Gas Station Simulator News

Head over to the Early Days store page and get your hands on the freshly released prologue to Gas Station Simulator. You can also join our live stream and watch the devs play it for you.

On 28th April, you will be able to play the free prologue to Gas Station Simulator.
Unlike the demo, where we threw you into the middle of the game to experience a well-rounded set of game mechanics, the prologue is focusing on showing you the early part of the game, hence the name Early Days.

The prologue in many areas resembles the start of the full game where you get a gas station in shambles, have to clean up the area, restore the gas station and equip it and then proceed to taking care of the surroundings. While the game’s demo is more focused on running the gas station, the prologue is about establishing it in the first place.

Being a different experience in terms of gameplay and content, the prologue also features improvements, further optimizations and the new UI we are working on for the full game.

If you enjoyed the demo, you really should have a look at the prologue. Besides, it has a bobblehead figure mounted on the dashboard of a muscle car, so if that isn’t reason enough to love it right away, what is?

Giving the rise to the name “Dirty Thirties”, the Dust Bowl was a region of the Southern Plains of the USA that suffered severe droughts and dust storms for nearly the entire decade at the end of the last millennium. While rains have returned to the region and nature managed to mend, a catastrophe of such magnitude mustn't just be forgotten.



Which is why each and every glance at your station’s name will serve as a reminder never to underestimate the dryness nature is capable of. One man can’t fight against the storm - not unprepared, at least. Dust storms have pelletized the area and the sand mounds that build up require prompt removal. Just expect nature to throw a curveball your way once in a while.



An excavator is going to be a big help in this endeavor.
The excavator is a heavy piece of machinery and goes through large amounts of fuel in no time. Not to mention the excavator is hardly automated - you’re going to be sitting in the driver’s seat after all. Without skill and a good eye, you will find your time spent behind the steering wheel much longer than you’d expect, and in turn you’ll see all that precious fuel as nothing but fumes released into the air behind you.

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The excavator weighs a ton, and you know what happens when a mountain on wheels hits anything in its path. Be very, very careful maneuvering so as to not demolish your customers’ vehicles, not to mention the customers themselves. You’ll also need a lot of space to stash the machinery when not in use, so park responsibly. And above all else, please, do NOT leave the excavator in the middle of the road. The local sheriff still laments having to drive all the way here to tow the previous one away to this day.

Yes, Winter Survival Simulator and Gas Station Simulator don’t have much in common, but we can see some people still being interesting what else we are developing.

So should you find Winter Survival Simulator interesting, check out the demo we released yesterday and join us for the upcoming streams.

We plan to do multiple streamings over the next days, some live, some repeated, some pre-recorded. That being said, even the pre-recorded ones will have a live chat we will follow to answer as many of your questions as we can.

So you’ve got yourself a Gas Station at a killing price - practically for pennies, as some say. Was it great value? Arguably, yes. Will you have to work your hands off getting things in order? More than certainly. Welcome to your station’s lot. There’s dirt in astonishing quantities, more rubble than you can shake a stick at and so many leftovers from the old station you’ll be wondering what half of the things you find even do. Time to pull up your sleeves and get to work.



The first chapter of the game, before proper Station management even kicks in, will feature you cleaning up your newly-purchased lot to make it at least somewhat presentable. There’s a lot of rubble to go around. You will have to clean not only the inside, but the outside as well. And sometimes, perseverance just won’t cut it. In other words, grab your broom and your shovel and go have some fun.

Rubble isn’t just a pile of bricks stacked on top of another to be clearly removed with a simple interaction. Break apart a mound and lo’ and behold, it’s all coming tumbling down. Dirt happens to make more dirt before you’re finally done with it, so prepare for a longer time out shoveling. Of course, trying to get everything rolling away from you is fun in and of itself. When you gather things up to sort them into bins, why not try your throwing arm instead?



If you ever start feeling like you’re an archeologist working at a digsite, that’s very much the intention. All that mess holds treasure. Well, it’s still junk, but one’s man’s treasure is another man’s junk. Or vice versa, rather. You may find things that are genuinely useful.

Even if Gas Station Simulator begins slowly, you’ll already have your hands full with things to do - literally so. Don’t rush things, do what you feel is appropriate and always give everything you find its due scrutiny. Treasures await in the junk.