I played the WORST bridge building games on Steam...

Underrated and overhated, or are the review scores justified? I download and play the worst bridge building games on Steam!
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[@edapplederry5888]

As a mechanical engineer, I had to chuckle when you said that clients changing their mind is realistic. Because it's 100% true!

[@monad_tcp]

It must be bad for you engineers, I'm a software developer and at least we don't lose materials, only time and electricity and cheap cloud credits when clients change their minds. They also get bugs for free because of the changes, but that's on them.

[@noodlelynoodle.]

​​​@@monad_tcpif it's anything like when I was building stuff the customer is still paying for the materials used before the change and extra change order fees and the cost of new materials/labor and engineers aren't going to be losing any materials since they aren't the ones building any of the stuff ever just time redesigning things

[@SkiBumMSP]

@@monad_tcp At my company, there were several times when I talked to our mechanical engineer and even our EEs when change requests come in and can understand the grumbling that may arise. Being the software engineer, it is easy for me to make changes, as it is often just a matter of programming, but for our poor mechanical engineer, not so much. No wonder we 3D print so much stuff in-house before sending anything to production. At least for the EEs, it is a little easier as they can at least solder jumpers or "bread-board" things to test.

[@Minionjedi1]

RCE casually buys a terribly rated game, then somehow enjoys the game enough to keep playing it Edit: wow 1.9k likes Edit: 2k likes. WOW. That’s so many.

[@minili837]

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[@monad_tcp]

To be fair, I do that on steam sometimes, I buy terrible rated games because the fun part is seeing all the bugs and how bad programmer are at their job (I am a programmer, by the way). They usually cost less than a coffee, its good fun for a couple of minutes.

[@sleepybunnynorbun1039]

@@monad_tcp People buying 1-2 dollar games expecting a fully fleshed out game is the problem. They are the starting project of someone new to making games. Altho some games should prolly just be free. But I dont blame a dev for trying to get a couple dollars considering how long it can actually take to make something that runs at all.

[@monad_tcp]

@@sleepybunnynorbun1039 I agree , its still fun seeing them fail and get better with each new release

[@user-dp1ep6ul3y]

I was to bro. Matt got to think

[@erumaayuuki]

I was yelling at the screen: DO AN UNDERTRUSS!! I guess Matt was so overwhelmed by the graphics and the physics, that he forgot how to engineer 🤷‍♂️

[@5Andysalive]

But what about all the poor cars driving on the underside?

[@kyles1255]

@@5Andysalive we dont care about them

[@Stalin_the_man]

@@5Andysalive no-one cares about the azzies there mental

[@simonlees2848]

same

[@lazarsharky]

​@@kyles1255 damn, didn't know we be hating on the Australians

[@maciekkozicki3379]

Unironically, the cross truss is a unique and interesting mechanic not seen in Polybridge. A support cars can't drive through...

[@TheSoapySurprise]

Just use a road in poly bridge for that role. They also are stronger in compression, which is more nuanced than the cross truss.

[@maciekkozicki3379]

@@TheSoapySurprise and heavier. With a stricter length limit. They were very much not intended as and thus are different to non-driveable supports. edit: thus*

[@proesterchen]

Matt failing because of his reliance on the stupid wall brace bug in Poly Bridge is delightful. Also: under the deck truss, mate. Wow.

[@zeisix.]

Yeah I was wondering why he was so focused on building on top of the road

[@sgmvideos5175]

exactly, it must have been the secret architect inside of him

[@eclipseeffigy]

What is this wall brace bug you're talking about?

[@jamoecw]

@@eclipseeffigy in Polybridge the terrain is solid, so you can have hanging bits of material bumping into the terrain in order to help give some support where you were not supposed to get support.

[@eclipseeffigy]

That's physics. Not a bug...

[@Domegraton]

As a German it was funny to see RCE thinking beenden means play

[@slopejane]

It even has the word 'end' in it 😂

[@icecream5125]

I don’t know any bit of German but people normally have exit at the bottom and play at the top it would be weird to have the exit button closer to the editor button

[@cathygrandstaff1957]

He didn’t think it meant “play” he thought it meant “language”.

[@HedgeByte]

I chuckled at that too. At least Optionen was clear enough

[@guggen8236]

I am guessing it was more for content .. . The button to end a game is the last option 99 percent of the time and the word "end" is literally in it.

[@m4c1990]

The water is on purpose, so you can play the BP Oil Spill Simulator simultaniously.

[@Peron1-MC]

ah yes. you zoom in and realise the water is full of oil XD

[@roartoust5692]

I am not an engineer but couldn't you build an arch under the bridge in the "impossible" level.

