15 Best American Truck Simulator Mods

The truck sim game American Truck Simulator is surely one of the best games of its genre, but the game’s mods make it even better. On top of the vanilla game’s beautiful areas, plenty of classic trucks, good vehicle handling, and high production value, these great American Truck Simulator mods are certain to improve your experience. Without further a due, here are the best American Truck Simulator mods you can download for free right now.

Best American Truck Simulator Mods

1. Misguided’s Realistic Weather

Misguided’s Realistic Weather is a simple visual mod basically makes it so that there is much more rain spatter on your windshield when it rains in American Truck Simulator. It makes seeing what is ahead way harder, thus making rainy days much more challenging. And it also affects your side windows as well, and AI vehicles now turn on their headlight when it starts to rain. An essential American Truck Simulator mod for more immersive gameplay.

2. Klaas’ Real Gas Prices

As you can understand from its name, Klaas’ Real Gas Prices is a small quality of life improvement that changes the gas prices in the American Truck Simulator daily to reflect the current real prices. For example, if you travel to California, the prices will be considerably higher while New Mexico and Oregon are cheaper. A fundamental ATS mod for those looking for authenticity.

3. Real American Gas Stations

If you are buying gas at real-life prices with our previous mod pick, why not buy it from real gas stations? Real American Gas Stations is a great American Truck Simulator Mod that replaces all original gas stations in ATS with real American gas stations such as BP, Chevron, Shell and Irving.

4. Real Company Logo

Real Company Logo is another essential American Truck Simulator mod that will further increase your immersion to the game by changing all the corporate branding in the game to the ones that exist in real life, such as Walmart, FedEx and even car brands like Ford and Audi.

5. Realistic Graphics Mod

If you are looking to improve the average graphical quality of American Truck Simulator, Realistic Graphics Mod is the best graphics mod for ATS you can find. It adds 72 new, realistic skybox textures in 4K as well as improving in-game coloring, light flares & reflection effects, terrain and water textures, rain & thunder sounds and effects and climates.

6. SiSL’s Mega Pack

Yes, those are Star Wars characters in your driver cabin. SiSL’s Mega Pack is a huge mod pack that contains over 400+ cabin accessory items suitable for your taste, bringing female and male co-drivers, bobbleheads, accessories for truck driver needs, snacks, electronic devices, computers and tablets, lots of scarves, fresheners, toys and many more.

7. Realistic Headlighting

Realistic Headlighting is a good starter mod that reworks of headlighting visuals in the American Truck Simulator to make it more realistic. It supports 5 trucks: Kenworth W900, T680, Peterbilt 389, 579 and VOLVO VNL. It is perfect for those night trips across America.

8. Smarty’s Wheel Pack

If we pass those other real-life mods like gas stations and brands, it comes to small details, like our truck’s tires. Smarty’s Wheel Pack is a small model mod that adds actual real-life tires and wheels like Michelin and Goodyear into American Truck Simulator. It is also compatible with trailer mods, but the wheel pack must have a higher priority in the mod manager than trailers in order to work properly.

9. Realistic Mirror FOV

The native game’s field of view of your rearview mirror is highly inaccurate and can cause you trouble while changing lanes and parking since it makes things seems much further away than they really are. Realistic Mirror FOV is a useful mod for ATS that will fix problem in no time.

10. DP’s Realistic Traffic

Apart from other great ATS mods, this is one of the most essential ones for the ultimate realism and immersion. DP’s Realistic Traffic increases the density of the traffic based on time of day and changes the AI vehicles’ behavior for a more realistic experience. They are much less patient and police spawns also vary depending on the state you are in.

11. Actual Day/Nighttime Mod

If you truly want the most realistic gameplay experience American Truck Simulator has to offer, download Actual Day/Nighttime Mod. It changes the time of the game depending on the time of your current location and even makes it so that in winter you will have long nights and short days.

12. Minimal Adviser Interface

Minimal Adviser Interface is a user interface mod for ATS that modifies your UI to be less disruptive. It only leaves the absolutely necessary data, so you can enjoy what you love the most, which is driving. You can toggle the GPS on and off with the F3 key, use F6 for job information, F7 for truck damage status, and F8 for info panel.

13. New Mountain Textures

For our last mod picks, we have some graphics mods for American Truck Simulator. If you want a better view of the world of ATS while traveling around America, New Mountain Textures will bring some fresh, more realistic and higher quality mountain textures for you to enjoy.

14. Realistic Roads

Realistic Roads mod reworks the road textures of the ATS to be higher quality and more realistic. The mod also adds new asphalt textures like cracked gray asphalt, dark granulated asphalt and light gray asphalt, so there is more variety depending on your location on the map.

15. Enhanced Vegetation

One of the essential mods for the game if you want better landscapes in American Truck Simulator is Enhanced Vegetation. It reworks the native game’s vegetation textures to be closer to real life and adds a lot more on top of it for more variety and eye candy.

There you have it, best ATS mods that will enhance your immersion and realism for a great truck sim experience. These add-ons are quintessential for those looking to further improve a great game like ATS with better content, so hop in right away and download them. If you have more mod suggestions or think that our article helped you, let us know!

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