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RoadCraft
Developer Saber Interactive
RoadCraft is a vehicle simulation video game developed by Saber Interactive and published by Focus Entertainment. It tasks players to manage construction operations in sites previously ravaged by natural disasters using a variety of heavy equipment vehicles. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
456 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
53
Mixed
169 positive · 147 negative
95% range 48–59%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 169 | 147 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 34 | 5 | 60 |
| Mastodon * | 8 | 3 | 15 |
| Lemmy * | 1 | 4 | 10 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mostly Positive
5,937 of 8,151 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
54% recommend · 144 yes, 124 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 268 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mostly Positive (12,307 of 16,480 positive).
Players are divided on whether RoadCraft is a satisfying construction sandbox or a disappointing departure from SnowRunner. [1][2][3][4] Many praise the relaxing, zen-like gameplay of building roads and reshaping the environment. [1][5][6][7] However, several reviewers report game-breaking bugs, poor controls, and a lack of meaningful progression. [8][9][10][11]
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Representative posts
- [8]
As things stand with the current state of Roadcraft save files, I CAN NOT and WOULD NOT recommend this game to anyone. It has a fundamental game breaking bug that breaks save files once the hit a certain size. This happens because of, of all things, laying roads. The more sand you lay and the more roads you place the bigger the file, soon as it gets too large, as it will on most maps. All those lovely roads you …
- [11]
Great Concept, Terrible Execution. I bought this game because I liked building roads in Death Stranding: the satisfaction of building a road so I could finally drive fast and make future deliveries easier. I wanted my hard work to pay off. RoadCraft completely misses the point. Here, a road isn't a tool for you to use; it's just a checklist item. The second you finish paving, the level ends. You don't get to enjoy …
- [1]
This isn't Mudrunner or Snowrunner. This is something else. The runner series is more about the journey, about fighting the environment while going to objectives, This game isn't, it's more of a sandbox to shape the world as you want to complete objectives. Sure there are logical paths, missions that AI builds roads for you, paths the developers have clearly designed for you to send your convos on... but if you dont …
- [5]
One of the best "zen" games I've played in a while. The gameplay is pretty simple on the whole (lay sand, build roads, complete tasks, repeat), but very relaxing and satisfying to see a map graudally transform from post-disaster ruin to functional and clean work site. This is not a hardcore vehicle sim. This is a sandbox with large construction equipment. There seems to be a negative view of this game from …
- [2]
First, some perspective. Reading the other reviews, I've come to the conclusion that if you played Snowrunner and liked it, you're not going to like Roadcraft. They're basically the same premise, but opposite. At a very high level, in Snowrunner, you're upgrading trucks to use the unupgradable roads, in Roadcraft you're upgrading roads so the unupgradable trucks can use them. Roadcraft is not a muddier version of …
Summarised from 34 of the 376 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 11, 2026. How summaries are made
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RoadCraft sits at 53% positive across 316 opinionated reactions from 4 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
Critics, per Wikipedia
RoadCraft received "generally favorable" reviews, according to review aggregator website Metacritic. Fellow review aggregator OpenCritic assessed that the game received strong approval, being recommended by 78% of critics.
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Reactions
60 of 456 · most liked firstAs things stand with the current state of Roadcraft save files, I CAN NOT and WOULD NOT recommend this game to anyone. It has a fundamental game breaking bug that breaks save files once the hit a certain size. This happens because of, of all things, laying roads. The more sand you lay and the more roads you place the bigger the file, soon as it gets too large, as it will on most maps. All those lovely roads you spent hours upon hours placing have half disappeared. Shame on Saber. This bug has…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Seems like a great game. Unfortunately, if you have multiple input devices you're not able to set up both at the same time. I have a wheel and pedals I use for simracing but because they are not 1 input device I can only use one of them at a time. Leaving this review to let others know before they purchase.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I wanted to like the game but unfortunately a single button press in the menu with no confirmation will delete your progress with no way to restore. This is a game breaking feature that should be removed or at least add game save slots.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Saber Interactive have admitted to replacing real human developers with AI while not disclosing it on the Steam pages for those games. Quote from the CEO in regards to the writer they fired to replace with GenAI; “Stella who? I had to ask Claude because I have never spoken to her or seen her. We have already said we are using AI for certain parts of the game and will update the Steam page once we have finalized the feature set.”
