Taxi

Better than some other taxi games but this has some flaws which i hope are addressed by the developer.
The map should be alot larger. When i hired a driver, that driver many times took a longer route to reach the destination. When i have control of the taxi, i use short cuts. Plus, I go through red lights and other cars. Plus, i even drive on the sidewalk to get to the destination faster. When i hired a driver, that driver would stop at every red light and there are too many red lights. Plus, for each fare, there is a time limit to get to point a to point b. The graphics are not good enough. Not in this day and age. The engine sound can get very annoying after while. Thankfully, inn settings, you can opt to have no music. I cannot recommend this game because of all I stated. i just hope the developer reads all the negative comments and fixes the issues i mentioned as well as other users issues with this game !!!!!

abandoned. also, when this came out, it came out in response to a bunch of other taxi simulators. it was designed as a CON so the devs could make a quick buck off you. i would not recommend wasting your money on this garbage. shame on the developers and publishers of this game. get this trash off the market, and enact criminal charges for scammers on steam!!!!! folks like this belong behind bars!

It's buggy, it's dated, and it's extremely simplified. But it's the only not-screwy 'go as fast as you can!' taxi game out there that isn't broken beyond use. I wish we'd get something similar, albeit more depthy, but that's not happening at least until the game set in Barcelona drops.

Déjà vu!
I've just been in this place before.
Higher on the street,
And I know it's my time to go.
Calling you, and the search is a mystery.
Standing on my feet,
It's so hard when I try to be me, woah!

It's okay. Not terrible and not great. Worth the price because it is a cheap game honestly. I just wish there was an actually good taxi simulator somewhere.

As much as I like the concept of the game (being the fan of casual vehicle simulation games like Euro Truck Sim 2 and Farming Sim 2017), I cannot really recommend Taxi, due to his many flaws and game-breaking bugs which will probably never be fixed.

Pros:

Verdict

there are no better simulators than this;

Taxi is unlike anything else on steam, and when it's at its best, it's some of the most jaw-dropping, impressive and moving work on the air. The highs of taxi's first city outshine its stumbles, and the conversation it has already sparked about religion, gender, politics and our sense of self prove that this is a series that rewards analysis and repeat viewings.

I recommend this game 100%

Well that is five bucks I will never see again.

The trailer looked quite good, and was boasting 3 cities, and 6 types of missions.
I only recall seeing 1 city, and as far as the 6 types of missions, it was always the same type.
The only time I got a different mission, was to get the passenger to her destination as quickly as possible.

If you ever wanted to know the feeling of driving at 5 miles an hour, then this is the game for you.
By the way, did I mention the amounts & length of times you HAVE to stop at red lights.
And god forbid there should be traffic ahead of you waiting.

As far as gameplay mechanics go, as I mentioned, most of the time, you are driving at about 5 miles an hour.
Turning around is atrocious. The taxi actually freezes before you go backwards or forwards when you turn around.

Don't take my word for it, and check out my video by clicking on the link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4lPQKqZ3s0&list=PLGCO4EfbVB6XXoAnQMUJjoEh3c2BLfHx8&index=53

Do you like working for hours on end which you could be doing in real life? Do you wanna waste your money?
Then buy this game. its honestly one of the worst gaming experiances i have ever played. its literaly going around and dropping people off in a taxi. Very buggy, Poor driving mechanics, Bad graphics, crap physics, and not worth any price.