[@minili837]

He kinda did it, but it didn't worked but maybe that is why the reason the people say it so badddddd

[@minili837]

Or he can use the stuff on the 👉

[@takeshimovies5869]

​@@minili837he didn't use corner pivot and tried to use unreal thing instead

[@lollertoaster]

Those graphics remind me of Bridge Architect. Maybe it would be a good video idea to play the bridge building classics? I think Bridge Architect was what started this genre.

[@Jeal0usJelly]

If only it were called Bridge Engineer instead 🥲

[@minili837]

​@Jeal0usJelly mmmmmmmm but architects and engineers are =

[@flafik]

So you obviously never played Pontifex the real daddy of bridge building.

[@UltimatePerfection]

​@@flafikHear me out, before Pontifex, there was a free game, BRIDGE BUILDER.

[@danielvanced5526]

​@@nikauswien5863yep, bridge builder, then pontifex. The original bridge builder with a few extras is on the Cryptic Sea page for download.

[@bugle-clowncar]

Totally worth the 9 bucks to see the traffic drive up the truss

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[@Oblithian]

In engineer they truss. ...On bridge they truss?

[@Bucketus.Lord.of.Buckets]

"The Ditzy Demons Are In Love With Me" In case anyone wondered from that brief image when he sorted the games by score

[@TheHappy_Flower]

did anyone else go look it up? no?... okay, so just me

[@abcdefgcdefg5178]

I think that 2nd game has a lot of potential if they add realistic physics

[@NochEinKamel]

When you finished the second bridge, you unlocked the Pillar. Maybe that's what you had to use for the 4th bridge and it was just hiding behind the left/right buttons

[@LongPlayPladde]

He should have trussed only the "middle-ish" roads. The outer ones would have been supported by the ancorpoints and the stable middle part. Love to see how German engineering is to hard for RCE :D

[@ImStevan]

honestly this looks really fun, play more of this

[@Kingsly9802]

So Bridge! came out on steam in 2015, but it originally came out in 2011. Back when this came out it was genuinely the top of the line bridge builder game. I'm not especially surprised that it hasn't held up well, I'm pretty sure I was playing it on a Vista at the time, so we've had quite a bit of tech upgrades since then.

[@rtgMTB]

I think a cool idea for the channel would be to show off some of the public structures that you helped design and talk us through your process and why it was built the way it is. Love the videos.

[@Edvit40]

"Um actually those are good bridge buil-" *You absolute architect!*

[@garagebandguy2793]

Couldn’t you have just done an under truss so you can use the cross beams anywhere? Edit: Ignore me he mentions it later anyway 😂

[@illagevidiot8254]

BTW RCE, I started watching your videos before I started working on bridges myself. I do train bridge repair. We just pulled out (giggity) of northern alberta with a complete redecking of a steel through truss bridge. Beautiful area right in the heart of the northern rocky mountains.

[@joshthompson8478]

I don't think the first game had a physics engine. I think it actually only allowed predefined shapes. Meaning that if the dev made a bridge they thought should be an under truss, you would fail no matter what with an over truss.

[@ravenmouse2385]

00:08 The Ditzy Demons Are In Love With Me!

[@walterrebele3651]

I like how there's no water under the bridge in the first game until the car crashes off the bridge and there's a splash

[@UltimatePerfection]

You should play the OG bridge building game, Bridge Builder. It was freeware even in early 2000s and it was done by the same guys that later went on to create Pontifex bridge construction series.

[@jort93z]

Played it so much in elementary school lol.

[@UltimatePerfection]

@@jort93z Me too.

[@gcewing]

Interesting how the traffic in this world is somehow always completely symmetrical.

[@dwr1001]

Matt reading the german was pretty funny. Also you summoned all of us 😂😂

[@MENTALxMETHZ]

Are we all going to pretend we didn’t see “The Ditzy Demons Are In Love With Me” at 0:08 knowing steam NSFW is off by default 👀

[@AwesometownUSA]

20:40 “Please be good” haha even the game isn’t sure of itself

[@thetophattedgoose]

Petition to get RCE to make a series out of this

[@linkinandandi6142]

petition signed

[@jacksonstarky8288]

I enjoy videos like this, because sometimes (like here) they uncover underrated gems. I would definitely watch more of either of these games, but especially the sequel... seems like they cleaned up a few things the first game got wrong.

[@CptFishball]

yes, you should play ''The Ditzy Demons Are In Love WIth Me'' 🤣

[@lordtelion]

4:35 Im so glad rce said that, I thought that was my dog barking xD

[@AndrewHines42]

Always love a good Civil Engineer video!

