Jalopy

becus this game has no updates =(

10/10 game

Playing Jalopy
Trying to go to Turkey and back for the achievement
Get to Turkey after 2 hours
I touched a strangely placed grocery basket out of curiosity
Can no longer pick up my wallet to buy things
Can't proceed to next day because of the above
Have to restart the run because I have to reload the game
"At least it didn't delete my items this time"

This game is rife with infuriating bugs - I do not recommend.

THIS IS A MIXED REVIEW - I don't necessarily recommend buying it due to the scummy publisher behaviour, but it's a good game and the community is actively keeping it alive.

A great game that I've long loved, but ruined by a scummy, predatory publisher. Jalopy is one of the definitive driving sims out there, and its legally-distinct Trabant 601 deLuxe shines bright as one of the most charming vehicles I've had the pleasure of driving- in *or* out of a game, and the soggy, melancholy atmosphere of the post-fall Eastern Bloc is among the best I've seen. But the game is in limbo, abandoned by the publisher who now squats on the code, assets & IP. Instead of allowing the Minskworks team to continue developing, they demanded development end & a sequel be released- and when the team wasn't interested, the game was fully published early and the task of making a "sequel" handed off to other developers in the form of the now-delisted Road to Guangdong, which wrapped itself in advertisements as being from the Jalopy team & in so doing got MInksworks harassed for the game's poor quality.

https://www.eurogamer.net/burnt-out-by-a-collapsed-publisher-relationship-and-abuse-over-a-game-he-didnt-make-the-creator-of-jalopy-is-trying-to-move-on

Jalopy is a good game, and Minkskworks worth supporting- but at this juncture your money will go to yet another scummy publisher not worth your time or respect, let alone in this economy. Get it as cheap as you can, or play off a friend or family member with Family Sharing- and if you have the interest & knowledge of the tools to do so, contribute to keeping Jalopy alive yourself via modding! Development on the tools are ongoing- new commits within the past week as of this review's writing in Apr 2025. https://github.com/theLeaxx/JaLoader

gayy it wont let u steal

I bought Jalopy to help support the developers, even though I had pirated it back in its early days. I was really looking forward to a fun road trip, but the game turned out to be more of a frustrating mess. In my play, I found myself clipping right through the floor next to a building, getting stuck on a route because one flipped car blocked the way, and jogging into another car made a huge crashing noise, yet nothing happened to the car at all.

The game has not seen an update since September 2019 and it shows. The idea behind Jalopy is interesting, but the many glitches and repetitive tasks make the adventure feel very unfinished. Every journey quickly turned into a series of errors and dead ends rather than an exciting ride. Even though I hoped to enjoy this quirky road trip, the lack of polish and constant technical issues left me disappointed.

In the end, Jalopy was more trouble than it was fun. I really wanted to like it and support the developers, but the game is barely playable in its current state. I give Jalopy a 3 out of 10 and suggest you look for other adventures if you are after a smooth and enjoyable ride.

it the lika a trabant or a lika BECAUSE THEY LOOK THE SAME

fun tho

i think that this game is very fun but not very replayable like at all also some quite common bugs apper. overall noice

Progress saving is a pain in the ass because of the nature of the game (a buggy mess) which means you'll have to restart at least a few times guaranteed just to get from point A to point B. Since you're doing that again and again and again it takes away the fun and replaces it by excruciating torture. Truly, this is the Dark Souls of a travel game, don't buy even to relive nostalgia (that's what i did and i regret it). Incredibly boring past a few hours of gameplay and gets repetitive quick, it's slow paced, so there is really not a lot of excitement to be found. You'll find yourself run out of gas and if you don't have extra fuel, you're fucked. No other way around than to restarting the whole day. Think that doesn't sound so bad? Trust me, I tried. You don't want to go by foot for hundreds of kms just to find a gas station, realise you can't pay because the wallet has a feature to go back to the car ALL THE WAY BACK if you dare to mess up on dropping your gas can you took with you. So now you can't pay at the gas station for fuel and you're stranded. And if you managed somehow, you have the way back to the car. Then drive onto the same fucking environment for god knows which time. Oh but at least you can see the same surroundings and dialogue for the twentieth time. That's good.

