First look: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqVgd2yAtyg
This 2015 version of Towtruck Simulator seems to only have marginal additions over Astragon's 2010 version of Tow Truck Simulator, but at the price of some things that made the older version fun. It makes you wonder why UIG even bothered.
In the past you could drive like a maniac with your car hanging off the side, rushing around to get all the cars back to your lot, just left to your own devices to do as you please. This time you must do everything prim and proper until you're even allowed to drive the truck away. I never got that as far as to drive away with the car on the back as I couldn't figure out how to get the truck moving again and in that time the car I had put on the truck had somehow slid it's way off. They focused so much on the physics of the hydraulic stabilizers it seems they didn't have time for much else.

There is no tutorial to guide you through each bit, you're merely given a control screen (controls cannot be customized) and you just have to figure out what to do from there. It doesn't explain things such as what you have to do for the game to trigger to allow you to do the next bit. It's a pretty big thing to overlook really considering the linearity of the game. You're wrapped up in cotton wool to avoid you being silly but doesn't really tell you how to be a great tow truck guy either.

This game is graphics glitches galore. As you view cars in the distance it looks like a scene out of Tokyo Drift as they seem to be sliding down the road at an angle until they come into your draw distance and dissolve away revealing the car that's meant to be there. Everyone on the roads drives at 2mph, yet the sounds in the game would make you believe you were in the middle of Manhattan. It's not uncommon to see the same car several times in one scene, in fact you can even see that in the screenshots! The only thing that differs between them is some cars have shadows and some do not. Spooky!

This game has a star style wanted level system taken straight from GTA. I don't know why it's there or what it does though. It just made a police siren sound and that was it. Not a cop in sight.

I can't tell you if it has replay value or what the rest of the game is like as I couldn't figure out how to get that far. It feels rushed and hastily put together. If you want a tow truck simulator game just find the older version made by Astragon in your local charity shop or on ebay.

I thought I would try this out for a bit of a laugh, not really my cup of tea, but boy was I disappointment way more than what I expected.

I will probably NEVER play this game because of the poor quality. It is a shame, but they have reasonable graphics, but a lot of the time you find you have the car on the truck, but the game refuses to accept it and you just waste your time trying to resolve the issue. Some of the physics in the game are so bad also, for no reason the truck will just flip upside down. The driving control is bad and there is absolutely no way to remap the keys in the game at all. Just going into the options shows the sheer lack of settings.

There is no tutorial in the game, so you spend about an hour trying to work out how the bloody thing is supposed to work before you get a grip of the controls and then find out it ignores the fact when you do things right also. There doesn't seem to be anyway of knowing your progression also, just says pick up cars marked with RED dot, then half of them are too heavy and no way to know how to earn a larger truck.

Very POOR game in my opinion and certainly one for the masses to AVOID. When you think ONE GUY created Banished, what was the organisation thinking of to launch such a game in todays market place?

It is a shame that Steam does not offer a "Game Guarantee" for satisfaction of a game for valued customers like myself to obtain a refund. If a member of staff reads this review, then please consider it, or at the very least remove this game from sale and save other customers the traumer!

This game is pretty bad. I regret buying it.

http://youtu.be/Dt3q-YDOlMA

This game is buggy, flawed and seems unfinished. The crane is too slow, it is unrealistic and needs a lot of work to get it right. It should be called Towtruck Simulator 2005. It is that out of date.

I love simulator games, but Towtruck Simulator 2015 gave me a head ache, both as a simulation game and literally; I had to lay down and close my eyes for half an hour after playing this game.

The first thing that struck me was the un-responsivness of the controls. It feels like you are travelling through treacle all the time. Even though the speedo shows that you are doing 60kph, you feel like you are crawling, with no variation in the speed of the vehicle apart from when you first accelerate from stationary, and even that was unrealistic. All other vehicles on the road apart from looking remarkably similar (there was very little variation in color and only several different models of car, with no other HGV or articulated vehicles appaent in game), travel at the same slow speed; and, if you happen to crash into any car, despite driving a 5 or 6 ton vehicle at speed, the car appears to be glued to the road as it doesn't budge an inch when you crash into it . Cars appearing in the distance seemed to slide and even jump about , and movement when turning corners was erratic and unrealistic. Other vehicle simulators like Euro Truck Simulator 1 & 2 at least have some modicum of realism (apart from actual crash damage) when you crash into other vehicles.

