Euro Truck Simulator 2

Euro Truck Simulator 2

BANGER · Multiplayer · 2012

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

WAIT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

A BANGER today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 75% in the Winter Sale 2025.

Today

$19.99BANGER

Typical seasonal cut

$4.9975% offBANGER

Cost per hour
$0.44/hr
ReviewsS
97% of 952,213
Critics
79 players 18 higher
Genre rank
Top 1% Multiplayer
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.99 or less.

Time and effort

Typical playtime
45.8h
To 100%
461h 10.1x the story
Achievements
114

Price and sales

Sales
139 on record
Typical cut
75% off
Steam low
$1.99 June 2024
Sale every
32d last September 2026
Lowest now on Steamall-time low $1.99 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
23,329 now
Recent reviews
96% 30 days
Cheaper than
10% of its genre
Better reviewed
99% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

83% start to <1% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

A game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

139 discounts in the 14 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.

Its score puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and the best reviewed. Among the games that feel like it, American Truck Simulator ($19.99, scores 94) beats it on value, while it beats Motor Town: Behind The Wheel ($19.99, scores 72).

More about Euro Truck Simulator 2

The press gave it 79; the people who bought it give it 97 percent. An 18-point gap in the buyer's favour.

10 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2026 to October 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 798 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 747 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 88 percent of the 19,778 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (cosmetic, unlock); the score docks it lightly for that.

HowLongToBeat players log 45.8 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 461, 10 times as much.

The rating rests on 952,213 reviews, so it is not going to move much from here.

Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Last discount ended 31 days ago.

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Reach15M+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
Holding it back
MonetizationCosmetic, Unlock
Paid extras, but no loot boxes or currency. A light touch
For context
Refunds10 of 800 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score
In-app purchasesCosmetic, UnlockPCGamingWiki

What players say

- severe depression in the first 50hrs of gameplay - talking to urself about ur life the next 50hrs of gameplay - deleting all other games except ETS2 because u fell in love with this game 10/10.
A Steam playerRecommendedafter 156h9 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews
Perfection, had many sleepless nights on this game, the mods make it even better also, it will never be beaten.
Jake BirdRecommendedafter 1312hOct 2026Read on Steam
One of the best simulation games I've ever played! I love exploring Europe, driving trucks, and discovering new places. The game has beautiful scenery, realistic driving, and lots of DLCs. It's very relaxing, especially when listening to music on long trips. Highly recommended for everyone who loves simulators!
uhme0wzyRecommendedafter 562hOct 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

About the game

Travel across Europe as king of the road, a trucker who delivers important cargo across impressive distances! With dozens of cities to explore, your endurance, skill and speed will all be pushed to their limits.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 or AMD Radeon RX 460 or Intel HD 630 (2GB VRAM), 25 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

Cite this score

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Euro Truck Simulator 2 scores 92/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/227300/euro-truck-simulator-2
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 3, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+18
Critics79
Players97
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 952,213 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperSCS Software
PublisherSCS Software
GenreMultiplayer
Released2012
Players15.0Mowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements114