Euro Truck Simulator
Worth it · Strategy · 2013
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $4.99. Typically $0.99 in seasonal sales. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.22/hr
- Reviews▼
- 84% of 7,691
- Genre rank
- Top 5% Strategy
Holding it back: Refunds, Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 23.2h
- To 100%
- 94.9h 4.1x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 126 on record
- Typical cut
- 80% off
- Steam low
- $0.49 June 2017
- Sale every
- 32d last September 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 26 now
- Cheaper than
- 59% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 87% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
Across all 126 discounts in the 14 years tracked, the median cut is 80 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 5 percent. It is better reviewed than 87 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, American Truck Simulator ($19.99, scores 94) beats it on value, while it beats On The Road - The Truck Simulator ($29.99, scores 0).
More about Euro Truck Simulator
This site sampled 596 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 25 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to October 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,604 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 299 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 1 of the 25 refunded reviewers was past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. Inside the two-hour refund window, 74 percent of the 2,867 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 44 percent of everything written about it.
23.2 hours to finish it, 95 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 4.1 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. 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
What players say
I really recommend this game to people that dont have a good PC, yes its gonna get boring after some hours, but you can install mods!
1 more review
Only for real truck sim fanatics who like to see the evolution between those games. For me it's a slight yes. The good thing is that you must earn money to unlock new countries. That's a bit to slow for me cause the distance are to big to have decent jobs and the max allowed speed is 50 km/u at most sections, otherwise it's 90km/u. The environments are not really variated but it's ok for a few hours gameplay. If...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
The original Euro Truck Simulator - the game which has become the classic of the genre and is still relevant today. The first truck simulation game in a European setting, with European long haul trucks!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 256 MB, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Euro Truck Simulator scores 68/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/232010/euro-truck-simulatorReviews 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 Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.