Stumbled on this recently: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/358753914/spintires-the-ultimate-off-road-challenge
I have yet to break my trucking sim cherry but the idea of this (driving authentically modelled Soviet trucks through Russian wilderness) seems right up my alley.
The KS could be doing better but they already have a bunch of work done and the project started before the KS craze, so in the event the Kickstarter fails, I doubt they will simply give up.
They currently have a tech demo with no gameplay and an old demo from 2011.
Even though the requirements they list for the tech demo are very low for today, I couldn't get it to run on either of the old laptops I am using right now, which despite being quite old, still easily surpass the minimum requirements they give (which I'd take with a grain of salt).
In order to get the playable demo to run, I had to uninstall the newer tech demo. It ran fine initially but crashed the graphics card of one of the computers I tried it on after I had forded a river. I expect those with more capable computers to not run into such problems though.
Still, it has a motherfucking KrAZ truck and I expect to have bought a new desktop by the time it comes out, so I'm backing this for a lower tier.
For more information besides the Kickstarter page, there's a lengthy thread here: http://www.rigsofrods.com/threads/92776-Spin-Tires-offroad-trucks-and-cars-trucktrial-!!!-NEW-DEMO-MAZ-UAZ-pg-29!!!-%29
I have yet to break my trucking sim cherry but the idea of this (driving authentically modelled Soviet trucks through Russian wilderness) seems right up my alley.
The KS could be doing better but they already have a bunch of work done and the project started before the KS craze, so in the event the Kickstarter fails, I doubt they will simply give up.
They currently have a tech demo with no gameplay and an old demo from 2011.
Even though the requirements they list for the tech demo are very low for today, I couldn't get it to run on either of the old laptops I am using right now, which despite being quite old, still easily surpass the minimum requirements they give (which I'd take with a grain of salt).
In order to get the playable demo to run, I had to uninstall the newer tech demo. It ran fine initially but crashed the graphics card of one of the computers I tried it on after I had forded a river. I expect those with more capable computers to not run into such problems though.
Still, it has a motherfucking KrAZ truck and I expect to have bought a new desktop by the time it comes out, so I'm backing this for a lower tier.
For more information besides the Kickstarter page, there's a lengthy thread here: http://www.rigsofrods.com/threads/92776-Spin-Tires-offroad-trucks-and-cars-trucktrial-!!!-NEW-DEMO-MAZ-UAZ-pg-29!!!-%29