Jalopy
Jalopy is already a lot of fun to play in its current stage. It’s a small and simple game, not one you’ll likely play through an entire night’s session (although once I almost did), but one you’ll probably want to come back to again and again for another quick round or two.
There are many cute details that make it different from most other driving and racing games in existence. First of all is, of course, the titular car you’re driving. It’s an old, ramshackle and unreliable car that is quite unpredictable and takes a lot of maintenance. While other games might have you perform chip tuning, adjust your gear ratios or put some embarrassing neon lights on your car, you’re going to be dealing with much more basic stuff here. Hope you’ll make it to the next gas station with that popped tire, adjust the oil-to-fuel ratio for your two-stroke engine, or decide whether you’re going to sell your air filter so you can afford an extra can of gas for the road, just to be sure.
– Real player with 72.6 hrs in game
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Version 1.0 but feels like Version 0.1
**In short:
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Buggy
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Lacking Content
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Menial
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Buy on sale ( 50%)**
Introduction
Jalopy is a game most car enthusiasts and gamers alike will enjoy, should it be properly finished. The player takes the role of a nephew charged with the task of taking their Uncle on a journey across the fallen USSR in an old ‘restored’ Liaka 601 (Trabant 601), collecting various (sometimes prohibitied) loot found on backroads and highways to keep their car running and their wallets packed to book hotels; and buy upgrades. Jalopy has an interesting and somewhat unique experience to keep players entertained, just a shame its very short and has little replayability; with the added ‘bonus’ of bugs present throughout.
– Real player with 57.3 hrs in game
Transmission
Wake up at midnight, tune the radio to your favourite station and drive. As a small time courier, you’ll meet an cast of unusual characters, carry their packages across the region and learn their stories. Deliver packages through the night until the long shadows of dawn calls you back to your bed.
Your goal is to pick up packages from locations and deliver them on time. It’s 1986, so there’s no satnav— you’ll rely on your map and street signs to learn the best routes. Late deliveries mean less money.
At the end of each night, you return to your garage. Completing deliveries and earning cash unlocks new garages and cars, allowing you to travel further, complete bigger deliveries and build a delivery empire.
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Explore an open world of open highways and sparkling skylines
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Deliver packages for a cast of characters in story missions, or in unlimited procedurally generated missions
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Upgrade your car from fixer-upper to lean muscle machine
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Unlock new garages to take longer jobs and explore more of the world
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Hire and manage drivers to build a business empire
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Stream radio, MP3s, and podcasts on your car stereo
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Photograph your journey with a range of lenses, filters and effects
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Turn off missions and time limits with Endless Night mode
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Car Mechanic Simulator 2014
Really cool-looking game about fixing broking cars in your garage. But… will you like it? Would I recommend it for you to buy? That’s depends of what are you expecting from this game, in the first hand.
Let me tell you how it works, right from the start: you’ll find yourself locked inside the garage, with some broken car and notation of what you should do with it. You can disassemble the most of the car’s engine, suspension and exhausts. You can fix some of those disassembled parts on the workbench, or buy new ones in the PC installed in your garage. Reassemble the car with new or fixed details, and they’ll send you next one. After some time you’ll get enough “free” money to “buy upgrades”, namely, the discounts for the spare parts market, ability to squeeze the next client for more money, ability to notice some of the wrecks with your blind eye, without any expertise, and, finally, ability to turn screws faster… Which is really suitable, especially when exhausts needs fixing.
– Real player with 41.5 hrs in game
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The primary objective of a simulator is to accurately recreate the feeling and control of completing an existing real world task, like driving, managing, farming, dating, etc. Obviously, not all real world tasks are entertaining, in fact, most are repetitive jobs you work day after day for a paycheck. The draw of a well made simulator is the ability to experience a career virtually that you may never have the chance to experience in real life. Sometimes this can be interesting and educational, sometimes a lot of fun, and sometimes extremely boring. It’s up to the individual to decide if the simulator is fun or repetitive, which makes this genre extremely difficult to review. Do I review it based on its entertainment value alone, or how accurately it depicts the task it’s trying to recreate?
