Bowling Alley Simulator

This game is great. If you love simulation games and running your own business after grandpa, you’re going to have fun with this one. Sure there are some bugs but they are taken care of quickly. Devs are also listening to player feedback and adjusting/ adding things that are greatly requested. I particularly like how customizable everything is and that customers aren’t just coming alone like in most simulation games. They actually come in groups which makes this feel much more realistic.

Habe es mir zwar gestern geholt aber noch nicht angefangen bzw weitergemacht (Spielstand von der Demo kann im fertigen Spiel weitergespielt werden) weil es Bugs gab , die einen nicht weiterspielen ließen.....Das ist natürlich sehr ärgerlich. Bugs sind nicht schlimm , so lange sie den Spielstand nicht zerschießen oder man an einem Punkt festhängt. Zum Spiel: Man betreibt seine eigene Bowlingbahn also man verleiht Schuhe , bereitet Essen zu , gibt Getränke aus , Putzt etc etc Personal kann man sehr früh einstellen , so das man zwar viel Hilfe haben kann aber dafür natürlich weniger Umsatz am Ende des Tages. Muss man sich halt überlegen was man möchte. Ich finde das Spiel toll und kann dem Dev nur Lob aussprechen , denn er hat immer zeitnah an den Bugs gearbeitet und der heutige Patch mit QoL und anderen Änderungen hat er echt nen super Job gemacht.

abbastanza carino

I’m really disappointed with this game. I had high hopes for it and was really looking forward to playing it, but it’s turned out to be the most unmanageable simulation game I’ve ever played, and I’ve played a lot of sim games. The biggest issue is the staff. They are painfully slow. I have two members of staff in the kitchen, one cooking and one serving, and I’ve even invested skill points into upgrading them, yet they still can’t keep up. There’s constantly a queue of around 10 customers waiting because they work so slowly. Another frustrating issue is the bowling lanes. Groups of customers seem to come in and stay bowling for the entire day instead of just a couple of hours. That means I’m constantly having to make new customers wait, but they eventually get fed up and leave, which hurts my rating. What am I supposed to do when there are no free lanes and the people already playing never leave? The game also does a poor job of explaining some of its mechanics. The party bookings have completely baffled me because the game barely explains how they work. It’s stressful trying to figure out which group is actually the party when they arrive, and you have to keep lanes free for them all day. If you don’t, regular groups end up taking every lane and staying there for the whole day, leaving the party with no chance to bowl when they finally arrive. Most of the bugs I’ve encountered also appeared after Steam’s two-hour refund window had passed, so keep that in mind if you’re thinking about buying it. To give the developers credit, they have been quick to release patches and fix bugs, so they are clearly listening to the community. Hopefully they’ll also address some of the gameplay and balancing issues because this game has the potential to be really good. Right now though, these problems make it unplayable for me. I play simulation games to relax, not to spend the entire time running around stressed, trying to juggle too many things at once because the staff simply can’t keep up. I will definitely give this game another go in the future, and if the issues I’ve mentioned are addressed and they make changes or add mechanics that make the game more manageable, I’ll happily update this review because I’d genuinely love to see this game reach its potential.

Ich mag solche Spiele echt gern und hab mich schon total auf dieses gefreut aber momentan bei mir nicht spielbar. Man startet ein neues Spiel, gibt in dem Vertrag Namen und Businessnamen ein und unten am Vertrag wenn man die Unterschrift setzt geht es nicht weiter, egal was man macht. Hoffe da gibt es schnell ein Update dazu.

