Car Park Capital, the satirical strategy and management game where it’s basically a city builder where you build endless car parks for a car-centric society, now has a release date.
As a hire of Big Auto, your task in Car Park Capital is to “unleash the Freedom of Car Dependency” to the townsfolk by buying land, demolishing homes, build car parks, car parks and more car parks, drill for oil, build cars to make them all happy with their automotive needs.
Of course, you can force them they need automotive needs via propaganda. You’ll need to make use of some more… drastic tactics… to coerce the urbanists to see the pro-car vision of the future. With all the alligators (or are those crocodiles?) being let loose on the sidewalk, surely everyone needs to drive a car, for example.
Despite the tongue-in-cheek satire of it all, Car Park Capital should have a proper, serious building and management mechanics. There are production chains that require some juggling: oil for example isn’t just used for gasoline, but also the production of plastic trees, and make cars supplied through… car vending machines. And if you love numbers going up, there’s also the Stat-O-Matic that lets you track stats like income, spending, citizen needs and more.
In case you haven’t picked it up yet, Car Park Capital is themed around the Atomic era USA. Though you do get to build your traffic paradise beyond the American-style setting: another scenario lets you make a cartopia in Egypt. With its isometric perspective and crunchy art style, Car Park Capital definitely has the energy of a 1990s tycoon game, which is fitting that publisher MicroProse is behind this game by indie devs Hilkojj Interactive.
Speaking of 1990s tycoon game, Car Park Capital will launch with mod support. Content and scripts can be modified to an extent by players with experience with the Lua programming language. The game runs on a custom-build game engine and rendering engine, so it’s doubly nice that the game was built to have some elements exposed to allow mods.
Car Park Capital is parking its release date on October 9 for PC (Steam).