Chill game but have lots of annoying bugs

not peak

Can't figure out why but this is the only game that gave me motion sickness from it control and camera movement:(
It just it for me

unplayable

You know, if the player is running into broken stuff (like gas cans not working, unpegged texturing and flipped over cars fully blocking the road)... maybe at least make sure it's not in the first like hour of the game?

Exceedingly underwhelming.

good game

worth it if it's on sale for less than 3$

It's honestly, a simple but great game. Although, I wouldn't recommend buying it if not in promotion.

Honestly love the game, i find it quite relaxing and nice to just drive trough the calm roads, specially in the rain. And for so, i would love if the game had more content, so you could enjoy more time in it.

It is good, but not perfect. It has some bugs that are really annoying and I hate that it asks you to choose a language every time you start the game or Save & Quit (Which I need to do in order to go back to the menu and adjust some video settings).

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need more games like this

I`ve got a huge nostalgia from this games, so I had to buy it event reading all the reviews saying the game is a buggy mess.

Well, for no surprise, it actually is a buggy mess. I really trying playing it, tried to ignore some game breaking bugs, like my wallet being erased from existence, the car making griping from nowhere and some others (i only played 2 hours lol. But then, sudently, out of literally nowhere, the car glitched into something and broke all it`s components. And this after already restarting the game.

In conclusion, if you want to play the game just to revive the nostalgia like me, or to try something new.
Just don`t.

While i wouldnt get it at full price, i would at a discount
the game is about a you and optionally your uncle going to your homeland of turkey from the GDR
its buggy, but wasnt too bad for me
amazing soundtrack tho

Way to buggy where it's almost unplayable, hardly any content and hasn't been updated in years

So... Flipped cars... That's something that exists commonly in the old Soviet state I guess

The game is too buggy, you can't fix it when you want. I Paid for the game to work without any bugs and errors. I am not satisfid with the necklace, fix it as soon as possible.

I like the concept a lot but the mechanics are kind of terrible. constantly misclicking things, dropping things, using the wrong item, etc.etc.

things like if you drop your money when you're in the store, it teleports back to the car, but you can't leave the store without paying, so if your car is outside the shop border, you have to start your sale all over again.

or if you click the cash register with the gas can you own and just filled, you don't PAY for the gas, you SELL the gas can for half of its value. you have to click with your wallet to pay for it. (but to buy the gas can in the first place, you DO click the cash register with it.) meanwhile it's tricky to tell which even is your active item since they are all held right in front of you; only the right-most one counts but that is really easy to mess up.

or if you're walking to the next gas station, and you brought your wallet, but you DROP your wallet, well it teleports all the way back to your car, so you have to walk all the way back for it, just from one misclick.

and that's if you're lucky and your wallet is actually in the car when you get back to it. at least once, my wallet just disappeared.

meanwhile the game does not tell you how you're supposed to survive or how you're supposed to afford anything. maybe I could figure that part out but everything is so clumsy and you're just burning through money figuring simple things out.

if you have the patience maybe you could enjoy it anyway but it will take a lot of it.

Its good, glitches kinda suck but thats aight.

Jalopy has a great idea at its core. Jalopy is made by a single guy. These are the things you keep telling yourself as the game keeps breaking your heart.
There are senseless design choices, like having to carry your wallet but being unable to put it down (it teleports to your car).
There is a general lack of soul despite the idea presenting great opportunity for it. You are going on an adventure but it mostly all looks and feels the same. The radio could have been a great way to introduce some soul, see the tv and radio in Tostchu for an example.
There are also a hell of a lot of bugs. I really wanted to see the end of the story despite it all. As a Turkish man living abroad, it felt familial and like a personal quest to finish uncle's journey. But the ending bugged out, and it turns out its not a failure that only I have experienced. Do i want to keep driving between Bulgaria and Turkey to spawn a buggy quest item? Do you?

