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18 Wheels of Steel: Hard Truck cover art

18 Wheels of Steel: Hard Truck

SCS Software · Cosmi Valusoft · 2021-03-18

SteamGOG

Simulation

Modes: Single player

Releases: Aug 31, 2002 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

The first truck driving simulator from SCS Software lets you be your own boss behind the wheel of a big rig rolling through 11 US states. Road hazards, low fuel and the police can affect the timeliness and condition of your deliveries—and impact your bottom line.

90%
positive of 91 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
IGDB user rating (13 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$9.99
steam price (US)
Hard Truck: 18 Wheels of Steel is a truck simulation video game developed by SCS Software and published by ValuSoft. It is the first entry in the 18 Wheels of Steel series and also a part of Hard Truck series.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 16 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 57% of 10,656 Simulation games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.8k–4.1k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 91 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$3.99-60%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $3.99 at GOG (2026-05-20)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 24 of 45 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
6620212026Week of 2021-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$9.99$3.992021-01-292026-09-162021-01-29 — best price $6.692021-03-22 — best price $6.692021-11-15 — best price $6.692022-01-05 — best price $9.992022-03-21 — best price $6.692022-06-23 — best price $6.692022-08-22 — best price $6.692022-10-27 — best price $6.692023-01-03 — best price $9.992023-03-20 — best price $6.692023-06-29 — best price $6.692023-08-28 — best price $6.692023-11-14 — best price $6.492024-01-25 — best price $6.692024-03-20 — best price $6.692024-06-04 — best price $6.992024-07-22 — best price $9.992024-08-26 — best price $6.992024-10-10 — best price $6.992024-11-26 — best price $6.692025-01-02 — best price $9.992025-02-13 — best price $6.492025-03-20 — best price $9.992025-05-23 — best price $9.992025-07-25 — best price $4.992025-08-26 — best price $4.992025-10-07 — best price $4.992025-11-15 — best price $4.492025-12-18 — best price $4.492026-01-23 — best price $4.492026-03-19 — best price $4.492026-05-05 — best price $4.492026-06-15 — best price $3.992026-08-01 — best price $3.992026-09-10 — best price $9.992026-09-16 — best price $3.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

CasualDrivingManagementSimulationSingleplayer

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.