ABOUT THE GAME
Gas Station Simulator is all about renovating, expanding, and running a gas station along a highway in the middle of a desert.
The player character arrives at a run-down gas station on a dusty stretch of Route 66, buys it, and renovates the place. The player cooperates with their uncle, who praises them for taking up the family business. However, players have to be wary because their uncle has high expectations for the player's performance, and there are consequences for not making enough money.
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THE BASICS
Starting Up
You arrive at the run-down gas station and the game automatically makes you buy it.
You start by cleaning up the mess around it and a small tutorial on how to run the basics of the gas station like: cleaning, delivery, selling, pumping gas, etc.
Here and there you get a call from your uncle, one of the game's main characters. He's your family and helps you start up, found, and run the station by landing you some money.
The tutorial ends with you getting punched in the face by someone to who u allegedly owe money, but your uncle later calls you and tells you it was a misunderstanding and gives you unlimited time to pay off the debt of 5000 dollars. after that, you're free of debt and you can do whatever you want with the money you make.
Open / Close
If you get tired or just overwhelmed by everything in the game you can either reset or close your gas station for a few minutes to fix everything else other than your customers without distractions.
No matter if you have to clean the floor, buy supplies or gas, clean space, upgrade, etc. you can close the station and open it back up whenever you're ready.
Also if you get a glitch in the game you can fix it by resetting the customers with the reset button (the one with the alien drawing above it).
Cleaning
One of the important parts of your gas station is how clean it is. You also have a meter that tells you if your place is clean enough to make the guests happy. That consists of sweeping the floor with the broom and taking out the trash.
If your trash gets full the guests will be unhappy and complain and your progress will slow down. The worst time with cleaning is when the party bus arrives but more on that later.
But always make sure that your gas station meter is green and everything is cleaned up.
Ordering Gas
Ordering gas is quite easy and is already explained in the intro of the game. You order it by using your computer. You try to order it when the prices are the lowest but you have to keep in mind that you can never run out of gas because after all, you are running a GAS STATION.
You also need to note when the gas truck arrives you need to use the hose to transfer the gas.
Pumping Gas
Ofc their cant be a gas station simulator without you having to pump gas into the cars. It's something that at the beginning of the game gets you the most money.
The meter (like in the picture below) shows where you need to stop the gas so the customers are happy.
Ordering Garbage Disposal
Because the gas station is old and you will be cleaning every part of your property to make it nice and clean sooner or later your garbage bins will be full and you'll have to empty them into the large garbage containers around the property. And once the large containers get full you will have to order garbage disposal by using your computer.
Ordering Supplies
Once your gas station progresses you will start selling things like drinks, food, clothes, glasses, newspapers, etc. And you will order that again by using your computer in your station. Green dots next to each item represent that the item is well sold and red dots next to each item will tell you that people aren't buying that item at the time so your profit from those items will be slower.
Be careful though. KEEP YOUR SUPPLY ROOM LOCKED AND CLOSED. When you let in the supply truck make sure you close the gate after you are done or you will get robbed.
Sand Problems
The gas station you bought and now work at is in the middle of nowhere. And in this middle of nowhere sand storms happen here and there (you can turn them off in the settings) and they cause piles of sand on your property blocking cars, parking lots etc.
You will have to use your small excavator which also needs gas to run.
Repair Station
After some time you also unlock the car repair station right next to your gas station.
You can repair your client's cars (car scratches, flat tires, broken mirrors, etc.). You can make A LOT of money from this but it also costs you quite a lot to buy certain car parts.
Hiring People
At the beginning of the game, you will be able to handle everything yourself. Like selling products, pumping gas, cleaning, ordering delivery, fixing cars, etc. but after a while, you will get more customers when you open more parking lots and you will get busier especially when you have every station open for business.
You will be able to buy a trailer and hire some people to help you out. After the end of their shifts, you will also have to pay them because I mean they are working for you they deserve to get paid. You can put them on any task either cleaning, selling products, washing cars, pumping gas, etc.
Car Wash
Recently car washing station was added to the game. It works similarly to the gas station and car repair station but here you have to wash cars to make extra profit. Nothing too complicated but great for side profit.
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SIDE TASKS
Party Bus
One of the most annoying but also the most profiting things in the game is the party bus.
Party starts coming every once in a while AFTER you build a bus station. The bus is filled with people in weird alien and dinosaur masks partying and dancing.
They usually buy more than 1/2 of the products in your store and your profit after them is always huge. But they also leave so much mess behind, so it's smart to use an assistant that you can hire to help you out in that time.
(you can also turn off this feature in settings)
Dennis
Dennis is a random event kid that comes to the gas station and draws graffiti on station walls that you have to re-paint every time he succeeds at ''destroying'' your property. When you try to catch him and stop him he throws stink bombs that slow you down. To scare him away and stop him from drawing on your walls throw a piece of trash at him.
You can also disable him in the settings.
Basketball Court
To buy a basketball court you need to first achieve level 5 of the gas station. You buy it by using your computer. It's not a huge thing in the game but it's a fun little side task you can do if by any chance you have any free time (even tho that's kind of impossible in this game).
Painting The Station
If you are someone like me and like to keep everything nice, clean, and organized you will love the free painting in this game. You have a few colors to choose from but you can really paint just anything like inner and outer walls, columns, roofs, etc.
The more you progress and level up in the game the more colors and textures you unlock.
When you paint you do need to stay in the green part of the circle or the paint will splash on the floor. You can clean up that paint with the broom.
Race Car
It's a fun little side game but is so incredibly hard to control the little car. I only played it once because of the tutorial and never again. Is honestly my least favorite part of the game but it's only a side mini-game to keep you occupied (which I'm sure you will be anyway so you won't need any side games haha).
Buying Extras
When you level up more extra things you can buy will open. That means even the smallest details for your station like extra palm trees, extra car parking spaces, extra rusty cars, real roads, etc. and make your station look better and stand out more.
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ACHIEVEMENTS
I saw there are many guides on achievements for this game already but here's a link that helped me the most for now.
https://www.riotbits.com/gas-station-simulator-achievement-guide-25058/
THANK YOU
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- Phoenix
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