– Real player with 40.2 hrs in game
Clustertruck
Its awsome
– Real player with 26.1 hrs in game
its hard but good
– Real player with 10.3 hrs in game
Street Racing: United
Street Racing: United - inovation autosimulator about Street Racing. In the begining you have some money for your first car. After you can buy car and tuning it. There you have big city with many interesting locations and a lot of racing festivals in this city. Participate in racing events, that which occur on popular tracks all over the planet. Cars have realistic physics, you can buy any part for you car and attach it or you can detach part from car and sell it. Customize your car as you want, change parameters of tires, suspensions, brakes, gearbox, camshafts and turbocharger. Also you can using spray for paint your car. In Street Racing: United you can win Race of Champions and be Champion.
Contraband Police
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1396240/Contraband_Police_Prologue/
**Contraband Police is a border post commander simulator.
Check drivers' documents and the technical condition of their vehicles. Look for hidden contraband and finally issue or refuse permission to enter the country.
Pay for the daily post maintanance and get rewards for good performance of your duties.**
The slightest error is the basis for refusing entry.
Contraband can be hidden almost everywhere. Use proper tools to find it.
Arrest any offenders for later transport.
Explore Acaristan world and complete special field missions.
Junkyard Truck
Junkyard Truck is an open-world off road driving and mechanic simulator. You start by buying an old truck from the junkyard which needs some work to get it running. You’ll need to dismount the engine and pull it out, replace worn out or missing parts, and then put it back together and hope you did a thorough job. Once you get it running, you can use your truck to complete various off road missions to earn more money. When the missions get too tough, visit the auto parts store to buy upgraded engine parts, wheels, drivetrain parts, or accessories- or you may even find something good in the junkyard if you’re persistent. Be sure to keep up on maintenance since you’re going to be pretty hard on your vehicles.. When you think your truck is powerful enough, and you have enough bankroll for major repairs, use your truck to complete some of the map’s challenges, such as mud pits, rock crawls, hill climbs, and very destructive long jumps.
My Garage
Its like my summer car except when you damage your cars body you dont have to wait a week for the garage to repair it…
YOU ARE THAT GARAGE!!
Its so fun just being able to buy a wrecked car and where there is ANY BODY DAMAGED, i can just cut it from preset points and buy a replacement panel, grind, and weld it back on.
i love mechanic and ive gotten addicted to this game just for how fun it is.
not to say its not buggy….but the dev is active almost daily on his discord channel, he is very active and fixes bugs almost as soon as you report it.
– Real player with 177.5 hrs in game
I cannot say enough good things about this game. I was very iffy on buying it due to it being $25, BUT let me tell you I was iffy for no reason.
Pros:
1. Its a great basic mechanics teacher.
2. All cars can drive in horrible shape, even if parts are missing as long as there is fluid.
3. Eventho there is only One car in the game it has three variations, which im sure with time there will be others.
4. the ability to grind, hammer, cut, weld, bondo, replace virtually every piece and panel in this game is AMAZING.
– Real player with 54.5 hrs in game
Bus Simulator 21
Sadly too many bugs in this game to recommend it. Which is sad, since it has potential.
– Real player with 58.6 hrs in game
It’s a good game compared to previous editions 2016 and 2018. That said, a lot of progress is still needed to emerge alongside other bus simulation games like OMSI 2 or The Bus.
Many minor bugs spoil the gaming experience:
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The headlights of NPC vehicles are for some non-functional.
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Crowds of NPCs on the bridge north of the Westfield Corners stop.
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The rear headlights (brake lights) are not functional on the IVECO Urbanway: They remain either on or off but there is no link with the braking.
– Real player with 48.8 hrs in game
Car Mechanic Simulator 2015
This game is a wonderful mix of an intro to car components and a D&D dystopia.
Instead of making different parts show that they are worn and broken using a variety of techniques, the game uses only one. RUST.
So imagine we are handed a relatively new car that has some suspension problems. We pop the car on a lift, take a look at the undercarriage, and we find pristine parts, right next to others that look like they’ve been randomly touched by a rust monster. This makes the game into quite the amusing “find the rust” quest.
– Real player with 123.1 hrs in game
I learned some part names that I had no idea about before, and got braver on my car DIY skills. And I was also reminded that real life is of course much more complicated than a simulator like this.
Overall, I’m enjoying this simulator, and I only wished that it was more complicated in many aspects. A few points that can be worked on (although I’m just a beginner DIYer, and know much less than creators of this fine game) - hoping that this list will guide people on what to expect and perhaps help prioritizing upcoming changes:
– Real player with 85.0 hrs in game