Heavy Cargo: The Truck Simulator (2024) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Heavy Cargo: The Truck Simulator

Transport oversized cargo in a variety of missions across a 175km² open world. Drive customisable, highly detailed trucks through dynamic weather and day and night. The official cooperation with Gruber…

9 October 2024

What Heavy Cargo: The Truck Simulator is

Heavy Cargo: The Truck Simulator is an indie game developed by toxtronyx interactive and released in 2024. It was published by Aerosoft. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

In Heavy Cargo - The Truck Simulator, you transport oversized cargo through an extensive, freely accessible and lively game world, including dynamic weather and day-night cycle. Before you start your journey with your truck and its various trailers and cargo, you often have to explore the route with the spotting vehicle first that you control yourself. If obstacles prevent you from fulfilling your mission, you will have to dismantle crash barriers, cut off road signs, determine bridge heights or lay out plates using a crane in order to transport your heavy cargo from A to B undamaged.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are kids and open world. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Heavy Cargo: The Truck Simulator launched on 9 October 2024, within three weeks of Silent Hill 2, The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and Metaphor: ReFantazio. It arrived 4 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Silent Hill 2, The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, Metaphor: ReFantazio.

Official trailer