With the update to the Food Truck Simulator demo, it's time for the aforementioned Giveaway! If you're a Gas Station Simulator veteran, you shouldn't have any difficulty finding references to your game in Food Truck Simulator.
The only thing you have to do is to find elements from Gas Station Simulator, take a screenshot and paste it on one of our channels (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Discord) with the hashtag #foodtrucksimulator.
With a little bit of luck you'll find your game code for pickup on our Discord. Be fast and keep your eyes wide opened!
The updated Food Truck Simulator demo will be available today (27 July) at 10 AM PT/19 PM CET.
Only the day left on Gas Station Simulator's lowest price to date!
It's the bundle's last day on sale with a discount of 28%. That's the highest discount we ever did for the game and quite an opportunity to get Gas Station Simulator together with its recently released first DLC in case you don't have the game yet.
There might not be such a great deal on the game for a while.
Mark 27.07.2022 in your calendar as that’s when a gas station related content and giveaway starts when Food Truck Simulator updates its demo. Beside various improvements and request, we added a lot of gas station related things and easter eggs to the demo and the contest will be about finding those - right up the alley of the GSS community.
So knowing Gas Station Simulator is kinda essential in order to be able to truly compete. I mean there are some very obvious references that anyone who has seen a gameplay video of the game is likely to spot, but there are lots of not so obvious ones only those we really played Gas Station Simulator will recognise. It’s going to be fun :)
Not familiar with our Food Truck Simulator? Check it out and add it to your wishlist while at it and sign up for the upcoming Playtest before the game's launch:
Time for a small preview of an upcoming update to Gas Station Simulator. Despite Food Truck Simulator ramping up to its release in September and our Winter Survival entering Early Access soon after, Gas Station Simulator is still very high on the team’s priority list and we are working on new content and optimisations for while now. We reached a point where are pretty confident what will make its way into Update #7 of the game and that is a good point in time to let you know at least about some of those things. And we do have nice mix of things planed for you :)
Stability & Performance
Aside from various fixes, especially those related to random crash issues, we continued the work from Update #4 and major optimisation overhauls. We tackled both CPU and GPU optimisations as well as physics related performance issues. Those combined should greatly improve the performance of the game especially on medium and high spec systems.
CPU Optimisations
While the game isn’t really bottlenecked by the CPU in general, we addressed a lot of instances where the game on occasions got severely bottlenecked. Just for a moment or two, but that in turn caused the GPU performance to falter and then the recovery phase from those performance dips wasn’t short either. We rewrote a lot of code, especially in areas where the CPU is constantly kept busy to make some breathing room for the performance spikes that will occur no matter what - especially in the later stages of the game.
Depending on the system and CPU, we freed up even as much as 40% of CPU resources which is quite massive. This will not only result in overall better performance and more stable FPS, but also alleviate most of the massive performance spikes.
GPU Optimisations
With the optimisation on the CPU side, we are now seeing much more stable GPU performance. This in turn allows us to optimise GPU even more, since the performance spikes caused by the CPU are dealt with. This is still ongoing and while we are not certain that all the optimisations we planned in this area will make it into the upcoming Update #7, a lot of them will.
GPU performance will also benefit from another source. We are internally working on a native version of Gas Station Simulator for Macs and especially the changes required for Apple’s own silicon (M1/M2) are also beneficial performance-wise for the PC version of the game - especially on the low end of the machine spectrum. So when it comes to GPU performance, there will be something for every system tier.
New Features
While Update #7 is mostly about optimisations and stability of the game, there will also be new things when it comes to content. Here are some of the highlights you can look forward to:
An additional employee to help around the gas station.
Open and close areas of the gas station separately.
Remote accessing to the PC.
New boosts for popularity levels.
Yes, you will be able to not only access the PC inside the gas station from anyplace with a tablet like device, but you will be finally able to open or close each of the parking spots separately (which in turn are responsible for the customer influx at the cash register or the toilets), the car wash, fuel pumps (also separately) or the work spots in the garage.
We will give more details about the added features as we will be getting closer to the release of Update #7, but we hope what we already provided today enough for you to get a taste what’s coming and whet your appetite a little. Yes, the food pun is here for a reason as there will be some cool Food Truck Simulator related things that fit a gas station nicely added as well…
Join the Food truck Simulator playtests!
We would like to remind you that you can still sign up for the Playtests for Food Truck SImulator, which will start at the beginning of August.
You will be able to try out new features and additions that we have created and have a real impact on the final shape of the game.
Since the summer at the gas station’s desert lasts the whole year, we don’t want to limit the summer sale to just 2 weeks and go for the whole 4 weeks. We are extending the 22% off the regular price offer on Gas Station Simulator from July, 7th all the way to July, 21st!
And we will give you some insights next week into what is happening with the game on our end as we are working on quite a few things that you will be interested in!
Hotfix #5 for Update #6
Just a quick hotfix for update #6 that just became available addressing the following issue:
Fixes an issue with disappearing hanging spots in the gas station that prevented players from hanging decorations properly.
Steam Summer Sale is here and Gas Station Simulator and its DLC got cheaper!
Hello everyone!
The Steam Summer Sale is finally here and we are joining the quest for discounted games! We've prepared multiple discounts you can choose from!
You can either grab Gas Station Simulator standalone with a beautiful 22% OFF the price tag or if you already own the base game, you can get just the DLC with a sweet 10% discount.
And if you are missing both and would like to finally get both, then you can get the game with the DLC in a bundle with awesome 28% OFF!
Don't wait and go for the deals! The sale is starting NOW and is available only for a limited time!
We know how you love Dennis. That little bugger is known to drive players nuts. Imagine what he would be like all grown-up… Well, you don’t have to imagine, you can actually meet him in the Playtest we are starting for our Food Truck Simulator.
While Gas Station Simulator is set in its own timeline in the past, Dennis is just a youthful menace. Food Truck Simulator on the other hand takes place in the present and Dennis is an adult now. Yeah, that couldn’t have ended well… you just know. Sign up for the Playtest and find out.
The Playtest for Food Truck Simulator is our first Playtest on Steam to gather some experience with this feature. If it works out and it makes an impact, there is a good chance we will use it more often. New content for Gas Station Simulator or test-driving upcoming DLC would make great candidates for future Playtests, so join in. Who knows, maybe you enjoy driving a food truck as much as you enjoyed running a gas station :)
