Star Trucker

An extremely fun trucking simulator for people who are much more fond of work simulators! I've never played any other trucking simulators, because the idea of driving for long periods with nothing to concern you beyond avoiding hitting things and maybe having to refuel never appealed to me: I need more to do than that. Also simulating real life one to one held no appeal for me, I needed the fantasy element that moving the game to space gave it! I've greatly enjoyed other cleaning/repair/work simulators such as Viscera Cleanup Detail, Recycling Centre Simulator, and Uncle Chop's Rocket Shop. And this game feels like it had elements from all of these games rolled into one and attached to a trucking sim. And it's set in space, which is the best setting! A lot of people are complaining that the maintenance aspect of repairing components and replacing batteries is too hard. To that I'd say first, don't play Uncle Chop's Rocket Shop (but actually do, it's amazingly good if you're repair-brained like me!) and secondly it's only hard compared to, say, Farming Simulator, where repairing just means pressing X on a store and watching your wallet take another small hit. Conquering maintenance in this game merely means learning where things are, what to do with them, and in what order. And given your entire world is the size of a single living room, it's a pretty simple puzzle to solve. Watch your guages, read every page of the (very well written and tutorialised) manual, adjust the FOV slightly so that you can both watch the road and see warning lights on the dashboard without having to move your head as far, and you should be fine! It's not like you have to play a minigame in order to do repairs, you just need to make sure you keep a few spare parts stored safely, watch your guages for when they're about to fail, and replace them when needed. Also if you don't notice a repair is needed until it's too late and the temperature inside is starting to plummet/rise, go straight for your spacesuit, don't try to fix it until you're safe, that'll save you a lot of frustration. There's definitely a lot of early game crunch that almost had me on the verge of restarting my first game so that I wouldn't have wasted so much money and barely escaped bankruptcy, but that just made it all the more fun to claw my way to success and ultimately beating the game on my first try! The original soundtrack shows that there was a lot of heart going into the romantic ideal of the trucking lifestyle. Again, I'm not familiar with the genre, but if I heard these songs on the radio and asked me to imagine the ideal occupation for them, I'd have to say truck driving. Some pretty good tracks in there too! I can't fault the voice acting or scripts for the main storyline either. Clearly written and voiced by actual humans with a decent sense of humour and a solid idea of what they wanted each character to be, and with a good diverse range of accents. I'm very glad that there was clearly no AI used whatsoever for the writing aspect of the game, a shame I have to praise that these days when it should be mandatory. I've seen some say that there's no customization, but that's just wrong, there's a huge range of customization for paint jobs, exhaust shapes, grill styles, etc, you just don't unlock the ability to buy them within the first 2h of gameplay, which is probably where they all prematurely gave up. This has been a pretty unfocused review, I just want to say that I had a lot of fun, I found it colourful and charming and a happy experience, and certainly much more fun than I ever would have expected I would have with any kind of truck simulator. If you've never played a truck simulator game, but you love space, the idea of salvaging space wrecks, and want to mix in a bit of inventory managment and maintenance with your driving, then this is a great game for you!

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Cool Game

e um joguinho que eu acho bem calmo por mais que vc tem tenha que prestar atenção em tudo é bem bem calmo, tipo um euro truck

good game

Für echte Space Trucker :)

Great Game! It took a bit to get used to navigating the ship/truck, but it gets better. Be sure to keep track of the systems on the ship, gas, etc. If I go for a long distance haul, I save often to get the most profit from the trip. I'm really enjoying it!