Crypto Mining Simulator

Interesting game, but it really should be in early access at this point. The game will probably improve as the devs seem to be active on the discussions forum. Here's a quick run down of what needs to be improved or reworked: + CPU choice / RAM choice / mobo choice / amount of RAM have no effect on hash rate. There's no reason to buy anything aside from the cheapest of these parts. Choices only matter when you're building a PC for a customer which you'll soon just stop doing. + Watt-hours are tracked in game, but power is free and unlimited. If there was an electrical bill to be paid that could help give this game some strategy. + There is only 1 location so far. Once you fill up the room with racks, the game is effectively over. If players could buy a larger room, warehouse, or own multiple locations that would also add depth to the game. Along with differing kWh pricing at each location, this could add to the min/max strategy. + Location temperature should begin impacting hash rate performance at some point. Individual GPUs can overheat if you overclock them too high, but the room with all the mining equipment does not heat up itself. Smaller rooms should heat up faster, larger rooms should heat up slowly. Adding in different cooling solutions to control room temps would be nice. + The price of items never change. It would be great if items could have their price go up or down depending on part stock availability. + You should be able to buy multiples of items. If you want ten 3090's you have to buy them 1 at a time. Game UI needs more QoL improvements. + Stats for each item should be visible on mouse over since parts do wear out. Once you fill up a room with racks, have fun finding the singular GPU that has finally died. No way to label racks. + UI should be reworked to allow the player to see the pricing graphs for all the crypto at once. + Add achievements. None at the moment. As of now the game is a bit barebones, but interesting enough to play for a short time. This is OK given the current price, but if the devs keep making changes at the pace they have so far it should become a much better experience given the price.

The game is a mess - but has potential. Avoid for now until future updates. My issues: - Game not responding every time I place a customers PC in the box. I have to close and reload every time. - After reloading game, all my PC parts disappeared from my machine, didn't get refunded for them. - Tutorial will confuse people, It tells you to enter a PCI-E which is not possible / needed with a normal PC - Saves are buggy. I tried to delete my progress and start again, if you enter the same name, you start on the day of your old game.

Don't get me wrong, a lot of potential here.. A lot of detail in certain things, and building rigs is genuinely fun, so long as it wasn't glitching out when placing GPU's.. but that's it. The price of ETH never fluctuated, i couldn't switch miner software or algorithm, and while it shows balances for other coins, I could only ever mine ETH. No ASICs, and very limited selection of hardware. No real sense of power management, or anything to do with the building you're in. just some custom looks.. It was fun for an hour, but I really hope a LOT more is added to this in the future. EDIT: This review was written before the Trading update (April 27). Seems some things have been added, keep it up, and I may change this to a thumbs up in the future when it feels like a full game.