Can Touch This DLC boasts one of the lamest titles but features some of the most-wanted features you could imagine for Gas Station Simulator. Alas, my fellow sole proprietors: you still need to employ staff to keep things ticking, and the quality of candidates is still scraping the barrel.
My biggest gripe with this additional content isn’t the title but the actual gameplay: it’s so bloody addictive that it felt like running a gas station in the US of Americano would be my only source of income. The hours I’ve spent! There are two reasons for this.
Can Touch This DLC (pfft!) is in follow-up to DRAGO Entertainment’s title where you take control of a gas station, make a profit on stock and fix some cars in the process. Read the Gas Station Simulator review for more details on my earlier endeavours.
We see a couple more tiers for your gas station, workshop, and warehouse in this DLC. With the workshop, you’ll unlock structure upgrades and decorations. With the warehouse, it’s more stock space, fuel capacity, and the ability to mount Camden Town-like monstrosities on the roof to make it more inviting/a set from an Area 51-themed B-Movie.
By far, the structural upgrades in Can Touch This DLC are worth the embarrassingly cheap entry fee ($2.99, I believe). Those wooden exterior panels are a thing of the past as you can now use your pneumatic hammer to construct walls (inside and out) from brick, stone and metals. There’s the option for extra windows, roof styles, and probably the best new feature: changing the floor.
One of the things I hated most about Gas Station Simulator was sweeping up the sand after the customers. Granted, your staff can take care of that, but they’re thick as the paint on the wall, and it’s better to do it yourself if you can spot the offending spots. With the floor upgrade, you can install stone surfaces, painted wood, or even tiles; the results are marvellous. The only caveat is you have to close the station when using the hammer: Health and safety, folks.
The car wash update is not a new feature, but I found myself playing with this before playing with the DLC. I’ve not fully upgraded it, but it’s a great way to get some income – pending you don’t mind the monotony of rinsing cars. Oh, you like that sort of thing? Check out Car Detailing Simulator! You can’t assign staff to this job, but it can be automated. As for staff, there are new decorations to tart up their tiny abode.
Gas Station Simulator is a dangerous game as I’m palmed off all the other titles I should be reviewing, kids I should be feeding, and nose hairs I should be plucking. With the Can Touch This DLC, we (I) have the predicament of closing the station, installing a new floor, changing the walls and then recuperating the lost earnings. Then, I change my mind, close it down, replace the floor, head back to the open switch, and realise I haven’t used my airbrush yet.
With the new airbrush tool, you can spray up to 200 different designs on your lovely textured walls. Take that, Dennis. Prick. Unfortunately, you spend more time tarting up the place with all these options rather than running it – hence the number of hours added to my playtime. Still, at least the achievements have now been registered. With only about 15 to go out of 90, I have something to show for all that time.
One thing is for sure: Gas Station Simulator is still quite buggy. There are fixes for it by saving and reloading, plus the autosaves are generous. However, I did have a couple of moments where I placed an order for gas, and the truck didn’t stop. Hitting that big red button, it never respawned, and without the option to borrow (already in debt), I had to rely on my car wash skills until more fuel could be ordered.
Staff are still incompetent – irrespective of their stats, Rudy is temperamental, and the sandstorms were so frustrating when they were causing bottlenecks outside my workshop that I eventually disabled them. Aha – a solution! So, not such a big deal as these things can be fixed. That doesn’t sort the car wash, though, when you constantly walk through the customer and literally see inside their head. There’s nothing there.
So yeah, it’s a no-brainer: get Can Touch This DLC for Gas Station Simulator. The price is silly, the content is excellent, and again, it’s easily one of my favourite games on Steam.
