According to the developer, Road Studio, they started as a small team but knew they needed more people to reach their vision. So they hired some veteran developers and quickly realized that they’d need tocompletely rebuild theircode from the ground up.
As for my excitement about the game, the team has stated that their goal for it is to have you play as a person, not as a truck. In a lot of other truck simulators, you may’t leave your truck, so you are essentially the same entity as the vehicle.Alaskan Road Truckersnot only lets you get out of the truck, but gives you plenty of reason to do so. I’m hoping that it connects with the same part of my brain that gets engrossed inMy Summer Car.
Your trucker has needs like warmth, fatigue, and hunger, and you have to cut fallen trees with a chainsaw. This could be a new ennui simulator.
Stay warm out there
There was, at one point, a demo forAlaskan Road Truckers. I played maybe five minutes of it before I decided that I was definitely interested and wanted to wait for the full experience before diving in. The demo was totally janky, and judging by recent gameplay videos, that hasn’t changed, but it looks to be just the right amount of janky.
I am absolutely prepped and ready to either fall in love or be deeply disappointed. I am sincerely looking forward to either outcome.
Unfortunately, October is such a packed month for the release of games that I’ve been keeping an eye on. I lost track of a lot of them, and I just can’t fit them all in for review. Not without getting extremely bent out of shape. So, I’m just going to enjoyAlaskan Road Truckerslike a civilian rather than a critic down in the trenches. But maybe I’ll let you know how things shake out.
Alaskan Road Truckersreleases today on PC via Steam for $21.99. It will also be released on Xbox Series S and PS5 “soon.”
