Gas Station Simulator

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• Recommended Posted June 18, 2025 on Steam Fuel, Fight, and Fix What’s Broken I didn’t go looking for Gas Station Simulator. It found me—late one night, tucked beside my grandmother’s hospital bed, the room dim except for the soft beeping of machines. Her prostate cancer diagnosis had knocked the wind out of our whole family. In between appointments and teary silences, I booted up this strange little indie game, expecting distraction. Instead, I found meaning. Here’s the pitch: you inherit a derelict gas station off a lonely highway. Everything is busted, ugly, forgotten. But little by little, you sweep the sand, repaint the walls, fix broken pumps, and—somehow—bring it all back to life. I’d play while Grandma slept. As her body fought the invisible war inside her, I was outside, virtually patching walls, restocking soda, and blasting country music into the desert sky. It felt absurdly healing. Every broken part I fixed in that game was like reclaiming some small hope in a world that felt rigged against us. What hit me hardest wasn’t just the comfort of the loop, it was what the game revealed by contrast. In Gas Station Simulator, effort equals progress. You work, and things get better. But outside the game? Grandma was fighting for her life while also fighting insurance reps. My friends are working two jobs and still can't afford rent. Whole towns are drying up while billionaires race to privatize oxygen. Let’s be real: the rich run this place now. Not just America—most countries. They’ve replaced governance with shareholder reports. They've turned housing into investment portfolios. Meanwhile, we’re gasping for air under systems designed to squeeze every last drop from us. AI is accelerating that squeeze. It’s not just automating labor it’s automating control. Replacing workers with code, replacing compassion with efficiency, replacing people with profit margins. And then telling us to “adapt” while they rewrite the rules midgame. Gas Station Simulator shouldn’t feel revolutionary. But it does because it offers a glimpse of a world where community matters, where your labor rebuilds something tangible, where decency has value. That shouldn’t be fantasy. That should be reality. So here’s what I’m saying; play the game. Soak in its weird, beautiful rhythm. Let it remind you that fixing what’s broken is sacred work. But when you power down, don’t just sigh and return to the grind. Look around. Look at what’s being taken from us—jobs, health, dignity, time with our loved ones & get mad. Organize. March. Unionize. Vote with fire in your gut. Demand better. Demand humanity. Because we deserve a world where our grandparents don’t go bankrupt to live. Where our labor builds more than someone else’s yacht. Where care is a right, not a luxury.
• Recommended Posted January 2, 2026 on Steam ---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☑ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☑ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☑ Old Fashioned ☑ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☑ Easy ☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☑ Chill game ☑ Only if u want finish game quickly ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☐ Some lore ☑ Its OK ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☑ Average ☐ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☐ Worth the price ☑ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☐ Never heard of ☑ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☑ 8.5 ☐ 9 ☐ 10
• Recommended Posted April 6, 2026 on Steam LOVE LOVE LOVE this game, but you should listen to your players and add multiplayer. You have 14 pages of requests to play with friends, why not give the people what they want?!?!
• Not recommended Posted May 11, 2026 on Steam I really loved the base game, but each DLC that's been added has caused more and more issues within the game. I don't know why the devs didn't just make standalone games with these DLCs instead of ruining a great game. If you do buy this game, only purchase the base game and use the free DLCs. It won't break the game, there will be a few issues with traffic and customers acting funny. None of that is game breaking and so you can still enjoy a great game at it's core.
