The game lets you play as one of seven special-edition Jeeps on Utah's Sand Flats Road.

Modern driving games like Snowrunner or Gran Turismo harness massive computing power to accurately model the physics of piloting a vehicle at speed. Sometimes, however, you just want an overexcited announcer to shout “Awesome!” while you sail a Jeep Gladiator over a crest, misjudge the landing, and impact an immovable sandstone massif at 85 mph.

Such is the appeal of Moab Run, a new retro-themed off-roading game from none other than Jeep itself. Playable on mobile or in a browser window, the game channels the best of 1990s-era 3-D games like Sega Rally or Offroad Challenge, infusing it with playable examples of the very real special-edition Wranglers Jeep has launched over the past year or so.

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At launch, you can play seven of these Wranglers, from the synthwave-look Rewind to the military cosplay Sarge, with the full dozen coming to future game expansions. There’s also currently just the one course set in Utah at present, but two other tracks will become playable in due course.

Controls are very basic: accelerate, brake, and steer, with an option to powerslide and build up boost for bigger jumps. Jeep includes a somewhat hilarious disclaimer up front: “Do not attempt to recreate these actions in real life,” because, again, 85 mph into sandstone is not so fun in the non-digital world.

As befits a company that’s all about off-roading, the roads in Moab Run are basically just a guideline.

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