Mall Simulator 2025 Pros: (no worries) -Odd intro which made me laugh, i seen someone recently hate it saying it was AI slop but i got a chuckle out of it and it doesn't sound bad especially nearly as bad as that person claims it does. Honestly wish there was some sort of music outside the menu. -Currently one of the better/best simulators -Garbage cans but NO garbage collecting -Manage multiple store types instead of 1 -Funny Parody Names -Run in all directions even backwards -Can name store to anything i want which is great cause to many games have things censored even when it's not a bad word. -See a real future for this game Cons: (should fix at some point) -Loan Details dont work -Mid-late Game stockers become way too slow -No stocker for main mall (not a big issue would just be nice to not deal with it) -Stock App control has no option for ordering stock just lets you change item prices -Animations are off when characters Eats or plays arcade (Eats arms and plays games while holding bags) - Wishing well doesn't provide income -Characters freeze or walk in place and dont reset until new day -Daily Statistics don't show what products are to expensive or can't be found. -Stock control ONLY shows what's out on the floor, not whats actually in stocked in the back. - Can't customize Exterior color of store -Can't swap store locations -Can't individually lablel back room shelves for stocker to place boxes in specific spots and have it where if not labeled any box can be put there. -Cinima should be like the buger joint and make the customer order what they want at the counter so we can place items as they should look -Can't throw away extra shelves or movie posters would be useful if you can use the Trash Cans to get rid of any item you want or have some buy back system so you don't lose all money on an accidental purchase or an item you just don't want. -Purchases become time consuming and theres no Auto Buy or save for your last purchase so you have to reclick however many items you want per item every time, it's hundreds of clicks for each day and i don't even have every item in each store unlocked yet. It would be nice if at least it saved how many items i bought last time i purchased that said item instead of resetting to 1 each purchase, still a lot of clicks but it massively cuts clicks and time down. -Moved this to con cause it's realy making me mad, Need an option for auto open door SOOOOO many times im helping the stocker to move faster and they close the door on me, either side i'm on if im within 5ft of the door they auto shut it when walking through and it takes a minute for the door to let me open it, a lot of the time i have to back away and come back to the door BUT if i'm not at the door lets say pass half way of whatever store floor and he won't close the door when he goes back and forth yet i take a step over the half way line and he starts shutting it every time he walks through. Just frustrating when im trying to run back and forth as fast as possible cause i have to do this with many stores. Mehs: (not game breaking but could use improvements) -No Office top floor by florist (description explains) -Rotating Door should just be a normal door that opens when people come near it since they just walk through the door regardless of it's rotation. -Chacters still shop well past closing at 22:00 -Auto Order -can't jump when holding a box -Sale signs are useless, If you could bind certain items to the sale that increases the chance of more people showing up to buy that item would be nice. -Move/add signs in stores -Your character can't sit -Daylight outside only changes to night right at closing time, i feel like it should be 4-6 hours prior to day ending or have a slow passive dawn to dusk to full night. -CCTV feels pretty useless because you can only view the stores, kinda useful for seeing low stock but theres another app for that and its just as fast to run around and check the store yourself especially if you have to go in the back to check stock. -Theater only lets you show 6 films even though we have 12 movies Could be fixed with expansion to cinima. -Can't organize store tabs when ordering product -Also curious to know what W/C for Male/Female on the bathrooms mean. If it's Wanker/C**ts i guess it makes sense but would kinda surprise me if that's actually it. Overall it's a great game, Has a demo you can try which has changes to make it a little harder so you don't just blow through the demo and it doesn't transfer progress when you buy the game. I don't buy many games like this i go off the free ones but i bought it for 14 or so and im happy with it. Game looks good, only real audio is the "Cha-Ching" sound every few seconds if not multiple times a second depending on how many shops you've opened and some random background audio of ppl talking and birds which gets annoying but i normally play spotify while playing this. This consumed me, i enjoyed it very much and spend 3 fard focused days in it and unlocked all shops, not saying it's easy or quick cause i grind my games and try to play games like this as if it were real so theres a huge enjoyment for me just in that alone. The only real BIG issue i had with this game is the stockers take so long to stock items from mid-end game or just have 1 store basically fully decked out, i'll walk around order stock for all stores click buy and then order stuff for the main mall that you have to stock yourself and i can take inventory, find the items in the catalog, buy items, stock machines and bathroom and go back and still see some stores maybe half way done with stocking and it's irritating as well cause when you start a new day they just continue stocking from where they left off, it doesn't just auto stock the back room shelves. We need either upgrades to the stocker or the ability to buy 1 more stocker which would probably just solve the issue, altho i did see theres employee expenses but no where does it say you have to pay them daily, it just shows a fee for buying the employee but that must be a daily fee, for me it's about 50k each day. If they don't implement this into the app "stock" I do wish there was an office maybe next to the floral default location across the way from the elevatores where you could go and be able to look at all your stock like the app but actually be able to place orders too, Going back and forth from 1 app to another was annoying me so much it ended up being faster to run store to store and visually see the shelves and order that way, like 1 item isn't fully stocked so i went into the back room and seen no boxes so i just order 6 of that item and move on. Also characters stay WAYYY pass the 22:00 time and it makes it take so long before i can order stuff becacuse if i do a portion of that stock is gone by the time everyone leaves, yes it's income but when you're trying to hurry and get everyone out to order new stock its a real pain, if they did it like a real mall and let the stores close their gates to force people to leave or shop in the main mall before leaving that would be fine. I know more decorations will be added so no words on that but overall it's quite enjoyable and depsite the negatives being larger than the pros that means nothing because it doesn't really hurt the game, its in alpha and has only been out for a month or just passing a month, i'm excited to see what gets added and will be returning to this game even after i've upgraded and purchased everything which i haven't yet. Additional Note: in game daily time per 1 real minute 1min=52 seconds 19min=1 day 7+ mins after closing to stop profits and xp more than a quarter of an in game day to let people finish shopping because if you end your day it'll cut the profit at that point even if others are going up the escalator to buy something cause if they go up they ALWAYS buy something, i've tested this many times.
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