A Day of Maintenance
You’re a distant blip amongst the sands around New Port City; It’s been a long few shifts, but you’re almost done with doing your sweep of the guidance stations for the docking spaceships. Take your Massive Self-Sustaining Installation Repair Truck (or MSSIRT for short); & travel the landscape to fix the last few on your list for the day with your trusty multi-tool crane.
A Day of Maintenance is a new, unusual kind of exploration game, taking cues from In Other Waters, 17776, Signal from Tolva, and Euro Truck Simulator 2
If you’ve ever found yourself thinking:
“I want a kind-of-technical driving game with a little gay romance but also some discussion over robot worker consciousness. (With crane operation gameplay)"
This game is for you.
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Around 8 hours long
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This game is deliberately slow-paced. Enjoy the drive, sip a cup of something warm, fix sites in the distant future.
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Chat with your Robot Boyfriend, 6 workmates, & a couple other characters along the way.
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Best played with a gamepad. But there’s mouse & keyboard bindings for everything.
Chat with Orby about cool stuff like databases, satellite software, and the possibility of having your mind overwritten by a routine check-up.
As you drive the open desert, your crew of fellow maintenance robots will chew the scenery; debating over trains, spaceships, philosophy, and hats.
Oh! You might also uncover a conspiracy.
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Forklift Load
As you can probably tell by my hours played, I like this game. It’s a nice way to sit back and chill out. I just did my first speedrun of it, clocking in at around an hour and a half. I plan on getting faster. Overall, it’s the perfect speedrunning game with lots to discover, some nice music, and a world that’s kind of nice behind all the jankiness of the physics.
Except the jump upgrade mission, that one can burn.
– Real player with 16.5 hrs in game
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I 100% it in one 6 hour extended playthrough. So it’s not exactly a long game, though not easy ether. Especially a certain rooftop mission.., anyway it’s impressive for a project that I think was made by one dude though overall it is very rough around the edges. Like on a technical level there are a lot of glitches and bugs. That said the word that comes to mind when trying to describe this game is artful.
There is something about the whole experience that was simply enchanting to me. It may be flawed but it most certainly is a work of art (and a fun game with decent challenge to boot). I haven’t played anything quite like it.
– Real player with 6.0 hrs in game
Break Space: Out of Bounds
A good game with local multiplayer feature. It’s a breakout style with some new features. I recommend it!
– Real player with 2.5 hrs in game
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This game masters the art of making something simple be very good. Especially the multiplayer mode.
– Real player with 1.0 hrs in game
The Last Taxi
When a fatally wounded member of an anti-technology cult leaves you with what appears to be an undocumented infant, you’re thrust into a dark network of secrets – unravelling a conspiracy that could shake Progress Point to its core.
The Last Taxi is a narrative-driven adventure game set in Progress Point, a politically and economically-divided sprawling metropolis that has fully embraced automation and human modification, creating a satirical and somberly-surreal vision of the future.
As the last human driver, you’ll meet a diverse cast of passengers, each with their own tailored conversations. Be drawn into morally challenging decisions that lead you into the heart of a dying society.
Narrative Gameplay:
As a taxi driver, your job is to keep passengers comfortable, happy and generous.
Or not?
How you interact with passengers is up to you! With varied dialogue choices and multiple endings, you can choose to keep the tips rolling in or spend all your time insulting them.
But keep in mind, gaining their trust and listening to their problems is a lucrative side business. As per Progress Point’s governmental regulations, all taxis are fitted with sleek, handy, and mandatory listening devices – for uhh… quality assurance.
If your passenger expresses something that isn’t quite above board, you can quietly report it to the authorities for some side cash. Choosing to let some shady business go unnoticed does have its perks, though. And with over 80 diverse characters to chat with, you’ll see all kinds traveling the city.
The World:
In the future, you got what you asked for – Flying cars! Unlimited time for hobbies! And the ultimate hybridization of human and machine! Or was it just flying cars you wanted…
Regardless, life in Progress Point is going pretty great. As the only standing city, we survived environmental and economic collapse because no one from the past changed their small, but destructive habits.
