18 Wheels of Steel: American Long Haul
Skip · Other · 2008
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 38, under the fair line, at $3.49.
- Length
- 20.9h 223.9h to 100%
- Value
- $0.17/hr
- Reviews
- 74% of 526 positive
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Buy now or wait
It is 65% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
Your American Dream Starts Behind the Wheel of Your Own Big Rig! North America's open roads await! You ain't working for the Man any more! You're the owner of your own trucking business and you call the shots. Build your empire one rig at a time to dominate the roadways and outbid the competition. Can you handle the pressure?
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 256 MB of memory, 64 MB AGP DirectX 9 and T&L compatible video accelerator card, 543 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 51 discounts in the 14 years tracked, the median cut is 55 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today's $3.49 at 65 percent off still sits 75 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 27 percent on value. Among the games that feel like it, WRC 7 FIA World Rally Championship ($19.99, scores 39) beats it on value, while it beats Forza Motorsport ($69.99, scores 3).
More about 18 Wheels of Steel: American Long Haul
Inside the two-hour refund window, 59 percent of the 133 reviews written there were positive, against 74 percent overall, and those are 31 percent of everything written about it.
20.9 hours to finish it, 224 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 11 times the campaign.
What players say
18 Wheels of Steel: American Long Haul is a truck driving and business simulation developed by SCS Software and published by Cosmi Valusoft. As one of the most refined entries in the classic 18 Wheels of Steel series, it combines the relaxing pace of long-distance driving with the strategic challenge of managing a growing transportation company. Rather than focusing solely on delivering cargo, the game encourages...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
For a trucksim of 2007 this is a very good one with beautiful graphics and weather effects. I wanted this sim because of the snowy roads in the north that gives it that extra winter touch. it's far from perfect, there's a lot of pop-in and out of the environments and traffic (it's very difficult to see where it's safe to do some lane changing. And the AI is not au point cause they stop without any reason halfway a...
Fun for the memories, very unhappy with the amount of constant sleeping needed within a single 3-city wide delivery
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Cite this score
18 Wheels of Steel: American Long Haul scores 38/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/12520/18-wheels-of-steel-american-long-haulReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.