“Do you have a car? You have a problem!” This is a very true statement, especially if you live in metropolitan cities. Simple but appropriate. Tax, parking and road fees aside; When car-related maintenance or repair situations arise, it puts a chill in everyone’s wallet. Simulation games have created quite a stir recently. With free game engines, support from artificial intelligence agents, etc., fun simulation games began to appear on the market one after the other, with a very simple logic.
Even the most ridiculous ideas have developed serious fan bases. I’m not talking about the generally accepted ideas such as farming in the fields or traveling the roads with a truck. Crazy and scary ideas come up, from mechanical simulations in which we repair mobile robots on Mars to games in which we run a doner kebab. I don’t know what will happen next, but the last production that entertained me was Cheap Car Repair.
Master Özay, Will This Car Pass Inspection? Cheap Car Repair stands in a slightly different place than similar simulation games. Normally, we need to do our job to the best of our ability. In order to reach more resources and higher quality content, it is necessary to collect the highest score. But Cheap Car Repair draws the player’s tendency to become bad tradesmen. Namely, our game takes place in a poor village in Poland in the mid-90s.
You have often heard the story of the Polish people trying to thrive after the collapse of the Soviet Bloc. We are trying to make a living by working as car mechanics in this small village. Our goal is not to turn the village into a car repair center. Finding ways to repair our own cars, which we destroy at a low cost. The basic logic of the game proceeds just like a simulation game. Our customers come, drop off their cars and sort out the repairs.
They have requests such as sanding rusty corners, tire maintenance, and changing spark plugs. Here you need to decide what kind of tradesman you will be. If you want to do everything by the book, you will seriously damage your budget. Parts are expensive. No, you cannot earn more money by installing expensive and high-quality parts. Because your customers don’t have a lot of money either. Instead, the game encourages you to make everything look okay by increasing or decreasing what and where.
Master, this piece had just been changed! Instead of doing the rusty body of the car quickly and cleanly with a grinding machine, you can sand the car with a regular flat wire brush. You can even skip any sanding and apply paint directly on the rust. If the customer asks for a tire change, you can install the tire that is in slightly better condition than the one you removed. You even see that the air filter of the vehicle is clean, brand new, newly installed.
You can remove it for your own vehicle and replace it with a yellow dish sponge. In this respect, the game has its own sense of humor. While you handle these tasks without making the customers feel anything, you also help the villagers. For example, one of them is high on the roof and cannot come down. One of them’s husband buried a jar full of money in the forest years ago. You find it, but the money inside is of no use because it is old.
You may also find spare parts scattered here and there between these trips. You are providing a spare parts source for your own vehicle or your next innocent customer. Suspicious approaches continue throughout the game. Instead of an open-structured game, a story-focused game has been made. It is possible that you will figure out all the logic of the game in a few hours and quit. Because generally the same things are always done.
On top of that, the game really requires mechanical knowledge. The game shows you which part to disassemble in order and how. No problem there. On the other hand, you do not have the opportunity to properly place the parts you removed. You distribute it throughout the workshop. For example, I lost customers’ brake discs a few times. I incurred unnecessary expense to change a customer’s tires just because I forgot where I put the jack.
I even made a momentary mistake and bought a flat spring instead of a wheel spring. Dear Brother, We Will Disassemble the Engine. Complete Cheap Car Repair flows like this. It is not a boring game, but it is a production that may be enjoyed by those who are familiar with not only the car culture but also the industrial site culture. There were many places where he made me smile with his unique humor. It is not a very big project; He is already aware of this.
It does not offer you great graphics and animations. If you say sound effects, they turn into ear-scratching loops that repeat themselves. Still, the game has its own mean charm. It doesn’t fascinate graphically, but it keeps you busy and entertained for a few hours. When you focus on the story, it offers up to 10 hours of gameplay. Since it is not a difficult game, it is perfect to play it every few days and relax. One of the details that I like most is that there is no pressure that you have to be a perfectionist that I mentioned.
It pushes you to do bad things, which is something I don’t often encounter in this type of games. It’s definitely not going to appeal to everyone, we have to admit it’s weird. Still, he definitely has a character of his own. This is something we don’t see much in games these days. Bad AspectsGood AspectsMinor bugsUnique humorPerformance problemsEntertaining playabilityNo claims in terms of graphics and interfaceA different perspective on the simulation business Cheap Car Repair Graphics / Interface – 5 Playability – 5 Story / Presentation – 5.5 Innovation – 6 5.4 Shall we eat industrial toast?
I can’t say I haven’t removed car paint with a wire brush.
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