ETS2 Iceland DLC: release date, cities and the Cruising Iceland event

By the EuroTruckSimulator2.uk team · Published 9 Nov 2026

Euro Truck Simulator 2: Iceland comes out on 10 November 2026. It's a whole island in one map DLC: 14 cities and settlements, the famous Ring Road, one-lane bridges, waterfalls you can stop and watch, and the Northern Lights at night. On the same day, SCS starts Cruising Iceland, a World of Trucks event with a free paint job and a troll figurine to earn. Here's everything SCS has announced, with a link to the official post for each part.

Looking for an ETS2 Iceland DLC free download? As of 9 November 2026 the DLC is unreleased, its Steam price isn't shown, and we have found no authorised free release from SCS. Use the official Steam page. Free community map mods are separate projects, not copies of this DLC.

1. Release date and trailer

SCS Software announced on 24 October 2026 that the Iceland DLC for Euro Truck Simulator 2 comes out on 10 November 2026. It's sold on Steam and needs only the base game. SCS hasn't given a release time. On the morning of 9 November the Steam countdown pointed to the late afternoon of 10 November, UK time. Price not shown as of 9 November 2026. Two days later, on 12 November, comes the Coaches DLC.

Official trailer by SCS Software. It plays from YouTube when you press play, or watch it on YouTube. There's also a gameplay video from Seyðisfjörður to the Goðafoss waterfall.

Sources: SCS blog: Iceland release date & video trailer reveal (24 Oct 2026) · Iceland: gameplay preview (14 Oct 2026)

2. The 14 cities

The map has 14 cities and settlements, linked by the Ring Road and the roads into the fjords. These are the 14 you need for the Cruising Iceland event:

• South-west (capital area): Reykjavík, Keflavík, Selfoss, Borgarnes
• West and Westfjords: Ólafsvík, Patreksfjörður, Ísafjörður, Hólmavík
• North: Blönduós, Akureyri, Húsavík, Þórshöfn
• East and south-east: Egilsstaðir, Höfn

Sources: Iceland on Steam · SCS blog: Cruising Iceland event (map, 8 Nov 2026)

3. How to get to Iceland: ferries

You can't drive to Iceland, so you sail. SCS has added three ferry routes from the mainland and one inside Iceland:

Watch the cost. SCS warns that taking a truck and trailer by ferry is expensive. If you'd rather not pay, buy a garage in Iceland and use Quick Travel to get there. Which mainland port you can sail from depends on the maps you own. Rotterdam is part of the base game.

Source: SCS blog: Iceland: Ferries + Transparent Water (31 Oct 2026)

4. Ring Road and one-lane bridges

The main road is the Ring Road (Route 1, called Hringvegur in Icelandic), which goes all the way round the island and links most of the cities. Off it, smaller roads run out into the fjords and the Westfjords.

Iceland is also famous for its one-lane bridges. Only one vehicle fits at a time, so you have to slow down and give way to traffic coming the other way. Rush onto one with a long trailer and you'll meet a car halfway across.

New: see-through water. Iceland is the first map with transparent water: in shallow places you can see the rocks and riverbed under the surface, and fast rivers get white foam. SCS says it will add this to other places in ETS2 over time.

Sources: SCS blog: release date post (one-lane bridges) · Ferries + Transparent Water · Reykjavík post (Hringvegur)

5. Waterfalls, viewpoints and the Northern Lights

Viewpoints are places where you drive up, trigger the spot and watch a short cutscene of the landmark. Iceland has many of them. SCS has shown these, and kept the rest as a surprise:

Northern Lights: under the right conditions the aurora can light up the night sky. Daylight hours follow real Iceland, so expect long nights in the winter months.

