I'm torn

[Vrede]

I'm nearing my 2 hours playtime and I can't really decide if I should keep playing or not before my refund period runs out.
What makes me lean towards a refund instead is that I don't really know how the game will play as a solo player later in the game. I'm not much for games where there's to much managing or stress with timed events and such.
How would you say that the game plays later on? Can it be a chill experience as a solo player?

[Magwitch]

I would also like to know if this works as a solo game before I buy.

[PVM Moody]

Im 224 hours into the game, it was helpful to have someone help me set up and make money at first, but its pretty chill as solo player.
Once you start seeing all the tips (like only doing deals between 12am - 6am as time stops at 4 so the deals arent timed etc) it makes playing it alot easier
but you have to put in the work

[di eshor ribly]

*Cough*

Sitting here just over 430 hours as I write this (about 30 of which were with a group), it's as solo friendly (complicated) as you make it.

You could run the min-max set up of managing every property to crank out 8-mix cocaine and drive yourself insane, or you could coast through the entire game slowly with just the sweatshop and a couple weed plants. Or have one guy make meth for you to sell.

You can even decide you don't want to sell drugs in your drug dealer game and go clean up the streets, steal, gamble, and get into the gold trade.

I spent an entire in-game month as the town's serial killer. I didn't sell a single thing, I just smashed ATM/cuke machines and clubbed police officers with the baseball bat. After a week or two I was high enough rank to buy a machete. I think by the time I ended that test run I was rank... Enforcer 4 and had about 20k from smash and grabs. Purely because I woke up every day and chose violence. You do you.

[Vrede]

Originally posted by Onikage:

Honestly? I love the game but the gameplay can get a bit repetitive. I only play solo and I've gotten about 20 hours worth so I have no clue what point you got to. Have you beat up any cops or customers? Have you made any really cool mixes and gave them a hilarious name? Have you seen some of the visual changes to characters based on the "effects" of the drugs lol.
You should be able to get at least 8-10 hours out of the game in its current state, some people have gotten 100+.

I haven't done anything like the things you asked. All I've done really is that I've bought the condo above the restaurant, having four growers in there, buying some supplies and running around selling the first drug you could make.

Originally posted by Onikage:

Now I'm gonna ask something and I'm legitimately not trying to be rude, but why are you on the forum of a game asking about this when there's over 150,000 Reviews on the Steam page? Like, a review is something written online... so is a forum post. I'm just waiting for something in the game to finish up so I had a few minutes.
I could understand if this game had like, less than 100 reviews or something but pragmatically, why would you trust a handful of forum replies over 150,000 Recommendations?

It's easier to get an answer to my question by asking it, instead of trying to find it in all the reviews, really. Sure, you could get an overall understanding of what people think of the game but not really exactly an answer to my question of how the game plays later as a solo player.

[Vrede]

Originally posted by di eshor ribly:

*Cough*

Sitting here just over 430 hours as I write this (about 30 of which were with a group), it's as solo friendly (complicated) as you make it.

You could run the min-max set up of managing every property to crank out 8-mix cocaine and drive yourself insane, or you could coast through the entire game slowly with just the sweatshop and a couple weed plants. Or have one guy make meth for you to sell.

You can even decide you don't want to sell drugs in your drug dealer game and go clean up the streets, steal, gamble, and get into the gold trade.

I spent an entire in-game month as the town's serial killer. I didn't sell a single thing, I just smashed ATM/cuke machines and clubbed police officers with the baseball bat. After a week or two I was high enough rank to buy a machete. I think by the time I ended that test run I was rank... Enforcer 4 and had about 20k from smash and grabs. Purely because I woke up every day and chose violence. You do you.

Thanks. Sounds good that you could really decide your own pace in things and how fast it's going to develop. That makes me reconsider the refund a bit.

[Vrede]

Originally posted by PVM Moody:

...Once you start seeing all the tips (like only doing deals between 12am - 6am as time stops at 4 so the deals arent timed etc) it makes playing it alot easier
but you have to put in the work

Thanks for the tip!

