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Coaches and Iceland DLCs send Euro Truck Simulator 2’s player numbers to new heights

The release of Euro Truck Simulator 2's Coaches and Iceland DLCs this week has led to record concurrent player numbers on Steam.

Coaches and Iceland DLCs send Euro Truck Simulator 2’s player numbers to new heights

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By Ross McGregor

It’s been a huge week for Euro Truck Simulator 2, and that’s reflected in record player numbers.

Both the Iceland map expansion and the Coaches DLC were released this week, boosting SCS Software’s trucking title to new Steam concurrent player heights, with 90,948 recorded this Thursday evening (12th November 2026).

This represents an increase of over 17,000 over the previous record of 73,887, set earlier this year.

After a series of relatively content-free updates, ETS2 fans have enjoyed a bumper week, with Iceland offering a landscape unseen anywhere else in the game.

With 14 cities and settlements to explore, including the capital city Reykjavík, there are still urban centres to visit, but it’s the spectacular volcanic expanses that really steal the show.

Coaches and Iceland DLCs send Euro Truck Simulator 2’s player numbers to new heights

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Conversely, the Coaches DLC provides a whole new way to play the game, putting players in the driver’s seat of one of three buses, with licensed Volvo, Scania and MAN coaches.

Tasked with delivering passengers along set routes, success depends on how quickly and safely they reach their destination, and this gameplay loop seems to have struck a nerve with the community.

Coaches and Iceland DLCs send Euro Truck Simulator 2’s player numbers to new heights

With ETS2’s big new feature released for 2026, attention naturally turns to it and sister title American Truck Simulator’s console port, which was originally planned for this year but has seemingly now slipped to 2027. However, SCS remains tight-lipped about its progress. 

Considering how consistently high ETS2’s player numbers are, and how successfully PC favourite BeamNG.drive has done on PlayStation 5, the Czech studio will surely now be laser-focused on bringing the project to fruition.

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