Status quo reigned and we’re the societal afterbirth, filled with various factions that believe in one kooky thing or another, like free will.
Oh, but that makes it sound so bleak. Really, there is a bright side.
No one needs to work anymore! The brunt of the workforce has been given to automatons …Well, unless you personally didn’t harbor a vault of cash before the collapse. If you’re one of the unlucky ones, you’ll still need to find some way to make an income, pay the bills, and find your niche in a world run by automation. As a human, you’ll just have to be creative and think outside the processor.
Features:
• Earn tips by navigating through 80 treacherous, quirky, and haunting choice-driven passenger conversations.
• Aid and abet criminal passengers, help them reconsider their actions, or report them to the authorities.
• Upgrade your taxi with new tools allowing for hijacking cargo, hacking toll booths, enhanced customer experience and more!
• Maximize fares by managing malfunctioning equipment, avoiding environmental hazards, and keeping your passengers comfortable.
• Experience a rich and detailed world of technological headquarters, mountaintop temples, sunken metropolises and pirate-infested underworlds.
• 10 hours of gameplay with 20+ unique choice-driven endings.
Catching a Ride
Catching a Ride is a soft adventure about feeling lost, finding your way, and making friends at the roads.
You find yourself alone on a journey away from home. Driving an old car at night and no headlight.
Therefore, you need to utilize the passage of other vehicles to see the road, and memorize your path.
Gradually find out little friendships, and discover where to go.
Story:
The game is within the RSoft universe, and takes place in 2030 in a huge wave of climate changes, that forces people to move from their home cities, to a secure place.
Alle, had to rush out of his quiet town and venture out into the night in an old car with a burnt-out headlight.
Key Features:
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Contemplate a minimalist art in Topdown-View.
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Enjoy an original soundtrack with relaxing acoustics.
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Feel the vibe of traveling on a nighty journey.
CyberTaxi
UPDATED Review 4/10/2021: Wow! This is a ton of fun. I had some prior grievances with some of the choices made with gameplay that were making the game very hard to enjoy for me. I voiced my concerns in my review, and the devs (small, indie dev team) responded very quickly to address some of those concerns. The devs are very receptive to feedback and appreciate hearing from their community, and it seems like they care about their product after seeing the most recent updates.
The gameplay is a lot of fun! It’s a bit of a combo of Crazy Taxi, Quarantine, and Carmageddon with slight influences from other media as well. If you’ve played Quarantine, you’ll notice the inspiration, but trust me, the devs are working hard to make this their own game! You will find yourself driving around a crazy, chaotic, and relatively apocalyptic city with bad guys and pedestrians on the road, turrets, other cabs/vehicles, and more. You are picking up fares, some of which need to go somewhere, others want you to kill someone or blow up a vehicle, and others want you to blow up a building (similar to dropping someone off at a destination, except with more explosions!). There may be more fare types in later districts that I haven’t gotten to yet, but I am satisfied with the fare types that are already in the game.
– Real player with 16.4 hrs in game
Cool indie game! Some stuff heavily resembles Quarantine or Road Warrior, but there are some major differences. Even despite the fact that the game has some bugs, the devs update it all time - a lot of stuff was fixed in recent patches.
Pros and cons below.
PROS:
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positive vibe;
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unique atmosphere somewhat reminds the old Quarantine classic;
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nice effects and gore system;
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excellent music!
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driving model is not that bad at all,
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cool weapons!
CONS:
- some missions look bland and could be a bit better;
– Real player with 12.0 hrs in game
Fears to Fathom - Norwood Hitchhike
Fears to Fathom is an episodic psychological horror game where each episode unveils a short story narrated by the ones who survived.
You’re browsing the second installment of the Fears to Fathom anthology.
