In the world of indie symptures, its own atmosphere, which the average gamer usually does not know anything about. However, “for initiates” in this world a lot of high -profile and expected projects that promise to become real bestsellers, at least at the stage. One of these projects was Gas Station Simulator.
Before buying, we study trailers and screenshots in Steam, watch gameplay for popular bloggers and expect a real “dream simulator” for automatic fans. Here you have Car Mechanic Simulator with a car repair, and the Job Simulator with the work of the cashier, and Powerwash Simulator with cleaning rooms, and even a little House Flipper with wall painting and arranging furniture and, of course, a refueling simulator with full management, purchase consumables and hiringemployees. What could be better, but for such little money? I spent more than 10 hours in the game, and I am ready to share with you a full opinion of the fan of the genres of simulators.
This is what your dressing room looks like at the very beginning. All this has to be removed and thrown out to you manually.
Of course, at the beginning, according to the classic of the genre, we begin the bum in the trash. According to the plot, the mysterious uncle gives us a trash under the guise of a “promising business”. At our disposal, the murdered abandoned refueling, littered with garbage and trash. This is not to say that this is bad, since as the process of restoring the abandoned refueling, it captivates and is very similar to the aforementioned House Flipper: turn on the electricity, take the garbage, wipe the floor, paint the walls, free the stellars, arrange the racks. If you like everything from the above, then the first hour you will just dissolve in this game.
Get into the circle zone when painting is pretty fun … The first time 10. But for some reason the developers decided that adding a building wear system is a great idea. Therefore, you will have to paint endlessly.
In addition, each action is accompanied by a small mini-game or special mechanics, which are trying with all their might to entertain the player. For example, wall painting requires us to stay in the green area. The cleaning of small garbage requires first to collect this garbage along the bags, and the sand around the gas station must be removed with a tractor, which periodically needs to be refueled and cool from overheating. From the first minutes, the player falls on the player so much that the eyes are even scattering from the possibilities. This is pleasing, because at first the game does not seem boring and really adders.
And when we got used to the same mechanics, we are immediately dumped new. In the same way as with cleaning, each action performed in this game is accompanied by a worked out and unusual process created for the game does not seem to you routine and boring.
Car supplying is not just inserting a hose, but to get into a certain value. Piercing the products at the checkout, this is not just a “peak”, but necessarily so that everything is punched without losses, and the tape itself should be periodically wiped with a cloth so that it does not get dirty.
For correctly performed actions, you get a “class” from a client that affects your rating. The higher the general rating of refueling, the more customers, the more income. If you have hands from a flood neck, you get a dizrepect and your rating falls.
And even a banal order of products for a warehouse here is not just to click “buy”, but a full -fledged process, when you need to wait for the delivery car, let it go to the warehouse, unload it and be sure to close the rock door after the car left! Otherwise you will be just robbed!
And gasoline on the column is also not https://nonukgamblingsites.co.uk/usa-casinos/ endless. It needs to be replenished by analogy with the goods: wait for the truck, twist the valve to pour fuel from the truck to the tank. All this takes time, so you have to plan time management. Do not forget, you are one at the gas station (for now), and all these actions you will have to do simultaneously with the gas dressing, piercing products, and cleaning the room.
But it is worth saying thanks to the developers, the customers are quite patient and are ready to wait until you figure it out with everything. And even if you completely score at some point, for example, you will not stand at the checkout at all, customers will just leave without a negative effect for a long time for you.
In general, work in the workshop is quite interesting. But they will not let you completely rebuild the engine. Maximum – replace candles and oil. Therefore, if you are waiting for a competitor Car Mechanic Simulator, here you will not find him.
After about 5 hours of gameplay, your refueling will grow. You will have a car repair shop, more gas stations and a larger range of goods. In general, a complete suitcase of work.
Sometimes the dressing is not at all like a backwater. The flow of customers is larger than in some casino in the center of the las of the venture.
At the checkpoint Avral, everyone wants to break through at least 10 goods, in the workshop you need to change the wheels, fix the door, pour oil and change candles, at the gas station is a line of 3 cars, and then the tourists arrived.
