24.0 hours played
Written 4 years ago
Where would I start, I am pleasantly surprised, there are not many on steam like this immersive life simulations if you will. Perhaps this could be even called the most immersive of all of them, it is detailed , has a lot of well working features (maybe not some that much detailed as "Live the life" game but its more immersive)
and a few very interesting ideas (positives):,
1) along helping recruited npc employees, taking fuel from supply cars into the petrol pump.
2) unique idea - The goods you buy into your shop can be placed at once from a box just placing a box onto the shelves, they are automatically arranged into any shelf or fridge box, as you pull it over the shelf, once all are placed, the original wooden transparent box is automatically destroyed, and on the other side can be put out and consumed from the shelf one by one.
3) The weather and day-night cycle changes
4) The city is quite huge and well designed and it really resembles a real city, or remind some version of GTA.
5) you can buy coffee to customers, clean their windshields, tank their cars , hold push or throw any object, same seeing doing the npcs - eg cleaning trash bags, put out fire, clean floor , fix buildings
6) there is a neat addition, basketball , soccer field , security cams, toilet privacy, bicycle, shopping cart , cleaning robot, casino, bar, the supply cars automatically leave when they are offloaded, car wash, repair, tires air, cell phone with tasks and accomplishments, houses with furniture,eating and food and placing anywhere, beating stealing customers, city posters, advertisements
7) the background noise is unobtrusive and very suitable, however the music annoyed me, but it can be fortunately disabled in the settings
Overall its quite intuitive, after some time it can become casual and relaxing when things get automated however initially it is quite fast paced. , the graphics are not top, but relatively good compared to other similar games, but in contrast to them, this has a better playability.
- (negatives sort of - but not necessarily) A few points I got puzzled from though-
1) When I though ordered the goods from the warehouse personally, firstly the goods disappear if you don't have enough money, it is little confusing as if you managed to buy them, furthermore I just don't know where the goods ended up, disappeared as this way unlike ordering it automatically via the laptop, no delivery van arrived.
2) Even small increase of the goods price makes more customers angry and so decreases your reputation, so it is probably not worth it, and initially selling goods earns only very low income, however after time, it seems as if multiple items of the same ordered products were sold or perhaps having a permanent cashier helps it and earns substantially.
3) the cars do not seem to come into the petrol pump regularly but rather at some specified times in bigger numbers, like multiple game hours no single car comes, and then suddenly 4 cars come, it's not that bad but perhaps more enjoyable would be if the traffic could be made to be coming more regularly and distributed more evenly
4) The view from a vehicle is not best, since you cannot look to the sides,
5) the background ambience noise is nice and suitable however at times, especially at night I think it could be somehow ex-changed, tuned to a different one
6) I know its a pumping game, but other professions should be added to the city somehow, attractions , shops, school, pool,no need to interact with them, etc so the city would look more live, not looking like the pump business is the only one existing
but other than that all over it was enjoyable experience and I hope more is yet to come, while I might be regularly from time to time coming to enjoy this experience, I believe this could be also quite enjoyable with many players like a sort of gta roleplay. This scratched my itch, and quite filled the gap on the market with a solid living contemporary life/city simulation with many cooperating manageable npcs and multiplayer. If I exaggerated a bit, this is the closest from some angle of view, to a failed to promise game identityRpg, in terms of managing a city , professions, with multiplayer and working nicely together.
