Gravel

Overall, a solid 8/10 of a game, which automatically makes it a 10/10 racing game. If you enjoyed the dirt series before Dirt 4, don’t hesitate to give this a try, especially when it goes on sale for just 2 bucks regularly.

Gravel is a racing game, heavily inspired by the Dirt series. There are rallycross races, point-to-point races through deserts, forests, jungles and over beaches and even full-on stadiums like the LA colosseum. The game features arcade physics, while retaining a realistic feel, also like the Dirt series.
The tracks are varied in their racing lines and nicely designed in creative ways. There are blimps in the skies, caves you race through or fishing villages with tight chicanes. Even if the number of locations is not insane, there is a lot to enjoy here and there was no track I was annoyed to race at. Great package of tracks and interesting locations.

The point-to-point races are all fictional if I am not mistaken, but the rally cross tracks seem to be real from what I can tell. One of the tracks for example is set in Buxtehude in Germany, where Kevin Eriksson did that amazing drifting overtake in the first corner in 2016. Watch the video “2016 Germany RX Final Highlights from Estering - World RX Rallycross” on YouTube.

Gravel’s career mode is centred on a fictional TV show featuring the races we do during gameplay. Depending on how good we do, we earn stars which are needed to unlock further “episodes”, until we reach the series finale and get to race against the boss of the season. There are a handful of bosses to beat until you get to race the overall Gravel champion and finish the career. What I recommend is for players to immediately skip the cutscenes to spare yourself from cringe and second-hand embarrassment. Seriously, who thought, any of those guys could be considered “cool”? One of the guys literally does an air guitar in the introduction video… Luckily most cutscenes are skippable.

Physics are realistic enough, but very arcade. Personally, I enjoy those kinds of racing games the most. They allow you to relax during gameplay while not being so simple that it becomes boring. The physics do like to freak out every now and then though. Just off the road, the geometry of the ground is often very bumpy, so whenever you just slightly slide off the track, you often end up flying high in the air, spinning and flipping uncontrollably, just from hitting a small bump in the dirt. Most of the times, I didn’t mind those moments and even enjoyed those little interruptions as there is a generous rewind feature, so you would just go back a few seconds and take the corner a bit slower. It is the kind of bugs that are fun.
The AI suffers from the same issue though, so sometimes you can see cars flipping off the road which can be quite enjoyable. In racing, the AI puts up a good enough fight on most tracks. On the real rally cross tracks however, I feel like they just have more grip as they are super quick on those tracks, and I have not managed to beat them on the hardest difficulty.

The sense of speed is incredible. The camera shakes, you see grass and trees flying by, you are barely in control. While there is a first-person cockpit camera, for some reason the car engine noises were a lot quieter in that camera alone, so I opted for the hood camera.

The car list is not huge, but everything you would want from an offroad racing game is there. This is not like Dirt5, which spends unnecessary money on licences for Aston Martins or modern Porsches which you would never see go offroad. Instead, there are Subarus Imprezzas, Mitsubishi Evos, Toyota Celicas and Ford Focuses From the 90s, 2000s and 2010s. There are also some cars rarely seen in other games. One of those is a first gen Opel/Vauxhall Astra rally car or the Toyota 222D group B rally car based on the first generation MR2. Most of the liveries are fictional and while some are nice and creative, others are super generic and boring. The cars are not really balanced though unfortunately. The only viable option is always the car with the most power available to you. At least on the hard difficulty.

I had a lot of fun doing all the achievements. If you plan to do those as well, keep in mind that there are two achievements for playing one race and for playing ten races online. The servers for this niche game are basically dead, so you are going to need a friend to do those ten races with. The game is often on sale for as little as 2€, so you can just buy it twice and gift it to someone willing to help you out. Still, this is one of those niche games, so don’t be surprised when they shut down the servers or the game becomes unavailable for purchase altogether. One of the achievements requires you to hit max-level of 99 which required a bit of grinding. (Pick the Toyota 222D and go to free play Frozen Peak Oval and do that race over and over. Took me a few days of playing here and there while watching YouTube on the side.)

Overall, a solid 8/10 of a game, which automatically makes it a 10/10 racing game. If you enjoyed the dirt series before Dirt 4, don’t hesitate to give this a try, especially when it goes on sale for just 2 bucks regularly.

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ÜberprüftLetztes Jahr

Overall, a solid 8/10 of a game, which automatically makes it a 10/10 racing game. If you enjoyed the dirt series before Dirt 4, don’t hesitate to give this a try, especially when it goes on sale for just 2 bucks regularly.

Gravel is a racing game, heavily inspired by the Dirt series. There are rallycross races, point-to-point races through deserts, forests, jungles and over beaches and even full-on stadiums like the LA colosseum. The game features arcade physics, while retaining a realistic feel, also like the Dirt series.
The tracks are varied in their racing lines and nicely designed in creative ways. There are blimps in the skies, caves you race through or fishing villages with tight chicanes. Even if the number of locations is not insane, there is a lot to enjoy here and there was no track I was annoyed to race at. Great package of tracks and interesting locations.

The point-to-point races are all fictional if I am not mistaken, but the rally cross tracks seem to be real from what I can tell. One of the tracks for example is set in Buxtehude in Germany, where Kevin Eriksson did that amazing drifting overtake in the first corner in 2016. Watch the video “2016 Germany RX Final Highlights from Estering - World RX Rallycross” on YouTube.

