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.
“hyperbolic complaint about addictive gameplay framed as recommendation”
How it holds up
−50+5
Gameplay
+0.83
Difficulty+0.24
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Story & World
+2.03
World+3.45
“most atmospheric life simulator with excellent world design” (26)
Самый атмосферный симулятор жизни, в который я когда либо играл. Эта игра даёт неплохое понимание об устройстве автомобиля и двигателя в частности, что полезно для будущих автомехаников и автомобильных извращенцев. Так же на ранних этапах игра загоняет новичка в довольно непростые условия, которые можно по желанию улучшить, но не без десятков потраченных часов реального времени, и это чёрт возьми того стоит! Если у вас полно свободного времени и стальные нервы, вы можете построить ведро своей мечты и быть первым колхозником в Пераярви. Лично я с нетерпением жду выхода My Winter Car в ранний до
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Content Volume
+2.75
Volume+3.84
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Visuals & Sound
+1.92
Not enough data — only 8% of reviews mention this.
Visuals+1.76
“awesome graphics and detailed car assembly, genuinely a bargain” (10)
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Multiplayer
+1.61
Not enough data — only 4% of reviews mention this.
Playing together-0.18
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Fairness
-0.88
Not enough data — only 5% of reviews mention this.
Monetization+1.25
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Tech & Ops
-1.60
Stability-3.42
“car explosions and game-breaking survival mechanics” (60)
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Scores are the average of reviews that mention each category (−5 to +5). Fainter bars were mentioned by fewer reviews; grey means too few to trust. Tap a category ▾ to see what drives it.
Steam review activity
% positive over time
since launch, by month · major update
Oct 2016Sep 2026
Reviews
per day · 962 reviews, peak 52/day
Aug 19Sep 16
per month · 3,535 reviews, peak 1,270/month
Jun 2026Aug 2026
per month · 6,945 reviews, peak 1,270/month
Mar 2026Aug 2026
per month · 22,149 reviews, peak 5,652/month
Sep 2025Aug 2026
Steam only gives daily counts for the last 30 days; longer ranges are by month. Months with fewer than 10 reviews are left out of % positive.
Review languages
Languages of the 394 reviews we analyzed from the past year — not all Steam reviews.
English30%
Russian24%
Portuguese14%
Polish9%
Spanish8%
Turkish4%
Other11%
🔒 Scores broken down by language — how Russian or Chinese players rate each category — are in the paid dashboard.