Here’s another one of those examples of limitless creativity that video game developers can have: Alien Market Simulator. A very different simulator in which the player manages… an alien outpost. Promise…
It is at the end of this January that the world will see the birth of Alien Market Simulator, from the indie studios, Silly Sloth Studios.
If there are development teams that "leap out of the gate" with their games, we could say that Silly Sloth Studios has jumped "out of the Galaxy." It's a simulation game about how to run a business, a grocery store, in a distant station, somewhere in the Cosmos.
And truth! In Alien Market Simulator, players will have a small space supermarket to manage and prosper, with its main customers being alien beings who, more than strange in appearance, are even stranger in their needs.
It all starts with the player taking a small trading post on a distant space station. Our character has just gotten out of prison (paid bail) and invests all his freedom in managing a small commercial broadcaster, on an unknown planet.
With the obligation to report daily to the authorities and, while paying your debt, you will have to take on the small business and do everything to make it prosper. As in any title of this genre, much of the success of the business will depend on how the player will restore this warehouse, but above all, what he will do to improve it and equip it with new services.
As you repair and customize the station (there will be a lot of warehouse customization), the player will have to provide vital services to space travelers, such as fuel or even a place to eat. As in any business, with the sale of products and services, you will acquire credits (money) which in turn will be used to expand your business.
However, you will have to be well prepared for many challenges, risky decisions and, above all, the strange needs of the various aliens that will pass through your outpost.
And... since we are in the deep Cosmos and far from the authorities... not everything that passes through the store must be... legal. This way the player will have to decide whether to keep the store legitimate or perhaps sell some products... how to say this... less legal. However, if you are caught in the intergalactic law, there goes Freedom and you go back behind bars.
But the player will not be the only one who will be able to take a walk on the other side of the Law and many of the interstellar travelers who will pass through the warehouse will do so with a purpose other than buying something. This way the player will have to pay attention to potential customers, as some of them may very well want to take things... for free.
Fortunately, for many of these tasks (and others) the game has the possibility of acquiring robots that help us and automate certain actions.
Alien Market Simulator appears to be a management game that will be both exciting and fun and will certainly please all players who enjoy the genre, when it comes out in Early Access, later this January.
Source: pplware.sapo.pt
