Matt Wales is a writer and gambolling summer child who won't even pretend to live a busily impressive life of dynamic go-getting for the purposes of this bio. He is the sole and founding member of the Birdo for President of Everything Society.
Look, I certainly wouldn't call myself a trucking nerd - I'm not even sure I could tell the difference between a carburettor and a carbonara - but I do like to. American Truck Simulator has long been my equivalent of one of those mindfulness apps that whisper gently evocative nonsense at you in the dead of night; a world of seductively monotonous rhythms and repetitions set against a soothing soundtrack of engine drones and indicater clicks.
Honestly, if all Star Trucker had to offer was a couple of striking galactic vistas and some pleasingly zen-like cargo hauling, I'd be perfectly happy - but developer Monster and Monster takes the sim side of things quite a bit further, giving you space legs and chucking in a sort of tactile, Jalopy-esque vehicle management layer. Your cockpit is an analogue hardware dream, the kind of video game space that immediately makes you wish you could palpate it in VR.
It all adds a lovely bit of extra verisimilitude to the whole thing, but if I've any complaints, it's that the demo leans a little hard on this kind of out-of-seat busywork, when I'd much rather be spending my time cruising through space to sad country songs while the awesome beauty of the universe drifts lazily on by.
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