What is the appeal?`

[Darth Rin]

Hello, I'm just trying to understand what makes the game worth it. Is there special achievements? Or do you literally deliver cargo from A - B in a truck all day?

[h_einarsson]

Or do you literally deliver cargo from A - B in a truck all day? YES

[Jogi]

Try the Demo. :)

[Tiny Mushroom]

It's just relaxing, is all.
You start off as nothing, just working for other companies. Then you save up and buy your own truck. Then you buy another truck, and hire a driver to work for you. Then you buy more trucks. Slowly over time, you have a trucking empire. It's very satisfying to put the hours into the game and slowly build your company up from nothing.

But if you look at it and think "how could this be any fun?" it's probably not for you in the first place.

[Oz Gaming]

Most relaxing game driving around doing deliveries. I do that in real life but in a van not a truck.

[pieperjohanns]

It's not a game, it's a simulator. If you want to drive a truck but can't do that in real life, then you choose the simulator. It is fun and it is relaxing. And you can improve your driving and parking skills. Building a company is just a bonus which I'm not interested in. I have over 700 hours on Steam and still haven't hired a driver.

[orb]

Originally posted by pieperjohanns:

It's not a game, it's a simulator.

Well, it is a game. You get experience and levels that unlock truck parts and perks that for example unlock new types of deliveries, give you more money, reduce fuel consumption, just like in RPG games , where they for example unlock new weapons, give you additional types of quests, give you more health or endurance. You get money and experience for doing jobs, like you get them in other games for doing quests. You unlock new jobs when you discover new cities, new trucks when you discover dealers, additional drivers when you discover job agencies, like you get similar things in other games by discovering towns, finding shops, joining guilds. You manage your firm like in business games, by buying garages, trucks, hiring drivers which have their own stats affecting how they perform, assign them to specific garages and trucks, choose the way they should level when they gain experience which increases their performance, upgrade their trucks to make them perform better, etc.

Originally posted by Saturas:

IJust my truck, my favorite music and a beer.

Don't drink and drive!

[pieperjohanns]

Originally posted by orb:

Well, it is a game. You get experience and levels that unlock truck parts and perks that for example unlock new types of deliveries, give you more money, reduce fuel consumption

You don't say! :) My point was that the goal isn't being highly entertained and working towards a final showdown, it's just driving a truck.
Besides, all the things you mentioned are only important in the first hours of gameplay. After that, you have everything and everything is unlocked. But you still can continue the simulation for hundreds of hours.

[orb]

Originally posted by pieperjohanns:

Besides, all the things you mentioned are only important in the first hours of gameplay.

So you are telling it to somebody who hasn't played even a minute, while the first hundred of hours you spend on unlocking things. That isn't how you sell a game to somebody who doesn't know anything about it. Just like you told them to simply download a 100% discovered map with all the garages and drivers owned right after buying the game, because what happens before doesn't matter at all.

Other games also offer open end and playing for many more hours than the main quest offers, but people don't tell only that such games only offer playing indefinitely without doing anything else before that.

[gallagher4005]

Originally posted by pieperjohanns:

It's not a game, it's a simulator. If you want to drive a truck but can't do that in real life, then you choose the simulator. It is fun and it is relaxing. And you can improve your driving and parking skills. Building a company is just a bonus which I'm not interested in. I have over 700 hours on Steam and still haven't hired a driver.

I have 4,166 hours and have never hires any drivers.
Don't need them.

[pieperjohanns]

Originally posted by gallagher4005:

I have 4,166 hours and have never hires any drivers.
Don't need them.

Nice

[Bobby]

In this day and age, there's tons of game info,videos, experiences on the net to actualy answer your questions and match your preferences to what you are looking for in a game. Asking here -no disrepect to other gamers- is like asking an open question to an open room. You will get dozens of not even close to what you want answered questions, because WE don't know what you want answered?!?! It's like selling a fishing rod to a golfer.
As was said at the beginning, away and play the demo -that's what they are for.
Most of us here are months and years (me, i owned the disc version long before it hit steam greenlight) in playing and we're naturaly biased.
I've NEVER made an opinon on a game from purely the internet; price, support, the genre, am i interested in trucks, heavy haulage in real life? Driving sims?
If you can't answer your own questions then it's your fault if it is an impulse buy based on a forum. Ask yourself, do i want it? Am i interested in it? Can i afford it? Will i still be playing it months down the line.....?

[Nite69]

its relaxing and addicting, and also thier is a powerful modding community, lots of great maps and vehicles to choose from.

[wim1234]

i have a hunch this game is not for this op.
it has a solid base, to me , one of the very best just driving games.

[Richon]

Personally, I find it addicting! As everyone has said, it's relaxing (well, after about my fourth delivery, once I got the hang of driving and such, those first three deliveries were STRESSFUL!) and it's enjoyable. I've barely seen any of Europe in real life, so until I can afford to visit again and see more sights, this is a decent substitute for the meanwhile. I like exploring Europe in my truck and finding new places! Still saving up for my first truck, but that's exciting, too!

[Darth Rin]

I'm honestly amazed, I knever knew so many people would find this game interesting. I saw 60,000 positive reviews so I had to ask. xD