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Truck simulation indie game focused on American long-haul driving and trucking routes. Released in 2016 by developer and publisher SCS Software, it has 192,172 Steam reviews with 97% positive sentiment and launched at $19.99.
Overview
American Truck Simulator is a 2016 Indie game developed by SCS Software and published by SCS Software. On Steam it has gathered 165,760 player reviews, 97% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer SCS Software with publisher SCS Software is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Indie projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 9.0 million to 20.9 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, American Truck Simulator can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
165,760
Positive
97%
Steam appid
270880
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
4,016
Fresh snapshot · · 24h peak 8,994
Sales estimate
v1.09.0M to 20.9M
units (median: 14.9M)
≈ $102.2M to $238.5M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2016 | +30 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_97% | +10 |
| final NB | 90 |
Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review
counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range
is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it,
especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version
v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for American Truck Simulator at roughly 9.0 million to 20.9 million copies, with a median around 14.9 million, derived from its 165,760 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $170.3M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
43 observed days · window low $4.99Across 43 observed UTC days from 2026-06-10 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $4.99 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $4.99 on 2026-06-26.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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- Fanatical
- Humble Store
- GOG.com
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Genres
IndieSimulation
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has American Truck Simulator sold?
- indielist estimates American Truck Simulator has sold between 8,951,040 and 20,885,760 units (median 14,918,400), derived from its 165,760 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed American Truck Simulator?
- American Truck Simulator was developed by SCS Software and published by SCS Software.
- Who published American Truck Simulator?
- American Truck Simulator was published by SCS Software, developed by SCS Software. See SCS Software's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was American Truck Simulator released?
- American Truck Simulator was released in 2016.
- How many reviews does American Truck Simulator have on Steam?
- American Truck Simulator has 165,760 Steam reviews, of which 97% are positive.
- Is American Truck Simulator worth playing?
- Steam players rate American Truck Simulator 97% positive across 165,760 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like American Truck Simulator can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Indie titles such as Euro Truck Simulator 2, Stardew Valley, Project Zomboid, Undertale, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, SCS Software's other releases and SCS Software's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where American Truck Simulator sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same American Truck Simulator page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Indie game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.
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