Goblin Auto Club Manager

Istill don't quite get the upgrade system. I found the races too small and too short for my taste. It has good elements and the art is good, but, for me, it fell short. 4.5/10.

Strangely fun game. Maybe I don't play enough idle games to find this one repulsive, but I felt a slight addiction here. I think it helps a lot the game gave me a sticky flypaper slap at the start of the game with a custom play portrait. Couldn't help myself and spent an hour making a portrait. (But should be noted that I'm one of those crappy pixel artists who loves self insertion so...) : https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3751975137 My biggest critique of this game is the lack of strategy and management pre-race. It's rough to really grasp what the actual routes of maps/races are so you kind of have to feel it out a bit. Anyway, the game advertises itself as partial control. I've played a lot of games with partial control and I'd say this is the right balance. The time between races fits nicely unlike some games where you spend tons and tons of hours on something where you just don't have enough control. But enough about inferior games like (Kingdoms never last), lets talk about this one. Hah, it's kind of fun. I like collecting and I like the idea of not being the actual person doing the work. I like management. I'm the kind of person who is a lieutenant and not really the footsoldier or the general. Tactics are important, yelling at your subordinates is important, but you aren't responsible for the resources nor are you the one actually beating the guys up. So I would say that I like this one a lot. If you're looking at this from an outside perspective though I'd say the most appealing part is the collecting. Me... I don't care THAT MUCH, but most love watching numbers go up. This has that well enough. Progression is good enough. I found it to be... just enough. My biggest complaint is there seems to only be 12 tracks? I mean... I think most are pretty attractive, though I don't like the non-committal non-euclidian tracks as a personal annoyance. That's ok though. Most of them have the right pixel-art. As far as the actual racing goes, it feels a bit like those real racing tracks where you don't actually have control if they were slightly less binary. I remember as a kid that someone owned one of these race car tracks that you press the button and if you hold it too much your car spins out or something and you're supposed to carefully manage it to not spin out. Those things sucked ass. This game doesn't make the wrong mistakes. Instead it has more detail to each. So it's like a soft puzzle. If you're just here for the unlockes, I think you can probably get everything on normal. But if you wanna keep going after, I think it has extra difficulties for perfectionism. I'm more like a semi-perfectionist. As in, I love optimizing, but also some semi-randomness. SO, my overall rating is that... base price.. worth it? Ten bucks is pushing it, but I'd say sure. It's good enough. If you're on a budget but also very into it, I think yes. Buuuuuttt... keep in mind it's a soft recommend. Lets see where the game fails in my eyes. Firstly, the game kind of has some issues with communicating how you control it. It tells you it's automated, but the more you work with it, the more you realize you can exploit a lot of it. This I have mild issue with. (Like there is a train on a map but if you gently influence when to repair, you can gain big advantages. I like this, but also don't because you can both pause your car to repair to get the best movement, but you also can't tell your car to chase the train as it retreats for max speed without getting that aggression. It's a really rough balance and I actually don't blame the dev for it here.) My next complaint comes from the custom elements. I spent like... an hour and a half with my portrait avatar, but it's just the avatar that shows up on news reports. This game feels like it would be much better if you could work with workshop elements. I kind of want to be able to design multiple portraits... yet... also not. The damn portrait designer sucks ass man. Th…

This is such an AWESOME GAME! its a unique one of a kind concept, and it reminds me of the floppy disk days! and great price and addictive! 10/10