Schedule 1: The Drug Dealing Sim I Can’t Stop Playing

This episode was supposed to be all about Assassin’s Creed Shadows—you know, stealth kills, Yasuke, katanas, the usual assassin goodness. But then Schedule 1 came crashing into my life like a kilo of coke through a windshield, and suddenly I’m running a full-blown narcotics empire from a dingy motel room, questioning my morals and beating lazy staff into a lake. It’s that kind of week.

Before diving into the madness of Schedule 1, I catch you up on this month’s gaming chaos:

• Bethesda surprise-dropped the Oblivion Remaster in Unreal Engine 5, and it’s gloriously buggy, beautiful, and nostalgia-fueled.
• NVIDIA graphics cards are literally catching fire, and I’ve got thoughts (and burns) about what’s going on with their latest driver disasters.
• DOOM: The Dark Ages is taking us medieval with maces, flaming shields, and heavy lore—because who needs modern guns when you’ve got rage and chainmail?
• The Nintendo Switch 2 is real, expensive, and coming soon (probably), with pre-orders leaking via Walmart.
• Cyberpunk 2077 running on handheld hardware? Yep—confirmed for Switch 2, thanks to DLSS magic.

Then it's time for the main event: Schedule 1—a hilariously twisted drug empire sim that’s part cozy tycoon, part Breaking Bad fever dream. From growing weed and crafting custom narcotics with names like “OG Slime,” to unlocking meth labs, cocaine networks, and dealer management, the game lets you build your empire with zero shame and full satire. You’ll feel bad... until the money rolls in.

It’s unfiltered, addictive, ridiculous—and I’m 100% here for it.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Intro
• 1:45 News
• 1:49 Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion Remaster
• 3:46 NVIDEA Cards Catching Fire
• 5:00 Doom The Dark Ages
• 6:37 Switch 2 Announced
• 7:55 Cyberpunk 2077 on Switch 2
• 9:23 Schedule 1
• 15:03 Outro

Transcript

 ------ Intro ------  0:00

So welcome to this week's show, or should I say this month's show, because I've been pretty much out of action for a month, many reasons. Of course, kids school holiday just change jobs. So, yeah, I've got my list of excuses and I know I suck but I do try. So anyway, welcome to this week's show, everyone. I was going to be a good gamer and  spend this week prepping notes on Assassin's Creed Shadows. You know, the Stealth Samurai Sword, Yasuke, the whole vibe. But then a friend of mine banged on about this game, and I was like, What the. What the fuck is this game? He said, It's called schedule one. And I'm like, Oh, that's a stupid name for a game. And he's like, Everyone's playing it, talking about it. I see all over YouTube. Anyway, cut to today and schedule one smashed into my life like a bag of cocaine through a windshield. And now I'm knee deep in narcotics dead drops and staff members and I'm regularly beating them into a lake and I'm hooked, which I should probably be worried about, but I'm not. 

 ------ News ------  1:46

as usual, let's start the show with the news. 

------ Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion Remaster ------  1:50

So when I did my show notes, it was titled The Elder Scrolls for Oblivion Remaster Leak. But that's no longer the case. So it's no longer a leak on the 

22nd. So the leak came out on the 21st of April saying that something was going to happen and it was codenamed Project Volt, but nothing was said about this. And then on the 22nd of April, Bethesda basically just dropped it. Elde Scrolls four Oblivion Remaster. And not only did they announce it, they dropped it on that day. So that's right. You can pick up Elder Scrolls four, Oblivion Remaster and it's hard to balance the game. So I did try this yesterday. It's not a remaster. It is like in and it's ridiculous what they managed to do. They basically taken the concept of Elder Scrolls four and put it into Unreal Engine five, so they took it from the I forgot what their engine is, but they took it from their engine and they put it into Unreal Engine five and it looks ridiculously different. It is, you know, it's obviously got its bugs, which we love. We've always loved the elder, the Elder Scrolls bugs, but so far I've played it for about half an hour and breathtakingly different. The controls are shit. I remember them being shit anyway, other than that, the game looks incredibly good, feels polished, and hopefully on the next episode I will be ready to talk about that game, which hopefully comes out next week. I keep trying and then I keep fucking it up and then it ends up being a month or longer. But we'll try to be better