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Beautiful game, great idea and concept, fun physics, but absolutely horrendous controller layouts without ability to remap. There's no escuse for non-rebindable controls in 2025, it's been a thing in gaming developement for well over 20 years. At it's current state, I can only rate RoadCraft as a whole at 50%. It feels like a game about coping with the worse possible controls while completing very basic tasks. It's suppose to be a chill game, but the controls are totally infuriating. If you…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This isn't Mudrunner or Snowrunner. This is something else. The runner series is more about the journey, about fighting the environment while going to objectives, This game isn't, it's more of a sandbox to shape the world as you want to complete objectives. Sure there are logical paths, missions that AI builds roads for you, paths the developers have clearly designed for you to send your convos on... but if you dont want to, you don't have to. I spent 3-4 hours building a giant ramp of…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great Concept, Terrible Execution. I bought this game because I liked building roads in Death Stranding: the satisfaction of building a road so I could finally drive fast and make future deliveries easier. I wanted my hard work to pay off. RoadCraft completely misses the point. Here, a road isn't a tool for you to use; it's just a checklist item. The second you finish paving, the level ends. You don't get to enjoy the smooth drive or improve your efficiency; you just get wiped to a new map…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Jesus Christ, for over a year, they've had this one bug that breaks the whole game on multiplayer and they haven't fixed it. What sucks is i spend HOURS playing with my dad and all of a sudden ALL of the pavement disappeared and come to find out, so many others are having this issue for OVER A YEAR! But guess what, let's put out fifty updates that add useless machinery and a bunch of content updates for our other games cause screw our fan base. this game and it's dev's suck. NO NOT BUY. BTW,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is ok overall, but it's by no means worth the money you'd have to spend to interact with all the new content. Saber is getting too greedy too early with their new releases. The 2 new regions + the armatsu tracked dump truck are equal in price to the base game >.< Not a good look given how many bugs and performance issues there are. Buy only on discounts if you already have and enjoy snowrunner. I am patiently waiting for snowrunner 2 haha
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Looked promising at first, building roads and bridges was fun for a bit, but it loses its charm fast. Progress feels meaningless, no vehicle customization, and nothing really keeps me playing.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Currently unplayable at AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT since last patch its insta crash after start up lol even downgrade graphic drivers do not work anymore for some reason :( couse of that i sadly can't reccommend the game at current state
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This was a decent attempt at creating a story to the mudrunner style games but overall I don't really care how the game is anymore. Saber interactive has come out as a Developer team fully hyped with Generative AI. As a gamer that respects the industry and art of Gaming and those that create the games. I can't in any way further support Saber Interactive or any of their games. Until the company does a full stop on Generative AI I will not be buying any future games from them nor will I install…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →"Casey are you gonna be playing Roadcraft?" No. I'm getting asked that a lot in my Snowrunner streams and I understand why folks think I might be interested, but the thing is there's even more Snowrunner coming, there's gonna be a Quebec region next month! I have so much of this game left to enjoy.
neutral · AI labelView post →For the little bit i played it was quite enjoyable, but since December 2025 i cannot play the game anymore due to constant crashes that have thus far been unadressed so until that changes i can not recommend the game to anyone! Edit 9.7.2026 After some patches i was able to play the game again for at least an hour or two before crashing, now with the most recent update i once again cannot play the game as it causes a driver crash every 10-15 minutes. Roadcraft is the only game that does this,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →First, some perspective. Reading the other reviews, I've come to the conclusion that if you played Snowrunner and liked it, you're not going to like Roadcraft. They're basically the same premise, but opposite. At a very high level, in Snowrunner, you're upgrading trucks to use the unupgradable roads, in Roadcraft you're upgrading roads so the unupgradable trucks can use them. Roadcraft is not a muddier version of Snowcraft *now with bulldozers*. Snowrunner is a logistics game, Roadcraft is a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →AMD driver crashes for months and the only help saber offers is "roll back your drivers" which if i want to ignore every other game i have that hates the old drivers would work. Game is fun if we could literally ever play it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Do you like driving around extremely slowly and occasionally tipping over? This game is for you. Do you like driving around extremely slowly and getting stuck in mud? This game is for you. Do you like driving around extremely slowly and getting stuck in water? This game is for you. Do you like driving around extremely slowly and getting stuck on a boulder? This game is for