Last updated on December 16th, 2025 at 08:51 pm
Pocket Trucks: Route Evolution – Simulation Game Review
Pocket Trucks: Route Evolution is a Simulation/Adventure/Entertainment game from NimbleBit LLC, first launched in 14th December 2023.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 732+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Pocket Trucks: Route Evolution Stand Out
Choose your truck and deliver cargo across the country, East to West Coast! The timely delivery is all in your hands, can you do it?
This idle truck simulator game allows you to choose your path – where do you want to go? Build routes, collect trucks, earn coins, and become the tycoon!
EPIC TRUCKING QUEST
Jump into the life of a truck driver in this sim, and carry goods across the USA in awesome American trucks. Boost your trucks to get better speed, comfort, and gas mileage. Finish jobs to grab rewards and push ahead in the game, expanding your empire with every task.
TACKLE SURPRISING CHALLENGES
Get ready for unexpected twists and turns on the path to your empire across the country. With a map in hand, you'll move through different scenes and deal with challenges like icy roads, heavy traffic, and blocked paths. This idle sim makes you think on your feet!
CUSTOMIZE YOUR RIDE
Select your driver from a lineup of characters perfect for the job in this tycoon adventure. Dress them up in various outfits and gear, and choose your cargo, each needing a special way to be moved and delivered. Your choices craft the story of your trucking empire.
Jump into this truck sim with its cute retro pixel art! Drive, explore, and enjoy the thrill of building your empire. In this idle tycoon game, strategize and grow, leaving your mark across towns and the country. Every decision counts towards becoming the top truck idle empire tycoon.
This Simulation game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Pocket Trucks: Route Evolution is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 16th September 2024
Recent improvements include:
Lucky Wheel just got a bit better!
Some bug fixes and necessary technical updates for smoother gameplay!
Download & Availability
Pocket Trucks: Route Evolution is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Pocket Trucks: Route Evolution on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
This game is amazing easy to play fun exploring new cities and routes and unlocking cities its great but some of the last campaign tasks are somewhat kinda hard and might need a bit more roads or cities but other than that this game is perfect.
This game is about celebrating the people who transport goods in real life and showcasing the immense thought that goes into stocking the food on our Walmart shelves. Support the creators of this fun, good looking game and similar kinds of games. Our only reason for the 4 stars? We wanted more out of the free game. Like more content, more stuff to do and we are barley level 14. Sincerely, worth playing.
This has the potential to be even better than pocket planes and pocket trains. Please continue to update.
Outside of the prem being 20$ its pretty cool. Ps.add unlockable heavy load truck.
We grew up on Nimblebit games and mobile games in general. We know the microtransaction hustle. But man, just seeing how much of this game feels like it wants you to put down real money or watch ads kinda bums us out. Dipping our toes back into Pocket Trains and Pocket Planes makes Pocket Trucks just seem like its trying to get you to pay up and some of the things you need to pay for are egregious. Why do we need to pay for VIP to fully upgrade our trucks.
We love nimblebit games and was excited to try this new(ish?) game. However there are many confusing things about it, promises of more features that are not available (what the heck do we do at the parts station?) Im loving the graphics and the gameplay but its frustrating that some features are simply not useable.
This app is missing a lot of Nimblebits signature polish and charm. They made sure to cram it full of pop-ups for microtransactions and buggy ads for Kings Shot though. Anything resembling a truck youd like to actually have is behind a (real money) paywall. Skip this half-baked money grab and just play Pocket Planes again.
We loved the game right away. It took us Maybe three days to get our level to 50. However, once at level 50 keys are no longer part of the rewards. So from all appearances, we cannot unlock more cities for the time being-Im not paying real money. We found it nice that its easy enough to build up the bux. So maybe a bux to key conversion would be nice? Its a solid game otherwise.
This was an instant download as Im a huge Nimblebit fan, but these overwhelming UI cash grabs are not something Id expect from them. Very disappointed as its a beautiful game.
Only problem Ive found is an error painting the heavy duty truck. Whenever you change colors, all of the details (lights, grill, footboard) turn all black.
These games itch our brain so good. We cant wait for UI fixes and general improvements for the future because this, like every other pocket game, has great potential.
Not so much fun at more advanced levels. No way to get the keys so you are stuck with very few routes. Cant expand to Midwest and the East Coast. No clue what to do with that parts you get instead of the keys as a reward for leveling up. No help or instructions whatsoever. Nimblebit games used to be our favorite. Not this game though.
