American Truck Simulator
BANGER · Strategy · 2016
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $19.99.
- Length
- 22.9h
- Value
- $0.87/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.
Experience legendary American trucks and deliver various cargoes across sunny California, sandy Nevada, and the Grand Canyon State of Arizona. American Truck Simulator takes you on a journey through the breathtaking landscapes and widely recognized landmarks around the States.
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
It has never been cheaper than $1.99. That was June 2024. 113 discounts in the 11 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 92 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. The nearest things to it, Euro Truck Simulator 2 ($19.99, scores 92) and Motor Town: Behind The Wheel ($19.99, scores 72), are both worse buys on this math.
The press gave it 76; the people who bought it give it 97 percent. A 21-point gap in the buyer's favour.
10 of the 799 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2025 to September 2026. That is fewer 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, 2,460 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 81 percent of the 4,916 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.
Finishing takes 22.9 hours; clearing it takes 115, which is 5.0 times the campaign.
10 years after release it still had 6.7K people in it at once.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.
The drop-off
75% 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
6,742 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
Great game with amazing graphics and atmosphere. Driving through the US feels genuinely immersive, and SCS has done an excellent job capturing the feeling of American highways and small towns. My biggest problem is how long some features take to arrive after being announced. Road Trip was announced back in April 2025, and as of 2026 it's still in development with no release date. I understand that game development...
Fantastic game, great to play if you just want to chill. Few solid mods with a good radio station and life is a highway.
This game is absolutely amazing! Its super relaxing and very fun to play with infinite replayability. Also very cool to explore the various regions of the US and each state feels different in its own unique way. Every city has its own small and large details that make it unique and the driving in the game feels amazing. The environments and the roads make you feel like your in the area in real life and it feels...
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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American Truck Simulator scores 94/100 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/270880/american-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 Sep 12, price as of Sep 24.
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