Alaskan Road Truckers Reviews

Its so bad

Needs a lot of work, big sad :(

There is a lot of things this game does right but it is just way too buggy and poorly optimised. I love the concept but I just cant see myself cruising for hours in this with how bland the world feels and how slow the trucks feel. Mirrors and backing up don't feel great either.

Good idea. Bad graphics, physics, truck handling. Poor performance.

Game looks extremely generic. Graphics are from the 2006-2007, meanwhile the performance is questionable at best (i play on Epic settings, RTX 5070Ti. Sound design is very generic - the trucks, engine, gearbox sound like from the free mobile game. There is just some humming, which pauses during gear change. Diesel engine sound, turbocharger howl - forget it. No licesed trucks, the interior design is very basic, dash and steering wheel are more sutable for some sport car, rather then the truck. Gameplaywise game might be alright, but I've got super bored in first 10 minutes, was completely disgusted by sound and graphics. There is a free demo of Truck World: Australia, which looks and sounds decades ahead of this game.

I invested 8 hours into this game to have it glitch one time when hooking up a trailer and destroy the cargo, this hurt my reputation. I played another ~5 or 6 hours and it glitched my truck into a fence. I was stuck int he fence and could not complete my mission. I lost the 8k for the haul, and had to call a cb to haul me to a road. They damaged my truck and it cost 7.5 k to fix it. That glitch ended my career. This game is crappy made and is a waste of your time. I want a refund of my money and time! >=(

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.

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.

Buy it on sale. If your a fan of the show this isnt some new ATS or ETS2 replacement but it does have its own trucking fun. Such as upkeep and maintenance on the truck, going to store and buying essentials from food to coolant or a jacket for the cold. Cutting trees out of the road or simply listening to the radio while you drive with a good selection of music. I use a Thrust Master T300 with all pedals. Along with a Thrustmaster T8 Shifter with the upgraded shifter knob for trucking and it all works great. I use a Xbox S controller for when I get out of the truck doing the hooking up or shopping or whatever required and again it works just fine. The force feedback works really well. Had to download logitech Hub from the options menu and although its TM it works thru the hub and gets the job done ? I have a Nvidia 4070 graphics card and the graphics on here to me are wonderful for what it is. Just like the video you watch up there. Over time its progressed to have gotten better. When I get burnt out on the other trucking games and want to shake it up a little is when I hop on here and keep moving along slowly. Hence the 10 hour game play but I personally enjoy it. Some folks prolly looking for the holy $h*t platinum package but the has the survival mode arcade/sim kinda effect. Watch some videos on it if your in question but again if your a fan and have an open mind to gaming buy it. Always a banger to have in the library for the days you want to shake it up. I reccomend ? But to each their own

It needs more baking in the oven. It feels like the developer was having a lot of ideas in mind, but they are all unfinished. I hope that they will carry on improving since the game mechanics are interesting and fun.