Gravel’s career mode is centred on a fictional TV show featuring the races we do during gameplay. Depending on how good we do, we earn stars which are needed to unlock further “episodes”, until we reach the series finale and get to race against the boss of the season. There are a handful of bosses to beat until you get to race the overall Gravel champion and finish the career. What I recommend is for players to immediately skip the cutscenes to spare yourself from cringe and second-hand embarrassment. Seriously, who thought, any of those guys could be considered “cool”? One of the guys literally does an air guitar in the introduction video… Luckily most cutscenes are skippable.

Physics are realistic enough, but very arcade. Personally, I enjoy those kinds of racing games the most. They allow you to relax during gameplay while not being so simple that it becomes boring. The physics do like to freak out every now and then though. Just off the road, the geometry of the ground is often very bumpy, so whenever you just slightly slide off the track, you often end up flying high in the air, spinning and flipping uncontrollably, just from hitting a small bump in the dirt. Most of the times, I didn’t mind those moments and even enjoyed those little interruptions as there is a generous rewind feature, so you would just go back a few seconds and take the corner a bit slower. It is the kind of bugs that are fun.
The AI suffers from the same issue though, so sometimes you can see cars flipping off the road which can be quite enjoyable. In racing, the AI puts up a good enough fight on most tracks. On the real rally cross tracks however, I feel like they just have more grip as they are super quick on those tracks, and I have not managed to beat them on the hardest difficulty.

The sense of speed is incredible. The camera shakes, you see grass and trees flying by, you are barely in control. While there is a first-person cockpit camera, for some reason the car engine noises were a lot quieter in that camera alone, so I opted for the hood camera.

The car list is not huge, but everything you would want from an offroad racing game is there. This is not like Dirt5, which spends unnecessary money on licences for Aston Martins or modern Porsches which you would never see go offroad. Instead, there are Subarus Imprezzas, Mitsubishi Evos, Toyota Celicas and Ford Focuses From the 90s, 2000s and 2010s. There are also some cars rarely seen in other games. One of those is a first gen Opel/Vauxhall Astra rally car or the Toyota 222D group B rally car based on the first generation MR2. Most of the liveries are fictional and while some are nice and creative, others are super generic and boring. The cars are not really balanced though unfortunately. The only viable option is always the car with the most power available to you. At least on the hard difficulty.

I had a lot of fun doing all the achievements. If you plan to do those as well, keep in mind that there are two achievements for playing one race and for playing ten races online. The servers for this niche game are basically dead, so you are going to need a friend to do those ten races with. The game is often on sale for as little as 2€, so you can just buy it twice and gift it to someone willing to help you out. Still, this is one of those niche games, so don’t be surprised when they shut down the servers or the game becomes unavailable for purchase altogether. One of the achievements requires you to hit max-level of 99 which required a bit of grinding. (Pick the Toyota 222D and go to free play Frozen Peak Oval and do that race over and over. Took me a few days of playing here and there while watching YouTube on the side.)

Overall, a solid 8/10 of a game, which automatically makes it a 10/10 racing game. If you enjoyed the dirt series before Dirt 4, don’t hesitate to give this a try, especially when it goes on sale for just 2 bucks regularly.
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ÜberprüftVor 1 Woche

Dont believe what the other people write !
This Game is Awesome yesterday i played dirt 2.0
and after i played Gravel ! The Best Rally Game i played on PC ! Open Tracks and different Landscapes in a Head to Head Race! Not only Time Race and Closed Tracks ! Dirt 4 is even not so good like this almost but this is real fun !
Still very Good in 2025 ! Go and get it
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ÜberprüftVor 1 Woche

Guten Tag zusammen.

Für mich persönlich ist dieses Computerspiel echt cool, weil entsprechend auch "Lieder aus der Vergangenheit" vorhanden sind - also, zum Beispiel "Metal Fight" und "Steel Hammer" aus der "Crash Time"-Serie.

Zusätzlich kann man, ähnlich wie bei Forza Horizon 5, "Team-Rennen" fahren - das meiner Ansicht nach echt cool ist.

Dass "Gravel" auch bei meinem PC funktioniert - obwohl mindestens 2, anstatt 1,5 Gigabyte Grafikspeicher benötigt werden (weil mein PC nur 1,5 Gigabyte davon hat) - sehe ich als Wunder an. Klar - das Spiel schmiert zwischendurch ab - jedoch wegen meines PCs - doch ist das echt kein Problem, weil ich mittlerweile den Grund herausgefunden habe: wenn das eigene gefahrene Fahrzeug gegen blau- / rot-weiße Umzäunungen fährt.

In diesem Sinne - alles Gute und allen Erfolg.
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ÜberprüftLetzten Monat

Das Spiel sah auf Xbox One und PS4 so grottig aus, obwohl es auf einem leistungsschwachen PC so viel Mehrwert entwickelt. Die Arcade-lastigen Rennen machen Spaß, Grafik und Steuerung sind sehr gut auf dieses Ereignis zugeschnitten. Alles was über die lahmen 30fps auf den Konsolen hinausgeht, verändert dieses Spiel in ein positives Happening. Milestone ist nicht bekannt für herausragende Titel, aber hier haben sie einen der besten Offroad-Racer als Alternative zu Forza Horizon hervorgebracht. Respekt!
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ÜberprüftLetztes Jahr

mega game. and hey: i have no problem to drive rear wheel drive in this game. thanks milestone for this banger.
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ÜberprüftLetztes Jahr

spiel ist sehr gut für 20 euro (in angebot für 2 euro) aber die Ki muss irgendein unterbezahlter gemacht haben die fahren alle eine strecke und versuche nicht ein Auszuweischen
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ÜberprüftLetztes Jahr

Einfache gute Steuerung und ein abwechslungsreiches Spielschema.

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