RV There Yet? Hits Steam, is a Co-Op Game That Turns Dads Loose on the Highway

A hand rolled cigarette dangles from fingers as the RV lurches backward, gravel crunching under tires that won’t listen. Four players bark directions through crackling voice chat, one searching for a spare tire while another wrestles a pulley that’s more knot than lifeline. This is RV There Yet?, the new Steam release from Nuggets Entertainment that packs a vacation’s worth of mishaps into one crazy drive home.

Nuggets Entertainment put together this debut from veterans who worked on Goat Simulator’s wackiness, Valheim’s survival mode and Deep Rock Galactic’s teamplay. They started with a game jam prototype and honed the concept to feel both effortless and full of surprises. Players are holiday makers on their way home, but their easy journey back is abruptly brought to a screeching halt by a big old road blocked sign. That’s when the motorhome comes into play – a camping van that’s both home sweet home AND the bane of their existence, navigating those gravel roads, hills as well as dead ends is just a giant headache waiting to happen. With up to 4 of you on board, you can all join in and control your bit of the madness – driving, mending or scouting ahead – while if someone wanders off too far, the voice chat will go down to a mere whisper.

But what’s the point of shouting anyway, if you can just talk things through with a bit of hand waving? One of your crew spreads his arms out in front of him to say slow down or signals off in reverse for a nice easy reverse park – it’s like a family dance off in a parking lot. You get stuck on rocks and your tyres blow out, so someone has to go off and look for the jacks and wrench floating around in the undergrowth. And all the detours start to catch up with you and you are all starving – so you start scrambling to get the portable grill fired up to chuck on some frozen burgers that just stick to the pan for all their lives. And its just the music that’s playing that makes it all the more funny – from classic rock anthems to some real dodgy choices that will make you groan or even laugh out loud. Even if a wolf pops up out of the trees – you’ve got a standoff on your hands, with players making do with sticks or empty cans as some dodgy homemade weapons.


There are loads of silly hats in the motorhome to get you all looking your best – floppy fishing hats, stained baseball caps and woolly beanies – it’s a bit of a mess, but somehow it works. The driver puts on a truckers hat to look all professional and authoritative, while the mechanic puts on a hard hat at just the right angle to look the part. These hats aren’t just for decoration, they add a bit of personality to your generic characters and tell a story about the last few days beachcombing or fishing without even thinking about it. Swapping hats every now and then keeps things interesting and makes the game all the more fun when you’re playing it over and over, adding a nice bit of the groups own little inside joke to the mix.


Wild animals start to appear from out of nowhere, the weather decides to turn your paths into mudslides, and your van’s fuel light starts flashing like crazy. Players start rummaging through the coolers for a quick snack, weighing up the convenience of a can or jerky against the risk of attracting a bear because they left the wrapper open. That means you need to have your ducks in a row – one person holding a lantern while another is patching up a leak, but somehow the physics engine always seems to have other ideas and things just don’t work out as planned. For example you might need to push your RV all the way across a wobbly log bridge or it’ll sail off a bump and get destroyed by the undergrowth.


Future updates will bring new vehicles, modifications, and seasonal dangers like snowdrifts that can bury your axles. But let’s be real, only one map will really grab you; the landscape changes depending on how you play it – bulldoze through the ferns or crawl along the cliff edges. Multiplayer is where this game really comes alive, turning solo attempts into hilarious gold when other players join in and their chaos cancels out the drone of the GPS. Offline bots do their part to help you practice, but it’s the live reactions – those random bursts of strategy – that are the real draw.


At $7.19 on Steam, with a 10% launch cut through October 28, the entry price matches the casual commitment: you can drop in for a quick 20 minutes or go all out and try for a perfect run across the whole evening. We’re only going with one map at the moment, a pretty big backcountry area full of switchbacks and clearings with all sorts of shortcuts hidden in plain sight.