As a proud patron of the Goob Lagoon, I knew that just inspired me to follow my dreams and start my own Waterpark, Shotgun Falls. I knew it would be rough spending my 401k and my retirement savings on a waterpark but if the owner of Goob Lagoon can do it anyone can. It would be worth it knowing I'd be a fraction as successful as Goob Lagoon. I remember sitting in the sun drinking lemonade and eating glizzy's thinking how clean and fun the pool was. Then I remember seeing and overhearing this girl coming up with this idea of her "getting full blown diabetes" to "get all the monies" and "she was broke" and "she needed that monies to get that BBL." Then I saw this Ambulance chaser aka Personal Injury Lawyer, going around and trying to get people to sign up for some class action lawsuit saying this place is dangerous and he needed to fund his timeshare in Daytona Beach Florida and this was his way to do so. Boy did he love Daytona. He tried also to get me to sign up for a unit in his timeshare as he needed a discount because his wife found out he was sleeping with his assistant, and then he made the joke, ASSistant. We all laughed. But in the end my heart new my love for Goob Lagoon would guide me. Little did I know that it would guide me in the same direction as the owner of Goob Lagoon. I mean if that guy can do it. Anyone can. Seriously. I have seen him slip standing still. He also came here and tried eating all the glizzys. But I said no. Those are my glizzys. Go get your own Glizzys. Theyre across the street. Then he cried and ran away and pretty sure he left a stanky mudpie on the ground. This game is amazing. 10/10 would fight someone for the glizzys here.

Thief snuck into my park to steal a hotdog and swim for free. Hit thief with hammer. Thief ragdolls across the map. Thief tries to get up and immediately slips and falls in a puddle of water. 10/10

Just slipped in 3 puddles simultaneously while trying to catch a pervert, and then CaseOh came and took all my hotdogs then shit on the diving board. 11/10

It's good fun but until they change this stupid fuckass "artwork" for the game and not have this stupid shit-eating grin broccoli-haired dumbass in the art, I'm not recommending it. Commission someone to make the artwork, use an in-game screenshot, but the current art really just pisses me off to look at, and that's not even mentioning the AI aspect. I really hate looking at this stupid fucking broccoli-haired dumb fuck.

I only downloaded this game cause I went to Gooblagoon IRL and it looked like the Hunger Games with floaties—injuries everywhere, lifeguards panicking, and the supposed owner dual-wielding hotdogs like it was his final form. I figured, "How hard can it really be to run a waterpark?" Turns out… easier than finding that guy a salad.

The AI "inspired" banner image for this game is absolutely disgusting, but the game is fire. It plays like a typical tycoon game, a lot of doing the same thing over and over. But bit by bit, you get a little faster, your park gets a little bigger, and its satisfying to watch it grow. If you like that kind of loop, this game does a great job at it.

Someone took a poop on the floor, jumped off a diving board into an empty pool, and died. 10/10

This dev understands that adding ragdoll physics to any game immediately makes it better.

The concept of the game is nice and since there not alot of aquapark game it is a nice edition to the long list of simulator games. But it just isn't it. Too much AI generated content, skill tree isn't logical, too grow your waterpark you have to unluck new things, but to unlock new things your waterpark has to grow, at some point you softlock your own progress because you didn't follow the tutorial correctly. In my case, to progress I need to build to jumping board, but I cant build it because i don't have enough money, I can't open the park to make more money due to not having a jumping board. The game wants you to follow their tasks and only their task, thinking for yourself doens't work in this game. And once you get the tasks done, in the correct order as they tell you to do, you'll be running around like a chicken without a head, there are too many things to do at the same time. You can only carry 3 tools at the time (you can unlock more inventory) so you drop the one tool to use a other tool, at some point your more running around getting different tools then playing the game.. You need to sell tickets then print flyers to give to new costumers running around town, sell hotdogs at a different stand, buy a trashbag(you can only buy one each time) clean up trash, grab a new tool, clean up water, grab a new tool, repair everything, sell more tickets, kick people out for not buying a ticket, clean up trash again. You have to do all this and at the same time stop the fatty from stealing all your hotdogs, hose down the stinkers and clean up after everyone. Placing trashcans doens't really do much, since the AI just litters next to the trashcan, but you cant pick up the trash without holding a trashbag. So you need 2 trashbags in your inventory, one for the trashcans and one for the loose trash on the ground, it just doesn't feel logical. One can argeu that atleast the game gives you enough to do, but it is simply to much of the good stuff. For someone with ADHD and wants to do everything perfect, this game will not allow it. I wish steam would allow to give a neutral review because this game doens't deserve a negative review, but at the same time I can't give it a positive review. This game needs some balancing and maybe lock certain customers untill you are a bit further in the game and you have some employees to take care of the basics so you can spend your time doing different things.

