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18 Wheels of Steel: Pedal to the Metal cover art

18 Wheels of Steel: Pedal to the Metal

SCS Software · Cosmi Valusoft · 2020-06-05

SteamGOG

Simulation

Modes: Single player

Releases: Aug 30, 2004 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

You’re not only a trucker, you’re a tycoon. Drive your rig to make it big as you build your business. Take your show on the road in the third installment of the 18 Wheels of Steel series!

92%
positive of 108 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
70/100
IGDB user rating (10 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$3.99
steam price (US)
18 Wheels of Steel is a series of trucking simulators developed by SCS Software and published by ValuSoft from 2002 to 2011, as a spin-off of Hard Truck, with the first game becoming the third Hard Truck game released.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 16 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 23% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 53% of 11,266 Simulation games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.2k–4.9k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 108 total reviews — how this is computed.

Review momentum

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Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

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.