Great moments in PC gaming: Late night cruises in Euro Truck Simulator 2

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Euro Truck Simulator 2

Year: 2012
Developer: SCS Software

I'll take it, I used to be a little of a Truck Sim trash-talker. I thought people who enjoyed driving a virtual truck crossways condensed countries had far too much spare time happening their hands. I fault it on the summer holidays I fatigued in my Dad's hand truck, where 90 percent of my day consisted of napping in the cabriolet bed, and the other 10 percentage being dire for the toilet.

Simply lockdown pyrexia and a particularly bad day left Maine desiring a lately-night drive to clear my head. That led me straight to the thing I'd spent years taking the piss out of: Euro Truck Simulator 2.

I set out on my first unsubdivided journey—Birmingham to Sheffield. I popped on a chilled-come out playlist and set off, honestly not expecting much. Turns out virtually trucking around is actually… really damn fun? Things that are utterly mundane in real life feel immensely satisfying in ETS2. Winding down the window, turn happening windscreen wipers, and indicating turns filled me with a strange sense of happiness.

As soon as I reached Sheffield, I wanted to do another journey. Slowly I started venturing out a little foster. I waited until the sun went down in real world, picking the longest drive I could for top-tier up vibes.

ETS2's charm is helped by the fact I can't drive in serious life. It's a virtual alternative to something a circle of multitude find curative. When I'm stressed operating theatre confused, Euro Truck Sim is a great way to decompress. Sure, I may regularly clip cars with the back of my trailer, accidentally go Marxist lights, drive over the pep pill limit, and spend 20 minutes attempting to reverse park before making the crippled get laid for me. But those are just runty hurdles on the journey to true relaxation.

Euro Hand truck Sim has firmly entered my rotation of pre-bedtime games for winding down. Nothing quite beats sticking on a playlist, cranking the rain slider adequate to liquid ecstasy, winding the window perfect and dynamic done the night—both IRL and in-game.

Personal computer gaming doesn't always have to be intense shooters or self-aggrandizing-brain strategy games. Sometimes, it's a 'no thoughts, head empty' cruise depressed the highway at 11 pm.

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