Of all the Golden Joystick Awards 2025 winners, Schedule 1 arguably stood out as one of the most unique – after all, it is about running your own drug empire… but, what if it wasn't?
After launching into Early Access on Steam, Schedule 1 took the web by storm and currently sits with "Overwhelmingly Positive" reviews eight months on. Players praise it as a fun management game, with many spending over 100 hours in-game. At the Golden Joystick Awards, Schedule 1 further proved itself with a win and a nomination, bagging the Breakthrough Award and going up as a Best Early Access Game contender.
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ryannathans@aussie.zone · 56 pts · 255d
Fucking Australia with bullshit censorship again
SenatorCollins@aussie.zone · 22 pts · 255d
Yeah, that’s not ████ ███████. I’d like to ████ ████ █████.
PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 45 pts · 255d
Sell it on GOG
sausager@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 255d
I enjoyed the demo but had no idea it was doing this good. I'm glad to hear it! It's on my wishlist but I'm just not sure I want to get into a management game atm
Unforeseen@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 255d
Pieisawesome@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 255d
Works flawlessly on proton
chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 255d
In the future, you just need to make sure the game is running on Proton. You might need to change the Proton version.
Just clicking those drop-down options will be the majority of "troubleshooting" you'll have to do to get games working.
Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 255d
I did get the early access and quite enjoyed It up until the production lines got a little complex. A few bugs here and there like employees not doing what they needed to do and the production chain breaking.
I gave it a break after that but maybe I will pick it up again to see if those issues have been fixed.
There was also a small annoyance where something's could not be automated and it was tedious having to do it manually all the time less the production break down again. Like ordering supplies and restocking the shelves. Hopefully they add a subscription service to phone orders if they haven't already.
njm1314@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 255d
I mean steam has no problem with Grand Theft Auto and I'm pretty sure you're a meth dealer in that one.
Lemminary@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 255d
I mean, Steam has no issue with Weed Shop 3 😅
mrfriki@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 255d
And let modders add the weed afterwards. Brilliant!
baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de · 14 pts · 255d
leave the drug version in the game files but don't put any focus on it, modders will get to it in less than a day
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 255d
That didn't work out for GTA back in the day
Tikiporch@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 255d
I want the farming version.
dukemirage@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 255d
But weed has medical uses, hasn't it?
baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de · 10 pts · 255d
the game also includes other drugs, but it really is just a fun title imo
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 255d
Not according to the US federal government. Biden was in the process of rescheduling but the current guy stopped that. Iirc it was expected to be schedule 3 afterwards
Gladaed@feddit.org · -2 pts · 255d
So have morphines. Your point is mood to me.
Kalothar@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 255d
It’s actually “moot”, as in “your point is moot”, just a specifically funny word to misspell while being a little snarky fella
Gladaed@feddit.org · 1 pts · 254d
Great carch
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 255d
Morphine is schedule 2, as are meth, heroin, fentanyl, and cocaine.
No it doesn't make sense
C1pher@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 252d
Thats not how this works. Once game is rejected, youre done and cannot re-submit it with changes.
hannesh93@feddit.org · -2 pts · 255d
Another prime example of why Steam has an absolute Monopoly on the market.
A single distributor should not have that kind of influence over game development
judgyweevil@feddit.it · 36 pts · 255d
The real problem are the payment networks. If VISA and Mastercard put limits on porn and drugs in games ( as they have already done) no shop can sell it
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 255d
This kind of game becoming successful would have been impossible before Steam. In the old days the brick-and-mortar stores would refuse to stock any game that was even remotely controversial in content or age rating. Steam has been hands-off regarding what they allow outside of things that are illegal (or, recently, that their payment processors disapprove of - if you want to talk about influential monopolies that shouldn't exist...).
San Andreas and The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion were even pulled off of store shelves temporarily due to their age ratings being adjusted. Places like Walmart are a hundred times worse gatekeepers than Valve has proven to be.
cardfire@sh.itjust.works · 25 pts · 255d
That's the thing. Steam didn't do ANYTHING to traditional distribution channels. They all put themselves out of business, or out to pasture.
mech@feddit.org · 5 pts · 255d
https://dosgames.com/game/crime-fighter/
In this, you play your way to become a crime lord. You make money by pickpocketing, pimping, dealing drugs, stealing car stereos, breaking into banks, kidnapping children for ransom money and killing cops to get their guns.
Back then, you didn't buy games from Walmart (the gaming market wasn't big enough for that), you bought them via mail order.
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 255d
We had a game like that in graphing calculators we passed around at school.
SARGE@startrek.website · -4 pts · 255d