Trailmakers

IT a game that you can express all your creativity and idea for just 10 dollars it better than minecraft if you want to build mech

Favorite game. Simple as that. Great PVP, great building, great updates. I feel like Pioneers needs a bit of work, but everything else is great. If you're considering buying this or any other game, buy this. Great community too. 10/10

Ngl it was fun for a few hours, but building anything that isn't an already-given blueprint by the game will likely be stuttery as hell. But fine I can live with that.. The physics is ok at best, vibrationally inconsistent at worst.. but sure I'll repeatedly respawn until i get a non-glitchy spawn.. i guess.. but NOT letting BUILD in BUILD MODE until i exit to the main menu and restart my SINGLE PLAYER OFFLINE world?!?!? I got the game not-too-long ago but after 190 Hours I was left thinking "Why are some mechanics that are SO essential to the game and HOW the game is played so damn jittery or feel this bad to use?".. If it was the first year after release, sure.. The second year, maybe.. but 7yrs, 5DLCs, and a handfull of extra skins later.. nah Im done with your game. Oh and frankly, rename your "Campaign" to Tutorial or CamPain. Either are apt.

doesn't support cross platform, got it for that sole reason to play with a friend.

Really fun game if you like sandbox/ physics based building games i just wish you could make buildings, other than that super fun.

very good game, very creative and very customizable, and realistic forces

amazing for creativity expected it to be complex but is really fun

good game, especially in sandbox mode and with Steam Workshop

Honest good fun, lots of cool creations, plenty of enemies, and well supported game!

this is probably the best building game i have played. its very simple to build and design vehicles or whatever else you could come up with, and it is limitless with possibilities if you get creative. i think it is very user-friendly once you know what does what. actually, i haven't even explored all the things you can do in this game yet! i highly recommend.

very fun game with lots of stuff to do, but lots of stuff is also behind dlc paywalls, still playable though

I don't know how I don't have a review yet for Trailmakers, maybe I deleted the old one.

Fantastic developers that listen to the community, who also release large free updates for just about every paid DLC and consistently improve existing features rather than adding something and moving on. I'm proud to say that my play-time for Trailmakers is close to surpassing my play-time for Scrap Mechanic (see my Scrap Mechanic review comparing Axolot Games to an absent father).

I'll say that, additionally, Trailmakers is truly family friendly. Some things which are 'family friendly' are actually toddler brain-rot, but this is truly good for all ages in many ways. These are also the kind of developers who let you skip parts of progression in their campaigns if you're good enough at the game rather than torturing you with slow, boring beginner tasks (and then you can go back and do the beginner things faster when you have better gear). Developers that do that gain my respect, on top of everything else Flashbulb has done.

I've enjoyed games like Scrap Mechanic and Stormworks, but their developers weren't truly willing to put in the proper commitment to reforming their game time and time again to make it truly great. Those developers also routinely pretend like everything is going great and they think their game is still the shit, even when their game is now just shit.

And, what's more, for the sheer amount of playtime Trailmakers provides you with, Flashbulb could easily price the base game at like $40, but they haven't. $25 (excluding sales) is an absolute steal for this kind of game, especially with workshop support. Granted, its not as much of a steal as a game like Gmod, further compounded by paid DLC, but not every developer can aspire to have one of the top games on steam and be able to make millions off of a $10 product. I also think pretty much all of the paid DLC is worth the price, and they've done things like make the space update free with an optional cosmetic DLC, or add some parts of the paid High Seas DLC to the base game. In fact, regarding the High Seas DLC, the main thing they're selling is the map, and all of the parts that come with the DLC are either only useful when paired with the map or cosmetic.

All in all, an absolutely smashing experience which deserves more praise than I am literally capable of giving. For me, this is a must-have game in my steam library, and if I lost my Steam account and I was working on a budget to get back the games most important to me, this would definitely be up there in my most important games to re-purchase.

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☑ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☑ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☑ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☑ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☑ Old Fashioned
☐ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☑ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☑ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☐ Long
☑ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☐ Worth the price
☑ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☑ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

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I got this game a while back because at the time I loved scrapman and I still watch his vids but now I love this game and even bought all the docs. Worth it

THE GAME IS GOATED.
I love this game the sandbox, the survival everything is perfect.

I really love this game pretty much everything about it is fun and enjoyable, but i have one major issue preventing me from playing it and that is latency. my friends and i cant play together because we are in a different regions and the input lag is atrocious every input has like a 2 second delay making it impossible to fly planes, aiming servos don't even work because of how bad it is, building also sucks because the blocks your placing lag out and teleport around. if this issue gets resolved this would be my favorite game of all time

Honestly, the game is cool, the mechanics are nice. You CAN build what you set out to, but the issues I have revolve mostly around the fact that the game just CANNOT handle multiple peoples contraptions... And that's the whole point of the game. Making contraptions and screwing around with them. Other games do similar things with far better performance, and you aren't forced to buy DLC to use the parts in those, unlike in Trail Makers. It's a neat game, but it's not my favorite "mechanic" sim. Still fun, just not very good performance wise with multiple people in a server.

