Late november 2025 Scs software released the next chapter of Euro truck Simulator 2: Nordic Horizons. It’s northern Scandinavia all the way up to the arctic! And I have to say, it’s wonderful! It does have long routes in between cities, especially up north, which is logical. But the scenery is excellent, the details and landmarks are awesome, and I have a lot of fun cruising the roads in Scandinavia.
As usual, ETS / ATS had a xmas hauling event this year! It’s called woven wonders of winterland. Not much different from other years I think, though the map of the Xmas world might have had a few tweaks here and there.
Early december, yet another DLC for American Truck Sim was released! It’s the state of Louisiana this time. To be honest all these mid west states are a little a like, with lots of trees. But some interesting landmarks in between. I especially liked the Baton Rouge area and the harbors.
I completed the achievement for this one recently. Here are the screenshots!
The Halloween event was something else this year! Scs software made a new map where the main road was closed and you had to take a detour through a dense and spooky forest to reach the dropoff point for your cargo! The first delivery I got stuck on just about every branch out there and found the whole endeavor pretty annoying! No more, I said!
Witches of Brackenreach Achievement
But I tried again a few days later, since I couldnt really let an event go by ;). And it was much easier once you got to know the route a little bit. What also helped was to figure out the map without a trailer. Anyway, I did take a bunch of screenshots, but it was all rather dark so not all that many were usable.
But I have a gallery here for you anyway.
Full map of the ETS2 / ATS Halloween event, Witches of Brackenreach
In july the Iowa DLC was released for ATS! Scssoftware knocked it out of the park once again. Very nice scenery, cities and farms are well done and there is a lot of sight seeing to be done. I participated in the cruising iowa event, screenshots are below. The event conclusion was posted on the scssoftware blog.
These two events are still going, they overlapped during the Xmas holiday! A nice opportunity to go trucking during the holiday season :). I completed both.
The Greece was quite a bit of work, 15 deliveries over 200km and it seemed the time traveled on the boats in between island didn’t count. The Xmas event, this time names ‘back to winterland’ was the same as last year. The winterland itself was a little improved with better lightning etc. this year. It was fun though.
Two events the past month! You can read the roundup here. Finally we got the checkbox list to keep track of where you have already been to, no need for a notepad anymore!