Gas Station Story

Fun little game about working a shift at a gas station. It's on the shorter side, one playthrough took me about 4 hours. The game has gameboy aesthetic and sounds, its portraits were made with the GB camera and are super charming. Music sticks to your head. The gameplay is puposefully slow. You are having conversations with customers and manually checking in the price of each item in a retro point of sale system. You can be rude or polite to customers and have chats with your colleague. There are maaany different endings and choices for a different replay, and the setting and story are intriguing. Definitely worth a shot if you can deal with the slowness!

Really effective storytelling. There were a lot of gameplay surprises along the way. I was satisfied with the ending I got, so I don't have the heart to do another run, but if you love multiple endings I could see this being a fun one to dig around in.

Easily one of my favourite games. There's a lot of random encounters and endings, so it has a lot of replayability where you hit similar beats, but there's still new stuff to see. Runs are short enough (approx. 4-6 hours) that I look forward to the next run starting from the beginning, however, you're given the opportunity to retry your day at the end of each day, and in the middle and end of each day as the game progresses and gets more difficult, so you can try to tailor your gameplay experience if you don't want to start fresh or if you accidentally kill someone's husband and can't keep going with the guilt. It perfectly captures the weight of trying to manage real life under long working hours, let alone working them under bad working conditions, and that surreal feeling of having to work through a crisis that is both directly and indirectly effecting you, how you still need to present your "Clerk" persona and keep moving forward despite everything happening around you or else risk your livelihood. The writing is really strong with great characters, massive world-building that's not overwhelming, funny and sometimes darkly funny and quietly sad in a contemplative way. GameBoy Camera photos for the portraits and fantastic pixel art for everything else, perfectly fitting the GameBoy Colour aesthetic. The soundtrack is FANTASTIC! It's just a great time!! And I'm excited to do some deep dives to learn more about the game's lore :3 I feel like we're given enough that the story makes sense, but it still leaves us wanting more and gives us avenues to pursue that!!

Enthralling. I'm excited to play it again for a different ending. Very rich world and story.

This game is so heckin cool I don't know where to begin. Killer music and sound design, (all GBA-ified) fun and weird conversations, wacky minigames and more! Really looking forward to putting more time into this and discovering all there is!

A very compelling story, and short enough playthrough that you'll want to go back for a second playthrough