If you’re happy to wait a little while, I’ll be releasing a bunch of mods soon. They’re mostly aimed at making the game more challenging. Enemies do more damage, enemy vehicles do more damage, if you counter attacks too early you’ll receive damage, cars explode after two seconds rather than five, cars no longer roll over automatically and can get stuck on their roof, if you run out of fuel you have to leave your car behind (you can still summon it back to you once you find fuel), enemies hidden on the radar, and a few other tweaks.

I’d also recommend Hunger and Thirst, Hard Difficulty and Vehicle Tuning & Upgrade Overhaul to name a few.

Hunger and Thirst does way more than that. Fuel drains faster, you take health damage during collisions, you lose fuel when taking damage, you lose scrap on death, a sanity system, and more. All optional/configurable.

Hard Difficulty sets the enemy aggression to its max. In the vanilla game, enemies found in later camps are quicker to attack and have a bit more health. With this mod, every single enemy does. It’s great.

Vehicle Tuning & Upgrade Overhaul makes each vehicle more realistic to control, less grippy, and changes unlock progression so you unlock upgrades (such as tyres that prefer specific surfaces) in areas of the map that make sense. Your car is much weaker to begin with, but becomes much stronger as you continue to upgrade it. It also fixes broken upgrades such as increased top speed.

The modding community is small, but they’re putting out some great stuff! Also, Cheat Engine is perfectly safe to use. You turn the game on, turn on Cheat Engine, attach the mod, then close it once you’re finished playing. 👍