Sources: SCS blog: Iceland: Viewpoints (26 Oct 2026) · release date post (Northern Lights, daylight)

6. Reykjavík and the industries

The capital sits on a small peninsula, so SCS had to squeeze it in. You drive in on Route 41 from Keflavík, and a short piece of Route 49 links the city to the Ring Road. Look out for Harpa, the Central Bank, the yellow harbour lighthouses, the Sun Voyager sculpture and the tower of Hallgrímskirkja, which you can see from far away.

• Work around Reykjavík: the Straumsvík aluminium smelter, the Sundahöfn container port and recycling yard, an oil storage depot, a logistics hub and an IKA store in Garðabær, and farms in Mosfellsdalur.
• Elsewhere: farms and quarries made just for Iceland, and a silica factory in Húsavík.
• For your company: Reykjavík has a Volvo dealer, a service station, a garage you can buy and a recruitment agency.
• For Coaches: there's a coach terminal by the harbour, ready for the Coaches DLC on 12 November.

Source: SCS blog: Iceland: Reykjavík + BIG in Iceland (4 Nov 2026)

7. Special Transport routes

If you own the Special Transport DLC, you get 4 new oversize routes in Iceland, with escort vehicles. Loads include reservoir tanks, silos, boats, giant tyres, underground loaders, and a new one: the articulated dumper, which used to be only in American Truck Simulator.

Source: SCS blog: Iceland: Reykjavík + BIG in Iceland (4 Nov 2026)

8. Cruising Iceland event: how to finish it

Cruising Iceland is a World of Trucks event that starts on Tuesday 10 November 2026 and ends on Sunday 3 January 2027 at 23:59 UTC. It's free to join, but you need the Iceland DLC to visit the cities.

1. Connect your profileYour ETS2 profile must be linked to World of Trucks (in-game: the World of Trucks menu).
2. Take the right jobsOnly External Contracts (from the World of Trucks website) or the External Market count. External Market lets you use your own trailer.
3. Visit all 14 citiesMake a delivery to or from each of the 14 Iceland cities. Each job must be at least 150 km.
4. Check your Log BookYour World of Trucks Log Book shows whether each delivery counted.
5. Claim the rewardsGo to the Events page of your World of Trucks profile and claim them. They arrive as Steam inventory items.

Our tips:

• "To or from" saves time: one job from Höfn to Ísafjörður should tick off both cities, so pick jobs between two cities you still need.
• Mind the 150 km rule: short hops inside the capital area (Reykjavík, Keflavík, Selfoss) are probably too short. Pair a south-west city with one in the north or east instead.
• The far corners take longest: Patreksfjörður, Ísafjörður and Þórshöfn are at the ends of long roads. Plan those first, while there's plenty of time.
• Jobs from the mainland count too: the community goal counts deliveries to or from any Iceland city, so a long job from Rotterdam to Reykjavík adds lots of kilometres.
• The community reward needs your personal goal: if you don't visit all 14 cities, you won't get the troll, even if the community reaches 175 million km.

Source: SCS blog: Cruising Iceland World of Trucks event (8 Nov 2026). The tips are our own reading of SCS's rules.

9. Get your profile and mods ready

A new map DLC changes the map files, so map mods are the most likely to break. Five minutes before you buy:

1. Back up your profileCopy the profiles folder (and steam_profiles if you use Steam Cloud) from Documents\Euro Truck Simulator 2 somewhere safe.
2. Keep the game on 1.62Iceland comes out after the 1.62 update (5 Nov 2026). Keep Steam on the default, latest version.
3. Check your map modsLook at each map mod's official page before you add Iceland. Our map mods guide shows the right load order.
4. ProMods players: waitAs of 9 November 2026, ProMods hadn't said it supports 1.62 yet. Its official blog is where it will be announced.
5. Try it on a new profile firstStart a fresh profile with no mods, drive one job in Iceland, then add your mods back a few at a time. If the game crashes, paste your log into the crash-log checker.

We'll add the price and anything we find when we drive Iceland after release, including problems with popular mods.

10. Quick questions

New to mods? Start with how to install ETS2 mods, or browse all mods and the map mods.