Cosy overlanding driving game Over The Hill sure is climbing up in popularity, as it revealed to have now over 1 million wishlists on Steam.
To celebrate the occasion, the game by developer Funselektor (Absolute Drift, Art Of Rally, Golden Lap) and Strelka Games will be having a closed playtest session, to take place on April 24-26 on Steam. Registrations are open (link here) until April 16.
Over The Hill had a new trailer revealed during the April 2026 Triple-I Initiative Showcase, where it reveals the new region “algeria.” Inspired by the North African country of the same name, you and your mates can go overlanding through the desert, plateaus and through the dunes (dunes dunes dunes dunes) where you navigate across giant boulders and ancient relics.
You can set up makeshift bridges too. And.. what’s with the cube there at the end?
Funselektor has been making some fun, and unconventional driving and/or racing games with its stylised lo-poly look. From a tough drifting game to a love letter to rally, and from a racing management game that’s a love letter to the golden age of open-wheel racing to, now with Over The Hill, a cosy yet intentful off-roading driving game where you’re just out out adventuring, solo or with friends. Not to deliver stuff in a Euro Truck Simulator/Death Stranding style. Just drive across beautiful landscapes and overcome the terrain with your upgradable vehicle of choice with physics that will remind you more of a Spintires or a Mudrunner game where going off road isn’t just cars getting slippier and slightly slower (i.e. you can get stuck in mud, or loose grip and slide). In other words, overlanding. You get to set up camp and rest for the night, there’s a day-and-night cycle in the game.
And if you think the game looks pretty, well, you are right, and Over The Hill will launch with a photo mode as a feature.
Over The Hill hasn’t locked in a release date yet, but it’s still set to release some time this year on PS5, PC (Steam), Xbox Series X|S and Nintendo Switch 2.