If you read my prediction in the original DDS review, I was fully aware that this game was probably going to be a dumpster fire. I bought it because I'm a shareholder in the publisher, so the money I spent will come back to me in next year’s dividends anyway.

This game actually has some fresh ideas, which is good. And you can even have fun for a while, which is also good. But there are just too many systems in place designed to cause discomfort to the player. Byterunners have once again forgotten what makes games fun. And that’s a shame because the gameplay loop could be insanely good. The concept of the game is solid—you sell things, produce things, grow your operations, and afford luxuries. That’s LITERALLY what I want from a simulator game.

You have this great concept, so why let them butcher it? First off, the game doesn’t run very well. It suffers from constant frame drops, especially in the bay area of Slav Bay. There are tons of bugs and glitches. Some items in the shop are just question marks instead of actual items, and if you buy one, the game crashes with a fatal error. Dear lord, how is this not fixed months after release?

The community keeps asking for a way to sell older vehicles—how is this still not implemented four months after release? Why are there so many edges on the map that make going off-road so difficult? Some of them even launch you into the sky, and once you’re in the air, you can’t use the reset player position feature. You have to go back to the main menu.

Who thought a game like this needed snake bites? Just explain it to me. There are so many core gameplay issues that need fixing, and someone decided, “Hey, let’s add a pointless obstacle to make walking through grass more annoying.”

There were so many dumb decisions made just to make everything unnecessarily difficult. Let’s talk about the bus stops. You can fast travel by bus, but only to a few stations at a time. The one in Callejon is basically useless because it covers an easily walkable distance of 100 meters and doesn’t connect to any other bus stop. So you can ride the bus for 100 meters and then walk 500 more to the next stop...

When you set up distributors, they only cover a certain radius, but when you place dealers, there’s no way to know if they’re within that radius. So, the only option is to set them up, walk all the way back to HQ to check, and if they’re not in range, you go back and try again in a different spot.

Real estate is a lot worse than it used to be. In DDS, you could buy hideouts from the comfort of your home. Now, you have to physically walk to each one and call the real estate agent to buy them. Product prices are no longer customizable but fixed. And the boss table is essentially useless. Imagine that. Instead of making it a helpful tool where you can manage your operations, track your daily earnings and expenses, it serves no other purpose than showing you a map of the islands... congratulations.

I could go on and on bringing up examples on how they added pointless and annoying things to complete but forgot to add fun things. But I think I already established my point.

I was about to refund it before 2 hours of gameplay but i somehow got hooked instead..

People just NEED the drugs, I sold some guy so much drugs in a day i dont think he should be alive.. but the money was great so 10/10 would do again