Hard Truck Apocalypse: Arcade / Ex Machina: Arcade
Skip · Action · 2014
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 0, under the fair line, at $4.99.
- Length
- 4.5h
- Value
- $1.11/hr
- Reviews
- 31% of 265 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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How to read this
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About the game
Hard Truck Apocalypse: Arcade/Ex Machina Arcade - is the races through the deserted prairies and canyons of northern America, infected by a fatal virus. You are to find the reasons of the global catastrophe described in the original game Hard Truck: Apocalypse.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, DirectX compatible 128 MB graphics, 1.5 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
96 discounts in the 13 years on record, a median of 83 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is less well reviewed than 99 percent of its genre. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Hard Truck Apocalypse / Ex Machina ($7.99, scores 66) and Mad Max ($2.99, scores 82) both outscore it.
More about Hard Truck Apocalypse: Arcade / Ex Machina: Arcade
Inside the two-hour refund window, 25 percent of the 124 reviews written there were positive, against 31 percent overall, and those are 55 percent of everything written about it.
What players say
Hard Truck Apocalypse: Arcade / Ex Machina: Arcade takes the grim vehicular setting established by its predecessor and turns it into a much more concentrated racing experience. Rather than attempting to reproduce the broader structure of the original, it focuses on driving through deserted prairies and canyons across a virus-stricken northern America. The premise still carries a sense of mystery, as the player is...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Warning! Whoever the publisher used screenshots from a different game to set up the store page, without bothering to capture screenshot from this one. Works just fine on Win 10. Not perfectly stable, but it works. As a 2000s game it's filled with seeneemahteek PFX and doesn't have extensive graphics options. It's a simple vhicular combat game, but the publisher demanded to name it Ex Machina, and that's why the...
it's bad enough, though very much evident from the title, that it's a basic arcade spin-off of an open-world, truck-based post-apoc trading/fighting/etc. game. some might even prefer its straightforward nature, just drive around, shoot and collect stuff, buy really expensive upgrades between missions, the usual. non-rebindable controls can be problematic, just like sparse checkpoints and not many healing items, plus...
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No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Hard Truck Apocalypse: Arcade / Ex Machina: Arcade scores 0/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/286830/hard-truck-apocalypse-arcade-ex-machina-arcadeReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.