My Summer Car

Most difficult game I've played because of the realism. Would be nice to see a car building tutorial but meh

I bought My Summer Car thinking I’d get a relaxing car-building sim. What I got was a beer-fueled nightmare about Finnish backroads, existential dread, and explosive urination.

First off, the game starts by just dumping you in your house with no pants, no clue, and a fridge full of sausage tubes. You’re told to build a car. But instead of clear steps, the game hands you 700 random bolts, a mosquito symphony, and the soothing voice of Satan whispering, “Good luck, loser.”

The “car” is actually a haunted IKEA puzzle. Put one bolt in wrong and the whole vehicle transforms into a flaming coffin of doom that swerves directly into a lake. Ask me how I know. Go ahead.

Oh, and your bodily functions? They are fully simulated. You will poop. You will pee. You will die if you don’t shower after using the toilet because this is a world with rules, and most of them hate you.

The driving? Horrifying. The roads are made of slippery disappointment, and the other drivers seem to be ghosts reenacting Mad Max. I once got t-boned by a van full of groceries while trying to mail a letter. The mailbox laughed.

Also, there’s a demon in a blue van that appears randomly and ruins your life. His name is Rally Satan. I have no proof. I just know.

Final score: 2 sausages stapled to a steering wheel and one haunted outhouse out of 10.
My Summer Car is like being trapped in a mechanic’s fever dream while slowly turning into a forest goblin. I haven’t built the car. I’ve just learned to scream into the sauna and accept my fate.

You build car for 2 hours.
Then you test drive it.
It blows up after you but on the second gear.

10/10 game recommended!!!

Got the game
found a bear case
Inhaled a healthy 20 bears

spent 2 weeks watching tutorials in how to build the satsuma
Made a car thats runs on a chicken wire and drove it into oncoming traffic

10/10 Amazing game

spent 24 irl hours building this car just for 13.5 min later to blow 3 holes in the block....
great game 10/10

Fun and makes me go insane because it can. Just know everything will and can happen in this game!

- New permadeath game

- Go to store with tractor

- Buy beer, sausages and stuff for satsuma

- Drive home

- Fix satsuma

- Drive satsuma, heading to city

- Cousin, with no regard to his or others' safety, collides with you going 100 kph

- You die, beer cases fly everywhere, satsuma disassembles itself

- New permadeath game

- Profit

If you are looking for a tough challenging game. This is the game for you . There is tons of mods out for it to make it easier if you don't want much of a challenge.

Great Game, it isn't being worked o anymore but it is still a great game for mechanically minded people like you or me

~just my opinion~
---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☑ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☐ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☑ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☑ Old Fashioned
☐ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☑ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☑ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☑ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☐ Long
☑ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☑ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

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Before this game I was happy, extroverted, funny, good looking and I actually pulled, after playing this I got arrested for drunk driving and public exposure for going to a Sauna naked, 10/10 Finish experience, would do again...

i build the car.then i crashed it in a tree at 100km/h and it cauth fire.10/10 game

got drunk, pissed in my mouth, binned a datsun 1b into a ditch, stole a bloke's watch then starved to death.
10/10 best game ever.

spend 2 hours fixxing the car
drive it for 1 minute
crash
car is no no longer starting
10/10 recommend it

This a very awesome game for the price of 14.99 Euro. Very hard to get bored. Very fun i love this game more than any other. Will get bugy tho

Still have no idea what I'm doing but for some reason i'm still having fun with the struggle. I die a lot, and I smoke even more. Standing in the shower, drinking a shower beer and smoking a shower cig hits different when you just spent the entire day not knowing where the negative ground is for the battery.

Amazing game, would recommend for anyone who hates their free time.

I now have the stress of owning an unreliable piece of machinery without actually owning it, 10/10 must play.

Смотрю на машину, машина на меня, понимаю... Что лучше фургона дяди нету.
10/10

1.spawned
2.drank a beer
3.saw the parts for the car scattered in the garaje
4.uninstalling the game.................GOOD GAME

I was addicted from the first time I got the satsuma to run. I so far have only been using keyboard and controller, I'm currently saving up for a wheel, I just want to say that is game is still a ton of fun so far without a wheel so if you're waiting to play or on the fence because of how many streamers play the game with a wheel don't be, if you like cars get the game worry about a wheel if you like the game and decide you want to win the rally.(it's really hard to drive on the dirt road at top speed without crashing that's why I'm saving for a wheel it's hard but not impossible so wheel is completely optional I just want one now because of this game :) )

tldr: best car game ever there are no words to describe the highs and lows you will go through. it's great have fun.

this game is amazing. plan to restart alot until you get it figured.

