Euro Truck Simulator 2
BANGER · Multiplayer · 2012
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $19.99.
- Length
- 45.9h
- Value
- $0.44/hr
- Reviews
- 97% positive
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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.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
June 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $1.99. 138 discounts in the 14 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 4 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 5 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 4 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 91 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).
The press gave it 79; the people who bought it give it 97 percent. An 18-point gap in the buyer's favour.
13 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2026 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 88 percent of the 19,712 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 45.9 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 458, 10.0 times as much.
It came out 14 years ago and 17.3K were still playing it at the last check.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
The drop-off
83% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
17.3K players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Amazing laid back game to play for relaxing after a full day's work. The graphcis and the detailing are amazing, the amount of control you get in game is mind boggling. Althought i would love to just not worry about parking in only parking spots, and would just love to pull up the truck in a free space and take a nap in the back. Everything else is very nice.
A truck driver stole my girlfriend once, and playing this game helped me forget the tough times. Much recommended!
my truck got destroyed after a toll gate incident where it no-clipped through the ground before pointing at the sky... all because some oaf wanted a boat delivered to KOSOVO (A LAND-LOCKED COUNTRY). RIP red scania 10/10 game
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Euro Truck Simulator 2 scores 92/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/227300/euro-truck-simulator-2The BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 10, price as of Sep 24.
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