Taxi Life - Complete Edition (DLC)

Taxi Life: Complete Edition puts you behind the wheel of a fledgling taxi business in Barcelona, handling everything from picking up individual fares to expanding your fleet and managing a roster of drivers. It sits in that specific sim sub-genre where the driving itself is the moment-to-moment loop, but the spreadsheet layer underneath is what keeps you coming back. Think less Euro Truck Simulator, more a business management game that occasionally reminds you how to use a roundabout. The Barcelona recreation is the headline feature, and Simteract clearly put serious work into the street layout. You learn the Eixample grid, the tight turns around the Gothic Quarter, and the airport runs that will define your early cash flow. Passenger demand shifts with time of day, giving you a soft scheduling puzzle to solve - positioning drivers near high-demand zones before peak hours is exactly the kind of low-key optimization that rewards players who want to think before they floor it. The Complete Edition bundles in the DLC content, expanding the business options and vehicle roster, which matters for late-game fleet diversity. On the business side, the progression arc follows a satisfying curve. Early on you are personally driving every fare to build capital, then carefully hiring your first employees, then balancing driver wages against vehicle maintenance costs and upgrade investments. Each hire adds complexity - AI drivers have their own performance profiles and you need to route them intelligently. The adjustable difficulty setting is a genuine asset here: newcomers can smooth out the financial simulation while they learn the city, and veterans can tighten margins to feel actual pressure on their income. That the game ships with save-anywhere support also means the barrier to experimenting with different business strategies is low, which I appreciate. No penalty for trying a high-volume low-fare approach and then pivoting. Where Taxi Life earns its criticisms is in the AI passenger behavior and the driving physics, which feel approximate rather than precise. Collisions and traffic logic are noticeably simplified, and if you are coming from a hardcore driving sim background you will find the handling model forgiving to a fault. There is also a real question about longevity - the systems are good but not endlessly deep, and without a strong mod ecosystem to speak of at this stage, the late-game can start to feel like maintenance rather than discovery. The lack of Metacritic rating and absent Steam review data at time of writing makes it harder to gauge the community's long-term reception, so set expectations accordingly. For the audience this is genuinely aimed at - casual sim fans who like the idea of city logistics without a 300-hour learning cliff - Taxi Life: Complete Edition delivers a clean, focused experience. The Barcelona setting gives it personality most transport sims lack, and the dual loop of street-level driving plus back-office management lands well enough to justify the time investment if the concept appeals to you. Diego, Scout Team