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Bootleg Steamer

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59%Game Brain Score
gameplay, graphics
optimization, stability
71% User Score Based on 34 reviews

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Bootleg Steamer is a single player casual racing game. It was developed by Team Junkfish and was released on April 25, 2024. It received mostly positive reviews from players.

"Bootleg Steamer" is a rogue-like game set during American Prohibition, where you play as a captain aiming to become wealthy through alcohol smuggling. Navigate through challenges like weather, Coast Guard, Mafia, and financial difficulties while balancing supply and demand in different cities. Customize your ship, crew, and strategy to outsmart both the Coast Guard and the Mafia, ensuring your path to success in this dangerous yet lucrative endeavor.

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71%
Audience ScoreBased on 34 reviews
gameplay8 positive mentions
optimization2 negative mentions
  • The game features an amazing art style and fantastic soundtrack, making it visually and audibly appealing.
  • There is a lot of depth and variety in gameplay mechanics, allowing for engaging high score runs and replayability.
  • The theme of the game is unique and well-executed, providing a fun experience with enjoyable boat physics.
  • The game suffers from poor optimization and performance issues, including mouse lag and a lack of graphical settings.
  • There is no tutorial or proper guidance, leaving players confused about mechanics and UI interactions.
  • The user interface is basic and lacks keyboard shortcuts, making navigation and menu access frustrating.
  • gameplay
    24 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    Gameplay is characterized by a mix of depth and variety in mechanics, but it suffers from repetitiveness and a lack of tutorials, which can make learning new elements challenging. While some players appreciate the exploration aspect of figuring out mechanics on their own, the absence of user-friendly guidance and UI elements detracts from the overall experience. Despite these issues, many find the core gameplay loop engaging and capable of drawing them in for extended play sessions.

    • “The depth and variety of game mechanics make for an engaging experience.”
    • “No tutorials for some gameplay mechanics makes exploring the game more fun.”
    • “Lacking a bit in the UX department, but the gameplay loop is very fun.”
    • “Mediocre gameplay that gets repetitive and boring extremely quickly.”
    • “The walls of text explaining game mechanics don't have any kind of colored or bold text and cannot be accessed during the pause menu (in a glossary or help section or something).”
    • “This makes trying to understand new mechanics while the game is unpaused (and you are being chased) quite challenging.”
  • graphics
    14 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The game features an amazing art style and charming visuals that resonate well with its gameplay, reminiscent of classic titles like Pac-Man. However, players have expressed frustration over the lack of customizable graphic settings, as the options menu is limited to basic adjustments like volume and window size. Overall, while the graphics are praised, the absence of flexibility in settings detracts from the experience for some users.

    • “Amazing art style and the soundtrack is fantastic... very easy to get into as well.”
    • “The graphics are amazing, and it has the feel of an old school Pac-Man type game.”
    • “Graphics are great and really fit the game.”
    • “If it's a graphical issue, then I guess I'll just go myself since you can't change the graphic settings at all. The options menu is super barebones, and you can't change anything outside of volume and window size.”
  • optimization
    4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The game's optimization has been widely criticized for being poorly constructed, leading to significant performance issues that can even pose risks to PCs. While the gameplay is enjoyable, the overall optimization feels rushed and in need of further development.

    • “The optimization of how this game works is dangerous to my PC at times for no reason; it is poorly constructed and needed more time to cook.”
    • “The game itself is fun, but the performance is atrocious.”
  • music
    4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The music in the game is widely praised for its fantastic quality and charm, complementing the amazing art style and enhancing the overall experience. Players find the soundtrack engaging and easy to connect with, contributing to the enjoyment of gameplay.

    • “Amazing art style and the soundtrack is fantastic... very easy to get into as well.”
    • “Visuals and music are very charming, and controlling the ship is fun.”
  • stability
    3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The stability of the game is criticized due to persistent bugs in the map, which negatively impact the overall gameplay experience.

    • “The map is buggy.”
    • “The map is buggy.”
    • “The map is buggy.”
  • grinding
    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    Players find the grinding aspect of the game tedious, primarily due to frustrating mouse controls that hinder navigation of menus and maps, making extended gameplay unenjoyable. The lag in mouse responsiveness exacerbates the grind, leading to a cumbersome experience.

    • “You can't open your map or town menus or do literally anything else involving a menu without using your mouse, and when your mouse feels like it's always 4 steps behind where it should be, it makes the game unbelievably tedious to play for more than 5 minutes.”
  • replayability
    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    Players appreciate the high replayability of the game, largely due to the ability to customize loadouts of crew and upgrades, which vary with each run. This feature encourages experimentation and keeps the gameplay experience fresh.

    • “Being able to craft the perfect loadout of crew and upgrades to achieve this, which is different in every run, allows for a good amount of replayability.”
  • story
    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The game's story immerses players in the life of a bootlegger, where they must navigate challenges such as evading law enforcement and fulfilling various quests related to the alcohol trade. This engaging narrative is noted for its addictive quality, keeping players invested in their character's journey.

    • “Extremely addictive, this game throws you into the life of a true blue bootlegger as you struggle to evade the coppers while trying to figure out the most in-demand alcohols, and finishing up the other quests that pop up.”
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Bootleg Steamer is a casual racing game.

Bootleg Steamer is available on PC and Windows.

Bootleg Steamer was released on April 25, 2024.

Bootleg Steamer was developed by Team Junkfish.

Bootleg Steamer has received mostly positive reviews from players. Most players liked this game for its gameplay but disliked it for its optimization.

Bootleg Steamer is a single player game.

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