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Haul cargo, trade salvage and keep your space suit close as you search for fame and fortune among the stars in a game that puts an interstellar twist on the truck sim genre.
Star Trucker is a transportation, space sim and automobile sim game
developed by Monster and Monster
and published by Raw Fury.
Released on September 03rd 2024 is available only on Windows
in 10 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Spanish - Latin America, Simplified Chinese, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian and Traditional Chinese.
It has received 4,271 reviews of which 3,373 were positive and 898 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.7 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 12.25€ on Steam with a 50% discount, but you can find it for less on Eneba.
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Windows
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: i5 / Ryzen 5
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia 1650 / AMD Radeon RX 580 or equivalent
- DirectX: Version 12
- Storage: 5 GB available space
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This isn't really a trucking game that offers long drives/flights. You take short flights either through debris fields or short highways, typically less than 5 minutes, then jump through warp gates to the next system. Repeat until you get to your destination. You cannot switch out parts such as engines or thrusters for better ones. You can only upgrade existing equipment. This aspect is very limited. You can add parts such as fenders, hood ornaments or paint your truck, but only for looks. Unfortunately it gets repetitive real quick. I'm about 9 hours in and getting tired of the same loop, Drive to A pick up cargo, drive to B drop off cargo, drive to shop upgrade preinstalled parts, repeat. The space walks for loot gets boring quickly as well since you can only carry 1 item at a time. If there are 5 items out in space, you need to jet from your truck to the item and back that many times, with a few animations in between. The story missions don't pay enough to keep you afloat. You need to build up cash before getting into the story or you'll go broke fast. By the time you have enough cash to start the story, you might be burned out from the game loop. Star Trucker isn't bad, but it could be a lot better: - Add personal inventory so we can carry more than 1 item. - Give an option to turn off the storms. - Give a way to recharge batteries. - Provide super highways between star systems for real long hauls. - This game would look outstanding in VR. Pros: - Looks good. - Sounds good (maybe too many horns). - Great idea!! - Almost there. Cons: - The game loop is too limited and feels repetitive too quickly. - The story missions don't pay enough. - Truck requires several batteries, but there is no way to recharge them, so most of your money goes toward replacing them. Did humans lose the technology? - No home base or business management of any kind. Star Trucker is worth 5 to 20 hours of entertainment. I'd suggest adding to your wish list until a deep sale comes up.
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I like this game and can recommend it but after nearly 8 hours, I had to delete my save and start from scratch. At the time of writing (post launch, 16th of September 2024) The difficulty curve is not what you'd expect. Let me explain. I've played Euro Truck Simulator, Elite Dangerous, and back in the day, Freelancer. I've always liked trading over long distances and relax with some music and great views as the distance ticks down. Star Trucker is no different in that aspect and that's what first appealed to me. The maintenance aspect is also nothing new, after all it makes sense to maintain your rig for optimal performance. However, Star Trucker takes it a bit too far in my opinion and has some game mechanics that can make the maintenance incredibly frustrating. For example: The power cells that power each system needs to be replaced periodically and cannot be recharged. On a normal truck, these batteries would be recharged by the alternator. Fine, you have to replace them, I can live with that. The problem is, if you run out of power and the station you land at does not have power cells on hand, you're out of luck. Same thing goes for the O2 filters. As I was trying to hastily dock with the station, wearing my space suit inside the cabin to survive, I dock to find out that A) No space station provides you with free oxygen when docked??? and B) They didn't have the necessary parts on hand. So I died in my rig whilst docked at a station, incurring a hefty fine, causing me to lose the job and go into debt. Needless to say, the debt does not help my situation as I still need to buy the filters. This wouldn't be too bad if there was a system map or at least an in-map menu which showed what each station was selling at the time, saving precious time, fuel and energy. If that isn't an option, you should at least be able to buy filters, power cells and fuel canisters from Body Shops at any given time when you're in a pinch. The game economy is weird. You level your character to be able to haul fragile or time-sensitive cargo but these missions tend to have a lesser payout than the bog-standard missions, rendering the whole leveling aspect pointless. There are more issues or things that irk me but as I have too little experience, I can't comment on them properly. So if you made it this far and still want to play the game, expecting an easy game like ETS, I recommend going for "Driver" difficulty rather than "Recommended". Personally, I'll wait for the first patch and see how it turns out. I'm genuinely excited to see where this game goes in the future. Edit: Well it's been a while and I've picked the game back up after the latest patch (19th of June, 2025) and I must say, it's a lot more enjoyable than it was. It's still challenging at the beginning, but now it feels like less of an uphill battle and more of a steady progression. Can't speak on the storyline yet, but I like it so far.
