About This Demo

This is the free demo of Highway Station Simulator: your first three days at the station, alone or with up to three friends.

The pumps are running dry, there's a queue at the register, the delivery truck just pulled in, and somebody is smoking next to a puddle of gasoline.

This is fine. This is the job.

Run the station alone or with up to four players in online co-op. There is genuinely enough work for everyone: fuel, shelves, orders, the register. There is also genuinely nothing stopping all four of you from doing the same job while everything else falls apart.

Drop in any time. Talk with proximity voice chat, so you can hear exactly who is panicking.

Pump three needs someone right now. The car in the way is a suggestion: slide over the hood.

Carry the nozzle to the car and hold it while the tank fills. Haul the crates off the truck and stock the shelves one box at a time. Read the bill, then punch the amount into the register keypad yourself. Charge too much and the customer will remember.

None of it is hard. All of it takes time. That's the whole trick.

Haul the boxes in and stock the shelves as fast as your hands allow. Every customer has a face, a car and an opinion, and they will post it. Fast service and full shelves build your reputation. A forty-minute queue and a puddle by the pumps build something else.

Spilled fuel stays on the ground. A cigarette nearby might light it. A fire at the base of a pump might take the pump with it, and the car next to it, and the one after that.

Grab an extinguisher. Call the tow truck. Pay for the repairs. Tell the others it wasn't you.

It goes dark. The pumps stop. The queue doesn't.

Your generator burns the same fuel you were about to sell, so every minute the lights are on is money going the wrong way. Solar panels don't care about the grid, which is a lesson most players learn the expensive way.

In the demo you can run up to two fuel pumps, one electric charger and two shelves. The full game keeps going: more pumps, bigger tanks, more chargers, and every upgrade physically appears on the forecourt.

• Days 1–3 at your station
• 1–4 player online co-op with drop-in
• Proximity voice chat
• Fuel, shelves, deliveries and card payments, all done by hand
• Reputation and customers who post about your station
• Fuel spills, fires, explosions, extinguishers and tow trucks
• Power outages, generators and solar panels
• Up to 2 fuel pumps, 1 electric charger and 2 shelves
• Day–night cycle and weather
• 8 character looks and the emote wheel
• Full controller support

Want the station to stay open past day three? Wishlist the full game: no limits on pumps, chargers or shelves, every character look and Steam achievements.