If owning a gas station was hard enough, imagine owning an airplane gas station!? That's what you'll face in Gas Station Simulator's Airstrip DLC.
THE GAME
Gas Station Simulator is a gas station simulator developed by DRAGO entertainement and distributed by HeartBeat Games. To quickly summarize the base game, you inherited a gas station from your uncle and now you have that responsibility in your hands. With the Airstrip DLC, that responsibility increases. It all starts when you meet Joe, an old pilot who crash lands near his post. He helps you restore an old shed to be used as a stop for planes and teaches you how to make it all work. Fueling planes, repairing them and exchanging with pilots are some of the tasks you'll have to complete.
IMPRESSIONS
Gas Station Simulator itself is already a game with a lot of things to manage. Airstrip adds yet another work amid the sea of simultaneous things happening. And it turns into a mess. As much as you can put aside everything involving planes, you will feel obliged to tinker with that shed.
The DLC itself adds new mechanics like trading goods with pilots, which in my opinion is too confusing. It's all so simple that even with the tutorial it's not very clear what the purpose of it is and how each item has its rarity.
And if you've played Gas Station Simulator, you might be thinking: "Ah, I'll just put an employee to do the shed work and focus on something else." Well, it won't. Everything must be done manually by yourself.
The good humor remains predominant, with several situations where Joe gets involved. Joe, the one who makes a point of crashing a plane in the middle of the desert every time he comes to visit you and you have to go there to tow his plane, an extremely boring task.
Like the base game, Airstrip is fully subtitled in Portuguese-Brazil, which makes it a little easier to understand the new mechanics presented.
ACHIEVEMENTS
Airstrip does not add any achievements to the base game. On the one hand, it's the most honest thing to do, since not everyone wants to buy DLCs and it's fair to those looking for 100% without having to spend money to have access to all the achievements. On the other hand, for those who like new challenges, it will be in hand.
CONCLUSION
To those who have the base game and intend to buy the DLC: only buy it if your gas station is operating practically automatically. If you're not into the end game, think twice before purchasing this DLC. You can even drop everything and dive into the new content, but soon your money will run out and it will be hell to stay in the green again.
I honestly didn't see a plausible reason for a DLC focused on planes in a gas station game. Do you fuel the planes? Yes, but it seems like such a big step for something that should be more trivial. Taking care of the gas station alone was already different, putting a shed with airplanes takes away all the brightness of the simplicity of a roadside station.
Every time Joe appears, it's a boring moment. He could be a voice on a radio that would be more useful. Fixing his plane's wings is one of the most boring and pointless tasks there is.
I quite like Gas Station Simulator, but it seems that Airstrip is a step too far. The integration between the shed and the gas station was not cool. I didn't have to complicate things so much to add new content. The base game is fun in its simplicity, Airstrip has neither.
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