A red pickup truck on a red dirt track among gum trees.

Victorian High Country

AussieOutback4x4

A four-wheel-drive game in the Australian bush. Low range, diff locks and aired-down tyres; red clay, bog holes, rock steps and creek crossings; and nobody else out here.

Pre-alpha 0.1  ·  free  ·  no account, no ads

Where you drive

Three tracks and the road between

You start at The Crossroads, a dirt main road through the high country. Each track has a trailhead on it: drive into the ring, choose the time of day and the weather, and take it as free roam or timed laps.

Wombat Creek Track

A washed-out fire trail through stringybark and manna gum: two creek fords, bog holes, rock steps and ruts cut by a wet winter.

Track
Fire trail
Length
3.5 km

Granite Ridge

High, steep, stony country. Slabs and ledges up and over the ridge, dry underfoot: low range, lockers in, and pick your line.

Track
Rock crawl
Length
5.0 km

Blackwood Gully

Low, wet forest along a creek. Sixteen bog holes with deep ruts and washouts between them: keep your momentum and air the tyres down.

Track
Mud run
Length
4.5 km

What you drive with

A truck that works like one

Transfer case

2H, 4H and 4L. Low range multiplies the engine's pull for climbs, bog holes and rock steps.

Diff locks

Rear, then front and rear. With open diffs a lifted wheel spins away your drive; locked, the others keep pulling.

Tyre pressure

Air down to float over mud and sand, and back up for the hard stuff.

Hill descent

Holds the truck back on steep drops, a wheel at a time, so you can stay off the brake.

Ground that gives

Clay, mud, bog, leaf litter, gravel, rock and water each grip, sink and spray differently, and rain changes all of them.

Day, dusk and night

Pick the hour and the weather for each track. After dark the high beams come on, and the tail lamps light under braking.

The bush

Manna gum, stringybark, ironbark, wattle, tree ferns, grass trees and bracken, each planted where it would grow.

Keyboard or controller

Keyboard and mouse, Xbox-style pads, and PlayStation controllers by USB or Bluetooth.

Two ways to play

Browser or Windows

In your browserWindows download
NeedsEdge or Chrome on a desktop or laptop with a dedicated graphics card (it uses WebGPU)Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit, a graphics card with 6 GB or more
SizeAbout 45 MB to start a map, then more as you drive, only for what you see1.9 GB, once
SoundNot yetEngine, tyres on every surface, water, brush, and the bush itself
Changing mapsThe page loads again for each mapA few seconds behind a loading screen
Best lapsKept by your browserKept in the game's folder
Play in your browser Download for Windows

To run the download: unzip it anywhere and open Play.bat. Windows may ask before running a program it has not seen before; choose More info, then Run anyway.

How to drive it

Controls

Keyboard and mouseController
Throttle, brakeW SR2 L2
SteerA DLeft stick
2H, 4H, 4LT□
Diff locksG✕
Air the tyres down, upYD-pad up
HandbrakeSpace○
Look roundClick, then the mouseRight stick
Enter a trailhead, in its ringHold Enter, or click the bannerHold ✕
Back on the trackR△
PauseEscOptions