Euro Truck Simulator 2

Euro Truck Simulator 2 is not just racing. It is a profession. Behind the wheel of one of seven officially licensed trucks: Volvo, Scania, DAF, MAN, Mercedes-Benz, Renault or Iveco, you take an order, load the trailer and drive. 60+ cities and 13,000+ kilometers of roads in the base game, and as much again in each add-on.

In February 2026, 14 years after release, ETS2 set a Steam record of 73,887 players online at the same time. No other simulator has this. SCS Software keeps supporting the game: a major update comes out every few months (v1.59 in May 2026 brought a full rebuild of Belgium and the Netherlands plus a DAF factory in Eindhoven), and a new map add-on comes out every year. In development: Iceland, Ireland, Anatolia.

Meditative solo driving. Evening, rain, the E55 highway through the Czech hills. A built-in internet radio player lets you add any stations: Russkoe Radio, Evropa Plus, NRJ. No enemies, no timer. The cargo is fragile, the fines are real, and the route is yours.

The official Convoy Mode is built right into Steam. SCS Software added it in version 1.41 (2021). Up to 128 players in one session with no extra installs and no third-party accounts: a private session with friends or a public one with strangers. Mods work, and AI traffic is present.

TruckersMP is an unofficial third-party client (truckersmp.com) that turns ETS2 into a true simulator with thousands of drivers on the road at the same time. It has 6,127,324 registered users, and the online record is 17,524 truckers at once. The community organizes convoy events and virtual trucking companies.

TruckersMP is installed separately and requires its own account, which is the main difference from the built-in Convoy Mode. The main advantage is scale: not 128, but thousands of drivers on one map. SCS Software publicly acknowledges TruckersMP and sometimes works with the team at events.

Beyond the Baltic Sea (2018) adds Saint Petersburg and Kaliningrad, plus Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and 13,000+ km of new roads. This is the only official Russian content in ETS2 today.

You are not just a driver, you are the owner of a trucking company. Hire NPC drivers, manage your fleet, open garages in European cities. Cabs can be customized in detail: bumper, spoiler, mirrors, LED strips, floor mats, key chains. Steam Workshop offers thousands of mods: new maps, trucks, physics, trailers, skins.

The base game covers western and central Europe. Key map add-ons: Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden, Denmark), Going East! The full European map is the base game plus 10 add-ons.

~957,000 reviews on Steam, 97% positive: a rare case where a truck simulator beats cult action games in rating. Metacritic: 79 from critics (2012), 8.5/10 from users.

A trucking simulator across Europe from SCS Software: 14 years of development, 107 DLC, 13 million copies sold. Solo night runs or convoys with friends and thousands of players in TruckersMP (an unofficial multiplayer, 6 million users). Official Volvo, Scania, MAN, Mercedes-Benz, Renault, DAF and Iveco trucks. Official Russian interface. Steam: 97% positive from almost 1,000,000 reviews.