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18 Wheels of Steel: American Long Haul

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2008

Should you play it?

Your American Dream Starts Behind the Wheel of Your Own Big Rig! North America's open roads await! You ain't working for the Man any more! You're the owner of your own trucking business and you call the shots. Build your empire one rig at a time to dominate the roadways and outbid the competition. Can you handle the pressure?

What works

  • Nostalgic and authentic trucking experience
  • Large map covering us, canada, and mexico
  • Company and truck management depth
  • Customizable trucks and mod support
  • Runs well on low-end pcs

Things to keep in mind

  • Outdated graphics and sound
  • Repetitive gameplay and missions
  • Annoying fatigue and traffic ai
  • Bugs and occasional crashes
  • No multiplayer or social features

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Winter Resort Simulator

  • Money Simulator: Brokeville (Free Prologue)

  • Snow Plowing Simulator

  • Motel Manager Simulator

  • Transport Fever

  • Car For Sale Simulator 2023

Less leadership-focused

Games that feels like 18 Wheels of Steel: American Long Haul but with less leadership over others

  • Jalopy

  • Easy Delivery Co.

  • #DRIVE Rally

  • Derail Valley

  • Star Trucker

  • Old School Rally

More social

Games that feels like 18 Wheels of Steel: American Long Haul but with more teamwork and cooperation

  • Bus Simulator 18

  • Truck & Logistics Simulator

  • Drive Beyond Horizons

  • My Garage

  • Dream Car Builder

  • Trainz Railroad Simulator 2022

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • Euro Truck Simulator

  • American Truck Simulator

  • Euro Truck Simulator 2

  • Bus Driver

  • Scania Truck Driving Simulator

Similarity map

How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

18 Wheels of Steel: American Long Haul: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Fantasy, Story, Thrill. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Leadership, Exploration, Survival.

Last update: 03/08/2026