IS IT WORTH IT?! | A Review of Trader Life Simulator in About 3 Minutes!
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Starting out with just an empty supermarket, a tiny bit of money, a car and a couple of boxes stock that you have to put out yourself, Trader Life Simulator lets you build a shop from the ground up and success involves ordering and placing over 100 products, managing money between different accounts to cover bills and pay your staffs wages, aswell as handling your own basic needs which includes going to the toilet, taking a bath and eating an alarming amount of hot dogs.
The game as a whole is a little rough around the edges, with some janky character animations, horribly basic driving physics, customers that just magically spawn in and out at the cash register, aswell as a complete lack of any women in the entire town, but despite its quirks it’s still got a lot to offer and it’s had me pretty much hooked for over 80 hours at the time of this review.
So as I mentioned there’s over 100 different products to buy and sell including almost everything you’d expect to find in an average supermarket such as fruit and vegetables, cookies, candy and fizzy drinks, toilet paper, diapers, washing powder and so on.
Most of the stuff you can buy comes from the main supplier, a bloke called Jabar, and you can either drive to his shop and load your car or lorry with boxes full of stock yourself or you can order online and have the items delivered straight to the back of your shop for a 10 dollar fee per box, which at first might sound like a lot but when you consider that you get 10 of each product in every box in a world where a small carton of peppers costs the customer $24, then a 10 dollar delivery fee suddenly doesn’t seem all that expensive.
There’s also a few independent suppliers dotted around the map that sell more specialist goods like a few different types of fish and meat aswell as a surprisingly decent selection of electronics which you can start buying once your store rating reaches 50%
Every time you buy some stock and get it back to your shop you need to put it out on the shelves yourself. Whether you choose to group everything together and arrange them neatly on shelves or just scatter stuff randomly all over the floor is up to you and the aesthetics and layout of your shop has no impact on sales.
You can hire up to 2 staff to run the tills for you but they can’t do anything other than just stand there and handle the money which is fine since putting out all the stock takes up most of your time and your staff they aren’t expensive to hire at just $50 per day with the second cashier upgrade effectively doubling your daily sales. Unfortunately you’re not able to operate the tills yourself.
Anyway speaking of upgrades there’s a few available to unlock as you continue growing your empire, from small additions like a coffee machine and a sunglasses stand to being able to buy a second floor for your shop, owning a farm and buying animals and even investing in stocks.
All the income from your upgrades is passive and despite it taking a good amount of hours and dedication to buy even half of them, they generally start paying for themselves quickly and are definitely worth the investment.
The map’s not massive in size nor is it amazingly designed, plus some of the curbs can easily flip your car leaving you stranded miles from home until it all resets the next time you sleep on your bed. Still there’s a good amount of places to visit like the furniture shop where you can walk around buying new shelves and decorations for your home or shop, the farm where any of the chickens, sheep and cows you can buy spend their time, and you even have to visit the fuel station and repair shop to keep your car topped up with fluids.
The graphics and animations are, as you can see, far from the best, but they’re good enough to get the job done. The sound design on the other hand leaves a bit to be desired. It’s all a bit quiet.
There’s no in-game music to listen to and very little in the way of sound effects except for the occasional plinging sound as a customer buys something and a little pop up appears telling you what they bought or if they wanted something you don’t have in stock so you know to order more.
To be fair though there is a TV hanging above the checkout which lets you insert a custom video URL for some extremely loud background sound but it stops playing as soon as you get a few meters away from the shop and it’s all a bit of a hassle compared to just having some random chill copyright free music playing on a loop in the background. It’s not a deal breaker for me personally but I definitely felt it was worth mentioning if you’re thinking of getting it-...
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