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My Summer Car trundles out of early access with version 1.0 after nine years in the chop shopWheeling it out
Wheeling it out
Image credit:AmisTech Games
Image credit:AmisTech Games
My Summer Car Release TrailerWatch on YouTube
My Summer Car Release Trailer
It’s a wonderfully leery game. You have a button to piss, and another button dedicated to giving people the middle finger. You can get into rally races and mess up everything in the car you’ve spent the last few hours fixing. If you are emotionally broken and fall instantly in love with games that do not care about you as a person, then you will probably be head-over-heels for this.
Yet it is at leastslightlymore forgiving compared to its original release. You start with more food than a single pack of sausages, for example, and car parts no longer wear down over time but last forever. There’s also a bus to prevent you getting stranded in the middle of nowhere when you run out of fuel - something that happened to me at least once in early access.
Other stuff has changed. There’s a stress meter now, a moped to drive, and many new neighbours, farms, and factories to visit throughout the map. This includes at least one dude who’ll gamble with you over a card game. I’m getting all this froma handy videowhich lists all the differences, great and small. I haven’t actually played the latest version. I am too afraid. Reviewing this scrappy monster is a task I both dread and crave.
Developers AmisTech Games oncequietly mentionedplans for a snowy sequel called My Winter Car. Getting the battered old summer beaut out the door was the priority, but the dev has recently confirmed inan update postthat the sequel is still in “active development”. If you’re really impatient, there’sa wintry mod that jumped the gun, adding snowy weather and other cold elements to the game.
If you’re still wondering if this sim is as unusual as it seems from that trailer, you can get a taste of its bleak wackiness from various patch notes over the last nine years. Here are some of the best:
And if you’re still not convinced, marvel atthe developer’s website. It is a thing of horrific beauty.
