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54%Audience ScoreBased on 13 reviews

emotional2 positive mentions

music3 negative mentions

The game offers a relaxing and accessible arcade-style driving experience that is easy to pick up and enjoyable.
The story mode provides a strong narrative focus with emotional voice acting, multiple chapters, and a unique cinema experience, making it stand out from other trucking games.
The game features diverse gameplay modes, including story mode and free roam with randomized missions, vehicle upgrades, and a rewarding progression system.

The controls are sluggish, lack full steering wheel support, and do not allow key remapping, making the game difficult to play with wheels or keyboard and mouse setups.
Audio options are inadequate, with limited volume controls and loud menu music, causing issues for streaming, immersion, and voice clarity.
Visual quality suffers notably during adverse weather conditions and at lower graphics settings, with bugs, traffic AI issues, and occasional missing textures impacting overall experience.

story
18 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
17% positive mentions, 66% neutral mentions, 17% negative mentions
The story mode in Truck Driver: The American Dream is praised for its engaging and emotional narrative, featuring fully voiced chapters and a unique cinematic experience. While some voice acting moments lack emotional impact and audio mixing issues affect immersion, the overall storytelling adds a personal and compelling element rare in trucking games. Additionally, a free roam mode provides a simplified alternative for players less interested in the story.
- “Truck Driver: The American Dream delivers exactly what I was looking for—a laid-back trucking experience with a surprisingly engaging story.”
- “The story has like 40 chapters fully voiced with a great American accent and feel, and is very emotional as well.”
- “Truck Driver: The American Dream stands out with its story mode, which gives the game a more personal hook than most trucking games.”
- “The story works well enough, but unfortunately there are some important moments where the chosen voice actors simply fail to deliver the emotional impact the scenes are aiming for.”
- “The music cannot be turned down on its own, so it's not great for streaming or recording. If you turn down the audio to remove the music, you can't hear the voices talking, so it's not worth it for the story.”
- “The 'free roam' mode is like a standalone game made for players who are not interested in the story mode.”
graphics
8 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
38% positive mentions, 24% neutral mentions, 38% negative mentions
The graphics in the game are a mixed experience, with Unreal Engine 5 delivering impressive lighting and open-world visuals, but performance often requires sacrificing quality for smoother frame rates. Weather effects, especially rainfall, appear noticeably worse than promotional material, and despite numerous settings and filters, the overall graphical presentation can feel lacking or inconsistent.
- “I spent considerable time experimenting with the extensive graphics options, trying to achieve the best possible visual experience.”
- “The visuals are also a highlight, with Unreal Engine 5 making the open road, weather, and lighting look great.”
- “As a result, I often had to choose between targeting 30 fps with the best visuals or accepting noticeably downgraded graphics in exchange for a higher frame rate.”
- “During rainfall, the graphics appeared significantly worse than what is presented on the Steam store page.”
- “While there are numerous filters and visual presets available, many seemed unnecessary when the core graphical presentation, particularly in adverse weather, still felt lacking.”
- “It's a disastrous game with bad graphics!”
music
5 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
0% positive mentions, 40% neutral mentions, 60% negative mentions
The music in the game is excessively loud by default with no separate volume control, making it difficult to balance with voice audio. This lack of audio customization hampers the listening experience, especially for streaming or enjoying the story.
- “Upon launching the game, I was greeted by extremely loud menu music with no obvious option to lower the volume or disable it entirely.”
- “The music cannot be turned down on its own, making it not great for streaming or recording. If you turn down the audio to remove the music, you also can't hear the voices, which is detrimental to the story.”
- “It took me roughly fifteen minutes to lower the music volume and successfully start the truck.”
gameplay
3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
33% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 67% negative mentions
The gameplay offers a balanced driving experience that appeals to both casual and dedicated players, but it is marred by unclear onboarding, unresponsive controls, and technical issues such as bugs and overwhelming audio, which hinder overall enjoyment and accessibility.
- “The driving mechanics strike a good balance between accessibility and realism, making it enjoyable for both casual players and trucking enthusiasts.”
- “As someone who intended to record gameplay footage, the combination of overwhelming audio, unclear onboarding, and unresponsive controls made the game extremely difficult to showcase.”
- “The gameplay is affected by bugs and bad controls, compounded by issues like overly bright colors and chroma problems.”
emotional
2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions
The game features a fully voiced, emotionally engaging story across 40 chapters with strong performances and a convincing American accent, though some key moments suffer from voice acting that falls short of delivering the intended emotional impact.
- “The story has like 40 chapters fully voiced with a great American accent and feel and very emotional as well.”
- “The story works well enough, but unfortunately there are some important moments where the chosen voice actors simply fail to deliver the emotional impact the scenes are aiming for.”
stability
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions
The game’s stability is problematic, with frequent issues in settings and controls that disrupt the driving experience and require constant troubleshooting.
- “Rather than focusing on enjoying the driving experience, I found myself constantly troubleshooting settings and controls.”
atmosphere
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions
The atmosphere is widely praised for being exceptionally relaxing, creating a calming and enjoyable experience for players.
- “What really stands out is the relaxing atmosphere.”
optimization
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
0% positive mentions, 100% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions
The game's optimization is adequate, providing decent graphical performance but not outstanding efficiency or smoothness.

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75%Critics’ scoreBased on 1 critic reviews

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Truck Driver: The American Dream is a open world role playing game. Common tags for Truck Driver: The American Dream include indie, exploration, gaming, life sim, family friendly and others.

Truck Driver: The American Dream is available on Xbox Series X|S, PC, PlayStation 5, Virtual Reality and others.

Truck Driver: The American Dream was released on September 26, 2023.

Truck Driver: The American Dream was developed by Kyodai.

Truck Driver: The American Dream has received mostly positive reviews from players and mostly positive reviews from critics. Most players liked Truck Driver: The American Dream for its emotional but disliked it for its story.

Truck Driver: The American Dream is a single player game.

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