Been stuck in Midwest for about two months now with no way to gain keys from leveling up and no keys are spawning along routes anymore. Not sure if its a glitch or what but needs to be fixed. Or give us the option to spend coins to buy keys. Also pocket pass is almost never active and wants you to pay $10 every time a new one comes to get premium.
Play this during class very fun.
We love this game so much we would love controller support! Also it could use some UI improvements like the menu buttons persisting across all menus so you can navigate quicker between trucks and jobs and the map quicker.
Longtime fan of Nimblebit but this one is a buggy mess so far. Frequently unable to put items on layover, even when there is room in the city. If you kill the app and reload, then it works, which is a sign there is something corrupted in the game and not just user error. Ads dont appear even when you are quested for viewing ads, which also prevents you from doing all daily quests to get credit for a complete day on the weekly quest. Truck upgrades and scrapping items is also unclear; need better help lesson to explain why it keeps giving us a red ! Symbol when there are no upgrades to be had. UI loses its place when you cycle trucks if you have several at rest, like when you start playing a new session, then when you send one truck to a destination, it tends to put you back on your first truck again rather than letting you hit the arrow to your next truck. That wastes a lot of time recycling through your fleet repeatedly. It errs out when attempting to link account, so no reward. The link to the Discord is invalid. Turning off sound doesnt work. Your truck list shows incorrect load eligibility. Other buggy, unclear, or annoying stuff but overall this game shows promise but isnt fully baked yet.
Super lame you need a game pass to fully level up vehicles.
When we buy a new trailer for one of our semis the game doesnt save it and we have to buy one anytime we want to change it.
Right now theres a bug where every time you switch trailers you have to buy them again. Its be 5 stars if that was fixed.
Has some fun differences to pocket planes, bit also some frustrating downsides-needs some improvements. Some parts of the game are just mystifying with no explanation (does anyone know how to use scrap) and we question some of the balancing metrics. (Its hard to fill up the intermediate sized trucks is there even a point to the semis?) this is still a very new game so hopefully theyll work some of this out over time. Love the graphics and the USA map.
After the most recent update some of our trucks either no longer show any loaded cargo, or they show the cargo items another truck has loaded, and which is in a different city, also the cargo being displayed as available is actually in that other city. Deactivating and reactivating all trucks didn't help. Please fix this bug. Thanks.
This game has wonderful pixel art, cool trucks, and a nice gameplay loop. All of that is difficult to enjoy with the endless parade of ad requests and the TWENTY DOLLAR pass. Takes all of the modern day garbage monetization tactics, including a battle pass, and shoves it into a game that benefits from none of it. This is a sad example of the decline of mobile games as profit takes precedence over playability.
Game is great, fun to play and we love the idea. The only problem we have is that there are too many cities that dont produce enough jobs. We have 15 or so trucks and we have unlocked 23 cities. We have to go to every single city to try and find jobs, even for our smaller trucks. If more jobs were produced, especially in the bigger cities, that would be great.
Nimblebit always seems to bring a little delight and whimsy to our phone when they release a new title. Very enjoyable and satisfying game. Great way to pass the time or distract ourselves when needed. Really, badly want to be able to buy multiple of the same truck as you can in Pocket Planes. Not being able to is a major drag right now.
Amazing game we need more countries to explore.
If youve played any other NimbleBit pocket games, this is fairly similar. This game has a fun progression and can require some strategy to ensure youre maximizing profits. We would like to see a map view of job listings. Right now job listings for a city are jumbled together which makes it difficult to find an optimal path. That may be on purpose, but it seems like more of an annoyance than a feature. If we could view the job listings on the map, that would make sending out our 30 trucks a lot easier and faster. We find ourselves giving up and closing the app after sending only a handful of trucks because its annoying and time consuming to send them from the list.
We love this game we just stared playing but it is so fun.
Addictive, fun, great graphics. Highly recommended.
We have been hoping and waiting that they would come out with a truck game. One complaint we have is you cant take older vehicles off the road. We love being able to get the smaller trucks, but when you get to some of the bigger ones, you dont need the horse and buggy. Now Im loading almost 20 vehicles. Id rather be able to take them out of commission and run the big rigs.
Great new 8-bit game. Room for lots of potential cant wait for more updates.
