BeamNG also develops a fork of the game designed for education as well as industrial and academic research entitled BeamNG.tech. The game was initially released as a tech demo on 3 August 2013 along with paid access to an alpha, and was later made available on Steam Early Access for Microsoft Windows on.
The game features soft-body physics to simulate realistic handling and damage to vehicles. BeamNG.drive is a vehicle simulation video game developed and published by Bremen-based video game developer BeamNG GmbH.