If this sounds like “Gas Station Simulator”-esque tasks to you, I would agree. The kitchen corner, where you can contemplate the meaninglessness of this game. Being “done” with them depends on the facility though: You can clean cars at the car wash, you can sand them down (the reason for which eludes me as someone with little knowledge about car maintenance), or you can change the tires. Unlike in games like “Gas Station Simulator” where you can see customers entering the premises, “Car Dealership Simulator” just flips a switch to spawn them, and automatically despawns them once you finished the task. Once you have figured out that you need to sit at your desk and click a button at the upper-left corner to open your business for customers, you only have to wait a brief moment for the first car to materialize in one of the buildings. So, what do you do in “Car Dealership Simulator”? Well, since you do not have nearly enough money to even have one car to sell, you need to work the facilities that your car dealership comes with. However, I have played games with terrible machine translation before that I managed to like despite the non-sensical gibberish that was the dialogue. Even the Steam store page for the game has not been proof-read, since it contains pearls like “Every customer comes with different pricing, don’t sell your car now and don’t miss the next deals!!”, which, again, is a sentence that I can understand the meaning of but that does not mean that it is not terrible. Let’s hope that we get enough “Custumers” to support it financially. The poor save file, lost all its money after the game got updated, probably in some freak Y2K-esque billing accident.
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And that is not the only place in which the English translation was more than lacking: The title screen is full of typos, with examples ranging from simple stuff like “Early Acces Note” to the admittedly funny sentence “Save file may be broke when the update”. I mean, I get what it is trying to tell me, but grammar this bad certainly leaves me worried for the game that inevitably follows after I click the start button. I gleefully enjoy reading sentences like “When you improve your car dealer, new parking spaces are opened”. Clicking “Next” shows another box full of important information, which I just included down below to give you an idea of what a game we are talking about here:
Now, TL might sound like a fantasy currency, but evidence points at it being Turkish Lira, which at the point of writing the article would have been around 12,000 Euros. Apparently, he left after selling basically everything, since all that is left are the buildings, some furniture and a starting capital of 250,000 TL. Right after we start the game, we get what little story there is to tell: The father of the player character has retired and left his car dealership for us to manage. Which brings us to “Car Dealership Simulator”, a game that offers … well, nothing at all and therefore makes everything I have reviewed during this week so far look stellar in comparison. The question of whether tasks are fun and/or relaxing is a major part of my rating, since without either fun to drive me forward or the often-mentioned zen-like relaxation part there is no bloody point in playing these games. My expectations differ from genre to genre, but in a simulation game I would put the emphasis on the gameplay loop. However, in my opinion there has to be some standard to go by, else all of the reviews I have done so far are basically null and void. There are probably people out there having a good time with “Lawn Mowing Simulator” and I am sure that helping cute animals restoring their homes is enough of a reason for some players to buy “Fresh Start Cleaning Simulator”. Over the course of the simulator-themed week here on Cubic Creativity, I have sometimes been rather harsh in some of my criticism.
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