Storage Hunter Simulator

I would have recommended this game if bugs weren't as annoying as they are. This game had real potential and is rather addicting especially bidding on storage lockers just like the show Storage Wars but the sad reality is, this game is literally littered with bugs which basically becomes a major annoyance after awhile leading you wanting to quit the game entirely. When you first start out in the game, you're given a certain amount of money to start bidding on storage units and lockers where you can sell to a pawnshop, overtime you can sell at this pawnshop to make some extra cash until you can eventually afford to buy the pawnshop and sell things at double the market value. Eventually you can work your way up the corporate ladder and own all the pawnshops on the map and eventually a mansion in due time. This is what leads too it being addicting and quite fun. The core principal of the game is perfect and nothing is overly flawed but as you progress this is where you start noticing a decline in the gameplay itself especially as you gain more money and work through level progression, you'll start to get more chests, when opening these chests, they are super top heavy too a point it flips over and ends up throwing your items all over the place even at times throwing them into the air. Another issue that is super present which as you eventually get enough money, you can start doing blind auctions but the problem with blind auctions is the fact that these boxes are super glitched, after times these boxes will have items that are bunched together and not properly secured inside the box causing the box to explode and items flying all over the place which let's also not forget that some of these items are so bugged that you can't actually physically pick them up. This is more present in co-op then in solo. Another issue in co-op is the fact that when doing storage auctions, you approach the auction and end up not being able to bid on the storage locker but instead your able to view the locker and be stuck in the viewing mode until the NPC's start bidding and after the auction ends. You actually end up FROZEN in place and not being able to press any buttons nor try too use the escape button to bring up the pop up menu to hit the unstuck button. You physically have to do ctrl, alt and delete to bring up the task manager to forceably close the game unless the host of the game itself ends their save file to bring you back into the title screen then re-enter the game. This is actually a game breaking bug which would leave you frustrated and not wanting to play this game. Another bug is the fact that trucks don't actually properly secure all the items which sometimes creates a major issue when navigating the NPC traffic which is rather aggressive. If the NPC bumps into your truck and you have a full load which not all items are secured, it'll send all your items flying out of the truck often times sending these items across the map and into places that you can't even reach rendering these items useless and leads to loss of profit. Another issue is the fact that this game randomly crashes at certain points and will leave you with a popup that says fatal error but does not give an error code or as to why the game crashed. This happens randomly at best and nor is there a workaround or a specific point this happens. Further more it honestly appears this game has gone abandoned by the devs. Basing off the chatter within both discord servers from BeardedBrotherGames/Raccoons Studio and the Publisher Astragon Entertainment, plenty of people are asking for answers but both the devs and publishers are sitting in silence. I have to wonder why? this game could be a perfect hit but instead they are nothing more like other game devs who abandon their games. We all remember the time when games were released on Disk from PC to Console, they were all in a finished state with all the bugs ironed out and all we had to do was simply, install and play but now games are pushed to market way too soon and this is the result we see. Consumers are constantly getting robbed out of their money in exchange for broken games, when will this industry change? When will gamers finally wake up and stop praising devs for releasing broken games and actually speak up to make a change! All I know is we consumers are just constantly being overly promised on games that devs can't deliver. The point of this review is to make others aware that to buy this game at your own risk cause without anymore updates, this game will eventually become unplayable. I highly wouldn't recommend this game in it's current state nor would I recommend supporting these devs and publisher cause until they wake up and fix this game, they shouldn't get another cent of money. This game had potential but it's now just a total disappointment. Thanks Astragon and BeardedBrotherGames/Raccoons Studios for abandoning games, I will be sure to let others know as well!

if you like the storage wars tv show, then this is for you. wife and i played the demo for almost 9 hours lol then realised we waisted our time and purchased the full game. spent a further 13 hours on it yesterday, there is so much todo, its not a quick and easy game but it is so much fun. DONT FORGET TO PAY THE LADY. 10'/10 from me.

Definitely a time killer. It takes a lot of work just to make $100. I recommend this game to those people who enjoy the grind more than the payoff

Nice fun sim, didn't think I would get so in tune and I like the fact that you can do a lot of things with money instead of just using it for auctions.

gwergw4

Its very difficult to say its good or not, yes i like the game play its fun and things are fun to do. on the opposite site they tell that they are fixing all the problems for some month and nothing happens. So i think they will never do and with the bugs still existing you should not buy any games from them as long as they do not support there own games, but still saying they would. Prove me wrong and fix them.

В целом идея игры не плохая и даже в начале интересно, но потом начинается духота постоянное повторение одних и тех же действий.

I cant see anything, the game loads up and it looks like a nuke went off. i can see outlines and thats it, its all bright yellow or orange. I tried fixing it with settings for a long time and nothing worked.

