Toll Booth Simulator: Schedule of Chaos on Steam
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Manage a Toll Booth on a desert highway. Check passports, take payments, and decide who gets through. Grow fruit, mix cocktails, sell drinks, and dodge the cops, all while the chaos spirals out of control
  • Novamdomum@fedia.io
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    6 days ago

    This seems deliberately bad. It kind of reminds me of those games designed to prove a point about Steam or something “HAHA Nobody saw the trick I was playing on them. I made this game in 20 minutes and thousands of people wishlisted it.” That sort of thing? I could be wrong though. Just feels like it’s something along those lines.

    • wccrawford@discuss.onlineEnglish
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      6 days ago

      I don’t think anyone puts this much work into something to make it “deliberately bad”.

      But when I first saw it, I couldn’t believe it was actually a thing. The mix of things you do in this don’t make sense to me. In what world would I think being a “toll booth operator” involve selling dodgy drinks to people?

  • Tanis Nikana@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 days ago

    To each her own, and your decision isn’t putting me in financial jeopardy, so carry on.

    But all this seems really derivative. You sure this is worth going all-in on?

  • morphballganon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 days ago

    I don’t understand what a lot of those activities have to do with toll booths

    The drinking animation needs a lot of work, or just skip it and have it be instantaneous with a gulp sound

    The woman’s head getting bigger from the drink is bizarre and disturbing

    The woman spewing liquid out from her mouth doesn’t look great

  • dhhyfddehhfyy4673@fedia.io
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    6 days ago

    Looks like trash lol. You straight up stole a bunch of shit from Schedule I. Is all the other stuff just copied from other games you’ve seen as well?

  • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orgEnglish
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    6 days ago

    There seems to be lots of scope creep. Fist fights, romance, fishing, gardening, farming… Papers Please did great without all that, and in 2D with simple but well-directed art.

    • insomniac_lemon@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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      6 days ago

      More, Mu6ariz (step forward for M6riz).

      Also with the game here clicking on dev/publisher info goes to a curator page (where the game doesn’t even seem to show aside from the name/thumbnail), so that’s probably how they can easily create/rename (not saying intent, but certainly doesn’t help with shovelware vibe).

    • HelloRoot@lemy.lolEnglish
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      6 days ago

      If it looks like assetflip shovelware and the reviews say it’s shovelware then it’s probably …

      • 50MYT@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        6 days ago

        It’s using the same back end engine as schedule 1 (which is legit).

        Sceptical that this is the third time I’ve seen this advertised here