I love the game!!!! its so much fun to play it, there is bugs but they working on fixing it and talk to us in discord to fix them fast, try it and you may be addicted as me! Keep up the good works DEVS

This game is really bad not just from a game design point of view but also from a player point of view. so the game forces the player to do every single game mechanic at once there's no build up to stuff so the player is off cooking food,cleaning,sorting shoes,booking people in for bowling, running the cash register for the food orders and fixing bowling lanes that get stuck... there's no build up to them things as soon as you start day 1 you are doing everything and the staff you hire can't keep up with everything and they cost to much money for the lack of work they do. cooking staff can't even cook two items at a time when the player is able to cook 2 items at a time in a single deep fryer basket so the workers end up slowing everything down. if you end up getting to a end of the day without alt-f4 being used once the ingame timer hits 12am the whole day just ends and it forces everyone out of the building regardless of anything this means you lose any money for food items that you did not checkout before the timer hits 12am even when the player needs to use a taxi in order to go to the next day. this bit of game design is done on purpose to make the player lose money its not that Simulator. *what the devs should do is not force everyone out of the building at 12am and allow the player to end the day by themselves when they want to, at 12am no new people should show up and then the player can deal with the people who are still in the building this way the player is making money and not losing money everytime the clock hits 12am. the game has a level system for item unlocks this would be good if the devs did not force you to have to stock every single item in the game as you unlock it. because the devs require you to stock every item regardless of anything this means the Rating goes down due to people always complaining that you have not stocked something even when the amount of money needed to stock every item you unlock is way to much early on, its like the devs want you to speed run or something. there's not a moment in time where people are not complaining about something, in a Simulator i expect there to be a natural progression system when it comes to the games mechanics and not to throw you in handling everything at once. i also expect not to need to stock every single item the game has seem its suppose to be a Simulator game so the devs are stopping the player from playing the game how the player wants and basically stopping the player from enjoying the game by purposely making the game bad. if i don't want to have a food court to run then i should not have to be serving food to people that should be a unlock in the game and the devs should never be forcing the player to stock every item seem no bowling place has every single item in stock all the time. the sauce dispensers are really bad aswell due to needing to buy a new one everytime they run out and not being able to click a button on the sauce dispenser to refill it for a small cost, the sauce dispensers cost $25 each but why can't i refill it for like $2 or $3 by just clicking on a empty one, why do i need to spend $25 each time to buy a new dispenser that is so stupid. the game has no way to check how much stock you have so its pretty much a guessing game everytime you need a restock on food items or drinks the price changes on products are completely random so everytime you increase or decrease the price of a sold item it picks a random number so ya have fun with that even when the price is suppose to change by 10% each click but it just randoms the number everytime. the amount of items in boxes make no sense and always under fills the fridges so it means you have to buy 2 boxes and still have product left in the box due to the devs not understanding basic maths when restocking. the food item box i think are all correct to the amount of space in the freezer but i could be incorrect for more high level items. now i did join the discord for this game and pretty much told the devs everything i put here but a major issue popped up the dev who replied to my feedback pretty much downplayed everything and started making stuff up and rewording my feedback instead of just doing what any normal human would do and respectfully reply to the feedback. when a dev downplays and rewords a players feedback it means the devs don't care about what the player base thinks its one of the worst things a dev can do. but overall from what i have played with this game its not very good the balance is way off the progression is way to fast, the devs have purposely made the game to be annoying towards the player instead of fun and enjoying. the devs need to stop rushing the progression and needs to stop rushing the player around and they need to take a step back and redesign parts of this game to make it better to play at this point the whole game is a mess. if the dev did not downplay my feedback and reword my feedback in the discord, i think i would of liked to help this dev out and get this game into a much better and more enjoyable version but the dev who responded to me in the discord was just so rude. when players give you feedback just take the feedback and understand from a players point of view instead of from a game dev point of view, not all game design is going to work well and translate into a enjoyable video game. I'm pretty much done with this game its way to annoying and not fun to play its just a load of game devs who want the player to have a scripted run and not allow the player to do what they want to do in a Simulator game about Bowling. players should never have to stock every item in the game just because some level went up, the player should never have to be forced to do every single game mechanic at once. a game like this should have slower progression and allow the player to unlock the food court and toilets as they play instead of everything being forced on the player from the very start.

Super

Ok, the game was fun and I was really liking it until level four, you can order the chips and nacho's are added to the menu, but you CAN NOT buy the equipment for the Nacho's. After that the game just went completely down hill. Recording for youtube. Still not sure if I will upload or not, I will wait for a few day for an update.

There's hardly more content in the full game than in the demo ...