gets really overwhelming really fast and the automation is just so slow / unhelpful. im spending 90% of my time repairing and cleaning while the workers that are supposed to do it just wander around. even with upgrades that are supposed to make your park be more durable and dirty less they still need CONSTANT work. id love to see the employees actually work at a speed that is helpful. even at level 3 they still work about 1/3rd of the speed they need to get things done. or maybe just more employee spots so they can keep touching up areas i cant get to Edit: i think the game is fun but when you want to remodel you will spend a real 2 hours irl to take it all down 1 by 1. there are too many things to constantly have to keep track of like: Perverts, Puddles, constant cleaning, constant repairing, Random Massive Breaks/Dirtying, Food stall, lemonade stall, Restocking Food and Water Vending machines, Sneaking in, Sick people, drowning, panicking, seagull events, injuries, graffiti, littering (even with a trash can available), taking out the trash, smelly people, no bulk editing or moving or painting, workers stop working as soon as the park closes, and the most annoying of all is when you close the park or open the park the entire park takes 4%-6% in damage regardless if you JUST fixed it... i even experimented with having 4 cleaners at the same time and stuff STILL gets so dirty it warns me that its too dirty. 4 level 2 cleaners cant keep up

Bro i get its early release but i done wasted 3 hrs of me life cleaning and repairing just to get my entire parked wiped like epstiens list and nothing but puddles left behind, things to improve let us turn off ragdoll as an option and chill out on cleaning and repairing.

So i got this game because i like water parks. but this game is more then that and, in a grate way. my wife loves this game, my kids love this game, we all think this game is funny as hell. people shit on your park them bastards. they try to sneak in your park them bastards. some times the people smell like shit them bastards. i have been playing it for the last 2 days and people are destroying my park (THEM BASTARDS). 8 1/2 out of 10 close to being game of the year for me. I love it, make the game bigger please more upgrades more more more. I LOVE IT fun.

