Bowling Alley Simulator

I'll recommend this game to anyone that enjoys a fast paced simulator but hold your breath if you're expecting a full flushed out experience with an end game in sight. There's a lot to be fixed with progression, day to day activities and figuring out that casino. Progression comes with a hefty tag and does not feel rewarding at the same time. You can manage your prices and hire employees for specific activities but at the end of the day it feels more like a fast food simulator than anything. Beefing up your lanes feels like the side objective to it all. The skill tree pops up and reminds you of it's existence after you take a couple eons to level up. You can't retree and it seems like if you wanted any of those great perks a the end of a branch, you had better made sure you worked on that branch only You hire a cook, a cashier, a food cashier, and a maintenance worker and eventually your lanes will run themselves. Like most simulators, this is what you work towards. The progression to get to that point does not feel natural and/or rewarding. You run around restocking your kitchen for the most part. The food and supplies are priced well but again I feel like the bowling aspect has to become the main factor of your business. Whether this'd be via the ability to host league nights, gaining extra XP when your customers bowl well, or even owning a pro shop where you sell gear and drill custom balls for people. The bowling should be your bread and butter rather than something you just pay to upgrade and pick a theme for just to spend most of your time in the kitchen. Buying the casino with a $50,000 price tag and finding out it is essentially useless really took me out of the experience. I love the idea of owning multiple business' in a game like this but the casino is right now only good for blackjack. Buying it gives you the ability to give chips to customers but you're getting no money out of it. Just lame. The game gets regular updates and I think every developer that puts effort post launch deserves a handshake. However, I think if you want something that you want to dive into now and feel like you're being rewarded I would look elsewhere. This game does have potential though, don't scratch it off your list forever.

It's a fun experience (that gets chaotic!) Hopefully multiplayer might be added to make it even better?! :O Any bug gets smushed very quickly by the devs too! Amazing work! Also, beautiful music!

First, this is 100% early access and not a finished game. That being said, the author is quick on fixes and has added some new features. It is a good game, gets pretty grindy, but not in a horrible way, after the first few levels. Overall, I would recommend, but waiting a few months might be wise.

Im enjoying the game tbh but DEV can you maybe add a reject option to food counter then if you are out of stock or dont have the required item you can just moves on to next person in line rather than wait for timer to run down.

Fun and addictive. I don't usually leave reviews this early on but I'm having too much fun, quite a grindy game so it's great for those who like a long grind to 100% the game/achievements. I don't like the employees cooking though, feels slow and terrible, other than that most of the other parts of the game are fun and smooth

This game is really bad not just from a game design point of view but also from a player point of view. so the game forces the player to do every single game mechanic at once there's no build up to stuff so the player is off cooking food,cleaning,sorting shoes,booking people in for bowling, running the cash register for the food orders and fixing bowling lanes that get stuck... there's no build up to them things as soon as you start day 1 you are doing everything and the staff you hire can't keep up with everything and they cost to much money for the lack of work they do. cooking staff can't even cook two items at a time when the player is able to cook 2 items at a time in a single deep fryer basket so the workers end up slowing everything down. if you end up getting to a end of the day without alt-f4 being used once the ingame timer hits 12am the whole day just ends and it forces everyone out of the building regardless of anything this means you lose any money for food items that you did not checkout before the timer hits 12am even when the player needs to use a taxi in order to go to the next day. this bit of game design is done on purpose to make the player lose money its not that Simulator. *what the devs should do is not force everyone out of the building at 12am and allow the player to end the day by themselves when they want to, at 12am no new people should show up and then the player can deal with the people who are still in the building this way the player is making money and not losing money everytime the clock hits 12am. the game has a level system for item unlocks this would be good if the devs did not force you to have to stock every single item in the game as you unlock it. because the devs require you to stock every item regardless of anything this means the Rating goes down due to people always complaining that you have not stocked something even when the amount of money needed to stock every item you unlock is way to much early on, its like the devs want you to speed run or something. there's not a moment in time where people are not complaining about something, in a Simulator i expect there to be a natural progression system when it comes to the games mechanics and not to throw you in handling everything at once. i also expect not to need to stock every single item the game has seem its suppose to be a Simulator game so the devs are stopping the player from playing the game how the player wants and basically stopping the player from enjoying the game by purposely making the game bad. if i don't want to have a food court to run then i should not have to be serving food to people that should be a unlock in the game and the devs should never be forcing the player to stock every item seem no bowling place has every single item in stock all the time. the sauce dispensers are really bad aswell due to needing to buy a new one everytime they run out and not being able to click a button on the sauce dispenser to refill it for a small cost, the sauce dispensers cost $25 each but why can't i refill it for like $2 or $3 by just clicking on a empty one, why do i need to spend $25 each time to buy a new dispenser that is so stupid. the game has no way to check how much stock you have so its pretty much a guessing game everytime you need a restock on food items or drinks the price changes on products are completely random so everytime you increase or decrease the price of a sold item it picks a random number so ya have fun with that even when the price is suppose to change by 10% each click but it just randoms the number everytime. the amount of items in boxes make no sense and always under fills the fridges so it means you have to buy 2 boxes and still have product left in the box due to the devs not understanding basic maths when restocking. the food item box i think are all correct to the amount of space in the freezer but i could be incorrect for more high level items. now i did join the discord for this game and pretty much told the devs everything i put here but a major issue popped up the dev who replied to my feedback pretty much downplayed everything and started making stuff up and rewording my feedback instead of just doing what any normal human would do and respectfully reply to the feedback. when a dev downplays and rewords a players feedback it means the devs don't care about what the player base thinks its one of the worst things a dev can do. but overall from what i have played with this game its not very good the balance is way off the progression is way to fast, the devs have purposely made the game to be annoying towards the player instead of fun and enjoying. the devs need to stop rushing the progression and needs to stop rushing the player around and they need to take a step back and redesign parts of this game to make it better to play at this point the whole game is a mess. if the dev did not downplay my feedback and reword my feedback in the discord, i think i would of liked to help this dev out and get this game into a much better and more enjoyable version but the dev who responded to me in the discord was just so rude. when players give you feedback just take the feedback and understand from a players point of view instead of from a game dev point of view, not all game design is going to work well and translate into a enjoyable video game. I'm pretty much done with this game its way to annoying and not fun to play its just a load of game devs who want the player to have a scripted run and not allow the player to do what they want to do in a Simulator game about Bowling. players should never have to stock every item in the game just because some level went up, the player should never have to be forced to do every single game mechanic at once. a game like this should have slower progression and allow the player to unlock the food court and toilets as they play instead of everything being forced on the player from the very start.

This came out of no where and it's really good worth checking out