Trailer Shop Simulator Reviews

Trailer Shop Simulator is a fairly basic Unity asset flipped first person tycoon game, but with a twist. You run a small convenience shop out of a "food truck" like trailer. The twist is that there's mafia all over the place killing your customers and making life hard for you. A weird idea, it might even work if the quality of the game was at least a little higher than asset flip tier shovelware. But asset flip tier shovelware this is. The "developer" paid for/pirated a few Unity asset store assets, arranged them haphazardly in a first person tycoon game template, and submitted it to Valve as if they're real game developers. Two notable criteria for what makes an asset flip instead of legitimate use of stock assets are whether those assets comprise the majority of the game, and whether the "developer" properly credited the people who created most of the assets in the game. This game fails both of those tests. The "developers" here didn't credit any of the artists and real, actual game developers who created the assets here, so this is plagiarism, as well as cash grab shovelware. Taking this shovelware seriously as if it was a genuine attempt to make a game, it doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. The game interface is just a clunky, awkward mess. It's a very raw adaptation of the tycoon template the developer used, and lacks polish. It's unintuitive and just feels bad to play. The mismatched game assets are fairly mediocre/low quality, it's a wonder why they couldn't be bothered "borrowing" higher quality assets for this asset flip. This is a lot like going on a shoplifting spree but only stealing the cut price store brand goods. Regardless, the poor quality assets alone should be enough to deter gamers from bothering with this. The game never really caught on with the millions of gamers on Steam, with a very low peak player count close to launch, and then just a handful of players launching this game every couple of days. This is undoubtedly caused by factors such as those raised in this review. It's always helpful with buying decisions to consider how popular and successful the product is, and unfortunately while this did accumulate a few participation trophy reviews, overall, people just aren't using it. You're forced to sign a highly questionable yet legally unenforceable End User License Agreement... for an asset flip! This comes across as an arrogant delusion of grandeur or an attempt to add a false veneer of legitimacy to what is otherwise shovelware garbage. There's no justification for this shovelware to carry an uneforceable EULA. This kind of asset flipping isn't harmless. It makes it harder for gamers to find genuinely made games from ethical developers. It makes it harder for genuine indie developers, who put hard work into trying to make real games, to find an audience for their products. It gives indie developers a bad name. So, should you buy this asset flip? Is this better than any of the 100,000+ genuinely made games on Steam? Of course not! Trailer Shop Simulator has the utterly unrealistic price of around $5 USD, it's not worth it given the defects and shortcomings with the product, especially considering the sheer number of completely free, much higher quality games on Steam. This is also competing with over 14,000 free games available on Steam, many of them far better than this paid product.