hate the new UI and removed all my old blueprints but i like the game the old UI is better and just add the update not new UI and dont remove my old blueprints

after seeing a friend of mine write a negative review, i've decided to write this.
please tell me why my game lags like i'm in multiplayer when i decide to use anything above 200 complexity.
please tell me why my game crashes every few hours.
please tell me why you guys will add 3000 new guns, and useless decor blocks, but barely optimize this game.

i've always hated the voxel based vehicle building genre for this reason, you guys have all this potential to become the greatest game in the genre, and whether out of laziness, or poor priorities, you destroy it.

space engineers has the greatest combat, but requires you to mine for weeks just to get banned from the server for saying mean things.
scrap mechanic is abandoned.
terra tech is just trash.

so they could genuinely just rule this entire genre if they just focused on fixing their game.
now even if they fixed this game, the balance is horrible.
one thing that this guy umbra said (a guy who i try to piss off from time to time) is that he stopped caring about pvp the moment they added turrets. this is entirely understandable.

originally they guns were stationary, and you had to think about gun placement, i actually used to use hinges on low speeds and angle limits to give my planes a sort of range centering aim thing, basically making it so my guns would aim at certain spots at certain ranges, what is the point of that now?
all the tech we used to make just to have better aim, gone, reduced to atoms.
imagine playing an fps game, and the devs just give everyone aimbot, not like an ability or anything, just straight up aimbot.

now some people say "just ban the blocks you don't like"
so here's what i do:
I Ban "Quantum Rudder, Gyro, EMP's, Lock On Weapons, and Powered Fins."
and everyone who joins leaves immediately because "everything is unusable."

this issue i've just stated cannot be reverted, the old community left, the few people who could play the game without these handicaps, and now it's just 12 year olds who rely on these blocks just to play.
and some will join me, see this, and have mental breakdowns because i'm gatekeeping.

i want you to imagine if you made paintings with a group of people every day, adding fine details to your pieces, sharing, viewing, criticizing, and perfecting.
and all of a sudden, one day, some guy walks in, removes the paint brushes, and allows ai art in, and all of a sudden 30000 normies join your small group and throw their ai garbage everywhere.
every painting you've made, every expression, every perfection you spent hours making, wiped, and thrown into a giant trash pile.

and you come back after months just to see the place is on fire.
with everything i can type here, i will not be able to describe in words the pure stupidity of the entire community, the pure stupidity of the prioritization of the developers, and the pure anger i feel that everything i had built on console and pc are entirely useless, all because the developers removed the main skill of my favorite part of the game, the combat. i no longer even think about gun placement anymore, it doesn't matter.

and this paired with the horrible lag on any server, and poor optimization, it just pisses me off.
and seeing a guy i talk to from time to time who's a normie with low standards even pissed off, it just pisses me off more.
the entire game is just a disrespect to the older playerbase now, i'd be surprised if anything i built back in the day would even work now.

updated game and lost EVERY vehicle I made, fuck you devs

This game is a load of fun! It's just as good as in the videos I've seen! Im still a noob at building but I've learned quite quickly so it isnt too complicated if you first look at how the templates work before making your own 😌. I should get friends to play this though because that sounds really fun.

I got this game on sale and played for 5 hours. The next day I played 11. The game is an addicting ride. The controls are pretty intuitive (at least for me) and I was able to build my own planes in just an hour.

This is a very fun game, but don't leave the game after finishing the tutorial because it gets more and more fun as you get better at building, and dog-fighting ( for planes ) ground-fighting underwater-fighting. All sorts. I love all the DLCs, except one and that is the rescue DLC ( though I have not bought them all ). If this get's read by a Dev, I love your game and I have a idea for DLC or just a update, it is having more blocks for underwater( ie. grabbers that extend forward and grab something, or more options for any type of submerging tool),and I map completely devoted to underwater ( also for a survival aspect, you have limited oxygen in the underwater seat!) exploration. It would also be cool to have sea monsters and stuff. Anyway that is all, thanks for reading!I do really REALLY recommend this game for others who love building challenging things, or for anyone else!

good very epic but many bugs and i feel like you NEED to get the dlcs

Very fun and full of building and workshop really good becuase you can get some very good builds fast 10/10 game, could help if they could fix the multiplayer, kinda laggy sometimes.

Its fun if u like building with almost no limits. You can almost do anything and there is tons to offer in the workshop

The game is a 9 out of 10, id give it a 10 if they added a small cannon with a lower explosion radius but way higher velocity, and add a reverse option for the aiming block. But other than that, the game is perfect with varius blocks and maps (includes a campaign mode but i havent played that). The only limitation is your imagination.

