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Life is irritating, and Drywall Consuming Simulator is an try and seize that whereas additionally being humorous and driving you to gnawing via partitions when your anger hits its peak. It’s relatable! Nonetheless, the unlucky half is that this simulation does nonetheless really feel like a piece in progress. Whereas patches did make issues simpler to take care of alongside the way in which, it’s nonetheless a bit buggy.
Drywall Consuming Simulator is about coping with the whole lot annoying about life. Coping with an house complicated the place you’re trapped inside, encountering annoying neighbors, and might’t get out. The stress builds till you discover and encounter sufficient irritants that the Stress Buddy reveals you’re about to lose it. At this level, you’ll see glowing crimson segments of partitions. These might be eaten to make new paths and scale back stress.
So the primary actually irritating factor about Drywall Consuming Simulator is the velocity of the digicam. Whereas transferring ahead and backward is ok, as is strafing, really transferring the digicam felt shockingly sluggish and gradual on a handheld gaming PC. This meant really turning and exploring felt like a chore. This endured even after the patches that mounted some softlock conditions, which is annoying. I attempted messing with the settings as properly and didn’t encounter the problem when taking part in on a laptop computer, so it should be tied to the Steam Deck kind of expertise.
Additionally troublesome is the truth that generally Drywall Consuming Simulator levels don’t work properly. The primary and second ranges are working fairly properly as of time of writing, with the current patches up up to now making it potential to see which components of partitions are prone and the Questlog.txt tracker retaining correct notes on what must be performed. However I skilled points with the mission checklist not updating and the fourth stage nonetheless locked up on me.
However even when Drywall Consuming Simulator is working properly, the way in which by which you progress can get a bit irritating. That’s as a result of it’s basically an “discover all over the place and click on on everybody” sort of expertise. There are occasions when the commentary from NPCs might be humorous! The concept is hilarious. The conditions are excellent examples of irritating moments of life. However really attending to the development factors might be tough in some levels. This felt most noticeable within the first stage, nevertheless it additionally occurred to me within the fourth as properly.
The concept behind Drywall Consuming Simulator is amusing and captures the frustrations encountered at work or in society. Sadly, I really feel like this can be a recreation in want of one other few patches. Some Steam Deck optimization could be nice too. Peripheral Playbox did already launch one patch on Steam and appears responsive, so this may very well be a scenario the place it’s in a significantly better place in a couple of weeks.
Drywall Consuming Simulator is available for PCs.
