I don't know when it started, the simulator game has caught the eyes of countless players. With the development of time, conventional games can no longer satisfy these game makers, and enter an era where everything can be simulated. Xiaobian this time from the "Internet Café Simulator" series to talk about the future of low-quality simulator games, interested in it to see.
Now I can find hundreds of games when I go to Steam and search for the keyword "simulator", and some of the simulators look quite interesting. For example, "Dinosaur Fossil Hunter Paleontologist Simulator" and "Gunner Simulator", these types seem to players can still learn something from the game, but "Steam Simulator" and "Electrician Simulator" are not too mad.
Talking about this editor, I have to talk about a simulator game that was once quite popular, which is the Internet Café Business Simulation Series game "Internet Cafe Simulator" developed by developer Chesscake Dev. "Internet Cafe Simulator" landed on Steam on October 26, 2019, which belonged to the peak of the webcast boom, and the game effects brought by the simple game and the mutual achievements of the anchors also became the first stepping stone of the Cheesecake Dev simulator empire. If you don't believe it, go and see what the production team did before what "expensive things" are, you will understand.
I feel that the term simulator also began to rise from then on. Different from the rich connotation of "Simulated Goat", the simple production, exaggerated modeling and cheap graphics, the games produced at the lowest cost can get a superb reputation, and slowly the "simulator" has become a fragrant feast for many small game studios. With the internet trend, players seem to be open to these games, there is no accountability for the quality of the game, there is a state of you live and I pay the bill, everyone is happy.
With excellent live broadcast effects, "Internet Cafe Simulator" successfully went out of the circle. The production team also launched a sequel at the beginning of this year. Obviously, as mentioned earlier, this time the production team has grasped the real audience of the game. In Internet Cafe Simulator 2, the production team added more nonsense elements. Examples include the zero-dollar purchase of "dark-skinned people", the bomber in the squid game costume, and the cameo of Comrade Green Trump.
Of course, the production team is not without innovation, and the game has also added elements such as "prostitute to missing clubhouse", "mining", "betting" and "wife". Of course, the core mechanism is still a nonsensical spoof, in the game players need to turn the ruins into Internet cafes and start business, compared with the previous game, players can also do some illegal work as needed.
Like the previous game, the game is still the favorite of the anchors, providing the audience with enough program effects. As many friends said, although the "Internet Cafe Simulator" series is very simple and the optimization is very poor, the first time of play is very happy. Just as the so-called wind direction leads the market, the market is full of all kinds of shoddy simulator games. But as time goes by, players begin to slow down.
Just like falling in love, everything needs to be kept fresh. As the excitement dissipated, many problems with the game surfaced, and the game fell from 90% + praise to 70%. Reasons for bad reviews include too little content, numerous bugs, lost saves, and a high $70 price.
As of the time of the editor's release, the production team maintains a small speed in January, considering the ability of the production team, perhaps "Internet Café Simulator 3" will soon meet with us. With the dissipation of the live broadcast boom, in the face of more and more bad simulator games, players' vision is gradually improving, I believe that if the production team is still simply shoddy, then this "simulator 3" is difficult to reproduce the previous success. Facts have proved that even if low-quality games seize the wind of the times, it is still difficult to stay for a long time without hard power.