I tried to love it, tried to play it, but i had only fights with this game. I don't recommend the game, even i played some hours with it. We have a taxi company, that we need to make stronger, with only 1 taxi, and hire drivers. Its ok, i liked this, also, its a big + the game have 3 starting place, you can even play with London taxi! There is peoples on street, and the jump off the way if you try to get closer with the car, they running on the crosswalk if the lights is green for the car , it was a nice thing to see. Also, the time is changing in the game, and day night cycles there, even raining. Its also nice. I don't care the graphics too, im not a gamer who says graphics is the first in games, but i have a geforce 950m now. But...The game...Oh...First of all, there is no other cars with headlights, its ok, not important, but the workers that we can hire, i mean the drivers. Leave the road, go off to the houses, stop on the road centre and never start again. I was forced to go into depo, and control them from there(yes you can control any driver's car) to help on the passanger that was helpless waving with his hand for 3 hours long because waiting my driver who went to drink a coffee or something, and felt its important to stuck into the tree :S Other time just forgot to stop, and crashed into me with full speed. Id say even this is ...ok?... But...As someone wrote in review, there is missions, when i need to follow a car. Thats ok, i had the warning don't start at nighttime, or there is no car that you can follow. But no one said there is a chance even if i do this mission on day time, to delete all the cars and after you will never have any ai cars again in the game. Also there was times when i fell off from the game and went into the neverending nowhere when i wanted to pick up bonus package. If you pick 5, you will have a new car...nope...you only have the car in shop to buy for lot of money. After these bugs i had almost no chance to make any progress, and because i really wanted to see something is must be fun in this game...i said...ok...ok...i will do it...But noo, the game had 2 big surprise. First, this is the first time i had lag in the game, and had the whole game lag too...What? When the game lags (on geforce 950m really?) the car uncontrolled, and leave the road or crash into anything that is before it. BUT in this game the pedestrians, the hired drivers, and even the ai drivers lags, lose controls, and even if you manage to don't crash when comes the FREEZE time, one of the cars will crash into you because lost control, and leave the programmed way. The biggest surprise, you will have a luck game with saving. You save the game, but sometimes the game says lo, you wont save, and even if you see the game saved, after you turn on the game again next time, want to play, you see there is no games to load up...What?! How the hell can make someone a game without realizing the game have bad program code, that stops the player to save the game!? This was the minute, when i said, no more taxi! Only recommended to masochist persons.

+ 3 places to start with
+ Can drive London taxi
+ day night cycle

- Only our car have headlights
- no horn
- game lags on even new cards
- lags the whole world and makes your taxi damage
- Ai taxi drivers stuck into anything
- Fell off from game world if you want to collect bonuses
- gameplay bugs that makes the game unplayable
- Saves is lottery, maybe works, maybe not
- Lot of more things i can't count them

0/10 I don't want to ever thinking on i played with this game

Game is fun in it's own way , i like it , but then again i only payed 50 cents for it .

All in all , i'd play it. you start with one cab and you work your way up buying cabs and drivers that you can actually see driving around .

The only thing that i found so far that i don't like is the camera view(or there lack of) and that the map is not large enough .
Other than that , buy it. i think you'll like it , and if not...no big deal it's cheap right now.

Riddled with Bugs and Dev has Abandoned this game. has not had an update since 2015.
This game is damn near free and it's not worth a crap.

Is it worth a buy ??
NO hell no !! Avoid at all costs.

Until this is updated , this aint worth nothing.
It's a shame , this game had great potential. it was really fun , but to many game-breaking-bugs that make this unplayable.

This is not a bad game, just needs some loving. The concept is goo, I like the tree/grass and the water is very good. However, I just have a couple of pointers that need tweaking, and one major update that is needed, in my opinion.

If you select England, for some reason the money earned is in $'s not £'s. Not a biggie really. But in the UK we don't follow km/h, but we do follow mph, like USA. That would be nice to update.

But the big update that is needed is on the nighttime. During the day, loads of cars all over, and no problem following a marked car. Hit night time, no cars at all, including the marked car. So I was stuck on the mission. Tried a couple of times, and it still didn't show any cars.

Apart from that, its a relaxing game, but there are so many traffic lights I feel I'm driving in London but in a tighter version.

I'll recommend getting it, as its a cheap price, just needs to night time update!!

Have a Playlist here, if anyone wants to see the game etc :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cfRn1BxTGI&list=PLYeelEYrtoAJNwI1J6kAqBxg9AeJbAN5A

Kro

Disclaimer: The following recommendation is based on the perspective of this being more of an "Early Access" game despite being released. So please consider this recommended with an asterick of sorts...as if only on a huge sale (like when I got it for 95% off, or if you find it in a bundle).

