Hard Truck is a Russian truck-driving game made by the Russian studio SoftLab-NSK and published by Buka Entertainment on 20 April 1998. At home it came out as Дальнобойщики: Путь к победе, which translates as "Truckers: Road to Victory", and the short name Дальнобойщики later stuck to the whole series.
Under the hood it is a racing game built around a central hub. Between runs the player buys cargo to haul, upgrades the truck or trades it for a better one, so earning money matters as much as crossing the finish line first.
The series grew quickly. Hard Truck 2: King of the Road (2000) added traffic, police and the Russian mafia, with the goal of controlling 51% of the trucking market. The name was later carried on by SCS Software's Hard Truck: 18 Wheels of Steel (2002) and by the post-apocalyptic spin-off Hard Truck Apocalypse (2006).12
Names and releases
| Region | Title on the box | Platform | Date | Publisher | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU | Дальнобойщики: Путь к победеDate given by PCGamingWiki and English Wikipedia (not region-specific). | Windows | Apr 20, 1998 | Buka Entertainment | 1 |
Also known as: Дальнобойщики: Путь к победе RU1Hard Truck: Road to Victory WW2Дальнобойщики RU1
Translations
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English Official
—Windows · Russian originalReleased
An official English version exists under the title Hard Truck, and PCGamingWiki lists English among the supported languages.1
How to run it today
There is no digital release: PCGamingWiki lists retail copies only. Install from the original disc; on Windows Vista and later, run the game as administrator, or its writes to Program Files may end up redirected to the VirtualStore folder. The intro videos can be skipped by deleting or renaming the video file.
- PCGamingWiki: Hard Truck pcgamingwiki.com
Reception
Across the whole Hard Truck series, 790,000 copies were sold in the United States between January 2000 and August 2006.2
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Sources
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