My Summer Car is one of the craziest games to come out, and proves that sometimes crazy isn’t always a bad thing.
You start off in an empty house where your parents have just left you on your own for the summer. With no clue what to do with yourself, you try fix up your father’s dismantled car.
Now imagine that scenario playing out as an open world survival game. Good times!
But how could we make this experience even better? It’s simple, really: lots of mods.
So here are some of the best mods you can add onto My Summer Car, just to add in some new features, enhance existing settings, or whatever else your heart desires.
My Summer Car isn’t the best-looking game by any means. And it doesn’t always run well either.
Many fans power through, because there is a good game underneath its ugly clothing.
That doesn’t mean improvements can’t be made, however.
And that’s exactly where I’d like to start us off.
Modern Optimization Plugin is a tool to improve the visual experience of the game, as it aims to easily double your frame rate while playing. Very handy.
Now that we’ve got a slight performance boost, let’s get to some quality of life mods you’re sure to find helpful in your next MSC playthrough.
First off, we have Show Bolt Sizes.
My Summer Car is as unforgiving as any other survival game. Just not in the way you might expect.
There’s no hand-holding here, as you’re never really pointed towards the right direction. It’s up to you to figure it all out, and it can’t be easy to figure out how to rebuild a dismantled car.
Show bolt sizes makes things a bit easier, letting you know if the bolts you have are too big, too small, or just the right fit.
As mentioned earlier, MSC is every bit as hardcore as any other survival game.
You find out early that the game doesn’t take itself all too seriously. But that doesn’t make it any less of a challenge!
Example: getting lost in the dark eventually becomes one of the many challenges you’ll face.
Well these glowing markers make things just a bit easier, as you’ll be able to easily find light switches in dark rooms, instead of having to stumble around in the pitch black.
Another job available in My Summer Car would is to make kilju (a Finnish homebrew sugar wine) to sell to your alcoholic neighbor.
Roof Rack makes this a bit more fun, as your car now has additional storage other than the drunk, rear, and passenger seat – allowing you to carry much more than you originally could in vanilla.
This is also great for personal beer runs. You’ll be able to take home more beer than you can fit inside your Satsuma.
Other than your dad’s Satsuma, you’ll also be able to access your Uncle’s Hayosiko van as an alternative means of transportation.
The Hayosiko offers much more storage space than the Satsuma, making it great for transporting parts and other items.
It doesn’t drive quite as well, though. And you’re likely going to end up stuck in the mud every now and then if you’re not careful.
Thanks to the Hayosiko 4×4 mod by Talia Kuznetsova, the van now comes in 4-wheel-drive, making it much easier to navigate rougher roads with. Simple fix with a big difference.
Crashing your car is more common than you’d think in My Summer Car, as you’re probably going to die a lot from failed builds.
If you’re lucky enough to survive a crash, you’re going to be left without a car for the duration of the repairs. Which means you’ll have to find another way to get around.
The game offers this through your cousin, who you can hitchhike with if he ever happens to pass you on the road.
It can get tiring waiting for him to drive by… so this mod offers a simple solution.
With “call your cousin” you’ll be able to call Peni to pick you up at your house, and again from the payphone outside Teimo’s pub for a ride back home from the town.
If you want to go beyond what the game allows and really pimp out the Satsuma, you can do that through modding as well.
This texture pack from GyroscopicDesign not only makes your car look completely new, but also sets it up with some custom parts.
Starter Pack removes all rust from the entire vehicle too. And it even includes a custom engine, subframe, pedals, and even subwoofers for a booming sound system.
As if staying alive on the roads wasn’t hard enough, you may just want to kick the crazy up a notch.
“Crazy” usually makes for some good fun anyways, so what the heck right?
The Frito Stunt Ramp mod takes things to the next level by adding 6 placeable stunt ramps into the game. You’ll be able to spawn and rotate them as you please, so you should be able to set up some pretty crazy jumps.