I can honestly say I didn't mind the hours I tinkered around with this title. It had some aspects I found interesting...and others I didn't. Quite frankly, it feels more like a beta/early access so I kept that in mind as I played it. There are a few things that felt like the developer started...but never fully implemented.

- Driver salaries: each one had a salary, apparently based on their stats...but it was a one time cost. I noticed that on the statistics area it showed today/yesterday and time periods which made me wonder if it was intended to have a daily salary.

- Driver stats: each driver you could hire had a "stamina" and "morale" that affected their salary. There didn't seem to be a way to affect it after they were hired and there was no information just what they were for. I never tried the lower stat drivers to see how different they were...only had ones that were near max or maxed already.

The two items above could have made for an interesting business management to this software if they were more developed. However, the AI of these drivers needed more development. Too often they seemed like they were driving drunk...or just not paying attention. Far too often I'd check on them and the cars had a LOT of damage...for no apparent reason. The general traffic AI wasn't bad, but I don't know if you were supposed to let the drivers rest for awhile or if I'm just giving that too much credit. There's really no apparent information on that.

The types of taxi cars were...limited. You had your starter that you could get more of, but the only other two you could get were after hoping you'd stumble upon the 5 "car part" boxes needed to unlock the two higher level cars. And it was really down to luck if the boxes appeared as there were no set locations like you'd find collectibles in GTA or something. The cost to buy one of the other two cars rose...dramatically. With the slow income from fares it just didn't seem likely to get them unless you kept farming fares. Unfortunately with the drivers as they seemed to be...they may help with more income, but eventually they seemed like a waste with all the crashes and repairs that ate all your "capital".

The car upgrades and adjustments...didn't seem worth it in the current state. For one thing, they cost quite a bit compared to the income you were getting. I didn't bother with the paint jobs (looks like you could buy two presets and switch between 3). Perhaps if I ever come back to this I may tinker with it. The only upgrade that seemed remotely helpful was the addition (and upgrade) of a "radar blocker". Which...I assume would allow you to speed more or drive more dangerously or something? There were a LOT of police cars in this small "city". Not to mention they were the highway patrol or something... lol

There were only a few missions I found:
- random pick-up/delivery (one stop)
- sight seeing (3 stops)
- rush delivery (timed 1 stop)
- VIP delivery (2 stops)
- Luggage delivery (1 stop, balance loose luggage on top of cab)
- Follow the car (long "chase" and 1 stop)

The rush delivery and sight seeing seemed...most worth it. The "Follow the car" was quite annoying and drawn out. The luggage and VIP were interesting to try but didn't seem worth to do again. Oh yeah, and you could only find the short trip, sight seeing, and rush delivery as random missions on the road. Otherwise you had to click on the "Dispatcher" and hope it gave you one of them (it was always random).

I know it seems like I'm ripping this game a bit, but the barebones that were in place were interesting to tinker with. One thing I did find amusing was that your passengers didn't care about what routes you took...as long as you drove "safe". You could run laps around the city and spike the fare, and they didn't care...they still gave you a 10 (if you didn't get caught speeding, running a red light, or hitting something). Oh yeah, and there are 3 "cities", of which I played the American one (New York I think?). I'm assuming the other two are similar, but just a different map to get used to. There are a lot of bugs that are mentioned in the forum and other reviews, but I didn't really find much of those. I noticed one time that I couldn't save but that was it.

So yeah...tl;dr? Fun little thing to tinker with and seemed like it could have had potential, but maybe the developer just gave up on it? Only get it on a large sale or a bundle if you're really interested in playing with it.

No medallion for this buggy arcade. As a simulator it is NOT!!! The "Follow this person" quest is a game killer, literally. Which makes it unplayable. One must stop at nearly all the red lights, and ALL the lights are always red. The camera offers no control, which makes it "arcadey." I read the negative reviews before I purchased Taxi , all of which touch upon the same issues I've described, and ignored them. I caution you not to do the same.

I had seen the trailer and screenshot for this game prior to release and was quite interested in it. Unfortunately when it was released I did see quite poor feedback.

