Warehouse Simulator: Forklift Driver Reviews

A game in which it's fun to control equipment and arrange boxes in a warehouse. Distribute and make the warehouse convenient. It's fun to drive a forklift truck.

I picked this game up at a discount in the Sim Fest sale. It is a very simple game atm but with a solid foundation in the most important aspect, the handling and control of a forklift. It is pretty realistic for an early stage and easy to get good at driving. I find the various camera angles to be nice and they give all needed viewpoints. The game is in early development so a lack of a tutorial at the start frustrated me at first. I watched a YouTube video of an even earlier release and that person had even more trouble than I did. But it popped off a few light bulbs in my head. An hour or so into playing and I had it figured out. I have written a guide for it on the community page if you are interested. At this stage, this is the kind of game that simulates a real world task without any other frills. You have to enjoy heavy machine operation. I feel the developers have done a very good job and hope to see more variety of game modes, tasks and lifts in the future. I feel I got my money's worth. It is a relaxing game that you can learn from.

I recommend this based on the hope it will get some funding and be allowed to grow. One negative reviewer did not understand the numbering system as I'll mention below. It's a cheesy game, but it has potential. I'm playing version 0.2. For the first task (top of the three options) you need to read carefully the Guide, the part about numbering is important. Ignore the racks in the warehouse, you move pallets of boxes from the location at the far right of the starting point to the ghost palette locations to your left ("Row 5") and far to your right ("Row 4"). Read about the numbering system to understand the floor locations. Press SHIFT while moving to increase your speed of travel. The game needs the ability to SAVE and RELOAD during tasks. I moved all the pallets with boxes on them (there are three empties that give no storage location) to their assigned locations but got no indication that I was done or had completed the task. There should be some notice when all are done.. Definitely Early Access! Hopefully the authors will be able to return to their project soon.

After Installing the game I did a Malwarebytes scan and got a report of trojan malware, I believe I did a scan before the install but it's been a while since I refunded it. Edit: the game was pretty bare-bones too.

This game is not bugged, it's a whole bug itself. You can get stuck in everything - floor (when leaving the rubber floor), curved pallets, walls, shelves, etc. Steering is retarded. Pallets can fall off unrealistically passing through the forks, or get crookedly grabbed even when forks are fully mounted (bugged physics). I don't even know how/if the tasks are completed. When I placed three pallets in the marked places on the shelves, the marks still were there. Even on the sale, it's not worth to buy it. Really unplayable.

Was fun till the game told me to put the pallet in place 15 when there are only 12 places in each row.

I hit the wall, stuck in the wall. I take the box, then the box takes me to hell. Any thing is equal to soap. You can't lift it.

Game sucks. Controls are bad, lags hard and there is no tutorial. Only 3 levels. Don't bother with this game

I've been playing for a couple hours. and some things I personally would change. I would add a directional blue light front and back, add some mirrors, have the forks be able to side shift and spread in and out. also when setting the park brake and lifting a pallet in the air, the counter weight seems to come up, and when releasing the park brake, it comes down. To "scan" the pallets you need to right click on the mouse, found that out by random presses on the keyboard/mouse and it doesn't say that in the control menu. A sound option needs to be added to the menu when playing, instead of the main menu. The fuel empties to quickly and I can't figure out how to change tanks/re fuel. I feel there could be some npc/ai driving/walking in the warehouse to get that warehouse feel. Maybe add some dome mirrors to the end of the "aisles". I'm just putting my opinions because of my experience from working in a warehouse. I don't like when in 1st person, when you turn the camera turns with you, instead of staying still. When raising a pallet in the air, and set the park brake, and you rev up the motor, it doesn't raise/lower faster. Edit: the location on the floor for the pallets are no longer visible in the 0.0.2 update

was skeptical about this but tried it anyways. I should of stuck to my instinct because this is horrible all around. i didn't play long because by forklift kept getting stuck and wouldn't do anything except turn on and off. It has crappy controller support so had to make my own on steam which is way better than whats implemented in game by a long shot. theres not that many functions in the controls so the devs could of mapped them better for controllers more like a normal driving game instead of using the stick to control gas and brake. I drive forklifts and been certified for 15 years and can see this has potential but its not something i would waist my time playing in its current state.