• Recommended Posted October 29, 2025 on Steam Simulators - they aren't really simulators, are they. Most of them, including this one, are just a series of minigames mixed with simple strategy and goals. In Gas Station Simulator, you've just purchased a dingy sideroad gas station and you're tasked with making it grow. In order to do this, you're going to have to make money in order to purchase improvements that will, in turn, allow you to make more money which - you guessed it - will allow you to purchase new improvements. The station itself is upgraded in stages, and while employees will become available the player will have to complete each one of these minigames (in some cases hundreds of times!) in order to achieve all station upgrades. Well - what are these games? Here's a quick rundown - Pumping Gas: You know, the namesake of this thing. Cleaning: Throw stuff in trash bins, pick up trash, make things look nicer. Grounds Maintenance: Use a big tractor to get rid of road obstacles. Inventory Management: Buy inventory, stock the warehouse, add inventory to shelves. Cashier Checkout: Scan items, put them in a basket, clean the conveyor. ..and those are just the primary minigames. As you gain wealth and upgrade the station, you'll also do stuff like: Fix Cars: Replace Tires, fix scratches, replace mirrors Wash Cars: Power Wash Simulator micro-style Steal: Use a lockpick to steal from the trunks of customers, because who cares Paint Walls: Change the color of your station and add wallpaper Minigames: RC car driving (basically a driving minigame) and basketball (well, not really) ..and there's a ton of DLC that's available as well, like the Cinema (introducing new minigames) and Party Zones (and.. you guessed it, more minigames). At around station level 4 it gets hectic as requirements to upgrade further require the player to achieve goals like "cash out 100 customers and fuel 50 cars and fix 25 cars" - goals that can be completed with the assistance of employees, which you can hire and assign to up to two different tasks during either the day or night shifts. Those employees, by the way, suck. If you put one of them up as a noob cashier they'll 'miss' upwards of 60% of items, meaning all of your lovely inventory you bought, stored and shelved went out of the door for free. Same thing with Fuel - if your employees are bad, they'll be poor at the job. Thankfully, with more practice they improve efficiency over time. As you may have imagined, Inventory is a big thing in this game. Once you get shelves of products to stock (of which, at the highest station levels there are many), you'll find yourself consistently having to buy products to stock the (limited) warehouse size to place on the emptying store shelves. These products include customer items, garage items, and fuel itself. The inventory management is a sort of minigame within itself. Your warehouse only holds so much space, your product inventories dwindle at different rates, and the prices from the wholesaler fluctuate every day or so. Which means one day you're low on potato chips and beer, you use the computer to buy from the wholesaler, and see that chip prices are high, beer prices are low, and you can only have space in your warehouse to order one - so you choose beer, wait for the delivery, and then add chips the next time you need to order. Deliveries themselves are less of a minigame and more of a 'go there and click this thing' activity. After 200 times, it's an annoyance. There is still more to discover aside from the things I have already mentioned. Needless to say, the point of the game is more games and activities. There's a plot, and it's a decent one, but it's easily ignored. I also found borrowing money to be more trouble than it was worth, and instead opted to just build without credit. At about 50 hours it's safe to say I've achieved all of the things I can with the base game. I've enjoyed myself. I have a full station with a complete staff of 8 and get the big bucks easily. On my way I've enjoyed my own progression from having no idea what I'm doing to having full confidence in each component of this title. I've enjoyed discovering each minigame and, most importantly, automating them once I mastered them. I'm in this for the money though, so I don't play the RC cars and basketball stuff. I don't watch the movies and I don't read the text. I don't chitchat and I don't care what people have to say. I steal from the trunks of cars and keep the trashbins empty. I take care of the VIP and I'm prompt at the deliveries, buying only the stuff on sale unless it means something would go to 0 in stock. I'm too old for this. But I'm not, really. It's a fun game and I got my money's worth. I have some gripes, though. And my biggest one is this experience has, for me, devolved into an Inventory Maintenence simulator where I spend my time buying products (for the shelves, like chips and car batteries) and fuel that I'm not really enjoying the other aspects of the game. Of all of things that can be automated, I haven't found a way to automate this series of tasks which keep me tied to amassing wealth. Who cares, though? I'm a capitalist. In this game. Wholeheartedly recommended to OCD uncs like me who sometimes like to turn their brains off when gaming.
• Recommended Posted March 5, 2026 on Steam The game is good, but it's unfair that 10 achievements cannot be completed without DLC.