Fears to Fathom : Norwood Hitchhike
In the second episode of Fears to Fathom you play as Holly Gardner, a 19 year old who was driving back home from a gaming convention, as the traffic got horrible she decided to take the long way to avoid the traffic which leads to an unplanned trip to a motel. Little did she know what was going down in the Norwood Valley. She survived as she made the right choices.
Key Features
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Atmospheric environment and photo-realistic graphics.
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VHS film aesthetic.
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Receive texts from NPCs.
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Player voice activity.
Rainy City: Pandemic
Rainy City: Pandemic
DISCLAIMER: I received this product for no cost for the purpose of reviewing. However, this does not affect my views and opinions of the game.
Short Review
Rainy City Pandemic is a story driven title where the player drives around the city delivering pizza, trying to save up enough money to pay for their sister’s medical treatment. The bulk of the gameplay focuses on conversations with other characters and interactions with them. The game takes place in a dystopian future where the the pandemic (the covid-19 pandemic, assumingly) is still rampant.
– Real player with 4.3 hrs in game
Disclosure
This is a revisited review. Check out the original review here .
Rainy Days
Rainy City Pandemic is a game about a delivery boy in a city that is swept up in the wave of a pandemic. You are attempting to raise money for your sister to get her the medical attention she needs. This game had started out as a seven dollar game and has gone through some patches and a price drop to raise the quality of life. I played through the game again after a wave of updates and admittedly I have yet to play the newest additions to the game. What I can say is that one of the weaker points of the games has been significantly improved. The weakest point before was the dialogue. When playing the game through again I was no longer running into dialogue that was repeated nor were there as many open ended short conversations.
– Real player with 2.9 hrs in game
American Theft 80s
It’s the 80s, so put on your nostalgia glasses (even if you weren’t there)!
From the creators of Thief Simulator.
Every house, bank, shop and museum can be robbed with the right tools, you just have to know how to do it.
Earn your way up in a county full of corruption and crime while discovering what the residents are hiding.
That’s right, if you see a house, bank or a shop you can get inside, but learn about the tenants first. You don’t want to get caught.
Remember VHS, cassette players and CRT TVs? No? Well now you can get to know them. Tenants will surely share them with you, albeit not knowingly.
Earn cash and reputation in the underground world filled with corruption and crime.
Sometimes the only thing you can do is get in the car and drive as fast as possible. But be careful, the cops are not playing around and will chase after you.
Make sure to bribe the police to avoid being wanted.
There are many classic styled minigames available. Beat the highscores and get achievements for it!
Use tools like crowbar, bolt cutters or lockpicks to help you in your jobs.
KEY FEATURES:
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steal from houses, trailers, banks, shops, mansions and more
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use lockpicks, crowbars and other tools to break in
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finish shady jobs for cash and reputation
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drive around seamless sandbox
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buy and steal cars
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buy houses and decorate them
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disguise yourself as an electrician or a policeman to fool tenants
Pumping Simulator
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):,
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along helping recruited npc employees, taking fuel from supply cars into the petrol pump.
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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.
– Real player with 23.9 hrs in game
DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME DEVS ARE PATHETIC AND HAVE ALREADY LIED TO EVERYONE THEY SAID THEY WOULD FIX THIS GAME TO MAKE IT FULL AND BUG FREE AND THEY HAVE MOVED ON TO ANOTHER BUGGED OUT SHIT HEAP DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME
THIS GAME FEATURES
MAJOR, MINOR BUGS THE WHOLE GAME
NO GOOD CONTENT CONTENT IN GAME IS EXTREMELY BUGGY
THE GAME CRASHES CONSTANTLY WHEN PLAYING WITH OTHERS
DEVS ARE USELESS AND REFUSE TO LISTEN TO BUG REPORTS
THIS IS A WASTE OF MONEY AT ITS BEST
LOOK FOR A GAME CALLED GAS STATION SIMULATOR ITS 100% AND STILL BEING BUILT BY A WELL KNOWN TEAM WHO ARE TRUSTED AND HELP COMMUNITY
– Real player with 22.4 hrs in game