Tourists are a separate mini-quest with a bus from which a crowd crawls out in funny costumes, ready to buy the entire range of products. If at this moment you are one at the refueling, get ready for this test!
Fortunately, at this point, you have the opportunity to hire personnel, which greatly simplifies the task. But they will not give you very much. Staff requires salaries, plus “these mediocrity also get tired”. And at the initial levels of pumping, you can not hire so many people. Therefore, you still have to run with burning boots throughout the station. And do not forget that the staff does not know how to accept the goods!
Also, so that life does not seem like honey, the game is throwing you new trials. In addition to the aforementioned tourists, you are also added to the tasks of opening trunk in the parking lot and sandstorm, after which you must definitely clean the roads from sand, otherwise customers will form traffic jams.
If you read it until this moment, and still have not run to buy the game, then you probably wondered “well, everything cannot be so perfect?”. And you will be completely right. This game has one significant drawback, which tightly slabs interest after about 6-8 hours of the gameplay, which is very, very little for the simulator with such a diverse gameplay.
And no, it’s not bugs. There are not so many mistakes in the game. Some kind of poor fellow manages to turn over in the blue and tightly slow down the flow, but in this case the developers provided a special button that not only removes all the cars in the game area, but also does it creatively. Other bugs, except for congestion, I personally did not meet.
When you press on the “Cleaning of bugs” button, you can observe a cool scene with the abduction by aliens. Definitely, for creative developers, you can put a bold plus
The most important drawback of this game is the lack of progress and a dull routine. Here you probably say: “Wait, how so, you described so many opportunities and now you are talking about routine?”. Yes. When you figured out the main introductory mechanics, opened the workshop, hired employees and put additional speakers, which is required for about 5-8 hours, the game rolls into madness, remember that this is madness?
I will give an example of a typical gameplay. Let’s say a couple of your employees are busy at the checkout and in the workshop. Your tasks:
Refun the car – remove garbage – order goods – accept the goods. Refun the car – remove garbage – order goods – accept the goods. Refun the car – remove garbage – order goods – accept the goods and so again, over and over again. Unless you periodically throw your tasks in the form of sand cleaning or opening locks.
At the very beginning, a whole box of toys is dumped on you, from the abundance of which eyes just scatter. It seems that this game has no boundaries, but there should be even more further! But no. All you received at the very beginning is all the game mechanics available to you until the end of the game. Nothing new will appear. Your character does not have and there will be no pumping of the perks. You cannot run faster, fill the car faster. Your customers will not stop littering, because you pumped the opportunity to turn off this boring moment. You cannot make a new repair, for example, build a second floor, or buy new furniture. Until the very end of the game, you will do the same actions that you did at the very beginning without any change in them.
And no, this is not the situation when the game is completed, you pumped everything, and now you have become bored because you have reached the peak of progress. After 5-8 hours, you will be only about the middle of the gameplay. Personally, I had only 5 popularity of 10, I was able to hire only 2 employees out of 5, I did not have access to a car wash, which probably should be, and I did not put half the types of racks. I also reached only 4 level levels of 5. That is, the game screams that it is not at all passed. But playing it is no longer interesting.
The pumping of popularity is very slow. 2 respects from customers give only 1 percent of progress out of 100. Tasks from uncle, which increase the level of refueling and open new opportunities (for example, the same car wash) require that you fulfill 400 conditions (refueling, sale, repair). If the first 5 hours I constantly got new opportunities, then the second five hours I just did the same routine tasks.
When I was tired, for the sake of interest, I decided to download the trainer in which I put the founding of respects on X16 and accelerated the time by six times. As a result, I got a new level of popularity only after 2 hours (that is, as usual, it would be 32), and a new level of refueling after 3 (that is, in the usual after 18 hours).You do the same actions for almost a day to get … even more of the same actions!
As a result, it is worth saying that the game is very good. Personally, it caused me only positive emotions and never disappointed. However, the developers clearly incorrectly set up a system of progress, because of which everyone is falling on you and at the very beginning, but they give nothing after. Therefore, only a very reinforcing player can go through this game. And it’s a pity, because the interest will find out what will not go anywhere in the end.
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