On The Road - The Truck Simulator
Skip · Strategy · 2019
The verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $11.99.
- Reviews
- 48% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 1 GB VRAM, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
From 18 tonners to the Gigaliner, ON THE ROAD – The Truck Simulator offers everything a trucker’s heart desires.
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.
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Strategy game (about 8 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $8.99, set in November 2024. It has been discounted 51 times in the 9 years tracked here, typically at 33 percent off, with about 9 weeks between sales. Today's $11.99 at 60 percent off still sits 33 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 99 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. American Truck Simulator ($19.99, scores 94) and The Bus ($39.99, scores 23) both outscore it.
This site sampled 382 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 10 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,864 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 209 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 3 of the 10 refunded reviewers were past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. Inside the two-hour refund window, 32 percent of the 342 reviews written there were positive, against 48 percent overall, and those are 37 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
39% 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
4 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
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On The Road - The Truck Simulator scores 0/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). Length is estimated at 8 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/285380/on-the-road-the-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.
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