[@Edvit40]

youre 15th

[@thatotherguy3756]

wait-wait-wait- you're telling me that at 12:27 that suspension bridge is realistic? shouldnt that with all the traffic have the whole thing cave in on its self?

[@algodoomarbleracing]

13:23 The loud sound was actually the hydraulics turning on, you can see that it says ‘hydraulic on’ just before it changes to ‘failed’

[@adamm8162]

I would love to see Matt play that one bridge building Flash game which was themed about Tom and Jerry. I don't know if it's still playable

[@soulsearcher9620]

I love these videos about bridge architecture ! ;) You're quite the architect.

[@inspiringengineer]

Reinforced concrete does work in tension - like that bridge in Genoa that fell down because the rebar rusted....

[@strawberrylemonadelioness]

This reminds me of these bridge building flash games I used to play

[@jamesburrelljr.8561]

That was flipping entertaining . You may have been an engineer but you could have been a comedian

[@mloxard]

The Bridge! series actually looks pretty cool!

[@Preske]

I played Bridge en bridge 2 many , many years ago. They were pretty much the first games like this.

[@jetcoughlogo5752]

yeah exactly I remember playing similar games like 5 years ago. If they're the same as mentioned in this video, they've aged very well all things considered.

[@kristianstaalby8499]

have you forgotten Pontifex?

[@jk9554]

@@kristianstaalby8499 or the slightly more OG "Bridge builder" released a year earlier in 2000.

[@sneakerking2006]

@@jk9554 "Bridge Builder" from 2004 has exactly the same font as the game in the video. I think it's the same license

[@Handle423]

Well ngl this was pretty fun I wouldn't mind seeing another video on this game Also, if the dev just put a lil more work into the assets and the background texturing I think this would be a pretty nice game in the whole of it

[@genehenson8851]

Thank you for your sacrifice. Now we get to see these without tracing to play them ourselves.

[@FizhIsFish]

pls make this series, it's like iron pineapple's soulslike steam dumpster diving but with bridge sims lmao

[@chrisstopher2277]

0:21 Nice forearms sir. You've been working out. 💪

[@colin5607]

I‘d love to See you trying the First Game again useing an undertruss

[@WayneRandall]

"That's a bilf right there, I'll tell you," was an engineered joke. Priceless.

[@kaitypittard646]

I have been searching the comments to see if someone mentioned this, I lost it at that line xD

[@HyperPoss]

Why build bridges when you can break them?) I made a map in TearDown, called 'Almost Golden Gate Bridge'. If anyone suddenly wants it) In general, I just remembered, if you don’t want it, ok) Building bridges is very good, for real.

[@mihalydozsa2254]

Try Pontifex II, or Bridge construction set

[@5Andysalive]

10:00 they used screenshot from old Voxel Comanche 2 as background.

[@YoungLu284]

Not gonna lie, been just devouring all your content lately lol. Keep up the great work!

[@RealCivilEngineerGaming]

You little porker!

[@lemone12]

9:45 engie sounds like a kid that just opened his christmas gift XD

[@dusky186]

0:08 The game at this section is The Ditzy Demons Are in Love With Me. RCE has good taste in light novel games.

[@igoramaral95]

More background variation would do this game wonders. But yea, reviews are definitely harsh

[@toddaustin449]

I remember watching a video of these two games a long time ago, damn how they fell

[@taylororyanlaird4857]

That water thing is a big in unity I can't remember how to fix it though, tell the dev to check stack overflow 3:00

[@midori_the_eldritch]

The game seems pretty playable, they probably overpromaced on a kickstarter or something. Unmet expectations is the best way to get a bad score on steam, no matter what you actually made

[@sixer__]

yeah but i think a big problam with it is thier is only enogh materials to build the bridge 1 or 2 wasy usaly being over truss and under truss

[@SlimjimcakeOfficial]

I want to see a full series on bridge 2 it’s quite fun to watch

[@MaraColonel]

Thanks editor for that shot at the beginning

[@EpicWinNoob]

The first one feels like it's got the low score because they've made the margins so slim for success that there is only ONE singular solution with only just enough pieces to do it. Unlike others that let you experiment and go over budget/give you enough budget and pieces for wiggle room to have solutions with room to save on the budget and be more efficient

[@TheHorzabora]

The reason you keep building the same bridge is clearly because Architects didn’t like the last one and complained to the council :-(

[@Jaguar_Avro]

I got an entire RCE vid as an ad just before watching this! Lucky me!

[@ZuluZizo]

14:55 Yuwu unlocked an Architect XD

[@alexmercer7970]

that first game was the first bridge game ive ever played like 10 years ago or so. but my pirated copy never give me glitches, bugs or crashes ever. i didnt know it was on steam and bought for old times' sake and ended up refunding.. might be steam version or modern hardware compat issues ruining it but that game was not this bad..

