I recently tried Car Dealership Simulator 2, and found that Quadfix, the developers, had also been behind Storage Dealer Simulator. I had been following Storage Dealer Simulator for a long time, and had been waiting for it to go on sale. However, a few weeks ago I noticed that the list price was too low to worry about, so unusually for me, I bought it at the full list.
Since then, I’ve been playing Storage Dealer quite aggressively, and it is already one of my favorite games. I’ve also tried Storage Hunter Simulator, but what I found lacking with it was a combination of unrealistic items in the storage units, many artificial obstacles to progression (such as severe limitations on which vehicles would be bought without achievements), as well as a lack of diversity in the gameplay. For example, there was basically nothing that could be done with any of the items beyond either selling them in a pawn shop, or using them to decorate your house. Storage Dealer offers much more.
While Storage Dealer will also, hopefully, add a lot more features, it is already a deeper and more immersive game than Storage Hunter, not to mention that it has some advantages in terms of realism. Although most of the items for sale are, for the moment, not usable for anything, many of them, like the RC Cars, and many of the real cars, can be used, and there are probably more that I haven’t discovered yet. You can ALSO use these items in your house. I enjoy the relatively realistic graphics and setting (although I don’t know if it’s really a good representation of Arizona specifically), as well as the dynamics, for example, of dealing in a wide range of used goods, from collectibles, to appliances, to cars, to boats, to furniture, to toys, and so on. Quadfix could do more with the books, in my opinion, but they’re probably the only notable weak point. They also don’t have baseball cards, or other collector cards, yet, but that could be its own game (and indeed several such games exist). Stamps and coins are also missing, but the same thing could be said for them, as could also be said for vinyl records, CD’s, and so on (DVD’s are already included). Jewelry, to a limited extent, is included, even if it could be expanded.
I would argue, as I have elsewhere, that having a wider range of sales venues would be an improvement, for example continuing to use the flea market after you’ve purchased a store, or buying and selling goods online (to a limited extent, online purchases are already supported if you have one of your employees do it). Having more places to store inventory would also be good.
Other reviewers have criticized this game for a number of bugs they have observed with the game itself, and I have seen some of these myself, most notably the tendency of goods to get knocked a long distance away when being handled, or even be knocked (or even dropped) off the map. However, complaints about bugs from when the game was in early access have perhaps given this game a worse reputation than it deserves. While I believe that Quadfix should still work on the bugs, and smooth out the gameplay, I have not found that these weaknesses define the user experience. Like most games, there are odd things here and there to complain about, but in it’s current form as of writing (version 1.1) the reliability and playability both seem average.
I’ve put my other suggestions in a forum post here:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/2625620/discussions/0/599650845622027568/?ctp=2#c792200849038391311
However, having said this, perhaps my most important request is that Quadfix continue to develop this game. Many people have already claimed (apparently with little evidence) that this game is about to become abandonware. I’m assuming this isn’t true, but I’m also going to put in my vote here for its continued support and expansion into the future.
Quadfix don’t appear to have a bad title, but their newest game, Car Dealership Simulator 2, is easily not as good a game as Storage Dealer, even if it’s not a bad game, either. Car Dealership Simulator 2 has many competitors that could arguably be called better, but with Storage Dealer this isn’t the case. I’m convinced that, for the moment, Storage Dealer is the best game of its kind.