The game is decent if you like simulators. But it’s hard to recommend in its current state. 1. There is no customization for your player character. The only way to change your appearance is to click a mirror in the game that will randomize your appearance. In saying that, I stood there for a good 5 minutes rotating through each look and never got a woman character. I can only assume that currently there are only male appearances available. This isn’t a deal breaker but I just think its odd. 2. My biggest critique is the way trash is being handled. No matter how many trash cans I place (I have placed enough that it covers the entire park), NPCs just refuse to use them. I thought upgrading to the bigger trash bags or better trash cans would help but it did not. The trash cans are not even full, they are empty, literally not being used that’s why this is absolutely crazy. 3. Which leads to my next point, as we upgrade an item to its new tier, it should improve in usability, durability and cleanliness. In this game, upgraded items do not improve so even at good quality; your showers, pools, slides, they are still breaking and getting dirty often just like the first tier level. I can only assume that devs left it like this because this is the only way you get research exp > by fixing and cleaning things over and over again. The exp bar is 100 for each level (so far), which I feel is attainable but currently, its not fun doing so. I am constantly cleaning and fixing all items in the park all day and even at the end of the day that this waterpark simulator is becoming a cleaning simulator game. 4. Some of the upgrades in the research table should already be part of the game and not something we have to work to unlock i.e. increase inventory slot and the puddle outline improvement. 5. Once you’ve expanded the park, NPCs will not wander over to the stalls to get food or drinks if you place the stalls slightly off center to the right or left from where they’re hanging out, leaving them to complain that they’re hungry or thirsty and thus will leave a bad review on your park. This is an issue because it means we have to place multiple stalls all over the park and hire enough employees to run them, which is not viable currently because employees are not behaving correctly and are expensive. I barely make 1k a day and a decent employee is $350 ish. This doesn’t leave a lot to buy new items or upgrades to increase value to increase total revenue so that I can hire more. 6. Restocking the stalls is tiresome. You hold a decent amount in the cart to serve but it runs out quick because Riley wants a dog and then a lemonade and then another dog. And that’s just Riley. About 5 other NPCs will come back like Riley over and over again, which is great for money but the food and drink go by fast. I think the stalls should just not have a restock option because then it becomes a restock simulator (since we have to run over to the grocery store to buy it and run back to the store – and you can only buy as many as you can hold). I can see how this will become a big issue when you expand the park and need to replenish multiple stalls. If employees cannot be designated to go and buy the restock, and you have to do it then yes, this will game will turn into a cleaning + restock simulator. I really enjoy the waterpark theme with pools and slides but I wished the game mechanics worked better. Right now it doesn't feel fun to play, it feels like a chore. I've only sunk a few hours into the game and the day-to-day tasks is already starting to feel stale because its the same everyday: cleaning, fixing, restocking. I don't really get to enjoy the thrive of the park or anything else really. UPDATE: I wanted to put a couple more hours into the game to see if things got better as you progressed, and unfortunately, it did not. Basically, as you expand, you need more hired help to run the place to keep customers happy. But currently, employees are not working as intended and are not prioritizing tasks correctly. So its not worth having a bigger park because you can’t run it efficiently. Devs said they are working on fixing the employees in the next big update. But for now, I have reached a point where its physically exhausting to keep up with everything solo so I’ll be putting the game down for now. This is what I encountered at level 2 employees. Mind you, the cap on how many employees you can hire needs an overhaul as well. Because you are capped at 2/2 up until 3 stars, which is not nearly enough. So I hired one each day to test them out and this is what I found: -The cashier seems to be the only competent employee for me as of right now. He comes in early and checks customers in no problem. -The janitor/cleaner stood around all day and when he did clean, he was only cleaning the pool or showers/restroom. He rarely picks up trash or mops up spills. I think it needs to be reversed. Janitors should prioritize picking up trash and mopping up spills and then the pool and showers later. -The lifeguard. I don’t know what the point of the 1k lifeguard chair is when it doesn’t get used, instead the lifeguard walks around the park. You first think that’s actually better because then he’s not confined to just a certain area. Well, this is what it looked like in reality. A customer was drowning on the opposite side of the park and he walked at his level 2 pace (he did not run) to go to help. Well, of course since he was still just walking, by the time he got there, the customer was already 2 feet under. He did eventually save this person but it negatively affects your rating = earnings because you let the person drown. -The vendor, he was the only vendor guy available at the time and either glitched or was just so incredibly slow that the customers were walking away from the stall because he was not serving them in time? Also, why is the employee list randomized? Who you can hire changes every day and some days when I actually wanted a restocker, the restocker wasn’t on the list? -The restocker. Yes, there is an actual restocker employee who only restocks. But again, because of the game design, the restocker needs to wait until the stalls are empty then he will go to the grocery store to pick up said item and bring it back to put it in the stall. By that time, customers have already left and are angry that they did not get their food. What I’ve had to do is buy extra dogs and drinks and leave them piled at the stalls. It’s the only way I have found to be efficient. In saying this, I did see in the upgrade tree that you can eventually upgrade the restocker to “automatically” restock. Although, how automatic that is is unknown to me and will be because I refuse to grind this game anymore. Also, please look into why a random staff worker named Ellis, who I did not hire started showing up in my park. He pops up here and there in odd areas and just stands there like a creep. You cannot interact with him.