This game is surprisingly good, but you need to be okay with a more casual game to enjoy it. The premise of the game is that you bid on storage locker auctions and sell what you get. With enough money, you can buy your own pawn shops, which will allow you to sell the items for higher prices. Later, you can buy better houses to decorate or expand storage, and new vehicles to transport the items. Good: After buying a locker, you need to transport your items to the pawn shops to sell. In order to do so, you need to stack them into your truck. Part of the game is finding ways to stack as many items into your truck as possible without them falling over. If you like figuring out how to stack things as high as possible, this can be a fun part of the game. On the other hand, if you don't enjoy that, it could be a very frustrating part of the game or you may find yourself taking a lot of smaller trips that will reduce how much you can make each day. If you like decorating, being able to buy new houses and decorate them with the items you win in the auctions can be rewarding. You can use every item other than the instant sell trash items to decorate your houses, both inside and outside. There are limitations, such as items only being placed on walls or only on the ground or on furniture and you can't align items perfectly with the walls. There are a lot of items you can win in the auctions, which can keep you interested. You do tend to see a lot of repeats from the more common items, but you get enough new items to keep you coming back for more for quite a while. And the items generally look good (when fully repaired). There are collectors around the map who you can donate certain items to in order to unlock cosmetics, get a free item that has a high value, and even another vehicle. Donating items means you're not making money on them, so you have to decide when it's worth it. Collector requests change weekly, so you need to decide whether keep the items until you can donate them or just sell them. There are a variety of upgrades to your pawn shops to help you make more money and have more space. These upgrades are per shop and don't affect all shops. So-so: Auctions are kind of lacking when it comes down to it. There is no real value in changing how much you raise the bid price while bidding or how quickly or slowly you bid. The end result will be the same if you keep hitting the bid button repeatedly until winning the auction and can even be less than if you change the bid amount rather than bidding the minimum each time. It can be pretty each to see when the computer is set up to force the price over the value of the locker once you are far enough into the game to at least fix items to Normal or better quality. At lower difficulties, you're almost better off just winning every bid and accepting the occasional losses. The improved renown from winning can sometimes be worth the loss of money as it unlocks better tiers of lockers and other rewards. Blind auctions (auctions where you can't see the contents) are a nice addition. The downside of them is that they really aren't much different from bidding on any regular locker. Yes, you can see inside the lockers, but often you won't see the better items so it often isn't really giving you a much better idea of what to bid if you are bidding on a normal locker or doing a blind auction. Also, blind auctions mostly only have small sized items, which can fill up your pawn shops limited space for small items and cause you to not have space for more items until things sell. Small and large items are the hardest to quickly sell until you have multiple pawn shops because they are the most commonly found items. Bad: There a "county fair" in the game where you can play games to earn tickets in order to unlock (buy) a small number of cosmetics and a variety of vehicles that won't be of any use transporting items from lockers to pawn shops. Having minigames is fine, but each attempt costs $250 and they are often very easy to either lose or only get a very small number of tickets unless you spend a lot of time practicing one or more of the games to get good enough to win regularly. But that either costs a lot of money or requires reloading your game over and over while practicing. I get the interest in being able to get some cosmetic items, but they aren't really all that exciting. And as I said, the vehicles might as well be cosmetic because you can't use them for anything except driving around, which isn't the purpose of the game. Many are cars and don't have room to stack much on them. I think they could have done this much better than they did. The game has the ability to throw items instead of moving them around and setting them down. This can be fun when messing around, but is mostly useless. That wouldn't be a problem except it's not uncommon for it to switch to throwing mode when you try to set something down. When that happens, you send the object at high speed in the direction you're pointing and when that happens to be right at your stack of items that you spend time getting stacked just right and it causes the entire thing to fall over, it can be extremely frustrating. Even when it doesn't knock things over, having to run after something that is halfway across the parking lot isn't any fun either. Especially when you make money by going to auctions that have a set amount of time they are available and every second spent chasing things that were accidentally thrown or fixing fallen stacks of items because of things accidentally thrown costs you money. And they don't offer any settings to disable throwing items or to change the controls for throwing items. Throwing is done simply by holding the same button that you'd normally just click if you are setting something down. So if the game thinks you held it instead of clicked it, it's going to throw the item. Running in the game is done by first walking and then hitting Shift to run (using the default key binding). You can't press Shift and then start walking or you'll just walk. This makes it very frustrating to try to run in the game. Half the time, you're walking instead of running. There seems to be certain areas where you can place things on your truck that won't hold what's placed there. With the starter truck, you can place things on the roof and this can be a good place for chests. In most cases, you place it there and it'll stay when you drive away. But sometimes as soon as you start to drive away, it'll just slide right off for no apparent reason. I don't know if it's because it's placed just a little too far forward or rotated a certain way or something else, but it can be frustrating when stuff that all is staying perfectly stacked suddenly slides off for no reason. The various items you find have very odd or perhaps random "weights" to them. For example, if you have a large, heavy desk and you bump it while carrying a pencil sharpener, you wouldn't expect the desk to move. However, there are many small items that shouldn't cause other larger things to move when bumped that will send those items flying. And there are things that should cause other things to move that do not. For example, you might have a statue that would be on a desk that's underneath a poster and trying to pick up the statue won't be possible because the poster is too heavy. I'm not sure how the different "weights" were chosen, but they really need to be looked at carefully for every single item in the game. Summary: Although there are things that aren't great or could use improvements, the game itself is actually fun to play. With a little extra work by the devs, it could really shine. It won't appeal to everyone, but there is a demo version available that lets you get a good feel for how the game works and I would strongly recommend playing the demo before buying the game to see if it's something that you would enjoy.

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