Big Rigs, a strong contender for any 'worst games of all time' list, currently has a Mostly Positive user rating on Steam because democracy is broken

Big Rigs gameplay showing truck approaching a vaguely Bavarian hamlet nestled into the hills — (Image credit: Margarite Entertainment)

Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing was misnamed. It should have been called Big Rigs: Through the Road Racing, or possibly Through the Nearby Buildings and Also Bridges. The 2003 truck racing game infamously lacked collision, meaning you could drive through anything, including your competitor.

I say competitor, but in the launch version of the game your rival wouldn't actually move, remaining stationary while you complete the race, at which point a cheap trophy would appear on the screen along with the now-legendary text "YOU'RE WINNER !"

Victory screen of Big Rigs showing infamous &quot;You're Winner&quot; message under a three-handle gold trophy — (Image credit: Margarite Entertainment)

This semi-trailer-themed semi-game was recently released on Steam, where the irony-poisoned have already given it a flood of glowing reviews. One references the fact that in Big Rigs you go faster backwards than you do forwards by writing, "Got addicted to driving backwards, did it for roughly an hour straight just to listen to the literal ear-piercing engine of the truck revving." Another simply states, "At least someone finally tells me that I'm winner once in my life".

This version's publisher Margarite Entertainment has had to issue a statement declaring that it does actually own the rights to Big Rigs after it was pointed out that the game's header image was taken directly from SteamGridDB and that no one has ever heard of the company before.

"We truly appreciate everyone's enthusiasm!" Margarite Entertainment wrote. "In response to the concerns, we would like to clarify that Margarite Entertainment has obtained the rights to a few classic titles (including Big Rigs Over the Road Racing) worldwide, and they will be released on Steam!"

I look forward to those other "classic titles" from Margarite Entertainment, presumably including games like Limbo of the Lost, Bad Day LA, and Afro Samurai 2: Revenge of Kuma, all of which you can read about in our list of the worst PC games of all time. We'll see how they do in the user reviews.

Jody's first computer was a Commodore 64, so he remembers having to use a code wheel to play Pool of Radiance. A former music journalist who interviewed everyone from Giorgio Moroder to Trent Reznor, Jody also co-hosted Australia's first radio show about videogames, Zed Games. He's written for Rock Paper Shotgun, The Big Issue, GamesRadar, Zam, Glixel, Five Out of Ten Magazine, and Playboy.com, whose cheques with the bunny logo made for fun conversations at the bank. Jody's first article for PC Gamer was about the audio of Alien Isolation, published in 2015, and since then he's written about why Silent Hill belongs on PC, why Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale is the best fantasy shopkeeper tycoon game, and how weird Lost Ark can get. Jody edited PC Gamer Indie from 2017 to 2018, and he eventually lived up to his promise to play every Warhammer videogame.

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