Trapper: Drug Dealing RPG

so many bugs i try so hard to like it but the bugs make it impossible anytime i get far a bug freezes the game and i lose hours of progress

I have to say that this game is a hidden a gem and I strongly recommend this game. First, I will acknowledge the flaws. This game is being made by a solo developer and is very much a work in progress with new features being added and bugs being constantly added and removed. It is a bit rough in some areas; the UI is counterintuitive and some features and game mechanics are not properly explained and some things don't make sense (Seriously, what's up with the 20 day months?). But this is an early access game and the point is the game is not a finished product and by its very nature it is imperfect and rough. And the developer is open to constructive criticism, so you can report bugs and get them fixed much more easier than a AAA game. With that out of the way; I highly recommend this game for a number of reasons: 1) It's a unique game covering something that few games directly touch and in a way in that no other game does. It's not just a simulator, but it is an RPG game as well. So you not only simulate being a drug dealer, but you also role play which adds features such as class and skill points. 2) It's (relatively) realistic as far as the drug economy and market goes. Obviously, it has to play like a video game and there's some artistic license, but it's actually more realistic as to how the drug trade works at the low and medium level than most other games. In real life, drug dealers start really small and buy their work at incredibly inflated prices. Usually doing something like buying an ounce from another dealer who mostly sells to users, breaking it down into grams or quarters or eighths and then selling it. It goes quickly, they get a bit of profit, but use most of it for the re-up. That's how the early game works. You have grand a bit until you find a plug and then you might be able get a little something going. Even in the early stages, the money for a pound of weed might be hard to come by and the profit isn't much and if you get arrested or get jacked; you lose what you had. In the early stages, you're not Nino Brown or Tony Montana; you're Dre, some regular dude from the ghetto who is hustling his ass off to keep his head above water and trying not to get arrested, robbed, or killed. Which is the truth for 90% of dealers. In real life, slinging on a street level pays barely more than a regular job when you consider the hours worked and risks taken. This game also includes features that I've never seen in a crime game like cutting cocaine or cooking crack. Not only cutting cocaine, but using different mixes to stretch it out or trying to enhance it like adding caffeine to the coke to prevent the cut from weakening it too much. The developer has either done his homework or known people in the life and that's none of my business. 3) There's tons of features to the game. You can hire four different characters to deal for you with each one having a drug they specialize in and getting a second type of drug once they reach a high enough level. You can open a crackhouse. You can setup a grow-op. You can create a stash house. You can setup a sweatshop (an operation to cut coke and/or cook crack and it's staffed by several nude women; which is another realistic detail as the workers in real life usually work naked or in their underwear to reduce the chance of theft or wearing a wire). There's a number of different features. My only beefs are that some of are only partially fleshed out or limited or even have deeper mechanics that are not fully fleshed out. Like there's different ways to run a crackhouse, but it doesn't go into detail as to what those mean in practice. There's different crews of YNs, but they're not really fleshed out. You can only operate one crackhouse, but when Dre is selling more pies than a bakery and sells more horse than a stud ranch; why can't he have more than one trap house? There's the girlfriend feature, but the game never really mentions as to what benefit (or entertainment) having a girlfriend can bring since you can just hook up for a bit of stress relief. 3) The game has a great sense of humor and you can feel the passion in the game itself. It's not just fun and interesting, but it's also funny. The descriptions of various plugs and other characters shows that the developer has a clever sense of humor. There's also an undefinable sense that this is a work of love that flows through the game. This doesn't feel like some ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ thrown together to make a quick buck. You can feel this is something that the developer has spent a lot of time and thought creating and that he created the type of game he always wanted to play, but didn't exist, so he decided to make it. This might not sound like a feature, but I disagree. You can often tell when something is a passion project made by someone with some talent. Quentin Tarantino has said that he makes the type of movies that he wanted to watch and he's considered by many to be one of the best living directors. I can tell this is something the developer wanted to play and the game is much better for it. So, yes, I whole-heartedly recommend this game and I hope it gets the recognition it deserves.