American Truck Simulator

Open-world trucking simulation about hauling cargo and building a company

SCS Software · Released Feb 2, 2016

Indie Simulation

Reviews: Overwhelmingly Positive; 97% of 196K
Recent reviews: Overwhelmingly Positive; 96% of 1,197 in 30 days
Playing now: 3,730; peak 24h 8,307
Steam Deck: Verified
Last update: 1 week ago; Sep 15, 2026

Free demo available, 99 playing it now: get the demo.

Metacritic: 76/100 (critic reviews)

What is American Truck Simulator?

An open-world truck-driving simulation set across California, Nevada, and Arizona. You accept freight jobs, haul different cargo and trailers while following road rules, customize trucks, and grow from a hired driver into an owner managing garages, a fleet, and employees.

For you if...

+you enjoy long, quiet drives through an open world
+you want detailed truck systems and vehicle customization
+you like combining cargo hauling with company management

Not for you if...

−you prefer constant action over long, quiet drives
−you dislike managing routes, traffic rules, and parking

What players say

97% of 196,385 reviews are positive · 96% of 1,197 in the last 30 days

Players praise the calm long-distance driving, varied scenery, and convincing sense of truck weight. The most common recent complaint targets a redesigned interface that players find harder to read and say hides useful driving information in pause menus; others criticize the cost of map expansions and lifeless roads or cities.

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American Truck Simulator system requirements

As published by the developer.

Minimum

OS: Windows 10 64-bit
Processor: Intel Core i5-6400 or AMD Ryzen 3 1200 or similar
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 or AMD Radeon RX 460 or Intel HD 630 (2GB VRAM)
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Storage: 25 GB available space
Notes: Disk Space for American Truck Simulator base game

PC version details

DRM, required accounts, controller support and Steam features.

DRM: None declared on Steam
Controller: Keyboard and mouse
Platforms: Windows, macOS, Linux
Achievements: 140
Steam features: Workshop, Cloud saves, Family Sharing, Trading cards

Steam Deck: Verified

All functionality is accessible with the default controller configuration
Shows Steam Deck controller icons
In-game text is legible on Steam Deck
Default graphics settings perform well on Steam Deck

Multiplayer and co-op

Languages

Text only: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal, Portuguese - Brazil, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Traditional Chinese, Catalan, Lithuanian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian.