Hilarious chaotic emergent moments
Mentioned in ~1 in 2 positive reviews
“I found uncle dead in the pub and I had to spend 10 real hours in jail for it. Fantastic game.”
Steam review · 41.5 h played ↗
My Summer Car
Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.
Very Positive · 95%Very Positive · 95%Amistech Games2025Driving · Survival · Simulation
$14.99
Open on Steam ↗US Steam price, checked 5 h ago
The verdict
A brutally hard, janky Finnish life-and-car-building sim where constant failure is the joke and the appeal. Skip it if you want guidance, polish or a relaxing game.
Great for
Patient masochists who enjoy trial-and-error, dark humor, and following guides while building a car
Main risk
No tutorial plus buggy physics can erase hours of progress, so it feels frustrating rather than fun
What players love
Masochistic difficulty is the charm
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews
“Its frustrating, irritating, and needlessly complicated for a game. What you begin to realize though if you stick with it, you can not only survive, but thrive.”
Steam review · 635.2 h played ↗
Deeply rewarding car-building
Mentioned in ~1 in 11 positive reviews
“When the car finally starts, you feel like an actual mechanical god.”
Steam review · 100.5 h played ↗
Unique Finnish atmosphere
Mentioned in ~1 in 13 positive reviews
“This game gave me the feeling of real rural Finland”
Steam review · translated · 68.5 h played ↗
Rich life-sim with lots to do
Mentioned in ~1 in 15 positive reviews
“the game is actually a very detailed life simulator of a young village car enthusiast”
Steam review · 102.9 h played ↗
What players complain about
Buggy physics and collisions
Mentioned in ~1 in 3 negative reviews
“it has been in development for 10 years and still has a physics engine that is worse then almost every other game on steam”
Steam review · 65.1 h played ↗
No tutorial; need guides
Mentioned in ~1 in 7 negative reviews
“you will not make any progress on building the car without following guides because there is no in game way to get that information”
Steam review · 2.9 h played ↗
Fiddly controls and hitbox pixel-hunting
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 negative reviews
“you have to wiggle your mouse and move around just to pick objects up because the hitboxs are awful”
Steam review · 0.5 h played ↗
Punishing losses of progress and save system
Mentioned in ~1 in 10 negative reviews
“Saving is a pain in the ass and requires exiting to the menu and having to load the game again, with a mandatory time skip.”
Steam review · 59.5 h played ↗
Limited endgame content, stale updates, AI use
Mentioned in ~1 in 13 negative reviews
“after you finish your car you kinda finish it and I got off the upgrades and the gauges and the quests and achievement then your are done”
Steam review · 4.6 h played ↗
Poor optimization and crashes
Mentioned in ~1 in 14 negative reviews
“The performance is abhorrent, even on good hardware.”
Steam review · 59.5 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: Playable1 GB
Minimum
OS64bit versions of Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10
Processor+3 GHZ dual core processor
Memory6 GB RAM
GraphicsNvidia GTX 960 or AMD equivalent
Storage1 GB available space
Recommended
OS64bit versions of Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10
ProcessorIntel Core i5 or AMD equivalent
Memory8 GB RAM
GraphicsNvidia GTX 1070 or AMD equivalent
Storage1 GB available space
OS64bit versions of Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10
Processor+3 GHZ dual core processor
Memory6 GB RAM
GraphicsNvidia GTX 960 or AMD equivalent
Storage1 GB available space
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