Bakery Shop Simulator

the game looks ok but theres no way to save your progress so you have to restart the game and start again

This game isn’t quite what I expected – it’s much more basic than anticipated. I was hoping for more hands-on baking, but that part seems to be missing.

"Bakery Shop Simulator" is another low key asset flip. This is just a collection of mismatched (probably store-bought or free stock) assets thrown together to form a basic, shallow experience... more designed for the sake of an amateur developer being able to call themselves a "game developer" thanks to Steam Direct and stock assets than a product designed for gamers. For that reason it's obviously not going to provide a decent gaming experience. The developer assembled a very basic tycoon/shopkeeper game with a bakery theme... note, you don't do any actual baking or anything, it's just making and filling orders while the guy in the back that you don't control does the work. It's tedious, mobile app tier stuff. This game is essentially a bunch of other people's stock assets rearranged and kitbashed into a "game", so with those "borrowed" assets, at first glance it looks okay. But there's much more to a game than the appearance that other people's game assets can provide. When developers aren't capable of doing their job and creating high quality assets, it's also true they can't do any of the rest of the job of a game developer either, and it shows here. 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 assets are fairly mediocre/low quality which fits with the idea they weren't developed by the game creator... they look like they're "just reasonable enough" to go on sale as part of an asset pack. The issue of asset flipping aside, ultimately the quality of these assets is low and low quality always makes for a less than optimal gaming experience. The game assets, such as they are, are much higher than the general quality of the game and it seems apparent the developer has just plagiarised/kitbashed them. Stock assets are just there to be used as placeholders while the developer creates their own assets for their games, but what happens far more often is lazy/unethical developers just throw a bunch of other peoples assets into a blender and put their own name on the horrible Frankenstein's Monster that results. Like this mess. Those technical flaws drag this game well below the minimum quality standards expected of a modern PC game. 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. Let's talk about price and what this asset flip is actually worth. Is this significantly better than any of the 140,000+ genuinely made games on Steam? Of course not! Bakery Shop Simulator had the farcical price of $20 USD, but thankfully the developer removed it when it became apparent this was just a scam. If you can get a key for this from anywhere, well, don't.