The worst game of all time is somehow even worse on Steam

Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing was snaked from the sewers of gaming history and re-released on Steam on April 8, giving a new generation of players the opportunity to experience one of the worst games of all time. And yet, going by the Steam reviews, this version somehow manages to be even worse than the original in completely new ways.

The game holds a “Mostly Positive” review score on Steam, but browsing the positive reviews reveals a cesspool of ironic memes from those who want to be in on the joke and nothing else. The real truth lies with the thumbs-down reviews, the ones that indicate the user refunded Big Rigs after just a few minutes of dealing with the mental anguish it inflicts on players.

The most frequently used word to describe Big Rigs in its Steam reviews is “sketchy,” with many wondering if the game’s inexplicably poor performance suggests the presence of a hidden Bitcoin miner or some other type of malware. Many also call attention to a strange “Winner Wizard” executable that launches alongside the game that apparently unlocks achievements, but also manages to strain high-end GPUs.

Here are a few highlights (lowlights?):

I could just sit here and give you my obligatory ironic praise review of the legendary Big Rigs, but be warned that this is an incredibly sketchy paid release of a notoriously unplayable game, hastily hacked together with the only real addition being those profile showcase letter slop achievements. No thanks! (h4x1)

My PC fans aren’t supposed to make that noise. (Anti-Anti-Vaxxer)

They did it. They somehow did it. They made Big Rigs even worse than it already was. Now the truck jitters violently from movement of any kind or even just sitting idly, taking the camera that already follows the truck perfectly with it, and it is an offense on the eyes. Epileptic people could die from this depending on your refresh rate when running the game. Not to mention the shady-looking “Winner Wizard” just obliterating my RTX 4060 GPU. (RainbowSpectrum)

Please don’t rate this game positively for the memes, while I do believe that there are no viruses in this thing, YET, I cannot recommend it at all even if you want to play this travesty of an alleged game because of the sketchy-looking bollocks in it that might as well be a bitcoin miner for all I know. (Guugs, The Silent But Deadly)

The game being awful is one thing, but the release of this is apparently sketchy too. Just stay away and if you really wanna experience this for the [shits] and gigs, just go grab it off Internet Archive. (Fear the Loco Bandito)

Never change, Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing.