Heavy Cargo - The Truck Simulator

Heavy Cargo - The Truck Simulator

Released Oct 2024

Transport oversized cargo in a variety of missions across a 175km² open world. Drive customisable, highly detailed trucks through dynamic weather and day and night. The official cooperation with Gruber Logistics allows you to get behind the wheel of real-life heavy cargo transports.

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Evaluation

Heavy Cargo - The Truck Simulator launched on October 9, 2024 and has received a steady stream of content since then. The developer shipped the free Mission Pack DLC on August 4, 2025, followed by Update 1.2.0 in early 2026 which introduced a full Economy Mode, a new Scania truck, procedural missions, and photo mode. The Classic Paint Jobs Pack DLC arrived on April 7, 2026, and most recently the Heavy South map expansion DLC launched on July 27, 2026 — a substantial paid expansion that doubles the size of the game world and adds 31 new missions, 6 delivery locations, 3 new trailers, and over 20 new cargo types. Update 1.3.0 shipped alongside the DLC with significant improvements including a virtual right-side mirror, reworked vegetation and environments, a new top-down camera, and improved driving mechanics. Bug fix patches have continued through September 1, 2026, the most recent developer communication on record. The developer has not announced any specific future content since the Heavy South DLC launched, but the consistent pattern of major releases every several months since launch — with the most recent arriving on July 27, 2026 — places the game well within an active development cycle. No statement of completion or end of support has been made.
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Heavy South DLC and Update 1.3.0 launched, doubling the map size, adding 31 new missions, 6 delivery locations, 3 trailers, 20+ cargo types, and significant gameplay improvements
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Heavy South Map Expansion DLC released on July 27, 2026
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Content

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Details

Publisher
Aerosoft GmbH
Achievements
21
Platform
Windows
Controller
partial support
Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player

About this game

In Heavy Cargo - The Truck Simulator, you transport oversized cargo through an extensive, freely accessible and lively game world, including dynamic weather and day-night cycle.

Before you start your journey with your truck and its various trailers and cargo, you often have to explore the route with the spotting vehicle first that you control yourself.

If obstacles prevent you from fulfilling your mission, you will have to dismantle crash barriers, cut off road signs, determine bridge heights or lay out plates using a crane in order to transport your heavy cargo from A to B undamaged.

Heavy Cargo - The Truck Simulator was developed in close cooperation with our partner ‘Gruber Logistics’ and presents the work of a company that is specialized in heavy cargo transports in a realistic way.

Everything is in your hands – from planning the challenging missions to performing them.

2 GAME MODES

You can choose between two different game modes, each offering a unique gameplay experience.

In Economy Mode, you manage your own company. You earn money by completing missions, hire employees, and expand your business step by step. You can purchase new trucks, trailers, and attachments to grow and customize your fleet.

In addition, various milestones await you - by reaching them, you earn special rewards on top of the attachments unlocked after completing missions, allowing your company to grow even further.

Employee Mode, on the other hand, offers a completely different gameplay experience. Here, you take on the role of an employee and focus entirely on your driving skills. By completing missions, you earn stars to prove your abilities.

As a reward, you unlock new attachments for your trucks. In this game mode, you don’t have to worry about money - the focus is purely on performance and progression.

Unloading large and heavy freight with the help of cranes is also part of your almost 30 orders in different weight and size classes.

Supported by escort vehicles, you drive on country roads, highways and lovingly designed towns and villages in a huge open-world route network.

Master motivating missions with a detailed evaluation at the end, to unlock more than 100 add-on parts, over 20 interior decorations, new truck models and new missions.

  • Transport rides with oversize

  • Oversize transport journeys accompanied by preceding and following vehicles

  • Tour preparation (dismantling of guard rails, laying of ground plates and much more)

  • MAN and SCANIA trucks and various trailers/semitrailers based on real-life models (boiler bridges, rotor trailers, low-loaders)

  • Spotting-vehicle (Sprinter class) MAN TGE

  • Mobile cranes

  • Truck loading cranes

Truck features such as a compressed air system and retarder are on board. In addition, all wheels and wheel pairs (as with the modular trailers) are individually physically calculated.

The 175 km² large, lively game world with a European setting invites you to explore and discover. From large cities and freeways to difficult mountain passages to remote villages, many a journey becomes an adventure tour.

Uncover fast travel points and get to the various points on the map more quickly.

CUSTOM PAINT JOBS

Thanks to a selection of paint jobs, you can customize your truck fleet with stylish liveries exactly to your liking.

EXTENSIVE PHOTO MODE

With its wide range of customization options, the photo mode gives you the perfect opportunity to capture your most exciting moments flawlessly.

Are you ready for an exciting time in the world of heavy goods transportation?

Last evaluated Sep 16, 2026
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