Arena Renovation - First Job

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I generally enjoy these types of chill out and relax sorts of games. Power Wash Simulator, Hardspace: Shipbreaker, Ship Graveyard, Crime Scene Cleaner, Lawn Mowing Simulator, Construction Simulator, etc. This one has the bones, but it needs a lot more polish to be fully fleshed out. The game plays like many of these "job simulator" style games, where you go into a level (in this demo, it's a sports arena for ping pong) to fix or destroy or clean or whatever, to make everything better. In the demo, you'll use hammers to turn trash cans and lockers and chairs into dust with a sledge hammer, pick up trash and rubble from the floor, power wash walls and floors, trowel plaster on the walls and ceiling, re-tile the floor with a claw hammer, paint the entire building with a paint brush one block at a time, (not bricks, but the walls, floors, and ceilings are divided into square chunks) then furnish the rooms with any item that fits the room style. (Lockers for the locker room, benches for the sports room, and shelves for the utility room) There's no real design to the placement of furniture and props. I completed it by just putting the same item in the rooms over and over until it filled the progress bar for furnishings. There were some odd things about this demo, too. Like the fact that there's a tutorial popup that explains how to play the game and use the controls, and what your goals are for the demo AFTER I completed 95% of the job. Lots of performance issues, and general frame lag and drops. I have a Ryzen 7 3700X, Nvidia 4060Ti, and 32G RAM. This game shouldn't be taxing my hardware, even at ultra. It feels poorly optimized, at the very least. Overall, I feel like this is a good start, and if there are improvements to the gameplay, the animations, the flow, and the overall presentation, it could be a great niche game for some people who enjoy this type of game and work. The main reason these types of games work is that they're no stress, they're close enough to realism without losing the gamey quality to keep someone engaged, and still simple enough that you can feel like a professional with just a few simple clicks. This game provides some sense of completion, but the actual gameplay feels rather soul-less. Nothing feels impactful, and there's no real sense of satisfaction with a job well done. It needs a lot more polish in the dopamine hit moments. A better audio and visual cue when you complete a task, or something to make it more satisfying. The reason these are so addictive is those constant, and frequent little pings that produce those dopamine shots that make you satisfied, and want to do "just one more ding." I feel like this has a great skeleton, and could be pretty cool, but as it stands right now, I'm not sure if I'd play though the whole game even if it were free. I do hope the best for the developer can improve the product enough to make a few bucks on the game, but it's just not for me.