One of the worst video games ever made has just been re-released on PC

Yes, this is actually what the game looks like (Margarite Entertainment) Big Rigs: Over The Road Racing has made a comeback nobody wanted, but at least it looks like it works this time. The problem with video games being labelled as the worst ever made is that it makes people curious to try them out. Rather than being quickly forgotten, some are more famous than genuinely good titles and get remastered surprisingly often. We’ve seen it happen before, with the remaster of infamous FMV game Plumbers Don’t Wear Ties, while Atari has threatened to do more with Bubsy the Bobcat – despite the character not having a single good game to his name. Despite all this, it’s still a shock to see Big Rigs: Over The Road Racing make a return; an announcement so ludicrous that when its trailer debuted on April 1, many understandably mistook it for an April Fool’s joke. In case you’ve never heard of it, Big Rigs: Over The Road Racing launched on PC in 2003 and, as the name suggests, is a racing game where all the vehicles are semi-trucks. The idea is that you race rival truckers to deliver cargo, while also avoiding law enforcement. Despite this being how the game was advertised, anyone unfortunate enough to play it quickly discovered that not only were there no cops to avoid, but the other racers just sat in one place and never moved. This isn’t an exaggeration. Big Rigs fundamentally didn’t work, making it impossible to lose; especially since there was no collision detection, meaning you can drive right through the environments. Combined with the lack of a time limit, the game was effectively a sandbox title – except with nothing to do. Big Rigs quickly became infamous, especially after popular internet critic The Angry Video Game Nerd published a video on it in 2014 (be warned, his video contains very strong language). Big Rigs was developed by Stellar Stone and published by GameMill Publishing, though this Steam re-release comes from Margarite Entertainment, which claims to have obtained the rights to the game. ‘We hold worldwide rights to some of the most classic games, including Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing, and we are eager to present these exceptional games to an emerging audience,’ reads Margarite’s website, which also expresses eagerness to obtain the rights to more old games. Any price is probably too much for Big Rigs, but at least it’s only being sold for £4.99. Until April 22, you can also get it at a discount of 20%, though that only knocks it down to £3.99. We have to believe that Margarite is in on the joke, since the Steam listing includes out-of-context quotes from negative reviews and a direct link to Big Rig’s Metacritic page, where it has an average critic score of 8 and all the positive fan reviews are clearly meant as a joke. Even so, the trailer indicates that Margarite hasn’t simply ported the original game and has now got Big Rigs working as intended. Other racers actually move now, although it remains to be seen if that’s the only thing that’s been fixed. Although that does seem to remove the only reason for actually playing the game, because if it’s not a broken mess then it’s just a very dull, low budget racing game. You’re winner indeed (Margarite Entertainment) Email [email protected], leave a comment below, follow us on Twitter, and sign-up to our newsletter. To submit Inbox letters and Reader’s Features more easily, without the need to send an email, just use our Submit Stuff page here. For more stories like this, check our Gaming page. ArrowMORE: April Fools’ 2025 for video games has GTA 6 on Xbox 360 and a PUBG dating sim ArrowMORE: There are more PC gamers than ever but they’re all stuck in the past ArrowMORE: The worst video game disasters of the decade – Reader’s Feature