🔧 Hardware Store Simulator 🏪

Run your own South African hardware store, then go racing, raiding and adventuring around town. Now online with friends! 🌐

🆕 Update 0.4.1: PLAY ONLINE

🎮 Online multiplayer: host a game and share a 6-letter code. No Epic account and no router setup needed.
💸 Shared bank: your friend can ask to share your bank account (what could go wrong?)
🌸 Sakura Circuit: a new kart track inspired by Suzuka, with a Ferris wheel and torii gates
🚨 SWAT points: do well on operations to unlock 8 new attachments, including a thermal sight
👻 Ghost racing: chase your own best lap in time trials
🎁 Scrapyard crates: daily upgrades for any mini-game, plus a golden crate every Sunday

🛒 Run the store

📦 Stock the shelves, serve customers at the till and cash up the safe
🔥 Fill gas bottles, cut glass and take on plumbing and gas jobs around town
👷 Hire staff, train them, plan their leave and pick an employee of the month
⭐ Build your reputation from a tiny corner shop to the town favourite

🏙️ Then go explore Bosveld

🏎️ Kart racing: 9+ circuits and an F1-style championship with qualifying and sector times
🌃 Neon City: night street racing, police chases, street tribes and a 12-chapter story mode
🚔 Special Task Force: plan and lead 16 SWAT operations, from hostage rescues to bomb defusals
🔧 Oom Piet's Workshop: swap 17 car parts in 3D and test them on the dyno
🏕️ Off the grid: craft, build a homestead, hunt and sell biltong at the slaghuis
🎣 Fishing, 🏉 rugby and ⚽ football, 📦 Storage Wars auctions and 🎰 the casino
🏠 Buy a house, or design your own, and furnish it with 54 pieces
🖥️ Build your own PC, right down to the starship case 🚀
🐶 Pets, 🛹 skateboards, 🌳 tree houses, 🚗 a K53 driving test... and a lot more

🏆 By the numbers

✅ 85+ new achievements since 0.2.8
✅ 16 SWAT operations
✅ 17 swappable car parts
✅ 43 fish species to catch

💾 How to play

1️⃣ Download and unzip the game
2️⃣ Keep all the files together in one folder (the .dll files are needed for online play)
3️⃣ Run HardwareStoreSim.exe 🎉

🎮 Controller supported · 📸 Photo mode (F12) · 💾 Quick save and load (F5 / F9)

Work in progress, so feedback and bug reports are very welcome.