That in my view is the biggest shame of Gas Station Simulator, especially as I’ve enjoyed blasting through the 10-ish hour (17 if you potter about) campaign listening to music and podcasts.
While there are a few options to limit that stimulation, until you find a rhythm that works for you it isn’t very accessible. Showing off Gas Station Simulator to my dad, someone who is inherently going to be a bit older and thus might not enjoy that excessive activity, he wanted to get into it but knew too well from the pace I was being run around that he couldn’t enjoy it himself.
While I do understand and enjoy the story that is being told of your near inability to keep up with the demand, it can be overstimulating to some. It isn’t until quite late on in the admittedly succinct story that you’re able to hire staff and you’re no longer being run off your feet. Working for your mob-boss uncle, you’ll end up robbing people left, right, and center for the cartoonish patriarch. Joking aside, it is part of the story being told that you are in over your head, and these instances of whacky random internet-style humor are just the levity in a darker tale. Honestly, officer, I didn’t take illicit substances. This is no more evident than the phallic duck graffiti I had to paint over at one point or that very real alien-dino rave that happened. That’s before a bus-load of aliens and dinosaurs in neon green suits have a rave in the middle of aisle 3, nearly wiping me out of tobacco, alcohol, snacks, and reading material that is as stiff as a board.ĭespite the title, Gas Station Simulator is inherently poking fun at other stiffer-lipped simulators out there.
While I like that, at times I need to be sitting at the counter of a gas station on Route 66 at 3 AM enjoying the peace and quiet. I keep repeating myself regularly now but so many big releases are about fighters and so on, with weapons and violence everywhere. Gas Station Simulator is one of those moments where lightning strikes, creating an experience that stands out amid the noise of new releases. Even if they needed fuel, I’d do it for them single-handedly. Starting out from 5 AM to 8 PM before opening 24-7, my little slice of hell was open to everyone who needed their tires changed or bottles and cans of soda or snacks. Oh, and you’ll be ringing up the items people buy in the store believing you’re Sam Walton. You’ll be Fueling cars, painting walls, sweeping the floors, stocking the shelves, ordering more stock and “gas” (even though it is a liquid), chasing away that menace called Dennis, emptying the bins, picking the turd up off the bathroom floor, ordering a bin lorry to empty your skips, and much more. Then soon enough, you’re running around at a pace that would be called frantic if you were going slow enough to be seen by the human eye. Starting out pumping gas at a couple of bucks a liter, you’ll make a steady little profit out of your overgrown dust-blasted shack of a station. Though looking a little deeper than the quickly thrown-together cut scenes to set up your new business, Gas Station Simulator has a story, a point, and most importantly, a really difficult gameplay loop early on. On the surface, Gas Station Simulator is another one of those simulators that cover what is supposed to be a mundane job: Bus Simulator, Construction Simulator, PowerWash Simulator, Euro Truck Simulator, and so on. Another worldly snapshot of eclectic small-town Americana as run by someone overworked, underpaid, and loves every second of their interactions with travelers of the most beautiful road, Route 66. Instead, I’ll talk about when I took up the position of being one of those characters in a gas station on the Main Street of America. I’ve waxed poetic about the roads that sing with music across the US in my American Truck Sim review, so I won’t bore you with that again. Winding from Chicago to Los Angeles, the perfect place for your gas station is on the mother road of western expansion amid the late-mid 20th Century.
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