 ------ NVIDEA Cards Catching Fire ------  3:46

Nvidea is really dropping us into shit at the moment. So they've had some driver problems lately. Basically one of the drivers they put out would freeze if you put your computer to sleep, would freeze the temperature, which means if you were using a third party software like after Burner, you could basically cook your card. And also there have been reports that RTX 5090's are catching fire, so that's good. so yeah, I have no idea what NVIDIA is doing right now, especially with the drivers, because for one, AMD are actually on top of the drivers even though they're going to discontinue making graphics cards, I don't think they should because now it seems like a good time where Nvidea is actually doing the dip because I think they've gotten too big for themselves and you know, everyone else should just fucking switch to AMD. I've gotten NVIDIA 

4070ti and it's a good card, don't get me wrong, but if Nvidia keep going this way,I  don't think the next card will be in Nvidia, but I don't think AMD will still be in the game of making graphics cards. I hope they will be because my first card ever was an AMD one, but then the drivers were so bad and Nvidia was a lot more expensive. But we shall see. 

 ------ Doom The Dark Ages ------  5:01

another thing from Bethesda is Doom. The Dark Ages has been officially revealed, taking the franchise into a medieval inspired setting while retaining its iconic fast paced gameplay. The trailer showcases the doom slayer wielding brutal melee weapons such as a flaming shield and a bone crushing mace alongside the traditional arsenal. The game serves as a prequel to the Modern Doom titles, exploring the origins of the Doom Slayer in a lore rich world. don't get me wrong, I love Doom. I loved all the tombs. They are very fast paced, not too difficult, and they are just great action games just to take you away from everything. I do wish they would make a quake game, though. I do miss the quake games. They were very good. But I'll settle for Doom it's always a weird one when they go from modern all the way back to because they never go like in the middle. They always go all the way back to the to the beginning, don't they? So they've always gone like a far cry went to Primeval so they went from all the modern ones all the way back to Primeval and then all the way back forward and it's kind of weird when they do that. I didn't quite enjoy Primeval obviously as much as the other ones because there are a lot of, you know, like Elder Elder Scrolls, for example, if I want to play a medieval game, there are plenty of medieval games out there to play. But this, this is doom. So hopefully this will be a lot more different and a lot more fast paced and hopefully it will be good. I haven't played a bad doom game yet that Bethesda have made, 

 ------ Switch 2 Announced ------  6:38

So the Nintendo switch 2 obviously. Yeah. If you've been living under a rock, it has been announced by Nintendo, 

Although it hasn't been given an exact date. But the preorders did leak on Walmart, suggesting that the pre-orders are coming soon. I think you can preorder it now. they have confirmed that there will be backward compatibility. it's a very expensive console. I think it's dropping in at $500 where if you remember, the previous one dropped in at 300. And this has to be good because 500 is almost the price of a PlayStation five or Xbox Series X. so if you if you're going to go handheld, like you want to move around and and things and obviously the switch hands down is probably going to be your best choice. But especially with game pricing where they're going to charge $80 for a downloadable game or $90 for a physical copy that's like 70 to £80 here, which is ridiculous hopefully, while the games have to be really good for that kind of price. 

 ------ Cyberpunk 2077 on Switch 2 ------  7:55

Cyberpunk 2077 is also on the switch to this has been confirmed by CD projekt Red utilizes Nvidia's DLSS. For those of you who don't know, that's deep learning Supersampling to boost performance. DLSS is good. It's actually very good. I use it more because the card I have is very good, but it's more for the raytracing elements. If I want to switch on Raytracing, there is no card right now apart from the 90 series of cards, and I guarantee you for the 50 series of cards as well, that can handle high raytracing the 5090 and 4090 can to a point. But ray tracing is still at a point where it cannot do it. And if you've got the other one, path tracing, where basically it follows the path of light that just kills your cards. So DLSS with frame boosting on is very good. And as long as you have a high refresh monitor, you'll be fine. Was perfect for that. So switch 2 I believe can run up to 120 hertz. So again, that is a significant milestone considering you can play this game and it looks a bit washed out, but what do you expect? It still looks good, 


 ------ Schedule 1 ------  9:23

So  Assassin's Creed Shadows? Nah, actually. Let's talk about drugs. Especially being a drug dealer. Well. It's not just a drug dealing game. you start with absolutely fuck all. Your uncle's been nicked for drug trafficking. Your R.V. gets blown up by some rival goons, and you've got just enough change to shack up in a grimy motel room. Welcome to your origin story of Scarface. 