Nonetheless, I jumped on board and bought the game. The game was playable, but lacking quite a bit. There were many issues when playing on London, esp the roundabouts. The issues were so bad that they were funny. You can see the troubles I encountered in the clip I uploaded onto Youtube: http://youtu.be/Vk2hiloZCbg


Update 04-09-2014
They have launched an update to the game on 3rd Sept. I have installed the updated and although it has fixed the major issues I experienced and the game is now playable, there are still quite a few issues. Again below is the play through I had (the game seems to start going downhill from when i hire in the second video below:

http://youtu.be/lW7f5HSmny0
http://youtu.be/0uUNbQK7oxc

Good concept, bad game

The concept behind this game is rather appealing to me, but the execution is poor. There are two major game-breaking bugs that require reloading your last good save or restarting entirely. (Pick-up/drop-off points not loading properly, getting stuck on the map screen with AI taxi drivers) In addition, the concept of having a team of drivers and managing your taxi company is great, but you'll find that once you get a couple drivers, you'll be making money so stupidly fast that the game quickly turns from a fun interactive taxi simulation game to an idle game where you just watch your numbers grow. It only takes a couple hours to completely max out.

Overall, I'd say skip this and wait for a better game within the same genre. I'd pay $40-$60 for a GOOD taxi simulation game simular to Euro Truck SImulator, but this is certainly not it, and not even worth half the price of what its listed for.

WARNING DO NOT PURCHASE THE GAME IS BUGGED AS HELL when you hire drivers while you drive they dont earn the gps does not always work if you hav a driver out do not go to map game freeze if one of your drivers totals a car while you are driving you get sent straight to garage though your car keeps going and once again game freeze this game is a good concept but is grossly badly executed dont waste your money

Some really severe problems with this game with lots of bugs. Others have already pointed this out in detail. Worst of all if you start to build up your taxi company and need to to go for a break, THE GAME WILL NOT EVEN FUCKING SAVE!!!!!! What sort of stupid shit is that and WTF are Steam doing selling this game in this condition?

Potentially a good game, but obviously the developer could not be arsed to finish properly to have the required content and quality. Quite frankly I'd like to go around to their office and punch them straight in the gob for conning me out of £7.49.

DO NOT BUY THIS RUBBISH UNTIL THEY SORT IT OUT PROPERLY!

UPDATE: There are currently a few game-breaking bugs that need to be addressed.

A fun little game that bridges the gap between arcade driving and business simulation. Graphics and car handling are passable. If you've liked other Excalibur titles, you're likely to enjoy this one too.

Very buggy.
1 view.
Poor controls.
Very repetitive.
Not a very good tycoon or simulation game.

Typical indie game, this time it's about driving the taxi.
- game is a bit bugged, but nothing that can kill the mood. Be careful with hired drivers though, they have a tendency of being dumb when you spectate them
- only one view, but camera is doing an okay job to show you the road. Traffic lights are shown not only as usual, but as lines on the road too, which is helpful. Speed limit is shown all the time, it's 30 or 40, depends on the street
- no Steam Achievements, no trading cards. Yes, it has few in-game achievements, but when do Steam users care about them?
- 3 different cars per each of three regions (makes 9 cars at the end), first one is unlocked, others are unlockable by collecting 5 of their parts
- not too many opportunities for an actual management - hire driver, buy him a car, upgrade it a bit, tell him to go out and start picking passengers, spectate him, drive for him. That's pretty much it. Oh, and upgrades aren't enchancing the perfomance of car, but decreasing it's maintenance
- money can be earned easily if you know what to do (you can fill 8-slot cab depot in 10 minutes by only completing emergency client pickups) and can be spent even easier on cab upgrades, which will in overall cost you ten times more than your car, trust me
- physics.... It's an arcade! What would you expect?

At the end i can tell you one thing:
Look at the gameplay videos. Ask yourself, do you think it will be boring for you if you will be driving around like this for couple of hours? No? Not boring? Well, that means you are like me, who likes driving games. Spend some money, spend couple of hours, maybe couple of evenings, then forget about this game. Boring? Go find yourself somethins else, this is just an indie game about driving taxi, not some Crazy Taxi