[@volundrfrey896]

What i've learned from this type of videos is that you want the highest or lowest rating as a game dev. The mid games are the ones that never gets played.

[@Alsadius]

When you go in expecting one of the worst games around, it'll be a pleasant surprise. But if you went in looking for a good game, it'd be a disappointment. I was playing bridge building games of this quality in 2000, and they were freeware.

[@danlefter5778]

I was literally watching an engineering meme when I got the notification pop-up.

[@IceAssasin]

We need more of this

[@dedust8]

0:54 as a german watching the cursor going on „beenden“ knowing whats going to happen

[@SombraBranca]

For whoever wants to know it's ''The Ditzy Demons Are in Love With Me'' at the start of the video Edit: Went to check, and surprisingly it's already on my wishlist...

[@Brug98]

I often think that these types of game were made by students in college for their bachelor thesis, because now way real studio would publish something like that

[@nicholassoto7112]

Ayo? What was that image that briefly flashed at 0:08?

[@DisstonDave]

I'd love to see you play more of this!

[@mgunter]

Why no under-truss?

[@mickMahaus32]

12:50 making concrete work in tension.. what a waste of concrete

[@mixedvibes9613]

"I assume anything made german is pretty well engineered right?" Meanwhile germany getting rid of nuclear energy

[@thetruetri5106]

I feel like the published their games too soon when tey weren't quite finished yet. And then when they fixed the problems the reputation was already destroyed

[@GummieI]

Hmm it looks like you could use the crossbeams as road tbh, and they only cost half the amount ;)

[@p3chv0gel22]

Matt looks at a German game: "Everything german is engineered good, right?" Me: "Gollum..."

[@UltimatePostman]

Now that RCE did Bridges 2, he should go back and attempt to play Bridges, and see if anything from the second game will help him on the first.

[@ollllj]

All the bridge constructor games give the wrong impression, that vehicles add significant load to a large/steel bridge. This is barely even true for wooden hanging bridges. The mass of vehicles and people is insignificant compared to the mass of the bridge. Of course, poorly maintained bridges happened to collapse during large circus parades, where a bridge was fully loaded with people and heavy traffic, ideally hanging bridges being overloaded only on one road side, tilting the bridge enough, so that half of all cables carry nothing. In the end, only bridge builder sims that have an earthquake button are somewhat realistic, for simulating fatigue.

[@crimsonfirre]

8:23 what are those 2 circles with arrows on them at the Bridge part bar i think you didn't check all your available parts list

[@TheAlexdodd]

Anyone else notice how one of the iron pieces disappeared during the 4th bridge?

[@kuuhaku-davizim4071]

"The ditzy demons are in love with me" ...

[@foolsfate5856]

I’d 100% watch a series of you playing this game. Subbed incase it becomes true.

[@nathanmonthony4598]

“Hello fellow engineers” - me not even close to an engineer

[@RealAndySkibba]

Matts search history coming to get him for a flash at 0:08

[@GodwynDi]

Those things get spammed everywhere on steam nowadays

[@tertiasnyman9093]

Hey RCE, on the topic of bridge building games, you think you could give 'Bridge Constructor: The Walking Dead' a go?

[@pinballwizard9037]

4:28 I turned around to see if there was a dog behind me

[@RenneVangr]

Would actually not be against a series on this game😂

[@eddywilson7292]

You know the day is good when RCE posts

[@Edvit40]

youre 14th

[@eddywilson7292]

@@Edvit40 It changes when you refresh

[@Edvit40]

i used the newest comments thats how i see it as that will be in order no matter what (it wont add the comments that got added after i refreshed tho)@@eddywilson7292

[@squashgaming9279]

So… everydah?

[@kescmslcs]

Fr

[@kescmslcs]

Definitely water made by an architect (dont ask how you make water)

[@itsjustme6403]

I'd like a part 2 of bridge 2 please

[@timvangrijs2095]

17:51 I imagine that this is true and a nightmare to deal with.

[@dropatrain]

Concrete can do anything it wants as long as you put enough steel in it!

[@jms4989]

The first game was pretty good imo for the time it was released, i think it was around 2010? Also on the 4th level of it you should have used the pillar, hidden behind the left/right buttons in the building menu

[@JudeBaker-yw4jh]

I thought it was going to be on cities skylines 2

[@earttu]

If Trucking Tuesdays taught me anything, it's that all simulation games are made by German devs and all have some game-breakingly awful bugs and glitches hidden somewhere inside.

[@Armstrong84]

Is there a section for crappy city builders? That could be fun.