You've been hired to shift garbage in this subtle but effective trucking sim, although there are certainly worse places you could perform the job. Sunset Shift is set on a beautiful island that has been commandeered by the rich elite, who holiday in villas in each of the island's four scattered towns. All you have to do - in a ridiculously well-paid job - is spend a couple of hours each day collecting their rubbish.
You spend the game in the confines of a bin lorry, navigating winding roads as you meander from town to town. The roads are well laid out, with the towns being built on a circuit that you can take clockwise or anti-clockwise, so you can more or less zone out and enjoy the chilled soundtrack as you do your job.
Outside each clutch of luxury villas there will be a skip full of rubbish, and if you stop in front of it it will be added to your load. You do this for every town – one skip for each town, at least to begin with – before you can offload it and return to the office.
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