Players can utilize various objects ranging from road barriers to weapons such as cannons in order to inflict damage on other vehicles.īeamNG does not include real vehicle manufacturers, however, included vehicles resemble various real-life vehicles, such as ETK resembling BMW or Gavril resembling Ford. They can also change environmental properties such as gravity and wind. In free roam, players can explore and experiment with maps, allowing them to operate, place, and manipulate objects and vehicles within the map. In time trials, the player selects a vehicle, map, and route, and competes against their own best time.

Campaigns are collections of small scenarios based on specific themes, including races, chases and stunts. Gameplay īeamNG.drive features various gameplay modes and scenarios such as campaigns, time trials, as well as a freeroam mode. BeamNG also develops a fork of the game designed for education as well as industrial and academic research entitled BeamNG.tech. The game was initially released as a tech demo on 3 August 2013 along with paid access to an alpha, and was later made available on Steam Early Access for Microsoft Windows on. The game features soft-body physics to simulate realistic handling and damage to vehicles. BeamNG.drive is a vehicle simulation video game developed and published by Bremen-based video game developer BeamNG GmbH.