Alaskan Road Truckers Reviews

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Needs a lot of work, big sad :(

Not even close as in trailers.

why would you have a game where you are on a timer to get paid in a buggy pile of yeti dung of a game...just wow ! the tutorial no bugs at all ...not even a hint of one although there is a warning about them. the tutorial is the most bare bones experience possible probably so that less can go wrong bug wise. i bought the full game, i am all about the trimmings so if the truck interior doesnt look good i'm not going to play the game , shallow but true . i didnt buy euro truck simulator because i cant stand the european trucks, they look grey & awful compared to american ones. i have not played ats yet, i thought i would try this one first. anyway i went & bought some dlc to get rid of the ugly truck interior, havent equipped it yet. did the first job on the demo & in the full game no problem at all, got a trophy thing pop up for no damage as well. im not keen on the animation for driving becaue it is twitchy & unnatural looking, the handling is awful, doesnt feel good when you are driving which is quite important for a driving game. i was hoping that it might be something you unlock in time but i have no idea & for now i dont like it because it is twitchy , im on steamdeck so maybe i need to adjust sensitivity, i imagine that these truck sims are designed more for use with a steering wheel...just guessing. i wasn't expecting the scenery to be much to look at & it looks bland on the steam deck but i dont care about the scenery as much as the actual gameplay (& my trucks looks). after that first job i was nowhere near a shop, had no idea what i needed to take with me & there was no shops anyway , i chose the nearest job , i looked at some others but none of them went near to a shop or garage & having no clue what sort of time frame i had before i needed to eat i just thought that it must mean i was over thinking & that i wouldnt need to get any food yet because if i did surely there would be a shop in the vacicinity or on the job route . well i took a tanker job without knowing it was a tanker, of course there are no instructions on how the hell you connect the truck to the trailer , there are a few lines in the guide about it. this was when the bugs started. i had a green pointer on my screen & in my cab & i couldnt click or interact with anything so i couldnt get the handbrake on or turn the engine off. i could get in & out of the truck , i couldnt tell if it was lined up properly or not because of this green thing on my screen. i dont know what the moving circles are about i had to guess , i couldnt click anything outside on the truck either. after spamming buttons & doing whatever i could , i think i might have closed the game but turns out my truck was lined up correctly but as soon as i could drive away things started lagging & i couldnt steer at all...i dont know why but i then had a nightmare trying to read the stupid gps because it told me to turn right but that was a dead end & then just as i got onto a road the job expired & told me if io didnt drop it off i would get a penalty & because it will take at least a dozen jobs before i can upgrade a single thing i could not afford a penalty...the job was only 1200 anyway. then i starved...didnt die & also even though i didnt hit anything i caused an accident apparently even though there were no cars around but okay & its all very nice having a radio station but why does it have to be an english one when im supposed to be in alaska? not immersive at all, just annoying & i wasted too much time trying to like it & get it working so now i cant even get a refund but i got it in a sale which is a good job because i would be angry as hell right now if i had paid full asking price.. i also cant stand the constant game music in the background on a loop, i think turning the radio on & then off gets rid of the in game music but again i dont know. if they fixed the bugs it might be an okay game. just going to point out i played over 4 hours real time & only managed to finish the very first job because i forgot to mention that when i parked on the best bonus spot when i arrived at the end of the second job the parking spot would not recognise or register that i was parked there so i drove onto the big no bonus square just to get it over with & i got a message pop up on the screen saying that i was in the parking area so handbrake on, engine off, wind down the stand, unhook the cables & unlock the trailer...nothing happens...flashing parking square still, ran around looking for someone to interact with ...noone around at all anywhere...so thats 4 real hours of play for whatever the first job pays you i think its about 2300 dollars & you need 10 thousand , 30 thousand just to unlock one thing in the skills/upgrade tree, trucks cost thousands too ...not my idea of fun

If this game lived up to half of its potential and promise it would have been a decent game. Years from launch and its still riddled with bugs, hindered immersion with graphics more suited to 2010. Game pretty much died in the early access phase, I swear then only passed it as "full release" to get it launched on consoles and get that cash grab. Just stick with ETS2 & ATS, and hope that Truck Sim World can give us that deep immersive experience. Because Alaskan Road Truckers falls way short... 🙄🙄

currently many glitches. from the GPS being wrong at times to how the truck gets a mind of its own. I am not currently impressed. Many good features and Maybe the issues will be fixed but at this point I would get a refund if I could.

This game was advertised for quite a long time, and on paper it felt like a first real jump forward from SCS games. Although when it shipped, it proved to be in the same league of the other 3000 driving games made in Unreal engine. Graphics are choppy and performances are stuttering even on high end hardware, the gameplay is fun as you get out of the truck and do some work when delivering loads, but most of the time is spent driving, and if the driving model is not good and traffic AI is not good, you won't enjoy the game. AI for cars is on par with every other single game made in Unreal Engine. I believe at this point that there is one person that actually wrote the code and pathfinding for the AI agents in UE, and every single game use these very patterns, as they all behave erratically and get confused or just ram you or get stuck at crossings. How is possible that almost every Unreal based game in the past 3 years or so, where you have cars on the road behaves almost exactly the same and in a bad way? Can't say but I have a suspect. Beside that, when the game works it is fun; but after you deal with the floaty handling of the truck and the incapable AI on the road, you will move on pretty quickly to the next Unreal driving game. There are some bugs and crashes but nothing too bad; and there is support for wheels, but sadly they went for the full support to Logitech wheels, so if you have something like Fanatec, Moza or other direct drive wheels, your mileage may vary (pun intended). My Moza does not work beyond the basic steering, pedals and the first 32 buttons for example. In almost 2 years from release, there is still no full support for direct drive wheels, as most of the content released has been basically add-on as DLC, and few patches that fix some problems but also cause new ones. This is on par with most of the games released these days sadly. Audio is fine; missions are diverse to a point, but you are stuck in Alaska so don't expect the background to change radically, as there are no seasons. it is a 5 out of 10 for me; decent game but honestly we have a ton of similar games that end up being all sharing the same issues, no matter which develop team makes it, so I think the issue here is Unreal engine and the predisposition of developers these days to not write code but use Blueprints in the engine; which if not optimized show the same exact issues with stuttering that you see in almost every UE games.