you. Do you like driving around extremely slowly and getting stuck on a tree stump? This game is for you. Do you like…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a trash game hastily put out so that Saber can make a quick buck. I so badly wanted to like it and waited a year to buy it hoping some of the initial review feedback would be addressed... It hasn't been. Want to use a steering wheel in a driving game? Get bent - the entire system is abysmal and your steering wheel will randomly lock up. 0 support for the gearbox and they couldn't even implement a legacy control scheme correctly. And to be clear, it's not much better on controller…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Just like with Spintires and Snowrunner there is a great core and idea behind this game. But the lack of polish routinely ruins it whenever you think you got into flow again. Contrast to what many other reviews complain about, my problems are with the lack of care and refinement. I don't mind that this is different from Spintires and Snowrunner. The focus is on transport, craning and "building" roads, not upgrades and damage models. There are rare escapades of scouting, that don't work that…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game just made me want to buy more DLC for Snowrunner and play that again. I did not buy this game expecting SR, but I also didn't buy this game expecting the things I experienced. The first mission tasks you with taking a generator to a plant. Fair enough, until you find out the generator isn't on a trailer waiting to be pulled, it's on a pallet, on top of a building, that you use your truck to climb up to. Absolutely dumb you are knocking down colored wooden walls to form ramps, to then…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Refunded...the game is horribly optimized, feels like the controls were ported straight from mobile to PC, and it does not support my clutch pedal and H‑shifter. MudRunner and Spintires, while graphically inferior, have far better physics and a much more convincing off‑road driving model.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →good game, fun, worth it, love it. negative review because yall r some lazy devs if its been broken for AMD users for over a year now do better.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I absolutely love this game and the whole concept. But honestly, you can call me trash all you like, but it isn't fun when a player is forced to smack trucks up the ass non stop because someone decided on the method statement that to get a dam fixed, or supply somewhere, that you need to send a CEMENT MIXER more overweight than the entire American population or a SEMI TRUCK up a steep incline which it clearly cannot do under its own power. It halts progression and is sometimes impossible as a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Bought thia game since I liked the idea and have been a longtime fan of the series, since the original Spintires were released on CD before Steam. HOWEVER, the main reason I bought it was to play with friends and something nobody tells you before buying this game is that multiplayer is LOCKED BEHIND intrusive privay policy and data collection for Focus and at least FOUR additional entites. If you don't accept it, you can't play online. No other game that I have ever played had such a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →[SOLVED] [Bazzite] Most Steam games refuse to run from secondary drive. Both drives formatted BTRFS. Windows has never been installed on either drive.. Edit: Thank you, u/[email protected], and everybody else who gave some solid advice. >The problem is the drive is mounted with the noexec flag, which is why nothing on it will run. You’ll need to change /etc/fstab to fix that. I used Gnome Disks to add the exec flag and now everything seems to be working. -- I have a desktop PC, not a…
neutral · AI labelView post →Coming to Game Pass: news.xbox.com/en-us/2025/0... Ultimate: -Hollow Knight: Silksong (9/4) Standard: -I Am Your Beast (today) -Nine Sols (9/3) -PAW Patrol World (9/10) -RoadCraft (9/16) PC: -Cataclismo (9/4)
neutral · AI labelView post →Unable to run the game more than a couple of minutes before it crashes on a RX 9070XT and i don't want to rollback to a 3mo driver. Fix it and i'll change the review to a positive one, maybe...
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I want to like this game, it has all the pieces of what should be a good game. I've played a bunch of hours trying to like it, but it's just a hollow game. It feels so incomplete or like it was only half thought out. The story is so generic and blandly written, I wonder if humans were actually involved or not. The character profile pics all look AI generated and honestly the story feels like it too, despite the makers not having an AI use diclosure. The game mechanics are really janky as well -…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I was enjoying it. Last update broke a pretty core feature. It's been five days with no fix, no reversion, and extremely limited communication on the issue. To developers that complain about reviews like this, If your cars broke under warranty I wonder how many of you would take this kind of treatment from your dealerships? If you fix it, I'll update the review. As the product sits at time of review, it's defective and unreliable and people should not purchase it. Maybe I'll wait a week…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Man.... This is such a great game but I can't recommend it for a SINGLE reason which is crazy because I can live with weird bugs and crashes but what I cant live without is the VERY reason I bought this game and that's multiplayer. If you plan on playing solo the game has been great and stable for me offline. The moment you take it online the game has a software limit for multiple player terrain what this means is when you host a game and start putting down sand or doing anything that messes…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I actively avoid games where genAI has been used in any shape or form. Not only is the company ok with replacing some of their employees with AI, they also didn't put any disclosure on their store page (yet). Since this also goes against the Steam guidelines, players should be eligible for a refund.