Earlier this month, Focus Home Interactive revealed that MudRunner is coming to mobile. Saber Interactive and Focus Home Interactive brought out MudRunner to consoles and PC back in 2017 as an off-roading simulation game and it went up for pre-order on the App Store as a premium port in the form of MudRunner Mobile ($5.99). MudRunner Mobile has players transporting logs to a destination across various open maps and access to nothing but a map and a compass. Each map plays differently and there are loads of vehicles. MudRunner Mobile includes 15 open world maps and 16 vehicles. Watch the trailer for the original release below:
MudRunner Mobile has released on the App Store and Google Play for $5.99. Despite a listing for in app purchases, there is a single in app purchase DLC that is free. If you’re interested in checking it out, you can buy MudRunner Mobile on the App Store for iOS here and on Google Play for Android here (when it goes live). Check out the official website for the game here. Head over to our forum thread here for more discussion around MudRunner Mobile. Hopefully this does well enough for SnowRunner to be ported. Have you played MudRunner or SnowRunner on any platform before?
A more in-depth first-impression/review is at Android Police, which also took the time to play the game, and report upon it, including this information:
"..."...Sadly there is no controller support included, and I checked by testing a SteelSeries Stratus Duo over bluetooth and a Gamevice over USB. Neither work. This means everyone is stuck with touch controls. Worse yet, these touch controls aren't great, thanks to a slow camera that you'll have to adjust manually constantly. It's also apparent that the Shield TV is not supported whatsoever, so forget about playing the Android version of MudRunner on the big screen..."Sadly there is no controller support included, and I checked by testing a SteelSeries Stratus Duo over bluetooth and a Gamevice over USB. Neither work. This means everyone is stuck with touch controls. Worse yet, these touch controls aren't great, thanks to a slow camera that you'll have to adjust manually constantly. It's also apparent that the Shield TV is not supported whatsoever, so forget about playing the Android version of MudRunner on the big screen...
(Source: - https://www.androidpolice.c... )
It seems the paltry 3.9/5.0 rating reflects this, with many reviewers also citing a lack of hardware controller support, lack of integrated DLC (and thus "Day 1 DLC" on an old, previously released game) and badly designed camera amongst their criticisms.
No wonder the devs haven't bothered to reply to emails sent to them; they probably haven't got the resources or skills to make a competent game, or run their company professionally.