My Summer Car: The Finnish Life Simulator 

in my personal opinion, this is one of - if not the best game ever made, especially for the fact its only made by two developers

My Summer Car, unironically, inspired my entire career path. I knew borderline nothing about how a car worked when i first started playing. (I admit i eventually relented to an online tutorial to assemble the car the first time around). When I got her running, started tuning, and upgrading, something inside me clicked. I learned my love for cars thanks to My Summer Car.

My first time playing this game, I hopped on the moped and drove towards the town for some beer. The thing about the moped is that if you're too slow, it just turns off, so I was stopped on the road, when all of a sudden, the dude in that green car came screaming down the road in my direction, and it took me three tries to ignite the moped to get the hell out of his way, and I did so... Only just barely. Anyway, I bought the beer, drank too much, and passed out in the middle of a field.

I'm Finnish and I always love hearing people talk about My Summer Car, since it's the only game that shows a well parodied version of Finland. Also, everything in the game, from the small town (since I lived in one in the early 2000s), to the products for sale, to even the car culture and obviously the swearing is relatable in a way that no other game gets. Although real Finland is nowhere as cool as the one in MSC. I clicked on this video thinking it was a typical "watch me be Finn and get drunk and die constantly while calling Finnish people drunks or, what's worse, swedes), This video was really well made. Humoristic, but still to point. I was surprised of the quality of the video and overall the well written narration, as well as the comedic uses of the swearing function in clips. I've been playing it again (been playing it since early days) on permadeath and on both times, I've built the car and been getting the last GT parts (like the RPM gauge) and died randomly, either getting stuck in a Hayosiko and dying because the game thinks you are moving at 100kmh when in reality you are just spinning the tires, or driving a moped, falling over at a slow speed, getting up and randomly dying out of nowhere. Also I feel bad that the people not Finnish don't get the beautiful puns of the game, like Hayosiko. In Finnish, Hajosiko is a way to ask if something broke in verbal communication. Like "Hajosiko autosi" would be "did your car break down" (or the 90s joke "Hajosiko Toyotasi" meaning "did your toyota break down", but making it sound like a Japanese name). It's basically just puns and jokes all around. I think everyone gets Kekmet (mix of Valmet, a Finnish vehicle and other stuff manufacturer, and KEK) as well as GIFU (Uses SISU truck looks, and has a name of a Finnish candy of the same name.)

My summer car is the game that got 13 year old me really into cars. Tought me so much and made me buy my own my summer car at 14. Still love the game and have way too many hours on it

Me who knows basically close to nothing about cars but i love mechanics and how things go together so imma be getting this to finally understand gearheads

My summer car is so nostalgic for me. I’ve played it since around the time it came out. Watching it come as far as it has is just mesmerizing. Hearing the songs it plays, cruising in the van down the roads, listening to Teimo run on about whatever is on his mind at the shop, and that sound when you first hear the car crank up after working for hours on it, brings back so many memories and emotions I’ve had with the game over the years. Yes I still play it, and I still love it. Every few months or so I’ll start over again and do it all again to get that same feeling again. I cannot wait for MWC, I’m very interested to see how it turns out.

The Datsun from the movie you said the Satsuma may have been inspired of has the exact same registrationplate as in the game. So... yeah, I think it´s accuret. Great video btw. :)

i dont really comment on things but idk how this came into my feed, im glad it did though. i dont know how you only have 112 subs, i watched the whole video and im gonna go check out your others! its hard to keep me entertained, but youre doing it lol

This video was very good, and you deserve more subs and fans than you have right now. Keep going and dont give up

Great review! I'll be waiting for another about MWC :D

So much work put into this great video! I hope that in a few years when I come back to this comment, I am going to see you having way more subs!

Nice video! I remember when I first started playing MSC, I didnt know what I was doing, but I loved it

How tf do you only have 600 subscribers the quality is insane

lol the guy screaming "jumalauta!" I literally cant stop laughing :D

Wow man, great video. I really hope in future you get more subs.

super high quality video, glad I clicked on it

Great video dude! I appreciate all the heart and effort poured into the production of the video. One critique though... I'd recommend investing into a pop filter. Otherwise, amazing content!

i am your 700th subscriber, have proof aswell, saw you channel today, thought you might have over a million subscribers, but i saw that you have 699 i was like woah, this guy is something else, love from lithuania🇱🇹❤️

