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Build physics-driven vehicles from blocks, then use them to explore missions, race, and fight across land, sea, air, and space.
Released 18 Sep 2019
Build Cars, Planes, Boats
Unlock Parts on Missions
Race Your Own Builds
Build the ultimate vehicle and explore a vast open world filled with challenges and adventure. Play solo or team up with friends in multiplayer to conquer the toughest obstacles. With a thrilling campaign mode and endless creative possibilities, Trailmakers is the ultimate sandbox for adventurers.
Developed by Flashbulb · Published by Flashbulb
In the Pioneers campaign, you take the role of an engineer helping the inhabitants of Gregory as the BOTNAKs mine their planet. Missions send you across different environments and put your vehicles to practical tests.
Build vehicles from blocks including wheels, engines, and other functional parts. Physics affect how your creations move, and logic components can add automated controls. Adjust your designs and test them to handle different terrain and tasks.
Campaign progress unlocks parts, with Pioneers also asking you to find materials and craft blocks. You can also build in sandbox settings, race on tracks, or take custom vehicles into combat. The campaign and other modes support multiplayer.
Players often enjoy the freedom to build and experiment with vehicles, praising how quickly they can create a working design and refine it into something more elaborate. Some also enjoy the campaign or building and battling with friends. A recurring criticism is that many parts, maps, and campaigns are sold as DLC; some reviews also report bugs, physics problems, and multiplayer instability.
The intricate yet intuitive building mechanic allows you to either choose pre-made vehicles from the game and the community workshop or build your own vehicles completely from scratch using hundreds of blocks that affect both aerodynamics, functionality, speed, combat ability, and much more in a world ruled by reliable physics.
Customize your character and block designs with a heap of different skins, colors, and pattern combinations to create your own personal brand.
The builder is made to be as accessible and intuitive as possible for players who are new to building games while also equipped with features for the more hardcore segment of engineers: Easy to learn, hard to master!
Trailmakers offers an arsenal of 14 different weapons like minigun, EMPs, laser blasters, rocket launchers and shotguns to name a few. Set up a server with your friends or join one of the hundreds of public games to test them out in different PvP scenarios. Fight in the air, ocean, ground, or in space. Your choice of mayhem is entirely up to you.
All game modes in Trailmakers, including the main story, allow Multiplayer for 2-8 people.
Jump into one of the five dedicated sandbox maps, hang out and build together, test each other's vehicles, or share and be inspired from thousands of incredible community made workshop builds.
Controlled chaos, land, sea, air, and space combat awaits you and your friends - or jump into Race Island where 14 different tracks are ready for you to put your name on the leaderboards.
This is the ultimate do-whatever-your-heart-desires game.
In the main game mode, “Pioneers” you will dive head-first into a breathtaking open world with loveable NPCs, challenging enemies, and an adventurous story. Unlock new parts as you complete missions and build different vehicles for the different biomes and terrains - play the campaign alone or multiplayer.
You will join the Trailmakers: An elite society of engineers and are sent out to help the population of Gregory - a community of peaceful frogs who have been invaded by the evil BOTNAKs who are ruthlessly mining the planet and stealing its resources.
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 22 |
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| Players | 1–8 |
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| Multiplayer | Trailmakers supports multiplayer in all game modes, including the main story/campaign, for 2-8 players. It supports online co-op and online PvP, with player-hosted servers and public games. Multiplayer activities described include campaign co-op, sandbox building, combat/skirmishes, races, and leaderboard-based racing. |
| Multiplayer & mods | Steam Workshop is integrated for sharing and downloading creations. Reviews also mention player-made maps and mods/custom maps, but the provided information does not state specific multiplayer mod rules or compatibility details. |
| Controller support | PlayStation, Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 17 listed on Steam |
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| Website | Official website |
