If you want a small virtual taste of what it's like taking trucks like the Kamaz 4310 through mud, swamps and flooded areas, the game Mudrunner is on Steam and

If you want a small virtual taste of what it's like taking trucks like the Kamaz 4310 through mud, swamps and flooded areas, the game Mudrunner is on Steam and features plenty of sticky off-roading and old Soviet iron. Ostensibly the game is just about driving logs from one place to another, but it's the journey itself that makes the game. The mud physics are quite good,m and you'll certainly end up needing both all-wheel drive, diff locks and a healthy amount of winching to get around. The physics model isn't perfect for on-road driving and the diff locks are not super realistic on hard surfaces, but it's certainly the best off road simulation I've tried. Taking an old truck on road tires slowly through mud and fording a river with water up to the windshield, while towing a garage trailer to unlock a remote service station is an odd kind of excitement, completely different from the high speed shenanigans in most driving games. A controller is an absolute must, you have to be surprisingly delicate when feathering the throttle to navigate sticky mud. Full throttle just spins the tires and gets you hopelessly stuck.