Hard Truck Apocalypse / Ex Machina
Fair · Shooter · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $7.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 11.7h
- Value
- $0.68/hr
- Reviews
- 84% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, DirectX compatible 128 MB, 2.4 GB of storage. Windows only.
In a post-apocalyptic wasteland of diesel and dust, bandits and mobsters rule the last remaining cities, controlling all vital trade routes and destroying any hope of a return to a lawful world.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
November 2015 is where it bottomed out, at $0.71. 55 discounts in the 13 years on record. They run about 90 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 20 percent on value. It is cheaper than 65 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 63 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Mad Max ($19.99, scores 77) beats it on value, while it beats UNDER the SAND - a road trip simulator ($19.99, scores 33).
This site sampled 466 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 65 percent of the 416 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 17 percent of everything written about it.
11.7 hours to finish it, 27 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.3 times the campaign.
Players
28 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 16:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Mad Max atmosphere combined with the transport market. Klimat Mad Maxa połączony z rynkiem transportowym.
Gameplay This is my childhood game. It is a good game where you upgrade your trucks, equip them with weapons, visit cities and towns in a post-apocalyptic world. As you progress through the main story, you see how ruined the world has become across different regions. Graphics Since the game is old, the graphics look dated. You can fix this somewhat by downloading a community remaster. In its original state, the game...
4 HP end of the game, respawning enemies. "guess I'm gonna have to go back to my father's house at level 2"
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Hard Truck Apocalypse / Ex Machina scores 66/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/285500/hard-truck-apocalypse-ex-machinaReviews 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 Sep 26, price as of Sep 27.
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