Warning — Spoilers ahead!

31/12/2025

Initial thoughts on My Winter Car

My Summer Car is one of my most favorite games of all time, with a great mix of both depth and width, along with great soul. I decided to go into My Winter Car as blind as I can, since the best part of MSC was when you where still trying to just get the car to start.

I think I'll update this post as I get further into the game. If you intend on playing this game however, I recommend not reading further. This is a game that is at it's best when you actively discover how things work for yourself.

Problem meter

I've seen some people complain about the player being an alcoholic, though I don't have a problem with it. I've slightly spoiled myself with knowing that it can be overcome, I assume by simply not drinking much over an extended period? It also does fit the vibe of being a dark and gloomy winter.

Uncle

Seeing uncle at the old person home felt weird, mostly since it reminded me about my own grandfather. He always had a "Santa claus physique", and generally having a similar demeanour, however during his last years, he lost almost half of his weight, and generally just looked confused. Seeing Uncle sitting, reminissing about his wife, about half his weight from MSC — it felt weird...

Packaging job

Finding the packaging job felt quite rewarding, along with the bait and switch of the manager proudly proclaiming that they are a top of the line ICT company — it eventually being revealed that you will be packaging chargers for eight hours a day. Also weird seing the old faces around, but it is realistic. It gave me the same feeling as when I saw my old classmate behind the counter at the local bank office.

Getting the Corris

Not starting with anything but the boring Sorbet is also a good move, fitting the vibe of the player being a depressed alcoholic. Eventually finding and buying the Corris is a good narative beat to explain the players charachter going from "pre game start" depression to the player controlled action taker character.

Also I got a fucking automatic Corris VIN

02/01/2025

Yippee my wheel is working

Managed to get my G29 + H-shifter working on linux. I used Proton 5, and all pedals where reversed and normalized. Only problem now is that I cant use the reverse gear, but most cars are 5 speed at max, so I use the sixth gear as reverse instead.

Man days are short

Especially the alcoholism doesnt help. I've found that you can drink anything, aslong as you have some alcohol in you. I tend to return home, chug two beers and then just drink water (plus pee alot) until the meter is empty again. Days tend to be going away, doing something and rushing back so you don't die of alcohol underdose.

07/01/2025

Oh boy is the work soul crushing

One complaint I had with MSC was that you eventually had not enough money to work on the car, but no jobs available (well except picking strawberries, but who would want to do that?). MWC solves that by having you work at a packaging plant for 5 days a week, 8 hours a day. It's also very manual work, so it's hard to watch videos or such at the same time. Podcasts probably work. Also a painful part is the very low income (just over 2000mk per two weeks...).

Another aspect is that gamers usually try to perfect things like this. I find myself trying to speed up my packaging, however the thing is that it doesnt change how much I earn, I just need to package things without slacking for the specified time. Fun...