Spent almost 20 hours building the car
The engine blew up on the road
Almost died cause of my drunk cousin
Then got home and played this game
10/10 would recommend getting this game

This game is not very fun but its a game about life and that is a good thing

I always come back to this game every once in a while, and every time I do I end up enjoying it more and more. This game literally writes itself when it comes to the crazy shit that can happen.

[quote]My Summer Car isn’t about building a car.
It’s about slowly losing your mind in the Finnish countryside.

You spend 8 hours assembling an engine with the precision of a neurosurgeon.
You torque every bolt to spec.
You align the timing, install the wiring, slap on the carb, mount the whole drivetrain…

And it doesn’t start.

Why?
Because you forgot one tiny bolt on the flywheel in 1998.

So you rip it all apart again, screaming like a caveman, fueled by instant coffee, sausage, and pure hatred.

Meanwhile, your urine meter is full, your stress meter is flashing red, and your uncle is drunk-dialing you for the 15th time.

This game doesn’t hold your hand. It grabs you by the throat, throws you into a ditch, and yells “PERKELE” while your van catches fire.

My Summer Car teaches discipline, failure, and the power of the 10mm socket.
If you finish the car, you don’t celebrate.
You panic, because now you have to drive it.
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Satsuma Build Log:

[ ] Drop bolt under the car, cry for 10 minutes
[ ] Install parts in the wrong order and disassemble half the engine
[ ] Forget fuel line, wonder why it won’t start
[ ] Torque one bolt too hard, it breaks, restart entire process
[ ] Accidentally save with wrong part installed
[ ] Get car running... forget brakes
[ ] Flip car 5 minutes later anyway


this game changed my life I went to this game knowing nothing about cars and came a full time mechanic. This is the best game that has ever been in the steam library

Pretty unforgiving game. I know almost nothing about cars, so tutorials were a must while building the car, as well as some other tasks in the game. Lot's of save scumming done.

Kalajoo ja makkarroo

Spent 36 hours assebling the car, delivering ads for teimo, taking food to grandma, chopping and selling firewood, saving money for food, new car parts and tools and driving back and forth from teimo's just to fall into a fucking septic tank and die, losing all my progress. 10/10 Best game i've ever played

i thought this was gonna be the best game ive ever played but no because i can never start the goddamn tractor and the boat goes slower than a snail and the nearest bus stop is like 10 miles away pls make it more begginer friendly

it's great to play this one but it's very hard and very long to bulid a car because you need to assemble over 100+ of engine parts. and a screw. But it's oky to use the screwdriver to thighten it up but using spanner is to know the size of a millimeter. but if the spnner size and the screw size is different, it cannot tighten up. because you need to watch the tutorial. the tutorial is about taking 1 hour to finish the car. but the veteran players can finish the car without the tutorial.

This game is a fun mechanics game and great adventure game to mod

Wake up build car car needs part get parts car runs but slips out of gear spend the next 30 minutes finding a slight issue with the shift linkage car breaks fix car drive on highway get killed while trying to get the beer case from the other side of the car and loose all your progress 10/10 game

Played for 20+ hours on perma death forgot to take the battery out when wiring a new gauge shocked to death I love this game 10/10 recommend (no clip mod has now been installed fuck this game)

quite delightful if i were to say so. super easy, and a overall relaxing experience that isn't anger provoking in any way

It's different from other car games, you get to actually actually build one. I recommend these games to People who like Survival and Car maker (kinda) games

Let me tell you, it's not a bad game, i mean, it's bad, but not that kind of bad, you know? it's junky, but it's made to be that way.
The game itself is very funny, and actually has a lot of content, but the bad part is that it doesn't tell you how to do anything, and it's very confusing. It's a slow game, where you gonna have to put time and effort into it. With that said, what i want to say is that it's just not for me.
If you like cars and have time to spare and patience to learn it's mechanics, then it's definitely made for you, buy it!
Just because it isn't for me, it doesn't mean it isn't for you.

