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My Summer Car

My Summer Car

Amistech Games · released Jan 8, 2025

IndieRacingSimulation

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.

88
VGC Score
Stablehigh confidence

anchored at patch: “UPDATE 30.12.2024” (1y ago)

87%
At launch
95%
Steam all-time
n/a
Press
78%
Player sentiment
94%
Recent sentiment

Screenshots & trailers

What players say

Why the number is what it is: aspect mentions counted across 321 sampled Steam reviews (301 positive / 20 negative), recent and most-helpful. Plain keyword counting, fully reproducible; nothing here is written by a machine.

What positive reviews talk about

  • Bugs & crashes7% mention it

What negative reviews complain about

  • Bugs & crashes25% mention it

Satisfaction by hours played

Same score, different games: see how sentiment holds up the longer people play.

Under 5h

86%

59 reviews

5-15h

94%

63 reviews

15-40h

95%

81 reviews

40-100h

96%

69 reviews

100h+

98%

49 reviews

Review sentiment over time

Weekly positive-review rate (green) and review volume (bars). Dashed lines mark significant patches; the amber line is the start of the current scoring window. Hover the dots to see what drove a dip or a jump.

How this score was computed

The VGC Score is a weighted blend on a press-comparable 0-100 quality scale. Steam approval rates are first calibrated (95% positive on Steam ≈ 89.5 quality, since Steam approval skews high). Press and tracked creator reviews each count ~2x a player review and share one cap against player evidence (creator buy/skip calls pool into an approval rate, calibrated like Steam approval); all-time sentiment is capped and halved (it's context, not verdict); reviews of the current build carry the most weight when a fresh patch anchors the window; and a 'typical game' prior keeps small samples from pegging the scale. Because press reviews and Metacritic user aggregates describe the launch build, their weight decays as the game ages (3-year half-life after a 1-year grace). That's how a game that launched rough can outgrow its old reception once updates win players over. Reviews under 2h playtime (the refund window), non-Steam activations, and free copies are downweighted.

ComponentPositiveQuality (0-100)Weight (pseudo-reviews)
Press reviews (Metacritic)0
All-time Steam reviews95%891069
Metacritic user ratings0
Post-patch Steam reviews (trust-weighted)94%893000
Calibration prior (typical game)7250

Acclaim gate: the raw blend lands at 88.7, but scores above 88 must be earned in front of a mass audience; this verdict rests on 117,188 player reviews, a largely self-selected fanbase. As more players weigh in, the ceiling rises (full scale unlocks at 100,000 reviews).

Scoring window: since the last significant patch (Dec 30, 2024) · 300 reviews sampled · 35597 total reviews in window · weighted 238.1 up / 9.5 down · computed 1h ago · full methodology →

Patch history

  1. Minor bug fixes
    Sep 21, 2025
  2. Patch v.250120-01
    Jan 20, 2025
  3. UPDATE 30.12.2024
    Dec 30, 2024significant · resets scoring window
  4. UPDATE 20.08.2021
    Aug 20, 2021
  5. UPDATE 12.08.2021
    Aug 12, 2021
  6. UPDATE 24.04.2021
    Apr 24, 2021
  7. UPDATE 01.04.2021
    Apr 1, 2021significant · resets scoring window
  8. UPDATE 29.05.2020
    May 29, 2020significant · resets scoring window
  9. UPDATE 23.12.2019
    Dec 23, 2019
  10. UPDATE 15.11.2019
    Nov 15, 2019
  11. UPDATE 20.08.2019
    Aug 20, 2019significant · resets scoring window
  12. UPDATE 9.5.2019
    May 9, 2019significant · resets scoring window
  13. UPDATE 23.12.2018 and Happy Holidays!!
    Dec 23, 2018significant · resets scoring window
  14. UPDATE 24.10.2018
    Oct 24, 2018
  15. UPDATE 18.08.2018
    Aug 18, 2018
  16. UPDATE 30.04.2018 (Now 64bit!)
    Apr 30, 2018significant · resets scoring window
  17. UPDATE 23.02.2018
    Feb 23, 2018significant · resets scoring window
  18. UPDATE 23.02.2018
    Feb 23, 2018
  19. UPDATE 05.12.2017
    Dec 5, 2017significant · resets scoring window
  20. UPDATE 24.10.2017
    Oct 24, 2017significant · resets scoring window
  21. UPDATE 24.10.2017
    Oct 24, 2017
  22. UPDATE 04.09.2017
    Sep 4, 2017significant · resets scoring window
  23. UPDATE 31.07.2017
    Jul 31, 2017significant · resets scoring window
  24. UPDATE 31.07.2017
    Jul 31, 2017
  25. UPDATE 20.06.2017
    Jun 20, 2017
  26. UPDATE 20.06.2017
    Jun 20, 2017
  27. UPDATE 29.05.2017
    May 29, 2017significant · resets scoring window
  28. UPDATE 29.05.2017
    May 29, 2017
  29. UPDATE 17.04.2017
    Apr 17, 2017significant · resets scoring window
  30. UPDATE 17.04.2017
    Apr 17, 2017
  31. UPDATE 13.03.2017
    Mar 13, 2017significant · resets scoring window
  32. UPDATE 13.03.2017
    Mar 13, 2017
  33. UPDATE 05.02.2017
    Feb 5, 2017significant · resets scoring window

…and 12 earlier patch announcements.