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Video game

My Summer Car
My Summer Car header on Steam
Programmer(south)	Amistech Games
Publisher(s)	Amistech Games
Designer(southward)	Johannes Rojola Kaarina Rojola
Engine	Unity
Platform(s)	Windows
Genre(southward)	Vehicle simulation game, survival, open world
Mode(south)	Single-role player

My Summertime Car is an open globe, car mechanic, and survival game in development by Finnish programmer Johannes Rojola (aka TopLessGun or RoyalJohnLove) of Amistech Games.^[i] ^[2] It was released on Steam'southward Early Access program on Oct 24, 2022, and is expected to be out of early access in 2022.^[iii]

Gameplay and setting [edit]

The Datsun 100A, afterward which the primary auto of the game is modeled.

My Summer Automobile is gear up in the fictional area of Peräjärvi, Finland, during the summer of 1995. The main character is an 18-yr-old who has the family abode to himself while his parents are on holiday in Tenerife. The histrion attempts to assemble, restore, and upgrade a car, the Satsuma AMP (modeled subsequently the Datsun 100A). In lodge to do this, the actor must utilize the car parts that are inside the garage, too as occasionally order new parts from a catalog.

At the start of the game, the car is entirely disassembled, and the player must identify each function in its correct location, screwing in the bolts with the right sized spanners.^[4] The role player is not given any direction by the game as to how to build the auto.^[i] While most parts only fit together correctly, it is possible to gather the car incorrectly by leaving out or improperly placing parts such as an engine gasket or a commodities. Failing to assemble the car properly tin lead to vehicle failure if the auto is driven. In addition to assembly, the role player must provide the car with gasoline, motor oil, radiator coolant, and brake fluid.

In addition to building the vehicle, the thespian must address the diverse survival aspects of the game, such as balancing hunger, thirst, fatigue, urine, stress, and dirtiness. In gild to take care of his needs, the player can buy nutrient, beverages, and other supplies from the store. The role player may as well use the facilities at his house, such as the sink, shower, sauna, toilet, and bed. The role player's needs can also exist addressed through swimming in the lake, drinking alcohol, smoking, or successfully performing tasks related to the completion of the machine.

To earn money for car parts, fuel, and shopping at the store, the role player can perform diverse side-tasks for people effectually the area. The tasks are performed either using materials from the thespian's property, or with the various pre-assembled vehicles that the player can admission. The tasks include delivering firewood on a tractor-pulled trailer, using a vacuum truck to empty the septic tanks of neighbors, making and selling kilju (Finnish homebrew sugar wine), and picking up an intoxicated neighbour from the town pub early on in the morning.^[4] After the Satsuma passes inspection at the vehicle inspection office, the actor tin can install certain aftermarket parts that enable the player to enter a weekly amateur rally for a gamble to win a trophy and prize money.

In improver to these vehicles, at that place are several other vehicles that the histrion can obtain in the game. The player has access to a cargo van with a big carrying capacity, a two-stroke moped, and a two-stroke launch at a nearby dock that allows for travel across the map'south lake. The player can infringe a musculus car from the local mechanic while he is servicing the player'southward vehicle, but the mechanic volition trash the player'southward vehicle if the musculus car isn't returned on fourth dimension. The player tin too win a dilapidated station wagon that'south infested with a wasp'southward nest from a ventti dealer.

Development [edit]

My Summer Machine is primarily developed by a small independent development team consisting of Johannes Rojola ("ToplessGun"/"RoyalJohnLove") and Kaarina Rojola, with 3rd parties assisting on music and voiceovers. Closed development and beta testing of the game had been documented as early as December 2022, with snippets of the evolution'south progress seen on Rojola's YouTube channel and Twitter account.^[v] The game was released as an early on access game via Steam's Greenlight program on October 24, 2022 Since then, the game has been incrementally updated with new features and overhauls several times.^[3]

A sequel, My Winter Auto, was announced on May 29, 2022.^[6]

Reception [edit]

The game received generally positive reviews. Writing for Stone, Newspaper, Shotgun, Brendan Caldwell called the game "Funny, detailed and thoroughly confusing."^[4] Nathan Grayson, in an article for Kotaku, chosen the game "Janky and weird every bit fuck, but fun."^[ane] Both the Rock, Newspaper, Shotgun article and Eurogamer's Martin Robinson compared the game'southward difficulty bend to Dark Souls.^[seven]

My Summer Car has besides received a number of awards and honors from the Finnish gaming community. At the 2022 Finnish Game Awards [fi], the game won the People's Choice Game of the Year 2022 "Kyöpelit" laurels.^[8] In 2022, My Summer Car was inducted into the Finnish Museum of Games amid the museum's 100 game entries of that year.^[9]

Meet too [edit]

Sepon Kauppa - The inspiration for Teimon Kauppa, the village shop located at Peräjärvi village in which the game is set up.

References [edit]

^ ^a ^b ^c Grayson, Nathan (2016-10-25). "22 Life Lessons I Learned From A Permadeath Motorcar Game". Archived from the original on 2022-06-20.
^ Kauppinen, Jukka O. (26 Oct 2022). "Suomalaisesta tietokonepelistä tuli yllättävä hitti – kömpelö ja ruma My Summer Motorcar on ehtaa ysäriä". Ilta-Sanomat (in Finnish). Sanoma. Retrieved ix December 2022. Sitä [My Summertime Caria] voisi kuvailla jopa suomalaiskansalliseksi M Theft Autoksi, sillä molemmat ovat avoimen maailman hiekkalaatikkokohelluksia, joissa pelaajille on vapaat kädet touhuta.
^ ^a ^b "My Summertime Car". Steam. Retrieved 2021-09-06 .
^ ^a ^b ^c Caldwell, Brendan (seven November 2022). "Premature Evaluation: My Summer Car". Rock Paper Shotgun.
^ "My Summer Car". Twitter. 2022-12-06. Retrieved 2021-09-13 .
^ Rojola, Johannes. "UPDATE 29.05.2020". Steam Powered.
^ Robinson, Martin (27 Oct 2022). "My Summer Motorcar is the most hardcore driving game yet". Eurogamer.
^ "The best games fabricated in Republic of finland were awarded at The Finnish Game Awards". visionist.fi. 27 April 2022. Retrieved 23 April 2022.
^ "The Finnish Museum of Games > 100 Finnish Games". Vapriikki Museum Centre. Retrieved 23 Apr 2022.