time. This is a game you can play for…”
“I thought it was ok, nothing special.... Then I got a racing wheel..... Did I hear there is a wreckfest 2? :-D”
10 of the 102 reviews raise this · 4 of them still recommend the game.
“These Devs are the biggest A-holes on the planet. They had a game where you could host in-game multiplayer and kept changing and moving things, putting new things in and taking old things out and finally settled on…”
“I would recommend this game highly if it was multi-player without having to set up a server, a simple get together with your friends option would have been a fantastic choice or you could setup a dedicated server.…”
“good but i wish they would add steam networking instead of having to use stuff like hamachi, radmin, zerotier, tailscale whatever”
8 of the 102 reviews raise this · 5 of them still recommend the game.
“A mid-range racing/destruction derby game, and compared to its predecessor Flatout 2, more of a downgrade. The graphics are quite nice, there are many racing tracks and some pretty cool cars, but the grinding factor is…”
“This game is a 5, the crash physics in this game is very realistic with multiple settings to customize your experience but the multiplayer is barren and this game is very niche therefore mainly dead and also very…”
“While the game is rather fun to mess around in there are a few things I find rather annoying... 1) The game is incredibly unreliable at detecting crashouts, You can send an opponent careening into a wall or even…”
6 of the 102 reviews raise this · 3 of them still recommend the game.
“I want to like this but half the time the game feels like it is cheating in the most nonsense ways. I'm not sure how it would achieve this exactly, but physics just seems to stop working at exactly the moment when I…”
“can you please stop with the snow, it sucks. just stop putting the snow in. I hate the snow. No grip in the snow. No snow please. I refuse to play this game with snow enabled. No snow. It hurts the game to have snow on…”
“A mid-range racing/destruction derby game, and compared to its predecessor Flatout 2, more of a downgrade. The graphics are quite nice, there are many racing tracks and some pretty cool cars, but the grinding factor is…”
6 of the 102 reviews raise this · 4 of them still recommend the game.
“I want to like this but half the time the game feels like it is cheating in the most nonsense ways. I'm not sure how it would achieve this exactly, but physics just seems to stop working at exactly the moment when I…”
“While the game is rather fun to mess around in there are a few things I find rather annoying... 1) The game is incredibly unreliable at detecting crashouts, You can send an opponent careening into a wall or even…”
“Real fun game, best approched with a not so serious attitude. If you are serious the AI ramming you will be very annoying. Great for a laugh and shenanigans on wheels.”
3 of the 102 reviews raise this · 3 of them still recommend the game.
“This game is a 5, the crash physics in this game is very realistic with multiple settings to customize your experience but the multiplayer is barren and this game is very niche therefore mainly dead and also very…”
“It’s a fun and unique racing game. Demolition was satisfying and driving was deep enough to feel simple, but also customizable. But the final championship is terribly long. It’s just the same races from the rest of the…”
Counted across 102 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 88.1% positive rating · as of 2026-05-20
“I spent 15 minutes tuning my suspension and gear ratios for the perfect lap. 3 seconds into the race, a school bus driving in the wrong direction hit me at Mach 2. My car is now the size of a toaster and my driver has probably been launched into a different zip code. 10/10 -…”
— a player, Steam review · 113 hrs played“Wreckfest is a perfectly competent and serviceable arcade racer. Racing games, as a genre, are constantly plagued with really poor games that either don't deliver on their promises or stray from the series' roots. Wreckfest is essentially a slightly less dramatised Flatout game,…”
— a player, Steam review · 36 hrs played“All around very fun racing game. Track design is superb, and over the course of every race you will witness more and more debris begin to clutter the roads, tires, cones, pieces of vehicles that were ripped off. Nice variety of vehicle choices, and they are all clones so the…”
— a player, Steam review · 68 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-23 23:44 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-07-25.
Price tracking
US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-11. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.
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Latest official news
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PC Crossplay Update OUT NOW!
Howdy folks, We're thrilled to announce that Wreckfest now supports PC multiplayer crossplay. For the first time ever, you can join the same lobbies with your comrades across Steam, GOG, and Epic Game
Minor Update
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Minor update
Howdy folks, Another year, another rocking Wreckfest update! This admittedly minor update will resolve a number of online related issues we've become aware of as well as make it possible to bind keybo
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Action, Indie, Racing, Simulation, Sports |
| Player tags | Racing · Destruction · Automobile Sim · Simulation · Multiplayer · Driving · Physics · Action · Indie · Sports · Singleplayer · Realistic (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · PvP · Online PvP · Steam Achievements · Steam Workshop · Partial Controller Support · Steam Cloud |
| Languages | English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Finnish, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Hungarian |
| Achievements | 20 |
| Estimated owners | 1,000,000 – 2,000,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | http://www.wreckfestgame.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS: Windows 10 Processor: Intel® Core™ i3 with 2.8 GHz or AMD equivalent Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA Geforce® GTX™ 560 or AMD Radeon™ HD 7770 DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 32 GB available space Sound Card: DirectX®-compatible Additional Notes: This config will run the game with approx 30 FPS on 1080p