My Summer Car is one of those games that I had never personally heard of, but was still very popular anyway thanks to the niche it caters to. What niche? Well, it is as its name says. It's about you and your car(s).
“My Summer Car is the ultimate car ownership, build, repair, tune-up, maintenance, and life-long survival simulator,” says the game's Steam blurb. “You start the game with hundreds of loose parts and assemble the car and engine. Not only do you need to maintain your car, but also yourself. Sausages, beer and sleep will be fine… Not only do you have access to a car, but also various other cars and vehicles that you can use.”
My Summer Car Launch Trailer – YouTube
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In the loop, you spend hours in first-person with the small details needed to repair the top, only for the car you've built to derail into a tree within its first five minutes on the road, at which point you'll have You have to walk to the nearest store to buy jerky with the only money you have left. So, a real Finnish summer.
My Summer Car's combination of super intricate car sim and quirky life sim stuff already made it a hit when it entered early access in 2016, but after eight years of updates, the game has earned over 77,000 user reviews. and a huge 94% of them are positive. .
“Really dumb car game and the developer acknowledges the reality of how painful it is to do anything,” writes one player. “It took me nine hours and I finally got the engine running. It exploded 5 minutes later and I got hit by a bus,” says another. (They both left positive reviews, by the way.
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