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0.0 hrs last two weeks / 16.3 hrs on record (7.2 hrs at review time)
Posted: 7 Apr, 2021 @ 11:58am
Updated: 7 Apr, 2021 @ 12:04pm

Early Access Review
TLDR; It's early access. Remember that. Things are planned to be added/fixed/optimized, but the game has been published under AeroSoft.


Ignore the negative reviews that say "it's laggy", "there's bad physics", or "the passengers aren't very good" while this game is still in early access. It's early access, i'm not sure why people expect the game to be completely finished and polished.

Anyways, it's a legitimately good game for early access, the bus models are good and the map is very faithful to how it is in real life. They have a roadmap which you can view on what's in progress, what's planned, and what's finished, and which phase they expect that feature/fix/optimization/upgrade to be in.

Things we expect to change over the time of early access, based on the roadmap (No idea if I can share the roadmap or not, but Steam would probably block the link anyways):
- The physics aren't perfect yet, they are basically the same as Fernbus and Tourist Bus Simulator (Both made by TML also).
- The passengers are incredibly simple, they can do 4 things. Get on the bus, Pay for a ticket, Get off the bus, and wait at the bus stop.
- Economy/Career. As of right now, the 1st phase, there's no economy or career. This is expected to be added in the 2nd phase.
- No modding tools just yet. Again, this is expected in the 2nd phase. We can expect Steam workshop support with this.
- Multiplayer. 2nd phase.
- More buses. These are expected to be added throughout the phases, and likely after full release. Most likely they will end up being DLC.
- Passenger audio. This isn't displayed in any specific phase, it's probably a while out though.
Of course, there's too much for me to list here. That's just the major stuff, there's minor things such as general variety and such that are planned, as well as optimization and fixes. I recommend checking out the roadmap.

The major downside: The publisher is AeroSoft. It's hard to say its a coincidence that the majority of the games published under AeroSoft are practically totally abandoned after about a year or two from being published, and they tend to end up getting out of early access too early, and magically another game comes out from that developer using the previous game as a base.
Maybe AeroSoft has a minimum number of games per year based on profit. Who knows. I just know whatever it is that's going on, is an issue for the developers making them release not-very-good games and abandon them before they're anywhere near being fixed or finished.
So tread lightly on games published under AeroSoft.

Why do companies even sign onto a publisher any more when they mostly only publish the game on Steam anyways? It's not especially complicated and the developer has to supply the screenshots, details, and videos for all the store pages anyways...

Also, i'm pretty sure every YouTuber that got this game in early access before public early access release got a script of things they HAD to say. Like, "I'm really impressed there's actually real companies like Burger King in this map" and such. I don't mind that, since i'm sure getting some licensing for those might've been either pricey or complicated.
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