Gold Mining Simulator

After just shy of 200 hours in this game, and even buying all the DLC, I can't recommend it. Like most places today, they keep putting out DLC without fixing existing issues. Not QoL or just irritating issues...game-breaking issues. 1. When you dig with the excavator, if you don't stop exactly when the bucket is full, prepare to be upside down, because your excavator will fly through the air before your bucket will accept anymore dirt, or even just stop when it's full. 2. When you have to move machinery (for wash plant, etc.), many times, much like #1, it will fly through the air, landing wherever. Unfortunately, the chain(s) that were attached have now broken, and are now residing in the realm of who the he11 knows. 3. Your huge, multi-ton, tracked vehicle, designed for large scale industrial purposes will get stuck on the smallest dirt pile. There's more, but the gist is given. It joins the realm of games like Ark and Eco...never fixing anything, yet adding new stuff all the time.

If I could, I would give a mixed reaction. The game itself is good and slightly addicting, but it got abandoned. Now, after announcing GMS2, devs came back to this and decided to release a new dlc "Definitive edition". Basically a cash grab, hiding new content and QoL updates behind a paywall on a dead game, using excuses such as "some players might have older computers, therefore it needs to be a separate, paid thing".

broken game and the game devs rather make another verson then fix what they have

J'ai acheté ce jeu sur les conseils avisés d'un excellent Youtubeur ! Je n'ai pas trop eu le temps d'y rejouer malgré le nombre affolant d'ajout et d'update !! C'est peut être un des premiers jeux qu'il m'aura poussé à acheter par son conseil passionné Merci à toi pour tout Dan, Peace

Das Spiel an sich ist top, aber die Game-Over-Mechanik ist der absolute Letzte Dreck. Wer baut ein System ein, das einen 176-Stunden-Spielstand wegen ein paar Dollar Schulden um Mitternacht sofort löscht? ​Es gibt keinen Dispo, keine Mahnung, nichts. Nur den sofortigen Tod des Spielstands. Das ist weder realistisch noch spaßig, es ist einfach nur respektlos gegenüber der Lebenszeit der Spieler. ​Macht die Bankrott-Funktion optional oder baut ein vernünftiges Schulden-System ein. Bis dahin: Finger weg, wenn euch eure Zeit wertvoll ist. Absolut frustrierend und spielzerstörend.

