Bootleg Steamer

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"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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Single-Player Play through the game's story or campaign solo

77%

Audience ScoreBased on 44 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 different strategies and replayability.
The boat physics are fun and engaging, adding to the overall enjoyment of navigating the game world.

The game suffers from poor optimization and performance issues, including mouse lag and a lack of graphical settings.
There is a significant lack of tutorials and guidance, leaving players confused about game mechanics and UI interactions.
The user interface is basic and lacks essential features like keybinding options and an easily accessible exit button.

gameplay
24 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
33%
50%
17%
Gameplay is characterized by a mix of depth and variety in mechanics, but it suffers from repetitiveness and a lack of tutorials, which can hinder player understanding. While some players appreciate the exploration aspect of learning mechanics on their own, the absence of accessible guidance and user-friendly UI elements can lead to frustration. Overall, the core gameplay loop is engaging and fun, particularly in trading and chase scenarios, but improvements in user experience are needed.
- “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 a very fun gameplay loop.”
- “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.”
- “While I appreciate not having explicit tutorials for some parts of the core gameplay loop, some UI elements should be introduced to the player (for example, the option to drop cargo, which is practically hidden).”
graphics
20 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
60%
25%
15%
The game features an amazing and visually pleasing art style that resonates well with its quirky theme, complemented by charming visuals and music. However, the options menu is criticized for being barebones, lacking the ability to adjust graphic settings, which detracts from the overall experience. Despite some calls for polishing, the graphics are generally praised for their fit within the game's aesthetic.
- “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.”
- “It could do with a bit of polishing but overall it is a very fun and quirky game, with a unique and visually pleasing art style.”
- “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.”
- “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.”
- “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.”
replayability
6 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
Players appreciate the game's strong replayability, highlighting the ability to craft unique loadouts of crew and upgrades that vary with each run. This feature, combined with its affordability, contributes to an enjoyable and engaging experience that encourages multiple playthroughs.
- “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.”
- “Well-priced indie game for the level of fun and replayability.”
optimization
4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
50%
50%
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
50%
50%
The music in the game is widely praised for its fantastic soundtrack, which complements the charming visuals and enhances the overall experience. Players find it easy to immerse themselves in the game, with the music contributing to the enjoyment of controlling the ship.
- “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.”
grinding
2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
Players find the grinding aspect of the game tedious, particularly due to frustrating mouse controls that hinder navigation of menus and maps, making it difficult to engage with the game for extended periods.
- “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.”
stability
2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
150%
The stability of the game is notably compromised by persistent bugs in the map, leading to a frustrating experience for players.
- “The map is buggy.”
- “The map is buggy.”
- “The map is buggy.”
story
2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
50%
50%
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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