Inspiration: Go watch CaseOh. This game is fun and exciting! So much to grind for to level up. Played this game for 7 hours since I bought it. Can't wait for the next updates. Besides the little bugs here and there because its an early access game, doesn't bother me that much, still overall this game is a must have and worth playing!

Great Simulator head to toe. I do have one complaint though that i have across many other simulators. While I enjoy upgrading my waterpark in various ways, I often would much rather prefer to stay smaller in size. I do no like when simulators force me to expand and there's no way to revert it. Sometimes it just feels nice to manage a nice cozy little waterpark with a handful of guests rather than managing the chaos that is a much larger version. I know I can remove pools/loungers and other things that increase guest size. But it would be nice to be able to just have the level 1 park without being forced to upgrade to larger versions while still advancing the research tree. Too many times I play simulators only to feel bogged down by a lot of stress keeping up with all the expansions, so I always quit at some point before ever reaching the end. If this was fixed, this would be my favorite simulator by far.

Really liked this game until I realised you max out at 3 staff. This means you run around like a mad man constantly trying to do jobs and you never really get to enjoy the park you have made. It's just not a chill and fun as it could be because of that and starts to become annoying to play.

Brilliantly funny waterpark simulator. This game is a really fun casual game for simulator fans. It has been released in a good state of play for early access, with a good looking amount of content & customisation, with a more than fair price-tag. The dev seems active on the forums, and the roadmap appears practical, and grounded in its promises. It has some polishing needed in animations, physics, processes etc. but the base here is an impressive starting point. The gameplay loop is surprisingly fun.. There's something so oddly satisfying about pushing people in the pool in this game.. its like a sociopaths wet dream.. you can literally run around spending all your time pushing people aggressively into things.. The ragdolling, and sound effects make is so satisfying.. Combined with this, you can just watch your guests flail about when they drown and not do anything.. Oh this dominance over NPC lives.. I havent felt it since The Sims, and the good old days of removing the pool steps.. Its dark, but it really engages that moody teenager goth kid in you.. There's something about holding a life safety ring in my hands, staring at the guest needing help from the poolside, and doing nothing... watching the hope slowly fade from their eyes...

This by far the worst game ive played in a very long time! I had to post my first ever review on this game,simply by how much it pissed me off. Dont waste your money,youll give up on this garbage ten mins in! Everybody ragdolls,there no optimization,and youll spend your whole time running around cleaning and throwing garbage away,no matter how many garbage cans u have. If your not repairing everything,your slipping and falling all over the place!

As a proud patron of the Goob Lagoon, I knew that just inspired me to follow my dreams and start my own Waterpark, Shotgun Falls. I knew it would be rough spending my 401k and my retirement savings on a waterpark but if the owner of Goob Lagoon can do it anyone can. It would be worth it knowing I'd be a fraction as successful as Goob Lagoon. I remember sitting in the sun drinking lemonade and eating glizzy's thinking how clean and fun the pool was. Then I remember seeing and overhearing this girl coming up with this idea of her "getting full blown diabetes" to "get all the monies" and "she was broke" and "she needed that monies to get that BBL." Then I saw this Ambulance chaser aka Personal Injury Lawyer, going around and trying to get people to sign up for some class action lawsuit saying this place is dangerous and he needed to fund his timeshare in Daytona Beach Florida and this was his way to do so. Boy did he love Daytona. He tried also to get me to sign up for a unit in his timeshare as he needed a discount because his wife found out he was sleeping with his assistant, and then he made the joke, ASSistant. We all laughed. But in the end my heart new my love for Goob Lagoon would guide me. Little did I know that it would guide me in the same direction as the owner of Goob Lagoon. I mean if that guy can do it. Anyone can. Seriously. I have seen him slip standing still. He also came here and tried eating all the glizzys. But I said no. Those are my glizzys. Go get your own Glizzys. Theyre across the street. Then he cried and ran away and pretty sure he left a stanky mudpie on the ground. This game is amazing. 10/10 would fight someone for the glizzys here.

