I even abandoned a store full of customers from a passing party bus-one of the game’s random events that sends a truckload of party goers dressed in alien and dinosaur costumes to your station-to hop onto the back of a delivery truck. The toilets can stay unwashed, at least till a visible trail of green, noxious gas permeates the air. Meanwhile, everyone just stared at me, glassy-eyed, from inside their vehicles, wordlessly pleading with me to fix this problem.
The sand can accumulate-I once left a bunch of vehicles honking at each other ceaselessly, just because a police car got stuck onto a small sand dune. You even have a shady investor-someone who refers to himself as your uncle- who probably has some ties to the mafia.
This means fuelling up passing cars, keeping your gas station well-stocked with random knick-knacks, clearing away the small hills of sands that have accumulated from sandstorms, and even fixing up cars at the garage. While cleaning up this place will hit you with a punch of dopamine-you need to sweep and give the entire building a fresh coat of paint, which feels stupendously fulfilling-you also have to consider a litany of other affairs. Then there’s the building itself, which looks like an abandoned junkyard: trash and debris are everywhere, broken furniture is strewn about thoughtlessly, and the ground is caked with generous layers of sand and muddy footprints. As luck would have it, it’s located smack bang in the middle of a desert, where sandstorms take place at an alarmingly frequent rate. The crux of the game is this: you’ve inherited a gas station called the Dust Bowl.
The game is set in an impossible but beautiful utopia: there’s zero expectations to achieve anything, and no one bats an eyelid if you leave them and their car stranded on a sand dune for days.īut let me explain. It’s the perfect game to wind down to if you’ve had an exhausting week. Gas Station Simulator has been one of the most popular releases on Steam this year–even outselling Deathloop at one point-and for good reason, too.
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