BeamNG.drive’s rally mode has landed, and Traxion has taken it for a proper drive to see whether the hype holds up.

The outlet’s video piece puts hands on what it frames as one of the standout additions to the game in recent memory — a dedicated rally experience built on top of BeamNG’s soft-body physics, tested rather than just previewed. That distinction matters here, because BeamNG has always been a game that rewards actually driving it over reading spec sheets about it. Traxion’s coverage is a hands-on impression, and the details beyond that are best seen than summarised.

Why it’s worth your attention: BeamNG occupies an odd space in the sim world. It’s not a racing sim in the iRacing or Assetto Corsa Competizione sense, and it’s rarely part of the league-and-lap-times conversation. But its deformable physics model has no real equivalent, and rally is arguably the discipline where that model has the most to prove. Loose surfaces, weight transfer, and the constant threat of a rock or a ditch ending your stage are exactly the conditions where BeamNG’s approach should shine — or expose its gaps.

For anyone who has bounced off the current rally options, that’s a genuine reason to look. The rally sim category is thin: EA Sports WRC and Richard Burns Rally still carry most of the weight, and neither is a perfect answer for everyone. A credible third path, even from a game that never set out to be a competitive sim, is worth knowing about.

Fair warning — this is a video-first piece, so the useful nuance lives in the footage rather than in any written breakdown. If rally is your thing, the watch is the point.

Originally reported by Traxion.