You begin your rise with weed low and slow, but the game doesn't let you chill. You're watering plants, tweaking soil PH, fertilizing like a horticultural maniac and doing literal back alley deals so you can pour various things into soil, gives you more yield but poorer quality or gives you better quality, less yield. basically you have to pour in the right concoction. So you get what you want. And your marketing campaign is giving away free joints like they're leaflets. So you it's just you and you hope that no one stabs you and you can be stabbed by people you deal to if you're not careful. 

So from green crystal to snow soon, you're not just growing your engineering drugs. You can experiment with different ingredients to create new narcotics as names like the Flame Burst Kush or Shrinky dink speed. so you can randomly generate the names and there's some really fucked up names in there. But I've got one called Afghan Gold O.G. Slime. And the OG slime is a mixture of cocaine and horse semen. So yeah, the fact that people will snort horse semen, that's fucked up. some of these concoctions will set people on fire or make their heads shrink. The tone is so twisted and loops back around to being hilarious. 

So once you've done with all the green or weed, it's meth time. So then is where things get interesting, where you have to hire chemists, build labs, craft designer drugs and launder money. Like you're running a bloody start up with a dark soul. And that is that by itself is just ridiculous because you have to manage your chemists, basically mix the concoctions that you choose, whether you choose to have just one mix or more than one. And then you have to have it packaged and then ready for you to distribute to your dealers. 

eventually you do unlock cocaine. You set your dealers loose and you feel like you're going full Scarface and it feels like you're talking power. Unfortunately, there's no rival gangs yet because it's early access, so there are no turf wars just yet. But you do have price gouging for your addicts like it's Black Friday every day. And yeah, you know, you feel bad. At first I had a moment of gamer guilt watching my poor NPC customers go from curious to full blown crack zombies. But then I look at my virtual bank account and all that guilt got buried under the stacks of pixelated cash You can hire people to help out, like I said. But if one of them slacks off or gets mouthy, you just beat the living piss out of them and throw them in a lake. And yes, you can actually do that. H.R. does not exist. 

The in-game chemistry system lets you experiment. Results ranged from profitable to downright just hilarious. its weirdly charming, cartoonish graphics with just enough grit to make it funny. Not depressing. Like Breaking Bad, directed by the guys behind Don't Starve. The satire is thick. Despite the drug peddling theme, there's a cozy layer underneath. It's like cuddling up with a warm blanket of criminal activity. So I think because of obviously the cartoon graphics, it doesn't seem as bad. And it also gives the game its charm. It's still in early access, so the end game kind of just stops your max, your empire and find yourself staring into the void with too much money and nothing to spend it on. Just like real billionaires. 

There is, of course, the occasional frame drop weird A.I. behavior and some bugs, but they are minor. And honestly, some glitches are unintentionally hilarious, such as the pretty much infinite speed skateboard. When you start jumping, you can go faster and faster and faster, so it's got little quirks like that. In terms of reception, you know, top game sites give you like an eight out of ten and it shot to the top of Steam's sale charts even overtaking GTA five and monster hunter wilds with a peak of concurrent players of over 400,000 and. It is just one guy. Tyler made this mess and he's not ghosting us. He's super active. pushing patches and planning new content. That's a two year roadmap. So expect more drugs, more weapons and more chaos. Hopefully even more ways to torment your lazy, staff. 

Schedule one It shouldn't work, but it does. It's a drug empire simulator that feels like a tycoon game wrapped in a murdery cartoon and had me cackling through most of my playthrough. It's uncomfortable, ridiculous, and honestly stupidly fun. If you've got a dark sense of humor and love for games that let you just be a little bit evil, then this one should be added to your list. You'll laugh, you'll cringe, you'll get rich. And yeah, you might set a few people on fire along the way. 

 ------ Outro ------  15:03

So that's it for this week's Ride through the unhinged side of gaming, starting with the idea of talking ninjas and assassins. And I ended up managing a criminal empire, hiring botanists and throwing a dude in the lake. As always, if you're loving the show, drop a review. a share with a fellow Chaos gamer and hit me up what you're playing. Until next time, stay safe, Stay weird. And don't forget to water your weed.