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Oddball Finnish life-sim My Summer Car has formally launched out of early entry, after 9 years spent tinkering with its engine and getting drunk on the couch.
As seen by RPS, My Summer Car shock launched its 1.0 model earlier this week. Originally lurching onto Steam early entry in 2016, My Summer Car outlined itself with two key options, particularly its preposterous problem, and its unrelenting weirdness. It challenged gamers with constructing not only a automobile from scratch, however the engine as properly, all whereas being so grime poor you’re prone to starve to demise earlier than you determine the best way to put one of many automobile’s doorways on.
It’s additionally a type of video games that features a button for having a wee, partially as a result of it dedicates a big portion of its programs to replicating the Finnish consuming tradition of pantsdrunk, which, simply in case you don’t communicate Finnish, refers back to the act of consuming in your pants. Other quintessentially Finnish prompts you’ll be able to embark upon embody going to the Sauna, going lake fishing with a giant crate of beer and, for those who can really get your automobile up and working, collaborating in a neighborhood rally.
My Summer Car is under no circumstances a sport for everybody. In truth, it in all probability isn’t a sport for most individuals. The new launch trailer brazenly states “This sport will not be enjoyable” earlier than continuing to elucidate why for over two minutes. Nonetheless, there are clearly sufficient folks on the market who jive with its rejection of many online game norms, having garnered a ‘Very Positive’ Steam ranking out of over 77,000 critiques.
Curiously, whereas My Summer Car has been in growth for a very long time, it’s additionally been kind of feature-complete for a lot of that interval. Developer Amistech Games acknowledged My Summer Car was “gearing towards remaining levels of the event” way back to 2020, with solely small and sporadic updates since. The most up-to-date replace’s changelog contains notes resembling “Added a splat impact to helmet when getting hit by a Bee” and “Wasp can now are available in if House doorways are being saved open.” Side word, I hate it when Wasp are available in House. Hopefully there’s a splat impact for Wasp when hit with rolled-up copy of PC Gamer journal.
That identical announcement additionally tells gamers to “keep tuned” for updates on My Summer Car’s scarcely referenced sequel My Winter Car, which Amistech says stays “beneath energetic growth”. And whereas My Summer Car will now not obtain any “main function modifications” gamers can count on “necessary patches and modifications at any time when vital” sooner or later.