This is one of the few Simulator games that doesn't feel like an asset flip or some weird Russian meme. On top of that, the game is pretty complete right out the gate. It's in early access, but the content is there- all it really requires is polish and bug fixing. For $13, the game is a steal. If you like a more active simulator game, I would highly recommend picking this up. That said... I do have some criticisms of the game.

• The game had two major pain points for me. The first was around a two star park where I only had access to one or two staff members. With the amount of stuff you need to do around that time (sell hotdogs/lemonade, stop vandals, constantly clean and repair, restock, hand out flyers, etc, etc), it was a bit overwhelming. I've seen a lot of people complain about that portion of progression (and seen some streamers basically fail at that point)- and I think something could be done to make it a little less overwhelming.
• The other pain point is at the last step of getting your final star rating. You have to do a few minor things, but then also get like half a million monies overall. I was stuck there for a few hours with nothing to do but just make money. Everything had been upgraded as far as possible, and my park was basically fully automated at that time. So, it was just churning through the days to progress, which got kind of boring. The whole progression into a five star park was a bit dull overall. The game is very frontloaded, throwing everything at you early on to the point that by the time you get into a four star park you're just upgrading your fixtures as you unlock/have the money for them.
• Staff are a mixed bag. A cashier for selling tickets is practically essential. Add cleaners to that as well, since puddles are nigh impossible to keep up with after thirty or so guests. Lifeguards are... Weird? In that they do work most of the time, but if multiple events happen within quick succession their AI can often break causing them to "forget" about someone panicking on a diving board. Mechanics are sort of worthless after a certain point. Things just don't break down often enough near a four/five star park to make them worth having around. And finally there are vendors/restockers, which are just objectively broken. Vendors can only man one stall at a time and require either additional help to keep them stocked up- or an additional employee, the restocker, to support them. But, the restocker doesn't work. At least in my experience, the restocker just isn't able to restock things. I had multiple vending machines with a fully upgraded restocker- and they just refused to do anything. I'd see them carrying around a box, but there would be three machines completely empty.
• Trash cans are a pain. Staff will only clean them if they're absolutely full- but, if a trash can is full, guests will start throwing trash on the ground. And then the cleaners will clean the trash on the ground, which is a losing battle once you get past a certain guest limit. Near an end stage park, I have to spend most of my time dashing between trashcans just making sure they're empty so a negative feedback loop doesn't start. You do eventually get a trash vacuum, but... It doesn't really solve this issue. In fact, the trash vacuum, overall is just worthless given that you really don't want guests seeing trash building up in the first place.
• Painting the larger waterslides is a seriously annoying endeavor. Unless there's something I'm missing, a lot of the slides you can't paint unless you're jumping all over them- and then you risk either accidentally triggering the slide animation sending you down into the pool or getting geometrically stuck and having to respawn. It was hilarious the first time it happened- but, I'm sort of over it now. I just want to paint the slide, please.
• I really wish there was a Paint Everything button, so that I could just cover the entire ground in X style or repaint the entire office in Y color; the individual selection of parts is cool if you want that sort of detail, but it takes so much time to paint over everything individually if you just want one color or style.
• As much as ACAB, having a security person I could hire... I would like that. Where I am now at the max park, most days are me sitting in the front and spanking cheaters, unstinking stinkers, and taking a bat to graffiti artists- in between running around the park collecting trash and restocking. If my lifeguards could double as park monitors, that would be great, because most of the time they aren't really doing much- especially in the end game.
• This was built in Unity- and Unity has physics issues. This crops up mainly on the slides. Certain slides just guarantee a guest becoming injured making those slides mostly unusable- or, at least, unwelcome. For a game designed around waterpark slides, it's not fun to play trial and error trying to figure out why guests are becoming injured; most of the time it's just the slide and you have to change it out for something else. I fear this will become even more of an issue when custom slides become a thing.

Very fun and addicting. A little stressful at first. Got it after watching Caseoh play. Give us custom pool making!!

The chaos in this game keeps me absolutely hooked, i'm too addicted right now. I wish CaseOh would stop eating all my hot dogs though