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Don't bother paying a guy in flip-flops $75 a session for transcendental meditation lessons: Install Euro Truck Simulator 2 instead.īut then it catches you off guard. It clears my mind, and eventually the only thing I'm worried about is where the next service station is, because I'm low on gas, or if I'm going to get these bags of sand to Rotterdam in time. If I'm stressed out or feeling overworked I'll go and drive down the freeway for half an hour in a big fucking truck. It's so relaxing, in fact, that it's become an unexpected form of meditation for me.
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You can listen to live radio from whichever country you're in, and I have fond memories of screaming down a rain-soaked autobahn listening to Fleetwood Mac on a German classic rock station. It's bizarrely soothing, like a screensaver for your brain. The muffled rumble of the tarmac under your wheels, the swish of the wipers, raindrops tapping at the windows. But it's here that the game is at its most hypnotic. Like driving on an actual highways, then. Here, your only interaction is keeping your wheels straight, managing your speed, and occasionally changing lanes. Most of your time is spent on long highways. Time I could have spent hunting space pirates in Elite, battling demons in Dark Souls, or just going outside. That's an entire day and some change I've spent driving along imaginary highways, obeying the speed limit, delivering wood shavings to Stuttgart and hauling powdered milk to Aberdeen. So I had a go, as a joke, and ended up playing it for over 30 hours. Not because I had some burning desire to drive heavy goods vehicles around Germany, but because I heard from a few people that, honestly, seriously, it's really good. I don't play many sims, but I was intrigued by Euro Truck Simulator 2. Suddenly these games are being exposed to audiences of millions, and normal people are starting to play them and realize that, hey, some of them are actually pretty good. But thanks to YouTube, that's slowly changing. They're the contemporary equivalent of the stereotypical train-spotting, Thermos-clutching anorak of modern English folklore. Simulators, and the people who play them, are easy targets for piss-taking. Then I overshot Edgware Road by about half a mile. It took me almost an hour, with a manual, just to start the engine. Or how about Garbage Truck Simulator, which asks the question: Do you have what it takes to be a trash tycoon? And if you've ever wondered why train conductors earn $75,000 a year, try playing London Underground Simulator. There's OMSI, which sees you driving a bus around the streets of 1980s Berlin. Niche simulators are quietly successful on PC, and there's an astonishing variety of them.