Im not someone who usually writes reviews but reading some of the reasons why some people left a negative review, I felt like I have to write one. First of all, I like the game and have a good a mount of fun. I bought it and all DLCs in a Sale and definitely cant complain. I havent explored everything in the game yet (havent even fully mined my first claim yet) so my opinion might change in the future. However there must be some serious bad thing happening to turn this review from a positiv one into a negative one. That said I also want clarify that I dont "complain" about the experience of other people who didnt like the game and everything is meant as constructive criticism. First thing: the game performance. Every PC seems to react different to games and even though you might have a strong Rig, some games just wont really work. My PC definitely isnt on the weak side but the last upgrade happened years ago and therefor isnt the War machine it could be. It was good some years ago and is okay today. Many people complain about bad game performace and I have to say that I havent experienced anything bad so far. Just to make it clear: Im not saying that people who experience bad performance are lying. Im just saying that my "not so good anymore" PC is handling the game well. The only real stutters or extreme frame drop happen when the game map loads. That mostly happens when I drive to or from the city and back to my current claim. What I did notice (at least in youtube videos) no one seems to look their FPS limit. There isnt a specific option for that ingame, which hopefully will be included in the second game. Without a frame limiter, your GPU will likely run on 100% for the whole time when you are ingame. Im not sure if its the strain on the GPU or the heat built up, but that can be the reason why some experience bad performance, so here are my tips: Activate V-sync in the game options. It syncs the frame rate to your monitors refresh rate. In my case im always on 60 fps instead of the 140-180 it was constantly jumping around withouth vsync. Second tip is not reload a savegame too often during the same game session. I noticed that the performance got worse and worse after mutliple reloads of safe games and a restart of the game mostly solved that. The second thing (the one I really couldnt wrap my head around) is what people expected from this game. And that is the "monotone grind" as well as "unnecessary complexity". Both of these things would obviously be a bad thing in most games... However... this game is called a Simulator for a reason. Its meant to Simulate a specific profession with all (or at least many) of its Intricacies. I have never been in this profession, so I cant say how realistic all of that is. But if you buy a Simulator then you should know what you are in for before criticizing certain aspects of the game. Granted, since the Game "Goat simulator" came out we got plenty of "simulator" games that were no simulators at all and where just meant to be goofy. This wave of simulators also gave us some "casual simulators", that were simpler in design and thus appealed to people who seek a more casual playstyle in simualtors. However "Gold mining simulator" feels like one of the more old school simulators and thus has some gameplay elements that seem to be annoying or unnecessary to some people. And yes, the game would work without them but it just wouldnt be the same. Some ingame options for less or more complexity would have been nice for those kind of players but leaving a negative review for complexity that is clearly described AND can be seen on the steam shop page for this game is just bad. Now to the "monotone" gameplay: I could just repeat half of what I just written. Its a simulator about digging up Gold. I really have no idea what some people would expect to be the gameplay if they criticize that. The gameplay loop is simple and easy: You dig up dirt, wash the gold out of it and then sell the gold. With the money, you buy better equipment to dig up more dirt faster and clean bigger quantities of it to get more gold to sell it for money. That is the gameplay loop. You dig, wash, sell gold and get bigger machines. Its not an automation game where everything will be done for you at some point. YOU have to do anything. The tools you have will just get bigger and more efficent. Operating those tools and machines is where the complexity in this games comes from. DIfferent seasons mean different challenges. Your water source dries up in summer and freezes in Winter. Wear and tear will damage your machines and you have to maintain them by replacing parts that are broken. Leaving your Machines outside during the Alaskan winter WILL damage them, so complaining that you have to disassamble your Washplant during the winter is not a viable argument for a negative review. Excavators are no racing cars so it will take time to get to the place you want to be. Lifting heavy machines with your excavator should be difficult because they are... heavy and physics are a thing in this game. Obviously is can be frustrating sometimes, and since its still a game, there will be the ocasional jankiness but if a game has the tag "realistic" and then you have to do things that are realistic, you shouldnt be surprised. At the end I want to say again that this is meant as constructive criticism towards people who dragged down the rating of this game with negative reviews for (in my opinion) unjustified reasons. I also want to say that I can fully understand these people when they bought a game and hoped for something different. Or if their PC just doesnt want to run the game smoothly even though it should. So I DO understand some of the complaints and maybe even frustration of some of the players. Lets hope the Developer addresses some of these problems in Gold mining Simulator 2 so that a larger amount of people can enjoy this type of game without making concessions to people who liked the first game (like me). I wish everyone who read all of this still a nice day even if you disagree with everything I said. I just want people to have fun playing video games and want a fair exchange between Developers and Gamers, thats all. Have a good day :)

buggy, unpolished, unfinished, unoptimized, looks like this was abandoned as soon as the money dried up.

Got it on sale for $7 bucks, its the only game close to gold mining/ panning so theres no other choice. I saw some youtubers play it years ago and thought by now it would be ok but it is so negleted. So much potential, so many good ideas but executed so poorly. its a shame. Nugget option is in by default but it makes it so you make more money just shoveling the dirt than actually panning it so defeats the purpose entirely. But turn the nuggets off and its stupid anounts of grind to get past the starter section. A bandade work around and lazy uninspired game ruining idea, of what could have been really cool. Apart from that the loading between areas is so bad, driving your car is kinda cool but ruined by total frame drops, followed by driving into a wall. Town is a ghost town no npcs. Could be good and has alot of work done but not enough work put into the right places. Would give it 5 out of 10 but i was not only dissapointed but very frustrated with time wasting aspects of the game so its a 1.5 out of 10. Love Carl

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