RV There Yet? A Swedish Game Jam Project That Sold 1.3 Million in a Week
It took about three months to make, stars a rear-wheel-drive camper van and features some very angry bears. How a side project from a small Swedish studio became one of 2025's co-op hits.
Every family road trip has the same soundtrack: someone in the back seat asking "are we there yet?" A small studio in Sweden turned that question into a pun, a camper van and one of the most chaotic co-op games of 2025.
RV There Yet?, from Nuggets Entertainment of Skövde, Sweden, launched on PC via Steam on 21 October 2025. It jumped to third place on Steam's top sellers chart, came close to 100,000 concurrent players and, according to the studio's community manager, sold more than 1.3 million copies in its first week. An Xbox Series X|S version followed on 30 June 2026.
The plan: drive home. The problem: everything
The premise is simple. You and your friends are heading home from a camping trip in an old rear-wheel-drive RV. Between you and your driveway lies terrible terrain: steep hills, mud, rivers and the occasional bear that will happily damage the van and hurt anyone who wanders off.
Everyone has a job. Someone drives, someone navigates, someone jumps out to fix things or push. Because the game runs on physics, almost nothing goes to plan, and that is the point. The van slides, tips, gets stuck and occasionally rolls down a hill while everyone screams.
The aesthetic leans into what the internet calls "dad-core": camping gear, sensible caps and the energy of a well-meaning parent who is sure he knows a shortcut.
A game jam that escaped
RV There Yet? was never meant to be the studio's big project. It started as a game jam idea in summer 2025 (a game jam is a short event where developers race to build a game in days or weeks), and the team then expanded it into a full release. Total development took about three months.
Nuggets Entertainment's main project is actually something completely different: Among the Wild, a first-person farming game the team has been working on since 2023. RV There Yet? was the side quest that suddenly became the main story.
By the numbers
- About 3 months: from game jam idea to release
- 21 October 2025: Steam launch
- #3: peak position on Steam's top sellers chart
- Nearly 100,000: peak concurrent players on Steam
- 1.3 million+: copies sold in the first week
- 30 June 2026: Xbox Series X|S and Microsoft Store release
What critics thought
Critics were more divided than players. The game holds a Metacritic score of 72, classed as "mixed or average". Gamereactor praised its viral appeal and sense of humour, but noted that it has no clear objective beyond the drive itself.
That gap is common in the co-op comedy genre. These games are built to be played with friends on voice chat, where every crash becomes a story. Played alone, or reviewed with a critic's checklist, they can feel thin. With three friends and a free evening, they are a blast.
Why it caught fire
Instant premise. "Drive the van home with your friends" needs no explanation. Clips of the van tumbling down a hill sold the game by themselves.
Built-in comedy. Physics plus co-op plus bears is a reliable recipe for chaos, and chaos is what streamers want.
Cheap and quick. A small, focused game made in three months could launch at a low price and ride the wave of the 2025 co-op boom, alongside games like PEAK and R.E.P.O.
What's next
The bigger test for Nuggets Entertainment is what happens to Among the Wild. A surprise hit can fund years of work on a dream project, and RV There Yet? may have done exactly that.
WGC's take: RV There Yet? is the purest kind of indie success: a jam idea with a great title, released quickly, and allowed to find its audience. For another co-op hit that started as a tiny experiment, read how two developers built Meccha Chameleon in two months (Meccha Chameleon).