How To Draw A Gas Station

PRISON STATION BUNDLE IS AVAILABLE

4 Nov

Prison Station bundle is available now!

Get the bundle!

We are happy to announce that we have joined forces with Prison Station to present you an interesting bundle.
The bundle of Prison Simulator and Gas Station Simulator is available now at a lower and convenient discount - 10% on both of the games!

Prison Simulator - Get a taste of Prison Life! Become the Prison Guard and deal with dangerous convicts. Prison management, lots of daily activities. Will you become the best Guard in history? Or maybe you'll turn into the worst scumbag?

Gas Station Simulator - Buy an abandoned gas station and restore it to its full glory. Renovate, upgrade and expand upon the offered services to keep up with your clients demands.

Achievements bugged?

I have 20 hours in and I'm not getting any for basic things. Is there any way to fix this?

14 hours ago

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Update #3 Discussion

Please find the patch notes for the game's third update below. Please use this thread to discuss the changes and report possible issues with these changes. Stability & Performance - Fixed a loading issue in which the game freezes for a couple of seconds before showing a loading screen. - Various smaller fixes for random crashing issues ahead of Update #4 that will have a much stronger focus on dealing with those. Employees - A new UI element now shows relevant information regarding em...

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4 Nov @ 12:01am

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DevLog #14 - Car Wash First Glance

29 Oct

As you might be aware, you will be able to expand your gas station by building a car wash. The car wash will be the first free content update to the game and we want to show it to you.

The car wash you will be able to build will be a classic one. People will drive up to it and you'll have to clean their car manually. Yes, it's going to be quite a bit of work, but make sure there are features helping you accomplish the task with ease as you can see in this small video we prepared.

However, if manually washing cars is not your thing in the long run, we got you covered, too. You will be able to upgrade the car wash to a more modern, automatic variant so you don't have to wash the cars on your own. That's something we are almost finished with and will show you soon :)

Gas Station Simulator

Update #4 and #5 insights

26 Oct

We are currently working on some major optimizations and fixes for the game. These are quite significant and go really deep into the bowels of the game, hence the upcoming updates #4 and #5 take longer to prepare than we needed for previous updates. We'd like to give some insight into what we are doing and what you can expect in the upcoming weeks in terms of stability and performance.

One of major goals for update #4 is a drastic improvement of loading times. It took us quite a while to track down the cause and thanks to some very helpful players we were able to pinpoint the sources of the problem. As you might be aware, some players experience extremely long loading times, be it to start the game or load a saved game. This however is not a simple matter of the game not performing that great on a HDD or something like that. As it turned out, all kinds of players are affected, both with SSDs and HDDs. This occasionally is even the case on very beefy machines with seriously fast NVMe SSDs.

While at it, we are also having another look at the handling of saved game files and improve various behaviours players have experienced in the past, especially when it comes to stability of saved games. We are also addressing a problem some players noticed that the game crashes on rare occasion after performing an auto save. So quite a lot is happening in this area and we can already see great improvements in internal testing.

Another major goal for update #4 is further addressing of random crashes. While the previous patches helped a lot of players already, some players are still suffering from random crashes mostly in later parts of the game. We are reviewing a lot of the saved games sent to us by those players and are getting some really good results from that. A lot of crash instances have been identified and fixed already, more are being worked on. It is likely that we will split the fixes between update #4 and #5 as to not delay the deployment of the fixes unnecessarily.

For update #5 we are working on quite large improvements when it comes to performance. It is a combination of smaller optimizations in terms of how visuals are handled and large changes on the technical side, that will result in a significant increase when it comes to FPS.

One of those larger changes is reworking how vehicles in the game are being handled. Right now, all customer vehicles are treated equally. This in turn means, that a vehicle of a customer that only wants to shop or fuel has the same complexity as a vehicle that is meant to be repaired or washed in the upcoming car wash. These vehicles eat up a lot more resources and thus FPS than a simple vehicle would.

What we are doing now is redefine the vehicles and split them into different groups, so that vehicles not meant to go to the workshop or car wash don't contain all the complexity. Visually it doesn't change anything, since you don't see those bits and pieces either way, but it affect performance quite a bit, especially the higher the level of your gas station's expansion and the more customers arrive.

There are also a lot of smaller optimizations being done to lighting and processing of objects in the scene which in turn greatly reduce the amount of draw calls in later expansion stages of the gas station. These things, while small in itself, add up very quick and provide a very noticeable improvement in FPS across all systems.

Yet another thing that is being done is improving the vehicle behaviour in order for The Red Button to become less of a necessity to use. The way vehicles approach certain areas has been redesigned and vehicle movement in general has seen quite a few improvements. We also found multiple issues in this area that at later stages of the game were responsible for random crashes and these have been fixed, too.

While we don't have precise dates for update #4 and #5 yet, we expect to be able to deploy update #4 sometime next week followed by update #5 one or two weeks later. Once the optimizations from these updates have been deployed, we will release the car wash next. It's already good to go, but it relies on the vehicle optimizations, so we can't release it before those make it into the game.

Gas Station Simulator

Multiplayer

I want that multiplayer is added into the game so i can play with my friends

10 hours ago

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Guide

Deutsch - Liste von Tips und Tricks!!!

Hallo zusammen Vorweg, fühlt euch frei, diese Liste mit euren Erfahrungen zu erweitern ;) Hoffentlich hilft es dem einen oder anderen!

Car Wash Update

When can we expect this update. I am at the highest level in all and have over $9,000 to spend.

14 hours ago

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Game wont load

I've been waiting for 15 mintues, The game isn't loading.

9 Nov @ 9:56pm

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Guide

List of Products and Shelf Capacities

3 people found this review helpful

Not Recommended

10.5 hrs on record

Posted: 6 November

Fun concept but the whole game is optimized SO poorly, it's a shame they released it in this state. It shines most in the very beginning when there isn't a lot going on. However, after progressing to a point where there are more than a few cars and people, it crashes every 15 minutes or so, rewinding any progress. Crashes were common before mid-game, but as you continue, you begin to expect any action you make to crash the game. My save is currently stuck in a position that it will crash within a minute of loading in, regardless of what I do, even if I manage to make it to the button to remove everything (issues are so rampant, the game would literally be unplayable without this reset button). Throw in the massive loading screens prior to the crashes and you have the full, mid-late game Gas Station Simulator experience.

If you played the demo, you've experienced all you've needed to. Save your money for devs who aren't out for a quick cash grab.

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2 people found this review helpful

Not Recommended

5.3 hrs on record

Posted: 7 November

It's not good and the gameplay is not deep at all, feels like I'm just doing stuff for the sake of doing stuff - like popping bubble wrap mindlessly - it's impossible to get immersed because of this reason. I really should have tried the demo before purchasing lol, would have refunded.

Ah well, you learn.