American Truck Simulator

American Truck Simulator is an indie game developed by SCS Software and released in 2016. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Prism3D.

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are business, non-fiction and open world. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 130 achievements to unlock.

American Truck Simulator holds a critic score of 81 out of 100. That places it above 76% of the 5,099 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 13 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 81, across 119 votes.

The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i5-6400 or AMD Ryzen 3 1200 or similar, 8 GB RAM and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 or AMD Radeon RX 460 or Intel HD 630 (2GB VRAM). An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 25GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.

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American Truck Simulator launched on 2 February 2016, within three weeks of The Witness, Firewatch, XCOM 2 and Yakuza Kiwami. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It was a PlayStation 5 launch-window title.

Released around the same time: The Witness, Firewatch, XCOM 2, Yakuza Kiwami.

We have tested and published 4 cheat entries for American Truck Simulator — 4 console commands. Each one lists the platform it applies to, the exact input, and whether it disables achievements.

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