Originally posted by Onikage:

Originally posted by Vrede:

It's easier to get an answer to my question by asking it, instead of trying to find it in all the reviews, really. Sure, you could get an overall understanding of what people think of the game but not really exactly an answer to my question of how the game plays later as a solo player.

Well I added a link to another thread about this same question. There's been a lot of them and the consensus over 100s of replies across the many threads is "Yes fun solo". Also if you haven't done a lot of the stuff I described then it sounds like there's a lot of good play time and enjoyment to be had for you still.
If you bought the game for $20 and you're really concerned, just wishlist it and it'll be on sale for like 30-40% off at some point in the next 6 months (with more content) and you can buy it then. I've done that for a few EA games.

You're right. I did look through some of those threads that asked how it was solo, though. But I didn't really find an answer to how the gameplay it self was going to be later, just what they thought about playing solo.
And, to be honest, it's a bit easier for one to ask and let people answer, that are willing to answer (you don't have to), than to look for the answer yourself ;)

[di eshor ribly]

Originally posted by Onikage:

Originally posted by di eshor ribly:

I spent an entire in-game month as the town's serial killer. I didn't sell a single thing, I just smashed ATM/cuke machines and clubbed police officers with the baseball bat.

Hopefully you were listening to Eazy-E's song Sorry Louie while you did it lol

Nah, but I was listening to ICP's "My Axe" for part of it.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3475639228

They're not in the screenshot, but there's another 6-7 cops that were phasing out of existence about 10 ft away. Couldn't drag them all close enough for one big pile. I also flipped the car myself.

[calamity]

One of my rules of mine is to never refund or get rid of any game. It could get a really big update which makes it extremely fun again so i would recommend not refunding it.

[Sikko]

Why didn't you play the demo? You can easily get to the point where you are now and a little beyond.

[LordNelson]

Originally posted by di eshor ribly:

*Cough*

Sitting here just over 430 hours as I write this (about 30 of which were with a group), it's as solo friendly (complicated) as you make it.

You could run the min-max set up of managing every property to crank out 8-mix cocaine and drive yourself insane, or you could coast through the entire game slowly with just the sweatshop and a couple weed plants. Or have one guy make meth for you to sell.

You can even decide you don't want to sell drugs in your drug dealer game and go clean up the streets, steal, gamble, and get into the gold trade.

I spent an entire in-game month as the town's serial killer. I didn't sell a single thing, I just smashed ATM/cuke machines and clubbed police officers with the baseball bat. After a week or two I was high enough rank to buy a machete. I think by the time I ended that test run I was rank... Enforcer 4 and had about 20k from smash and grabs. Purely because I woke up every day and chose violence. You do you.

you need to find a job... game been out for 950hrs my guy

[Gluck]

Originally posted by Vrede:

I'm nearing my 2 hours playtime and I can't really decide if I should keep playing or not before my refund period runs out.
What makes me lean towards a refund instead is that I don't really know how the game will play as a solo player later in the game. I'm not much for games where there's to much managing or stress with timed events and such.
How would you say that the game plays later on? Can it be a chill experience as a solo player?

There's literally no stress or challenge. It's too chill, and there's not much to do once you get a lot of money and buy the properties. Game needs more challenge, stress & variety.

[MANFACE!]

The game is getting updates and will increase. Keep it and enjoy it.
But that is just my humble opinion.

[This PC]

So, I have about half my playtime with people, and about half my playtime alone.
Game is fine alone. Alone it's more a management sim, with people it becomes shenanigans kinda like lethal company. It's another kind of game entirely, unless you play with one person and you really jive, then it plays like single player, but cooperatively. There's about 30h of content figuring things out on your own single player. ^^

[Glorp]

Honestly a game like Kenshi is a better form of what Schedule 1 does in a core concept of solo play, if you can handle the gameplay perspective of it... schedule 1 in my opinion is most certainly a game where you need to derive your own purpose like minecraft or you will be horribly lost or bored quickly. Co op play is what will make this game last. If you are having a hard time solo you can try it with a friend, regardless game is not super expensive. Think of it as a learning experience.