My Summer Car
Released Jan 2025
My Summer Car is the ultimate car owning, building, fixing, tuning, maintenance AND permadeath life survival simulator. You start the game with hundreds of loose parts and assemble both car and engine.
94% positive · 116K reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
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Steam $14.99
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Evaluation
My Summer Car officially left Early Access and launched as version 1.0 on January 8, 2025. The developer explicitly stated in the December 30, 2024 update post that the game was "transitioning away from Early Access" and that, while important patches would continue as needed, "no major feature changes" should be expected. This is a clear developer statement that the game's content development is complete.
Since the 1.0 release, the developer has continued to publish maintenance patches — fixing bugs, making small balance adjustments, and polishing existing systems (as seen in updates through September 2025). These are consistent with the developer's stated commitment to ongoing fixes, not new content additions.
The same December 2024 post also teased a sequel, My Winter Car, described as being "under active development." That is a separate product entirely and has no bearing on My Summer Car's content status.
The game has been in development since at least 2016 and launched as a fully realized, feature-complete product at 1.0. No DLC has been announced or listed, and the developer has not signaled any intention to add major new content to this title.
Evidence
Developer announced the game is transitioning away from Early Access with the 1.0 release, and explicitly stated to 'expect no major feature changes any more.' Also teased the sequel My Winter Car as a separate project under active development.
Developer stated the game was 'gearing towards final stages of development' and that the May 2020 update would be 'one of the last major changelogs,' with future updates focused on small fixes and finishing touches.
Media
Details
Developer
Publisher
Amistech Games
Achievements
77
Platform
Windows
Controller
partial support
Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player
About this game
MY SUMMER CAR is the ultimate car owning, building, fixing, tuning, maintenance AND permadeath life survival simulator. You start the game with hundreds of loose parts and assemble both car and engine. Not only you need to maintain your car, but yourself as well. Sausages, beer and sleeping will do just fine.
If everything goes well, you have a working car which you can use for various 1990's Finnish countryside summer activities. Basically doing stupid things under influence of alcohol. After you have gathered extra money from various random jobs, you can start to tune and upgrade the car with parts ordered via snail mail. You can turn the car into a obnoxious bass-boom disco machine.... or into a rally car to participate rally competitions... or just fix it into perfect factory condition. Of course car also needs to pass the inspection or you might get into trouble with police.
Not only you have access to one car, but also several other cars and vehicles which you can use. (Mostly useful to get groceries and for towing the project car from some ditch, again).
Warning, this game is not for fainted heart. Severe car fever is required to play this properly due to it's meticulous approach on car building.
If everything goes well, you have a working car which you can use for various 1990's Finnish countryside summer activities. Basically doing stupid things under influence of alcohol. After you have gathered extra money from various random jobs, you can start to tune and upgrade the car with parts ordered via snail mail. You can turn the car into a obnoxious bass-boom disco machine.... or into a rally car to participate rally competitions... or just fix it into perfect factory condition. Of course car also needs to pass the inspection or you might get into trouble with police.
Not only you have access to one car, but also several other cars and vehicles which you can use. (Mostly useful to get groceries and for towing the project car from some ditch, again).
Warning, this game is not for fainted heart. Severe car fever is required to play this properly due to it's meticulous approach on car building.
- Full car assembly with over hundred parts
- Detailed driving and engine simulation
- Various other vehicles, cars and boat to use and drive
- Dozens of kilometers worth of dirt and paved roads with AI traffic
- Random paying jobs to cover food, beverage and fuel expenses
- Rally event to participate in
- Permanent death
- Sauna bathing
- 90's Finnish summer!
- Support for steering wheel and shifter controllers
- Much more!
Are these done yet?
Last evaluated Jun 27, 2026
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