The map showing you the placement of cars that needed towing isn't very clear and so far I've not found a key binding that will allow me to zoom in on the map, and on top of all these issues the whole environment looks drab and reminds me of what in game environments looked like 10 years ago, not next year (as in the games title Tow Truck Simulator 2015). Finally, try actually picking up a vehicle once you've found one, it's not impossible, but I tried and failed several times. There's a basic plan of the controls via the F1 key *see the last image link posted below), but there's no actual tutorial, so trying to actually pick up a vehicle for the first time is pretty hard to figure out unless you have a PhD in mechanical engineering. After playing the game for a couple of hours I had to gave up. (I did returned briefly to check on some points while writng this review) . In my opinion Tow Truck Simulator 2015 was a throughly unpleasant game to play.

Thankfully I got this game (twice) via both Bundle Star sim bundles, so can't really complain about how much I wasted as there were some decent sims games included with each of the bundles I purchased.

You can see some images (taken by me) and a You Tube video posted by WhyBeHere below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV_I79YGcIA

http://s2.postimg.org/d342odw95/Tow_Truck_Sim_001.jpg (sterile environment)

http://s9.postimg.org/vbp1s9fkf/Tow_Truck_Sim_002.jpg (Car park carash)

http://s9.postimg.org/vbp1s9fkf/Tow_Truck_Sim_002.jpg (stuck in traffic)

http://s4.postimg.org/nbmxk3cct/Tow_Truck_Sim_005.jpg (attempting to pick up a vehicle)

http://s28.postimg.org/9gsy59qfx/Tow_Truck_Sim_006.jpg (key bindings)


After checking out what the earlier version of this game (2010 version) played like, it seems the developer has taken a retrograde step in many of the game play features. You can check this out yourself by comparing game play from each game via You Tube videos. In essence I'd much rather be playing the 2010 version than the 2015 version.


e.g.

Other vehicles look like they travel faster, the cars can be knocked off the road if you crash into them which means if you get stuck in traffic you can at least plow a path through cars being driven along the roads if needed, wheras in the 2015 version, you easily get trapped between oncoming vehicles and vehicles behind you because of the cars being stuck to the road (see the third image above, I was completely stuck at this point after trying to extricate myself from the vehicle pile up ;......well, not really a pile up). The only way to get out of the game was to restart; game saves seem to be disables as I wasn't able to save my progress. Also the collision mesh leaves a lot to be desired, with my truck being able to partly drive through various inanimate objects like tree trunks.

I doubt I'll ever play this game again because I've got much better and more realistic simulation games to enjoy. Even GTA V (X-Box version) has a usable tow truck that operates much better and that's only one very tiny aspect of that particular game.

You will have more fun using chopsticks to pick up grains of rice than you will playing this game. My full review is at:

http://youtu.be/y-15WFtuqnk

I bought it out of shear curiosity, wondering how terrible the game really was because let's be honest here, no game has terrible reviews without positive ones. I soon found out that my tow truck has an extra chromosome and cannot lift its own arm. The vehicle physics are something you would find in a driving simulator from 2002. You have more fun downloading the game and laughing at how horrid it really is than actually playing it. Honestly, only buy it when its 90% off because its only worth 99 cents of laughs. Absolutely trash game, will never play it again in my lifetime.

Save your money; dont buy this game.

Out of the whole list of games made by this shovelware game developer, UIE GmbH, Towtruck Simulator 2015 is actually not that bad. And yeah, that developer was really active during the midst of the '10s, making those zero-level-gameplay products by dozens.

However, on the real market, where you can measure games by overall comparisons, this title now is right where it belongs - at the very bottom. Very Negative reviews, in general, are on point: the physical engine in this wanna-be-game is so wrong! Especially in collisions measuring, in the correlation of masses and vectors of oppositely directed forces... I am not talking about the diversity of the missions or the layouts, about general fun-out-of-the-gameplay. No, forget it! It's a German-made-technical-assistance-car simulator! There is no point to search for fun there, it's all damn serious. You have a small town full of incorrectly parked cars, and a tow truck to drive them all to the impound lot. That's all - drive back and forth until you collect them all (unlikely), fill your parking lot (if you're a very dedicated car evacuation specialist), or, most likely, flip yourself over while doing something very plain and simple. Because physics, remember? Collision measuring? The things where this simulator really messed up everything it could.

So don't buy it, don't install it, don't touch it in any way. Your time is much more valuable than this. Even if you're, like, serving a life sentence in a prison and this game is the only one you are allowed to play - don't touch it! It's just another punishment. Not training, not re-education - just one more option of punishment for all your sins.

Mark is 3/10.

Sounds bad, looks bad, plays bad, performance is bad. Stay far away.