Is a game like My Summer Car a genre? A first-person survival game with highly-detailed car-building mechanics that will make you a car mechanic to learn how to put together or pull apart a shitbox.
In any case, here’s another one of those, with a very different flavour.
Cheap Car Repair, developed by Simplicity Games and co-published by PlayWay, will see you living the life in a former communist block. As a car mechanic in these trying times, you’ll have to be creative in fixing up your jalopies. What can work as a cheap alternative timing belt? Can a valve found out in the wild work as steering wheel?
While some of the “creative” solutions are super sketchy in a comedic way, there’s also tried-and-true cheap car hacks. What’s a cheap way to fix bended bodywork? Fill it with filler and paint it over, of course.
The repair jobs can range from quick oil changes to major engine work. You can do the jobs as best as you can, but in this economy? You’re best get creative with the car repairs, though getting carried away has consequences.
The trailer shows a lot of hijinks in store in Cheap Car Repair. Free-painting cars, welding a till on a hatchback to turn that hooptie into a work horse. Tie up a goat on the roof for some reason. Or prank the neighbour by sticking up a potato in their car’s exhaust pipe. Cheap Car Repair is inspired by “the absurd realities of the 1990s in Eastern Europe,” specifically Poland, which may or may not explain the goat thing.
Cheap Car Repair launches this week, on May 28 on PC (Steam). A demo is available.