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Seeing this game have "Mixed" reviews really bummed me out, so I felt the need to weigh in. I ADORE this game. It's exactly what I wanted it to be. If you want a chill experience, cruising through space, delivering goods, then this is right up your alley. Most of the complaints I see (ie: survival mechanics are too annoying) can be adjusted in the settings. And I HIGHLY recommend going with a Custom Difficulty over the Default. I love the idea of swapping out batteries and air filters as they degrade, but I'd rather do it every few trips and not every 5 minutes. So definitely look through the Custom Difficulty options and tailor the experience you believe you would want out of a game like this. I've put many hours into it, as I find it to be very zen just doing jobs and earning money. I wish you could continue to customize your rig after a certain point (maybe more lateral upgrades with give-and-take rather than only upward upgrades to maintain longevity and provide options for multiple builds), but once you've maxed it out, all you're really doing is bringing it in for repairs every so often. So yeah, for me, it's an "Overwhelmingly Positive" kind of experience. But it's also exactly MY kind of game, so take that how you will. And it's made by, like, 2 people, so definitely keep that in mind. But even then, it's an incredibly polished experience and I would've guessed a team of like 15-20 people put this together, at least. Anyway, if you're looking for a chill, zen game to play between your stressful Soulslikes and Battle Royales, this may be exactly what you're looking for.
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If you enjoyed the 1996 movie Space Truckers, but not for the guns. American Truck simulator, but you hated the roads. Microsoft Flight Simulator, but you never learned to land. Then this game is for YOU! Experience the future of truck driving. Trailers. Docking bays. Weigh Stations. Interstellar traffic. Galactic offroading. Diesel fuel. Bad dispatchers. Breakdowns. And not one rest stop or toilet in the whole solar system and beyond. Bring your pee bottle and strap in, Star Trucker.
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Game got dinged on reviews a bit when it first hit the store due to some major bugs and an economy that was skewed a little unfair, but devs have been resolving all that, so don't mind the complaints about the economy from the day one reviews. Comparable Games So basically this game combines the trucking sim vibes from popular games like Eurotruck with the space trading vibes of games like X2, X3, X4, Evochron Legacy, and maybe a little bit No Man's Sky if we're exclusively talking about trading between stations. The game also includes vehicle maintenance vs the environment gameplay and is very "run based", so in that way it does have some elements that feel comparable to games like Pacific Drive. Eurotruck + space sim + Pacific Drive = Star Trucker There Is A Lot To Manage One mistake you don't want to make when considering this game is assuming it's a casual or cozy type experience. The simulation aspects in this game are kinda complex and diagetic and there are a lot of different plates you need to keep spinning when managing your funds, almost entirely related to maintenance and upkeep of your craft. Your ship requires fuel for thrusters, power cores for various ship systems, and a few ship systems also require circuit boards. Fuel is burned as you burn your thrusters. Power Cells lose their charge as your ship systems are in use. Circuit boards slowly degrade over time and need to be replaced. Some examples of these ship systems include artificial gravity (needs power cell and circuitry), oxygen (needs power cell), internal cabin climate control (requires circuitry), air filtration (requires air filters), mag locks (needed to hitch cargo and to dock at stations), space suit (requires power and oxygen recharge after use). The thing is, if you are using all of your systems at all times, you are wasting money, because you might be burning fuel when you don't need to, or wasting power when you don't need to, which means you are wasting money when you don't need to, because you have to pay to replace fuel, power cells, circuitry, and air filters. So in order to save money, you can use the newtonian physics in space to drift long distances (especially with heavy cargo giving you more momentum) and conserve fuel. You can turn off all the lights inside the ship when you don't need them. You can also disable the artificial gravity inside your ship when you don't need it (but be careful that you might damage loose cargo if you don't take precautions). When you are swapping out the circuitry in your systems, you have to remember to cut power at the breakers first or you will blow the breakers on the entire ship, which you then have to act fast to restore. There are a lot of tiny things to manage, and tiny corners you can cut to save money, and getting used to all of this takes a bit of time and patience as you are learning. Jobs / Making Money Once you've got a handle on things, there are different ways to make money. HAULING different kinds of cargo from A to B is the