Euro Truck Simulator
Worth it · Strategy · 2013
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $4.99.
- Length
- 23.2h
- Value
- $0.22/hr
- Reviews
- 84% positive
Watch this gameOne email when it is worth buying. Your call on what that means.
Get one email when Euro Truck Simulator is worth buying.
One email per game. Unsubscribe in a click.
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 256 MB, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
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!
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
The lowest price on record is $0.49, set in June 2017. Its cuts run 80 percent off as a rule. There have been 125 in the 14 years tracked, about 5 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 5 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 4 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 86 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 ($11.99, scores 0).
This site sampled 594 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 23 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,864 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 444 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 74 percent of the 2,857 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.
Players
3 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
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...
this game is peak. euro truck simulator is one of those sequels that truly shaped trucking games. the roads, the locations, the weather, the rest system, and even the graphics are all amazing. yes, the graphics. people say they're outdated bs, but i honestly think they still look good. overall, it's a lightweight 10/10 game that you can just sit back, relax, and enjoy.
Get ETS2 instead. this one lacks content and modern steering wheels doesn't even work on it
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.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Embed the live badge, copy the line, or download the card.
Euro Truck Simulator scores 68/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/232010/euro-truck-simulatorThe 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 Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
A number here look wrong? Tell me what it got wrong and I will look at the inputs behind it.