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Take freight jobs across American highways, drive customizable semi trucks, park trailers, and grow a transportation company.
Released 02 Feb 2016
Haul Oversized Cargo
Park Long Trailers
Customize Your Truck
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.
Developed by SCS Software · Published by SCS Software









You begin as a driver for hire, carrying a variety of freight between companies and destinations across American roads. The game’s starting map includes California, Nevada, and Arizona, with additional states available through expansions.
Drive licensed trucks and choose from different cargoes and trailers, including long or heavy loads that challenge turning and parking. Adjust your cab view and mirrors, customize your truck, plan routes, and follow road rules to avoid fines or weigh-scale checks.
Complete deliveries and improve your driving skills to progress from hired driver to owner-operator. Buy trucks and garages, hire drivers, and manage a growing fleet and transportation company. You can also listen to music or radio during trips and use photo mode to capture scenes.
Several reviewers enjoy the game as a calm, unhurried way to take long drives, often praising the American scenery and the atmosphere of listening to music or podcasts on the road. Others appreciate truck customization, company progression, and the driving details, with some saying the game sparked or supported an interest in trucking. Critical reviews point to repetitive point-to-point deliveries, limited interaction with the world, traffic behavior, and frustration with a changed route-adviser interface.
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.
Game mechanics are based on the highly successful model from Euro Truck Simulator 2 and have been expanded with new features, creating the most captivating game experience from SCS Software.
American Truck Simulator puts you in the seat of a driver for hire entering the local freight market, making you work your way up to become an owner-operator, and go on to create one of the largest transportation companies in the United States.
Drive highly detailed truck models officially licensed from iconic truck manufacturers.
Your truck is your new home. Make it yours by changing cabins, chassis, paintjobs, adding tuning accessories or more powerful engines.
Lots of different cargoes to choose: From food to machinery to hazard cargoes.
Multiple types of trailers – from reefers to flatbeds, from dumpers to lowboys and goosenecks.
The longest trailers (up to 53 ft) will challenge your skills and patience while hauling and during parking.
Deliver your cargoes to a rich variety of companies and locations like refineries, oil storage, gas stations, car factories, or roadworks.
Various simulation settings for trucking enthusiasts: Air brake simulation; different types of brakes: retarder, Jake brake, trailer brake; multiple types of transmissions straight from real trucks, brake intensity, and more.
Get the feel of being inside a real cabin: Adjust your seat, mirrors and position your head to get the best view of the road.
Drive safely, follow the rules and speed limits – police will fine you if you aren't careful!
Ensure that you are not delivering overweight cargo – you may be checked at the weigh scales.
Use the route adviser as your personal assistant during the travels.
Try the life of a truck driver for hire. By delivering the cargoes safely and improving your skills, become the owner of your own, successful company!
Build your own fleet of trucks, buy garages, hire drivers, manage your company for maximum profits.
Make your trucking time better by listening to your favorite songs via built-in music player or streaming your favorite radio stations.
Capture your favorite moments with a photo mode offering rich set of editing options.
Great support for steering wheels, gamepads and other input devices.
Long-time support of the game, including new features.
Obtain challenging Steam achievements and collect all hand-painted Steam trading cards.
Take advantage of additional features of American Truck Simulator by joining our online community on World of Trucks, our center for virtual truckers all around the world interested in Euro Truck Simulator 2, American Truck Simulator and future SCS Software's truck simulators.
Use in-game Photo Mode to capture the best moments and share them with thousands of people who love trucks.
Favorite the images you like the most and return to them anytime in the future.
Discuss the screenshots with everyone using World of Trucks.
See the best images hand-picked by the game creators in Editor's Pick updated almost every day. Try to get your own screenshot on this list!
Upload and use your custom avatar and license plate in the game.
More features coming soon!
To join World of Trucks, simply sign up with your Steam account on the join page. You will need to own American Truck Simulator or Euro Truck Simulator 2 to join World of Trucks.
World of Trucks is an optional service, registration on World of Trucks isn't required to play the game.









| Platforms | Windows, macOS, Linux |
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| Achievements | 134 |
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| Players | From 1 (maximum not specified) |
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| Multiplayer | Steam lists Single-player and Online Co-op, and player reviews repeatedly mention official "convoy" multiplayer for playing and driving with friends online. The provided text does not state player-count limits, drop-in/drop-out behavior, LAN support, split-screen, or local multiplayer. World of Trucks is described as an optional online community feature for sharing screenshots and profile elements, not as core gameplay multiplayer. |
| Multiplayer & mods | The game is moddable and supports Steam Workshop. Reviews mention playing multiplayer via mods or another server, but the provided official store text does not define how mods interact with official convoy mode or compatibility requirements. |
| Controller support | Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| Demo | View demo on Steam |
| DLC / extras | 61 listed on Steam |
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| Metacritic | 76/100 View on Metacritic |
| Website | Official website |