10/10 game. feels fun and natural when driving, however if you want to play frequently having a friend will help!

i play car building / combat games like Crossout and Terratech, and both of those are good (building and creativity wise) but Trailmakers just knocks it out of the park.

so far, ive been playing around 8 hours , its 2AM now, and i cannot stop playing. the building and combat mechanics are awesome, i built a rudimentary gimbal turret with 2 aiming servos and a cannon, and i am ever so proud of it. i will definitely play more in the future.

not perfect but easily one of my favorite games. hundreds of hours and i still go back

I LOVE THIS GAME SO MUCH, it brings out the creativity inside me

I enjoy the gameplay nad maps which are well thought out, Though small changes could be made to the building system where each block takes up the amount of space it's hitbox/colison box does and in it's shape. other than that amazing game

I really enjoy this game, the building is really fun. One gripe I have, however, is that if I have my flight stick plugged in, it completely negates the mouse, and the only way to fix it is to disconnect the flight stick.

EVERYONE SHOULD PLAY THIS BEAUTIFUL GAME no matter the age you should play this amazing open world creativity based game

Very fun game to play when you just want to take your mind off competitive games and life. Easily able to play for hours on end.

it's fun but too much DLC and not enough in the base game to justify a $25 starting cost with no DLC

i always come back to playing this game, it's extremely fun but kinda wish the devs update the game a little bit more, i spend a quarter of the time playing just to think about what to build rlly.

The UI has seen a significant downgrade since the 2.0 update but the game remains fun and goofy. The physics are mostly accurate and when they're not it's hilarious. There are endless opportunities for creativity.

However I do still want to say, that in my opinion,
1.9 > 2.0

With update 2.0 they replaced a fairly unique campaign about exploration on an interesting map with a campaign full of busywork in a large, empty open world. Complete with all kinds of fetchquests and random combat encounters.

They're basically trying to be TerraTech, but without the well balanced progression and with worse vehicle building.
Very disappointed by this shift in direction away from the vehicle sandbox focused main game.

The game also still lacks basic PC options such as mouse sensitivity and anti-aliasing settings.

SUPER fun whether you wanna make realistic jets, or crazy tanks
10/10 creativity
6/10 alone
10/10 with friends
rarely crashed (for me at least)
10/10 all around (I've got abt 145hrs)

The game was ok before the 2.0 update but now after the update it has ruined the game for me the UI is rubbish and hard to use. Not to mention that the devs care more about DLC's the actually fixing bugs in the game

44 hours on steam, and 330 on xbox. all that time on this awful game just for its data to be completely wiped off of my pc to never be recovered again.

WOW. I'll start by saying I got this wayyyyy back after 1.0 on Gamepass (ignore my playtime, I only recently bought it for PC), and back then, it was a hard sell. Sure, for maker-types, it was everything you could ask for- brick by brick building, challenges that matched cleanly and cleverly with the progression. but it had a largely sandbox feel to it, which made it difficult to stay motivated and unlock everything

In the 2.0 campaign however, I am blown away with what is essentially an entirely different game mode. This campaign is truly a campaign; theres a story, xp based unlocks, resource collection and crafting, and it showcases the combat aspects of the game that were largely unused in 1.0 outside of multiplayer. This makes 1.0 feel like a demo, a proof of concept, and while I still enjoy going back to it, it's safe to say I'll be spending a lot of time in the new campaign first!

This latest update seriously could be a paid DLC, it is *that* good, but the devs gave it to us for free!!

Would definitely recommend to anyone who enjoys maker type games, as the only limits in this game are your imagination and physics! This 2.0 update feels like a completely different game in the best way possible! It had character before, but now? It has charm as well, and I can't recommend it enough!

-load uo game
-be stupid and know jack "shirt"
-"what? Huh? Oh"
-search up how to get good
-give up
-"ill play this again tomorrow"
-only understand weight distribution because of online
10/10 would dedicate more fo my time

First Impression:
After around 27 minutes of playing the game, I find the game pretty interesting and will probably play more of it. This game is basically a sandbox game with LEGO shaped blocks of some sort.

To begin with, I would like to state that this is only a first impression and any opinion here is a subject to change. The game itself is optimized well as my 7 years old 750 Ti is able to run it well.

The game offers interesting features where you can just dump your creativity and create something (basically a good game to invent stuff I guess).

Overall the game gave a really good impression on what we can do and I would highly recommend getting this game if you're into making stuff especially vehicles.

Genuinely one of my favorite games ever. its challenging enough to be difficult, but also easy enough to be fun. Highly recommend to anybody who likes Lego type things.

The first thing I tried was to have 2 engines but they both work backwards to one another. And lo and behold the car didn't move. What is this, goty or what

This game is a cool idea with excellent polish. The physics....sometimes screws up.
The DLC and business model is fairly exploitative. Cash shop. Ew. Rude.
The flow of the game also suffers from kiddie-ification it does not trust you with a main menu on first boot and throws you straight into their half baked story.
Like... geez shut it. I just wanna get in and build something with my wife.
The moment they enshitify further, I'm not touching it. Even a little bit of free DLC would be nice.
6/10....for now. Just because... the Devs are scumbags who love taking candy from literal babies....That does not bode well for the future of this game.

Game is great,
Accidentally got addicted though.

got reccomended by a friend for this game, and i've averaged over 1hr per day. it good