Almost every real-world fastener is replicated.

How many bolts are on this thing anyway? That’s where the intricate detail of the game comes in. In short, you’ll spend about half your assembly time going back and forth between the part you’re trying to attach and the wrench box, swapping out sizes until you hit on the right one.

If you’re keeping score, that means you could guess wrong eight times with every bolt. That joke must not have made it to Finland, because you’ll find all sizes from 6 to 15mm. There’s a joke about working on old Japanese cars, that all you need is a 10 and 12mm wrench and you can assemble about 90% of the car. My Summer Car is the nitpickiest game of obsessive, over-the-top detail you’ll ever play.Įven if you’re an experienced wrench turner in real life, your size guesses will probably be off, because it’s harder to determine scale in the somewhat simplistic graphics of My Summer Car. This is not made because this is fun game, but because it is NOT!” Truer words were never spoken. As developer Johannes Rojola says, “I am making this game because this game needs to be made. You’re a 19-year-old kid in Finland whose parents have gone away on vacation “until they get bored and come back.” There’s a rusty old heap of a car, completely disassembled, scattered around your garage, and your goal is to put it back together, fix it up, and enter it in a rally.īut you quickly discover that what sounds straightforward is anything but. Not just any car, but the kind of old jalopy we just love around here at Car Talk. Video game reviews on a car site? But My Summer Car is a video game about a car.

Publication Date: Early Access, October, 2016. Developer: Johannes Rojola, Amistech Games

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