primary way to make money in early game. As you build up more of an income, there is also a secondary form of trading. Every time you stop at a store to purchase supplies (power cores, filters, etc), you can also purchase miscellaneous others goods that are just for TRADE ], such as pharmaceuticals, chemicals, foods, etc. You can even trade the supply items themselves (power cores, spare fuel, etc) if you want. There is a fluctuating economy on these, so you can buy low and sell high. Rather than there being a hard limit on capacity for these items, you instead have to watch the weight of your truck, since you are only permitted by SPACE LAW to have a certain weight. You can be randomly called to weigh in at a weigh station at any time, and if you are over weight, you will be fined. So whether you take the fine or dump the cargo, it hurts either way, so mind your weight. There is also SALVAGE of course, which is the primary use of your space walk equipment. Salvage is eventually one of the best money makers and it can even get you some free maintenance (salvaged power cells or fuel etc). But if you dilly dally too long on some salvage you happened across, you might also get penalized on a late delivery if you are in the middle of a haul. The game does also have BLACK MARKETS , if you want to be a contraband-hauling criminal trying to pass under the radar of the law, but you will not be getting into any dogfights in this game. You just haul the cargo and try not to go broke, get fined, freeze to death, burn to death, crash into an asteroid, etc. Story / Maps The game also has story jobs that you must perform at your leisure, and completing these story jobs unlocks new sectors of the galaxy for you to explore. These new sectors are more challenging and have their own simulation challenges. For example, one of the first sectors you unlock takes you extremely close to a star that is prone to random flares every several minutes. The external environment here is hundreds of degrees normally, but thousands of degrees during flares. During a flare, you need to pull a lever that lowers your ship's protective shielding, which prevents it from being obliterated by the flare , but the shielding also covers all windows, so you're forced to steer your ship via an external camera feed on your dash. The extreme temperatures also mean you need to crank climate control far into the AC / cooling range and probably increase air blowers, which means you are burning more power on climate control in this region. You CAN bake yourself alive inside your ship if you don't do this. Cockpit Finally, I appreciate that this game is very diagetic as a sim. A lot of space sim games just put literally every game function on 100 different keyboard hot keys. But in star trucker, you instead have a functional dash covered in monitors and buttons. All these buttons and monitors are functional and convey actual information. So instead of doing everything with hot keys, you use the mouse to literally push the button, flip the switch, pull the handle, twist the knob of whatever control it is on your dash. This gives the game a more tactile and immersive feeling and makes you feel much more that you are in the captain's chair. (Some things are, of course, done with keys, such as steering and breaking, etc). Devs have noted that HOTAS controls are coming in the future, if that's your bag. Overall It's really a pretty interesting game that has the slow grind of driving for money as found in games like Eurotruck, but it's a more challenging vehicle to drive and there are many more numbers to watch, so if you sorta like things like Eurotruck but find them just a little too sleepy and wish there was a little more tension and management involved, then Star Trucker might work for you! It's one of those games where you need to be willing to suck a little and put up with a little frustration at the start while you get comfortable with the systems and learn about what problems your ship might have and what the solutions are, not to mention getting a feel for the economy and how to make good decisions in that economy. But once you get there, I think it's one of the more interesting sims in the job sim / space sim category and the only game that blends the genres in this specific way.
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Star Trucker is currently priced at 12.25€ on Steam.
Star Trucker is currently available at a 50% discount. You can purchase it for 12.25€ on Steam.
Star Trucker received 3,373 positive votes out of a total of 4,271 achieving a rating of 7.66.
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Star Trucker was developed by Monster and Monster and published by Raw Fury.
Star Trucker is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Star Trucker is not playable on MacOS.
Star Trucker is not playable on Linux.
Star Trucker is a single-player game.
There are 6 DLCs available for Star Trucker. Explore additional content available for Star Trucker on Steam.
Star Trucker does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
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Developer
Monster and Monster
Publisher
Raw Fury
Release
03 Sep 2024
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