Hahaha 8:16 That little Super Mario kind of ghost was amazing. I was expected something else ;)

w video such underrated youtuber fosho

I’ve been tracking down Datsun 100a’s for a while now and man I can’t find any but I know I will NEVER give up until I find one and import it to America

Amazing video

there is a subculture on youtube where they tune suzuki pv 50cc (jonez es) the numbers they make them push are pretty impressive I seen one claiming to make 18hp keeping the original block from the engine too

I managed to missclick and buy the bodykit, when i wanted the front lip only, and now my Satsuma looks like a shopping cart.

also another reason your car jumps to such [bounce wise] is because you need to tune the 2 nobs on the rally suspension stiffer is better but not too stiff i myself have forgotten the tune but it makes rally racing so smooth and easy

Amazing youtuber.

Great video! My summer car is one of the best games ever made. So simple but so good.

9:45 matches my dad's description of car inspection in 80s-90s finland

im tempted to buy the game just to see if I can maintain the car with a "how cars work" book. My guess is that some pedestrian will give my hood and bumper a fresh dark red paint job while reading about the cooling and wondering if piss will actualy be a good substitute

you deserve more subscribers and views

this game honestly makes me rage so much

after building the satsuma 12 TIMES i find this game fun

That neon genesis evangelion paintjob being on acreen and you saying "now thats a car for men of real taste" Coinsidense? i think not

the Datsun 100A in Finland is like the VW Golf 4 in Hungary. It's junk yet everyone still wants one

as a person who played msc for the first time with 0 car knowledge, it was actually somewhat of an infuriating but learning experience

Go to video I liked it.

Lmao I barely know about how engines are put together, but I understand partly how they work. After a while, I figured everything out. The game is great but life draining haha, I've learned how to enjoy the long parts of the game, like having to take apart the engine because a piston blew or such. I've spent weeks getting the parts for the satsuma to work, after putting it together first the head gasket blew and I got two flat tires. Eventually though, I got all of the new parts and tires. I'm going to the rally soon.

Cool game, spent hours trying assembling engine, bit glitchy, it's early acesss I know. Hope Devs don't abandon this project!

get this guy to 1000 subs

12:48 Unity moment:

Even though I looked several tutorials on how to build the car. I still managed to F it up multiple times...

now i wanna play it vanilla

is it concerning i can have the car running in under an hour? and have it inspected via Wednesday ingame

use steering help you can turn it on in the settings menu

7:45 the only jumps are here was my reflection on my screen.

3:35 I'll just say....nice.

i subed

This game is hell to me, I wish my car would workkkk

The parents left for the milk as the player will probably do to suski and le baby

The easiest way to die is from having fun from by going down dirt road

i really wanna get into this game but i got it and played for 10 mins and got bored, idk

The first thing I did was get lost in the forest on my moped and then get drunk

Bro after playing this game changed his profile photo to Ryan Gosling xD

Ah yes, Finland. The half-nords. And before you ask why they're not Nords? Ukonusko, Finno-Ugrian.

your profile pic is literally me

Survival horror

try Mon Bazou. Its basically canadian My Summer Car but not as detailed as it.

Try out WRENCH it is also the most realistic racing car machanic simulator ❤

The good games secret is freedom what my summer car have

I went blind in the game after letting of fireworks in my hand

I have 130 hours in this game and i still do not know how to build the car

Ill be completely honest, driving with keyboard is easy IF you have good settings your comfortable with

literally me

link for 8.42 video?

wyo plays junior 🤔

imagine the owner was borned in 1975 and hes rn 47

and take note, even if you're building the satsuma again from scratch with 100+ hours on record, you are BOUND to make mistakes or miss a part. I was test driving the car one time and a shock absorber fell off. Simply because it wasn't fully screwed in. My Summer Car is NOT for the weak. It's not noob friendly either.

After 2 years of playing I can go 100kph on dirt roads... 50% of the time... with a lot of luck... that I do not have :(

My mom owned a Datsun. My dad totaled it.

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I once died because i was chopping wood and was drunk so i hit myself with a hatchet

Good shit, no cap, on god

1:15 ?

The game is just awerage 20yo finns life

I feel bad for the non-Fins here, you guys are missing so many jokes, just because of the cultural differences

Actually at night not that scary but building car at night nothing scary

DUDE DONT JUMP SCARE ME I WILL PUNCH MY7 MONITER IF YOU DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Love this game, but Unity sucks.

Not cool man the jumpscare made me literally piss myself

ANYONE WHO PLAYS THIS GAME I AM REMOVING FROM MY LIST of watch videos, game is trash.