Im Tryina hop on this game with more content please.
One of the best games from nimblbit we heard that this game is outsourced to a different developer just wanna say mans did a great job this game is relatively new so there will be bugs but hell work it out Im excited for the future if this game hopefully more trucks and cargo type are added.
Real fun to pop into 3-4 times a day the customization is fun and the routes are great. The only thing is we think its silly how you cant upgrade your trucks past level 5 without premium.
Im a big fan of their older games. This one seems very clunky in comparison. It does make us want to play pocket planes again though. If that was their goal, they succeeded.
Thats our biggest complaint. We have to complete 100 jobs and we cant set the trucks up and walk away. When jobs are completed in the background they dont count unless Im on the game. Is that on purpose.
We played pocket planes for years. This game is definitely fun but we would recommend them adding more trucks and possibly trailers for light duty trucks. Our Maine gripe is that you can not buy multiple of the same truck to make a actual fleet. If the developers could mirror the pocket planes game a little more this game would be perfect.
We love playing this game and seeing all the options for routes and trucks. Our only wish is that there were more opportunities to collect city keys, as it really slows down the progress when going to new places. We also wish there were more cities, some that we think are missing are Knoxville TN, Roanoke VA, Concord NH, St. George UT, Bentonville AR, and Moline IL just to make a few. We also wish the routes were more realistic, like i70 going into Utah and connecting to Salt Lake or something, and i80 stayin in Nebraska and going into Wyoming. Small details but can change the way the game feels.
Id like to see some customization of the trucks.
As of recent Ive fell in love with playing this game. We also believe you guy should implement some type of inventory of parts so it easier to scrap parts and either equip them from the inventory to any truck.
Obviously if you love Pocket Planes or Trains, this is also for you. Trucks look really good, hopefully we get to see more added to the game. A couple suggestions: The UI is a little off. You cant see cargo info, trip mileage, the adding cargo just feels clunky to us, maybe thats personal but its just our experience. Only getting one of each truck makes a little bit of sense, but not really any at all? We guess it depends on the direction of the game, are you going to allow us to purchase multiple of one truck type or will we get a few more truck models to work with. Appreciate getting a game with trucks. Thanks for many years of enjoyable games Nimblebit.
The game name needs to remove Route Evolution because once you reach level 50 the game comes to a screeching halt. You no longer get a key when moving up a level in experience so it takes 5 days to get a single city. Creating or expanding a route is now a months long process. We enjoyed the game prior to level 50. We could see real progress as we played but not now. The game has also removed the random keys that would appear which agains slows the game down. This game also needs a FAQ. How do the scrap and parts components of this game even work? How much longer do we need to wait for the Coming Soon Pocket Pass to activate? This game was fun for the first 50 levels but now needs serious work for us to keep playing.
Not a lot to do once you have a few trucks. Also, buying the big rigs doesnt seem to get you much as most cities dont have enough jobs to fill them up. After a while, our fleet was mostly sitting idle waiting for jobs. Also, scrap feature doesnt seem to have much to do. Never figured out how to use it.
We just downloaded this game and it was terrific for about 10 minutes then we had to wait 20 minutes for new jobs. Very fun concept but with it was a more face paced game.
You can only go so far to upgrade the trucks before you have to get pkg which is okay but the larger should be able to pick up and drop off multiple times in one run.
We dig this game and we'd love for it to expanded on with more trucks and more deliveries and maybe more cities but overall great game.
Been with NimbleBit since 2013 or something like that, and this is our favorite of their transportation style games. The map is entertaining, and much like Planes and Trains the decorations for the different cities and towns adds a ton of character to the game. Im excited though to see this game be updated! Im no developer so we cant say exactly whats missing but from a consumer perspective, we would enjoy maybe some side games that give keys or bux, and also the option to start in a city of your choosing! But Im sure yall already have those ideas plus more on the back burner! All in all it gets five stars.
This game is great and we love it. It doesnt feel like the other games, but this game feels unique.
We love trucks and we love nimble games.
Cool game but its lacking an update. We need to make this a little make fun and interesting. Also make it easier for us to gain keys! Also sometimes the Ads dont work. Thanks team.
After an ad finishes, the music is turned off automatically for no reason.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.2.3
- Size: 267.27 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: NimbleBit LLC
Last updated: 16th September 2024 | Genre: Simulation, Adventure | Developer: NimbleBit LLC