My Summer Car
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My Summer Car header on Steam
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| Developer(s) | Amistech Games |
| Distributor(s) | Steam |
| Designer(s) | Johannes Rojola |
| Engine | Unity |
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| Genre(s) | Vehicle simulation game, survival |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
My Summer Car is an open worldsurvival game in development by Finnish developer Amistech Games. It was released on Steam's Early Access program on October 24, 2016.
My Summer Car is set in rural Finland during the summer of 1995, where the 19-year-old player character has the family home to themselves while their parents are on holiday in Tenerife. The player has to assemble, restore and upgrade their father's dilapidated Satsuma car (modeled after a Datsun 100A) using various car parts found around the garage, as well as by purchasing new parts. To earn money for the parts, the player can perform various countryside chores for neighbours such as delivering firewood on a tractor-pulled trailer, using a vacuum truck to empty their septic tanks and picking up a drunk guy from the town pub at 2 am. After passing the Satsuma at the vehicle inspection office and installing the appropriate aftermarket parts, the player's car is eligible to enter a weekly amateur rallying event for a chance to win a trophy and prize money.
Building the car is not obvious as the player must literally build the car from the ground up. At the start of the game, the car is entirely disassembled down to the last bolt, and the player must place each part in its correct location, including bolting them in one-by-one with the correct size spanner. While most parts only fit together correctly, it is entirely possible to assemble the car wrong, e.g. leave out an engine gasket, which will in turn break the car. In addition to gasoline, the car also requires maintenance of additional fluids, including motor oil, radiator coolant, and hydraulic fluids for the brakes and clutch, which deplete in use and time. The player also has access to various other pre-assembled vehicles that only require refueling of gasoline or diesel as maintenance, such as a cargo van capable of carrying large loads, a tractor and a vacuum truck for utilitarian uses, and a small launch at a nearby dock that allows for travel across the map's massive lake. All of the player's road-going vehicles have the added ability to tow each other as well as salvageable car wrecks. High speed crashes will likely kill the player; the game optionally features permadeath.
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