Game Preview: Car Mechanic Simulator 2015

In March last year we looked at the puzzle game Car Mechanic Simulator 2014. It seems the developers — despite releasing extra content during the year, including the option of working on 4x4 vehicles — believed they had not squeezed the full potential from the idea.

As such, a new Kickstarter campaign is up and running to launch Car Mechanic Simulator 2015.

In the new version of the game, missions (or jobs) will generate randomly and begin to queue. There will be an element of time management as you will need to decide which jobs to take on and the order in which to do them. Customers will be waiting.

“Players can take a limited amount of jobs in the same time and every one of them will be time-restricted," say the developers. "There will be different difficulty and complexity levels and, of course, different payment levels. Wise management is the key here.”

The laid-back untimed mode of play will, however, still be a game option for those of us that just want to tinker, perhaps using the game as a learning or teaching tool.

The workshop will have an upgrade path and the development team plans to include a car auction system.

Go to the auction, choose an old cheap car to buy, do it up and then return for a sale with (hopefully) a lucrative profit margin.

The previous version of the game was extremely popular, selling millions of digital copies on the Steam marketplace for PC and Mac.

The team at developer PlayWay is confident the follow-up will be equally as popular. They have included some stretch-goals in their Kickstarter campaign that, if funded, will see up to four download packs made free to game owners.

The download content includes specialised sports cars, vintage and hot-rod vehicles to work on.

At this stage the game is 75 per cent completed and will be released sometime this year. And in case you're wondering: yes, it will include V8 engines to tinker with.