Drug Dealer Simulator 2 Steam Charts & Stats

save yourself the frustration/money, this game is a hunk of a$$ and runs like $hit, overall is horribly made, the maps like fazed through half the buildings and $hit, cant run up any slopes and terrain, everything is just buggy and frapped

Did I enjoy it? yes, but overall very disappointed. Pros: - Better UI & Interface than DDS1 - Good mini map - Having distributors was a great addition - Having dealers bring you the cash was a good addition - Interesting recipes & methods for making product - Map is very beautiful - Better feeling of control of your organisation - Special clients is an interesting touch - Multiplayer was a good add on (even though I’ve never played multiplayer) - Better way of managing clients - Big interesting variety of lab equipment - DIY table, making lock picks & explosives was interesting - Influencers were interesting to increase rep in an area - Always enjoyed the music….other than one of the songs in the rave bar in the bay Cons: - The map being x6 lager than DDS1 but feels so empty & lifeless - Cutting your product, having a lab tec making product & addictiveness/overdoses should’ve come out on release, not several months/nearly a year later - None of the characters or the story have substance to them, never felt connected or drawn in by either - I felt more like heisenberg than I did a cartel boss even with throwing money at my lab tec I still spent most of my time gathering ingredients and “cooking”/Growing - Pushed out updates but never really felt quality tested and ran in to just as many bugs/crashes than I did in the last update (see all previous reviews from others or go on post from Reddit users to see more details) - I felt punished for defending myself against thugs. You’ll get a good slap with a “person of interest” leading to a raid for holding your own, I get it you do crime people get upset but it felt over the top at times - (Don’t read this part for spoilers) I lost all motivation when the Mexican cartel wanted me to make packed lunches for the rebels to “prove myself” why couldn’t supply them with explosives, make weapons at the DIY table or supply them with money instead? - The police don’t cause me as much anxiety as they did in the 1st….they’re just annoying NPCs on patrol - Poor system for bribing officers to get out of a search. There is literally a police station in every town, why can’t I just bribe the officer/chief behind the desk to get rid of the “person of interest” or stop police searches for a day or 2? - Influencers were meh, interesting idea but could have been a boss? With the story taking place post Pablo Escobars death. My takeaway from the trailer, I thought I’d be taking on other bosses/cartels who want to make a name for themselves post Pablo by blowing up compounds, taking labs & fighting their thugs to gain control of territories but nope. There’s no grit to this game. There’s no real competition, I was trying to make it Eddies story before he moved to the states and his struggles but honestly, it hardly a cartel/dealer sim, it’s too peaceful and pretty. Even though the game is listed as complete it honestly still feels like early access. I had much higher hopes for it. To end it all as this review has taken me a lot of time and thought. I think overall it’s not a bad game and is different in good ways from the 1st but also poor in other ways. If you want to buy it, then buy it when its on sale. I’d highly recommend DDS1 with the economic overall mod (although they don’t allow full mod support for either which sucks because I like to see other peoples creativity). This will be left as a negative review for the time being unless they make some good changes. I have a lot of hope for this franchise which I dearly love but other developers are catching onto this genre and are making games (which I I won’t name out of respect to this team) who could blow this out of them out of the water. Maybe they need the competition to make them more competitive and put out something more gripping. Apologies for the poor grammar and lengthy review, I just feel very passionate about this subject.

It's hard to say one way or the other. I loved DDS 1, the mixing mechanics had a real draw and the environments felt appropriately dingey and cramped. Albeit it'd be poor to compare the first title to the second as they're different beasts but I do miss the mixing, it's like they went in a different direction. Whilst playing the second title, I had a saved game from release that was complete but since many updates, that file no longer functions correctly. It's just somewhat poorly optimised but this is a trend that carries from the first title, perhaps the devs are just finding their own space at their own pace. Play with friends, this is not an intended solo experience.

FIRST THING i do not understand how you are using unreal engine and cant make mountains like its actually crazy work, so many multiplayer bugs, mixes dont save after logging off, the prison mission is bugged all to fuck only 1 outta 2 or 3 go in and ur stuck unless u pay 75k made 1000 smokes got my cards for em and still had to pay 75k, my duos map turned back to all clouds like he hasn't explored the map but yet hes the one thats been playing the game the hole time, personal opinion its a great game love what its about and everything in it but it has so many bugs, the devs are just so fucking ass. it is fun asf them are just the issue i have

The predecessor succeeded because of the great balance of claustrophobia & paranoia from the very beginning, rewarding the player 50% more for dealing during curfew. You can also pass time in your hideouts during empty phases. This sequel gives us some QOL changes to packaging & actual employees that can take most of the load off of the player, unlike the first game, where your dealers were just clients with bigger orders & delayed returns. But that's basically where the good ends. We trade the great world design of the 1st game, for generic open world emptiness on a series of islands. It's possible the game gets better during the later stages, where there are more enemies & threats, keeping you on edge like the 1st game could. But that's not worth the boring slogfest of the early game. Fuck this game, do not buy it even on sale. It's just a boring & generic open world game that likes to waste your time & solely relies on the unreal engine visuals distracting you.

I enjoy the implementation of growing and buying seeds and lab work. I appreciate the setting as well, but to echo the points of a few others my biggest issue is that there is just too much commuting. One thing about the first game is that while, yes, there is some running back and forth a big element was smuggling things across checkpoints too which added a layer of interest to break up the commute. There are vehicles and busses, but the vehicles are annoying cause you have to park them in designated spots and then remember to collect them later because if not you are walking.... Boats are able to freely traverse but still have to dock at designated docks so I don't see why they didn't just make them fast travel points same as cars. The main take-away is that the main hook isn't there. There is too much tedium in travelling. The devs should make travel more interesting by adding more checkpoints, more guards or some POI's/ random encounters or something to reward the banal footwork.

First game was superior in just about every way. This is a game that should've been early access at least, but probably should've just taken another year or two to work on it.

cool game but lots of room for improvements and expansion the ai needs looking at eg the police are to keen it should be random on stops not every time you pass them also the game needs runners or assistant or assistants as you get bigger you can not be in two places at once you make the stuff or you deliver there a gap you can not do both well you can but not to he scale you need as you will run out of raw materials maybe a smuggles drop in the game would be good like you order raw materials/chemical and wait for random drop to come then you could have is it safe to get them??? well that my thoughts most of all its a good game just need tidying thanks

I love this game. Surprisingly addictive. (imagine that!) It might need a lil fix here and there, and there are sections that feel like they are still in progress, but it gets much more right than wrong and it makes me excited to see what the devs have coming out for it next. MOAR!!! If the devs ever read this: Just keep working on your vision and don't mind the detractors!

Vehicles implemented but act as "fast-travel", not actually drivable which is ridiculous. Movie Games S.A is a publisher with many indie studios under it's wing, literally just reuse the code from another game, it's all based on the same game engine anyway.