It's a fun little game

The would be good , but there are too many bugs

Jalopy is a quirky road-trip adventure where every sputter and creak feels like a wink from the universe. It might not have you laughing uncontrollably, but its offbeat charm and unexpected detours keep things interesting—even if, god forbid, all your tires pop mid-drive and you have to start over from scratch. Buckle up and enjoy the ride!

Espantoso

Amazing game

this game is awful why my items delete after using the motel

A buggy mess with clunky, inaccurate controls. You'll be constantly handbraking yourself whenever you're trying to just switch the radio or lights on, and uncle's dialogue will keep taking away control from you. If you're lucky like me you can have it completely disable your controls permanently in your save.

I tried to like this game, since the art style is nice, and the little tidbits about each country you're passing through are interesting. I'm also a sucker for driving games with simple maintenance, which is what drew me in. But I just didn't enjoy my time.

If you're looking for a game like this, one of your options is Under The Sand. If you don't need an in-game economy, you could also check out The Long Drive. Some people also recommend My Summer Car, but keep in mind that one is also rather clunky, and the maintenance aspect is way more in-depth.

love the game, the bugs can be handful and in all honest it drags it out but if you relax, calm down and just enjoy the game for what it is bugs and flaws and all it's a good game and has far more potential then it looks can't wait to see more

chill game

Of course, at first glance, this game is BLOODY AWFUL but when you start to progress it's actually quite fun!

I can only assume this game has gotten worse over time. "Mostly Positive" is not even close to how I would describe this. I restarted my save file 4 times because of game breaking issues like vehicles flipped over on the road I couldn't pass or the boarder crossings not accepting the passport.

Got bored, had money, bought game. This is literally a driving game where it requires patients and time. You'll have fun if you like driving long distances, minor car mechanics, and robbery.

chill game

Another excellent reason why Steam should regularly delete games that receive no updates and where the developers obviously do not work on them anymore

Jalopy is nothing short of an unfinished buggy mess, no amount of mods, no amount of goodwill and no amount of nostalgia can justify this dumpsterfire.

I went to bed, the whole car was entirely broken, windows smashed, all parts burning up, gas station did not sell these parts, either way, not enough money, so only option is to start over, for an error I have no part in

bought a crowbar, crowbar glitched and was not accessible anymore, money wasted, item glitched

just...just no, the audacity to ask for 15 bucks for this traffic accident of a game is just beyond me, I even refunded it on sale for 3 bucks because I at least expect the product that I am paying for to function rudimentarily in ANY way, which this pile 'o junk does not

took me 18 mins to get softlocked, didnt even get past the first border. i know this game is dead, but i still try to play it again every year or so. dont buy this game, unless you know what youre getting into.

dogshit unfinished game. fully fixed up my car, and went to bed at a motel. woke up and car was entirely broken, and i'm out of repair kits so it's softlocked. this is only on day 3. do not buy this unfinished mess.

This is a great game... but sadly its been forgotten by time and its developer. i got it for myself because it was a part of my childhood, watching other youtubers play it and its artstyle. i love it.

I don't recommend it since its forgotten, old, unoptimized, clunky and... charismatic. its hard for me to hate this game, i love it. But its even harder to call it good or perfect, sometimes i wish it could be diferent, but sadly thats not the case.

NOTE BEFORE PURCHASE:
This game is abandoned and has an absurd amount of bugs.

The game has a great vibe to it, and great attention to detail. Each country you pass through has its own brand of each good. The car feels fun to maintain and upgrade. I just wish the radio had more variation, really.
The biggest problem is the copious amount of bugs. I write this review as I'm forced to stop leaving Hungary due to the world no longer generating and leaving a sheer edge that drops you into the void (Notably, I've previously managed to get through this section).
Mirrors are buggy as they show terrain unload around you.

The game is unpolished, but the gameplay alone I can recommend.

Incredible game, even the glitches are fun to play with. maxing out everything is very fast and the achivements are hell grind if done legit lel

i like , butt where the upgrade or update

can you add more contnet

wine smugling sim