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you liked SnowRunner but want more variety, RoadCraft is absolutely worth a look. Also if you thought you'd like SnowRunner but found it too slow then RoadCraft may be a good fit. If you're looking for SnowRunner 2 this isn't it, but my guess is that this is SABRE's stepping stone to SnowRunner 2 with a more arcade like twist as they get it right. The simplest way I'd describe them is: SnowRunner is an off-road trucking simulator. RoadCraft is a disaster-recovery/construction game…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Edit: They released the Truck Modding tool, I have to play this game again. Below is before release of the tool. This is an casual/arcade game. This is NOT Snowrunner, Mudrunner, Spintires game. You will be mostly making roads and some bridges, setting routes for AI convoy and picking up some debries to recycle/selling or cutting trees. There only a couple of vehicles, not as many as Snowrunner, the mod browser has NO new vehicles and only 2 pages. No vehicle damage, the trailers on the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is fine but what I hate is that I bought a pre-ordered ultimate addition thing and that somehow doesn't cover the new dlc's despite the fact I had to pay $100, I love snowrunner and snowrunner games (even expeditions) but they need to let the beginning ultimate edition be the ultimate addition and not pay for extra little addons, they even did the same thing in expeditions where it doesn't cover everything I hope they change this in the future rather then milking their playerbase.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The dlc are cheap cash grabs and the company is pro ai. the game itself gets old pretty fast
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Coming to Game Pass: news.xbox.com/en-us/2025/0... Ultimate: -RoadCraft (today) -Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor (9/17) -Frostpunk 2 (9/18) -Sworn (9/23) -Sopa – Tale of the Stolen Potato (10/7) Standard: -COD:MW3 (9/17) -For the King II (9/17) -Overthrown (9/17) -Wobbly Life (9/18) -Hades (9/19)
neutral · AI labelView post →Is the game fun? - Yes Is the game pretty? - Yes Are the controls good? - HELL NO I don't know how it can be that bad. Just let me control the vehicles? Steering is extremely slow, it's so difficult to just drive a windy road because the controls are so bad. I can't imagine the engine couldn't handle good controls. Just allow me to map an axis of whatever device I have to control the steering, use a joystick to control cranes and stuff like that, instead of predefining a few very specific…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i have tried for 170hours to enjoy this game. but it's not realistic enough to be fair. and not arcadey enough to be fun. it's in a grueling annoying inbetween. rocks float on top of sand when u pour it. so you have to clear rocks before paving. wich can be frustrating when the grader is not low enough in sand flattening mode to get them all, and if you use manual, you can ♥♥♥♥ up the road easily. i would not mind the grind if it was not so damn annoying.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is addictive, plays well, and looks really great. BUT there’s a big problem... This studio has had an issue with AMD graphics cards since January. The game is unplayable because it keeps crashing. If it were a problem on my end and the game worked for others, I’d look for instructions on how to fix it myself. But most of the community here has this problem, and the developer still hasn’t fixed anything since January. I don’t know if he doesn’t want to because he’s lazy or if he’s just…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →One of the best "zen" games I've played in a while. The gameplay is pretty simple on the whole (lay sand, build roads, complete tasks, repeat), but very relaxing and satisfying to see a map graudally transform from post-disaster ruin to functional and clean work site. This is not a hardcore vehicle sim. This is a sandbox with large construction equipment. There seems to be a negative view of this game from snowrunner fans who come into this expecting more of that. If you want snowrunner, I…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Coming soon to Xbox Game Pass and PC Game Pass: Hollow Knight: Silksong, RoadCraft, I Am Your Beast, and more! news.xbox.com/en-us/2025/0...
neutral · AI labelView post →I can't speak to the creative direction of the ad campaign; but I know I have followers/mutuals who NEED to know "ROADCRAFT" is a game:
neutral · AI labelView post →Sadly the RoadCraft demo is currently broken on Steam Deck / Linux.
neutral · AI labelView post →Overall I like this game but there are definitely a few things that get really annoying and it gets pretty tedious. I like the free-form nature of making roads and bridges, as well as the resource collection since you don't usually need to travel far to get what you need for the quest or bridge you want to build. If you're into these types of games I say it's worth the $40 since there's a fair bit of gameplay to it. I'm nearly 100 hours in and while I'm through all but two maps, each map takes…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →New Xbox Game Pass Games: 9.2 - I am your Beast 9.4 - Hollow Knight Silksong - Cataclismo 9.10 - PAW Patrol World 9.16 - RoadCraft Standard 9.3 - Nine Sols news.xbox.com/en-us/2025/0...
