Storage Hunter Simulator

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This is one of those games where I want to recommend it and don't at the same time. It definitely has its charm points- opening up storage lockers and seeing what's inside is pretty fun, there are plenty of secrets around the map to uncover, and generally speaking it's easy to see that a lot of effort went into the game. However it's also incredibly grindy, unbalanced, doesn't have much in the way of character upgrades, and the scale of the game world is perhaps a bit too bloated for its own good. To start with the good: the game definitely scratches that 'lootbox' itch. Finding a small treasure tucked away in a corner of a storage unit, or opening a chest and finding a rare item, or even just finding something you haven't seen before feels good. There are also a ton of items to discover in this game, to the point where it feels like you'd have a hard time NOT seeing at least one new thing when you open up a given locker. The game has a huge map, which is sort of a double-edged sword. The environments feel diverse enough for the most part, with a suburban area, a city area, a rural farm area and a costal area. There are lots of items hidden around the map that can be found and sold, and hunting for them can be fun even if actually selling them feels unbalanced at times. However, the hugeness of the map makes it tedious to engage with the core gameplay loop of going around and opening lockers and selling the things you get from them due to how spread out everything is. There's no fast travel system; you have to manually drive everywhere, whether that's between a storage locker and the nearest pawn shop (something that might take multiple trips depending on what you got) or between areas of the map. Driving also costs fuel, which will typically cost you about $40 if you're low. That feeling of slogging around the map at a snail's pace is also represented heavily in your character's progression. You'll earn your first few upgrades quickly enough- unlocking the basic repair tools and the ability to verify uncommon items, as well as buying upgrades for your first pawn shop- but after that point the amount of money you require increases exponentially, while the money you earn doesn't. On normal mode it might take you multiple weeks of in-game time to earn one of those upgrades, let alone something like a new car or house. I think the poorness of the upgrade system and how it meshes with the gameplay loop is best exemplified by the lockpicks. Buying the basic lockpicks costs $1500 and allows you to attempt to open the locked chests you can find in storage units. It's not a guaranteed thing, and failing actually increases the price of opening the chest at a locksmith from $15 to 20 for the basic chest. The math is really easy to see here: to pay off your basic, level one lockpicks you need to successfully open over a hundred chests with them, accounting for your failures which will increase the amount it takes to break even. However, you can purchase more advanced lockpicks that lower the chance of failure and also allows you to open better chests... though of course these more advanced lockpicks cost thousands of dollars more, meaning it'll now take you hundreds of storage lockers to break even on them. Arguably breaking even isn't the point, but these lockpicks are one of the few non-shop related, non-car related upgrades you can get. In fact, there's only three. There's also one that allows you to 'identify' higher rarity items, and the last one allows you to repair items to get more money out of them. That's it. There's no way to increase your 'luck' with storage containers so that you find more high rarity items; there's no way to make it so NPC bidders give up faster when bidding; there's nothing else in terms of character upgrades. The only other thing like that is your reputation, which really only allows you the privilege of bidding on higher tier storage units and allows you to buy pawn shops and houses- and of course you need to do this on a per area basis for the suburb, the city (which is also split it into two halves so you need to do it twice there to boot), the farm and the coast... The last major issue I had is the balancing on the items you can find around the map. Some of these items are basically just fun little easter eggs, netting you a rare-ish item and several hundred dollars if you decide to sell them. Others have a special rarity level, "Epic", meaning that only one of them exists in the game world. These can be sold for thousands of dollars; typically $1000-2000, but I've found at least one that can sell for nearly $10,000. The only disadvantage to selling these items is that you can only find one of them per save file, which means you lose out on using them to decorate your houses... but it takes so long to afford a house in the first place that you might as well sell them because they will make it easier to skip some of the tedious grinding you have to do! Overall, I think this game has a lot of room for improvement and that it could go from middling to good with some extra attention towards its gameplay and balancing. At this point shrinking the map to make things less spread out isn't an option, but including QOL features like fast travel between areas (if nowhere else) could help with that. The reputation system could easily be turned into something that's more like a traditional leveling system, allowing for more upgrades like easier auctions or an increased chance of rare items to help with the razor-thin profit margins that currently exist. in its current state, however, I have a hard time recommending it to anyone other than those who are willing to look past those flaws for the sake of that sweet, sweet gambling dopamine.

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macht sehr viel spaß^^

fun game. a bit slow in the start, but thats part of the fun ig

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