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☑ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☑ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☑ Old Fashioned
☐ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☑ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☑ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☑ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☑ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

(The bugs are (partially) what make the game so great though)

---{ ? / 10 }---
☐ 1
☐ 2
☐ 3
☐ 4
☐ 5
☐ 6
☐ 7
☐ 8
☐ 9
☑ 10

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☐ Good
☐ Decent
☑ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☑ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boy
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☑ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☐ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☑ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☑ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☑ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☑ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☑ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

---{ ? / 10 }---
☐ 1
☐ 2
☐ 3
☐ 4
☐ 5
☐ 6
☑ 7
☐ 8
☐ 9
☐ 10

spend 5 days building car, drive, die, repeat, very fun

Start game
Wake up after gotten pooped out by mom
Go grab drink
PISS in the fridge
Go Outside
Find car frame
try to fix car
fix not work
look up youtube tutorial
find out i need to screw bolts
fix car
need wheels
find wheels in abonded house
get wheels on car
drive car and crash into green car
die

good game

spent 3 fucking hours building the car just for it to catch on fire and i die in a moped accident

In real life, I'm a disheveled, incoherent mechanic living in an extremely rural area, where everyone is forced to solve problems through methods no city folk would ever consider reasonable. So, it's pretty hard to miss the connection. Though I know it wasn't, it sometimes feels like this game was made specifically for me.

When I first started playing, I was astounded and impressed at just how many things went wrong every time I played. Even now, 44 hours in, each session is an inextricably punishing experience, but I'm starting to get my bearings. Usually, when I play a video game, part of the appeal is escaping real life, but this game is so reflective of my actual circumstances in life that it doesn't really do that -- and yet I love it anyway.

Also, it was clearly designed by people with an actual mechanical background. Some things had to be simplified a bit, understandably -- for example, thankfully, it does not appear that you can lose or cross-thread a bolt -- but really, it is pretty close to working on a real car. I personally am really into overhauling engines, and so I appreciate that you have to build the engine. I'm the kind of person that wants to do things like lapping the valves and measuring the block bores and whatnot, which, as far as I can tell, aren't things you can do in MSC, but I know that I'm in the minority on just how detailed I'd be willing to go, even amongst mechanic gamers, so it's understandable. I genuinely love this game, and hereby promise to put far more time into it than I should.

The way this game expresses the life of Finland is beyond me. It is so deathly accurate that if you went to real Finland it would not be as Finnish as this experience. The car is a true masterpiece in every aspect and just blows me away every time I drive it. By blowing away, I mean me flying out of the windshield from the extraordinary competence of the AI drivers and how their skills are always superior to mine, as they have the supreme power to make the rubber on my wheels turn to ice as soon as I come into their view. Overall the car building aspect is very good as the engine does make the car move which is good. I do recommend.

Equal parts fun and frustrating, interesting and confusing. Definitely not for everyone.

If you dare try this game, I recommend installing "BetterCheatBox" and "Rack hook" mods to save some time and make life easier.
And maybe, after playing for a while, google "MY SUMMER CAR GUIDE 2: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO", it explains a lot of hidden mechanics of the game.

Don't forget to turn off the sauna after using it.

build car, break car, rebuild car, realise you built engine wrong, take apart, build again. very good game

Fantastic game but pls add multiplayer you will be have more people that will they buying this game
but for me its 10/10

Spend 23 hours building car, finally get it working, try to tune it using a tutorial, two pistons fly out the engine block quiet rage quit, play people playground, would try again! would fail again happily!

This is one of the first games I've ever seen that is able to cater to the two extreme ends of gaming.

Are you an absolute RP/Sim nerd who loves really minute details and intricate gameplay systems with an extremely high difficulty? Then play this game for hundreds of hours doing multiple runs like me to get everything just right, and achieve whatever arbitrary goal you set.

Are you an ape with the memory of a goldfish and the attention span of the average doomscroller? Then drink yourself into a stupor and die in the most hilarious way you can imagine.

I genuinely believe the only people who leave negative reviews for this game are absolute chuds who aren't sigma enough to keep studying, learning, and improving their skills until they achieve their virtual Finnish dreams. You decide what your goals are, unlike most other story based open world RPGs, which means you genuinely get to have fun in whatever way you like. This game is a gem, and I guarantee you'll find enough enjoyment in it to justify a measly $15.

It's fun to play, but the graphics engine can be a bit glitchy. Items falling through the ground and disappearing, things like that.

Finland,car mechanic,life simulator. The definition of torcher. One of the best games if ever played!