neutral · AI labelView post →I really hoped for this to be good, but it's like all the games from the spintires family... Awesome concept, awful execution (TBH by now it just seems lazy to me). To me it's not even remotely worth the 20 bucks I spent on Sale. Everything is yanky and feels unfinished, most mechanics are missing something fundamental. There are so many elementary and simple options and controls missing. The fuel consumption feels ridiculous and at the same time you need google to find out how to switch the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I finally caved and bought the game. I am happy I did and maybe also that I waited. Seems like a lot of the issues noted in previous reviews that I agreed with, have been fixed. There are still some things I would like to see changed however. But I will start with some positives that stood out to me. Overall the game runs very smooth with no crashes in 8 hours of play time and only a couple of textures res pops. The loading times are great with no more than a minute at any loading screen. The…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →RoadCraft runs surprisingly well on Steam Deck and great on Desktop Linux #RoadCraft #SteamDeck #SteamOS
positive · AI labelView post →Completed all scenarios. Found all the toys. This is a road building and driving game. If you don't like having to make roads or driving over difficult terrain, then this is not for you. I like it. Each vehicle drives differently, so switching between each is challenging. I only have a few complaints: AI vehicles pathfinding along your routes is sloppy, the time suck when waiting to refill dump trucks with sand, and the replacement of manually well-built contract roads with crappy…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game crashed and erased a 50 hour progression save file with no real way to restore said save file. The game developers will not fix this issue and offer no real solutions or work arounds.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game Pass Wave 2 January 2026: 1.21 -Death Stranding DC -RoadCraft -Ninja Gaiden Ragebound 1.27: -The Talos Principle 2 1.28 -Anno: Mutationem -Drop Duchy 1.29 -MySims: Cozy Bundle -Warhammer 40K: Space Marine II 2.2 -Indika 2.3 -Final Fantasy II news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/0...
neutral · AI labelView post →If I could go out of 5 for this game I'd give it a 3 maybe a 2. I haven't played in quite a few updates so hopefully some of this has been changed but here's my opinion of the game. I'll still say I recommend the game because while there are issues I still enjoyed enough of the game. I love that you can just build whatever you want into a road to get things done easier for good. Vehicles in my opinion handle way better than they did in others like snowrunner. Overall I'm happy with gameplay…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →BEAUTIFUL GAME. I wish we could get out of our vehicles and walk around as humans though and explore that way. As well as have to do some hammering/welding on some things like when we bring supplies to repair things.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Build the road... make the road wider... flatter... smoother... a.i. still drives off the side of it. I have 57 hours and i'm at about 70% completion. If you like snowrunner and wondered what it would be like to fill in an pave all the crappy spots you keep having to drive on, this is the game for you. Big change is that only scout vehicles have winches because they dont want you trekking through the wilderness, they want you to conquer it with roads and turn it into a parking lot.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Was fun at first but quickly turns into busy work. No real sense of reward. Co-op progression does not sync properly and you can miss vehicles previously discovered if you join late. Could have been great but missed the mark.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love this game. Easy to play solo but way better with friewnds. There's just enough detail to keep it entertaining. Great variety of vehicles, even without DLC. Controls can have a learning curve, depending on how you play it. Beautiful world and effects. Great sound. Again, best with friends in my opinion. It makes it feel more like a crew working together. I highly recommend the game. I had doubts at first, but yeah.... it won me over fairly quick.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →RoadCraft runs surprisingly well on Steam Deck and great on Desktop Linux.
positive · AI labelView post →All in all, I have to say that the gameplay is still quite frustrating. Not because the game is hard, but because it is still severely lacking in polish and QoL. Many vehicles do not behave as one would expect, suspension for example, is too soft for most vehicles and one of the most infuriating issues is that of differential lock. It has to be engaged like 90% of the time and vehicles that lack a diff lock are almost unusable which is a huge problem for NPC vehicles which don't use or don't…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I started originally with Snow runner, then this came along where you can build roads more automated stuff so less grind but enjoyed it a lot till i got stuck with a bug on the DLC map. Was about to give up but then thought I share the bug with the devs, they said they will look into it and told me they cannot promise a fix, i accepted that as it is what it is. Then last night I launch the game and i see there are bug fixes and one of them looked like what I had an issue with, launched the map…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a great game for people like me. I like simulators and worlds where you can do anything you want. In this game, you have pre-built maps, and objectives to complete. You are given a bunch of vehicles. The physics is excellent. The maps are interesting. This is relaxing game with no time pressure, with times of excitement when things go wrong. Today I screwed up and my Mule Crane Cargo vehicle fell on its side with brand new pipes in the bed. So I brought the Scout over and…
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