Wreckfest 2 Revealed, Everyone’s Favourite Demo Derby Simulator Returns

2024 hasn’t exactly been a box office year for racing games. Aside from the annual F1 title and a few indie bangers, there really hasn’t been much to write home about this year. However, things are starting to look up for 2025 and beyond – especially now that Wreckfest, everyone’s favourite demolition derby simulator, is returning.

Wreckfest 2 has been revealed over a decade on from the original title entering early access as ‘Next Car Game'. So far, we’ve seen little confirmed on the game beyond the trailer, but we are promised that the title will offer an ‘overhauled physics engine for even more realistic destruction’ as well as ‘fully customisable cars that you can share with other players’.

On top of that, the game will hinge on an ‘entirely re-imagined career mode’ while its online mode will see the introduction of skill-based matchmaking. That sounds exciting from a competitive point of view, even if we’re already slightly agitated about coming up against Wreckfest sweats.

Even better, it’s been confirmed that a brand-new split-screen multiplayer mode is coming. What a novel idea, how has nobody thought to add one of those to a racing game before?

Mod support has been confirmed as well, although unsurprisingly it sounds as though this will only be available on PC through the Steam workshop rather than a dedicated in-game platform.

Deciphering much else about the game from the minute-and-a-half cinematic trailer alone is pretty tricky, although we’re fed more than a few one-liners (“Stop driving like my grandma, she’s six feet under” now likely entering our daily vocabulary).  Most of the shots are said to be in-engine footage though, meaning we get a bit of a flavour of that revamped destruction.

We don’t have a release window yet for Wreckfest 2, but we’d anticipate sometime in 2025 at the very earliest – possibly into 2026. We do know it’ll be coming to PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series consoles.