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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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[-] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 44 points 6 days ago

Sell it on GOG

[-] C1pher@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Thats not how this works. Once game is rejected, youre done and cannot re-submit it with changes.

[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago

I mean steam has no problem with Grand Theft Auto and I'm pretty sure you're a meth dealer in that one.

[-] sausager@lemmy.world 17 points 6 days ago

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

[-] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago

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.

[-] mrfriki@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago

And let modders add the weed afterwards. Brilliant!

[-] baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

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 8 points 5 days ago

That didn't work out for GTA back in the day

[-] hannesh93@feddit.org 12 points 6 days ago

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

[-] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 35 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

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 23 points 6 days ago

That's the thing. Steam didn't do ANYTHING to traditional distribution channels. They all put themselves out of business, or out to pasture.

[-] SARGE@startrek.website 4 points 6 days ago

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.

Either you're too young to have experienced "the old days" or you live in a very conservative area.

There was absolutely a mature section for nearly every store I went to, they either had sleeves to cover the games with printed/handwritten titles, or were collected and kept in their own area that was in view of an employee to tell kids to stay away.

Places like Walmart

Oh, you meant department stores, not actual local game stores.

[-] mech@feddit.org 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

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 points 5 days ago

We had a game like that in graphing calculators we passed around at school.

[-] judgyweevil@feddit.it 34 points 6 days ago

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

[-] Faydaikin@beehaw.org 2 points 6 days ago

And yet, it's still the best we have. And I can only imagine the shenanigans if any of the competing storefronts held the position Steam does.

I'm fairly certain the gaming scene would be far worse if, say, Microsoft had the leading storefront.

[-] dukemirage@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

Schedule I drugs, substances, or chemicals are defined as drugs with no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse.

But weed has medical uses, hasn't it?

[-] baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 6 days ago

the game also includes other drugs, but it really is just a fun title imo

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

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 1 points 5 days ago

So have morphines. Your point is mood to me.

[-] Kalothar@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 days ago

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 points 5 days ago

Great carch

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

Morphine is schedule 2, as are meth, heroin, fentanyl, and cocaine.

No it doesn't make sense

this post was submitted on 27 Nov 2025
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