Road Truckers New Beginning: Truck RPG Gears Up for Playtest

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:49:00 -0400
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Ever heard of a trucking RPG? No? Well, here’s your chance: Road Truckers: New Beginning is calling itself the "first true trucking RPG." A major playtest should soon show what that actually looks like in practice.

Quick Facts

Developer

Road Studio S.A.

Publisher

Feel Good Games · Movie Games S.A.

Platforms

PC · PS 5

Release

Q2 2026 (PC) · 2026 (PS5)

PEGI

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Modes

Single-player

Languages

English · Multi

Price

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Monetization

Buy2Play

Free saving

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Maybe the folks at Road Studio S.A. thought: "There are already plenty of truck sims out there—but what if we turned the whole thing into an RPG?" Well, that’s got my attention.

Sure, Road Truckers: New Beginning won’t let you pelt gas station attendants with old tires because fuel prices are out of control—and the first screenshots don’t exactly suggest Pokémon-style truck battles either. But it does promise relationship-building, player choices, plus quest and progression systems.

No, you won’t be building relationships with NPCs by yelling at them from the cab. You can get out of your rig, though apparently you won’t be exploring the entire open world on foot. And if the idea of a trucking RPG sounds weirdly appealing to you, there’s good news: you’ll soon be able to sign up for a playtest over at Steam.

Yes, "soon." I have no idea why the PR people didn’t just give us an actual date—maybe because this way I get to write one more news post about the game. You sneaky devils. 🙂

The playtest will have more meat than some full releases

Creative Director Michal Puczynski had this to say about the scope of the planned playtest:

"Our maps are massive. We have two in the game, and want to add more in the game's life cycle. The first one, smaller than the second but still huge, will be fully available in the playtest – and it's just a fraction of the roads you'll find in the full game."

Wonderful—so the trucks in Road Truckers: New Beginning won’t be trapped on a single kilometer of road. The playtest is, of course, meant to put the sim’s stability and all its features through their paces on a larger scale. It’ll also teach players the basics, like how to make sure their trucker eats, sleeps, heals illnesses (wait... are we getting smoke inhalation as a status effect?), upgrades their base, uses the workshop, and so on.

This is what Road Truckers: New Beginning could look like. Yep, those are promo shots.

So yes, at least going by the developers’ own pitch, this game is aiming to do quite a bit more than straight simulation peers like Euro Truck Simulator 2—which, for the record, I’ve also sunk plenty of hours into. But what exactly does this thing offer beyond what’s already been mentioned?

Truck sim with a story

Road Studio S.A.’s game even comes with a story: New Beginning is set in the fictional country of Vale Rico. Its roads and settlements have...