Jalopy

To start, I cannot, in good faith, recommend this game to anybody. The game feels painfully unfinished, and feels like it never quite left early access. There is an extreme lack of any real depth to the game. If you bring your uncle as a companion, there is a short, somewhat disconnected story that never reached it's conclusion. The developers will never fix the gaps in the world they seemed that they'd fill. Even so, I have played Jalopy at the time of this review for 64.7 hours. I have "beat" the game many times over. At a bare minimum, I start a new playthrough and max out my car with my favorite engine parts, decals, and paint once a year. The driving is bad—worse than you might think for a car like this. Driving up hills can slow you to the point of nearly stopping, acceleration feels as though you are moving through molasses, smd the car just tends to move terribly slow in all ways. Worst of all, if you aren't careful and flip the car, there's nothing you can do. You simply have to restart back to the last time you slept, which likely will be a very long way. What matters is that beneath all that, and inside of it as well, there's a strange quality to the game. The world is largely ugly and boring, the driving both somehow too responsive and not responsive enough, but the car feels emotionally, if not realistically how things are. This may not be how this car would really handle and move, but the game captures the feelings of it perfectly. The sunrise, in all its ten seconds of glory, is somehow one of the most beautiful sunrises I've ever seen in a game. It's not particularly well made, easy to miss, and you only get an actually good view of it once in the game. That's Jalopy. A game I have a hard time recommending, but I can't stop playing. Again, and again. Because there's some undefinable characteristic about it I cannot refuse, and maybe, just maybe, you'll find that too.

This game USED to be amazing. I remember playing it years ago for HOURS on end (different account don’t ask) But it just straight up doesn’t work now. It’s abandoned in every way except the dev putting it on sale.

很多年后的补评：小学的时候最喜欢看逆风笑的GMod和Jalopy系列了，尤其是Jalopy半夜放在枕边听着也会有莫名的安心感~中学的时候断断续续也是和朋友一起玩了很多，承载了太多青涩回忆

Игра не для робких ,надо всё приноровиться рассчитывать. Я раз 5 перезапускал режим карьеры если его можно так назвать ,потому что просто кончал бензин или что то ломалось. Но больше всего бесило калловое управление ,дай бог ему здоровья ,это вот реально испытание не на шутку.

- Invest all of my money into cigaret's - My fuel runs out - I push the car for the next 200km (like 15 minutes) - Finnaly arive in the city and scam people in the motel for money - Sleep in the motel - Finnaly buy some fuel and go thru the border with 40 illegal packs of cigaret's and sell them for half the price Best game i played in a long time

È muito top joguei muito o desenvolvedor poderia trazer um dois com mapas mais extensos grafícos e trexturas melhorados seria top

Finalmente consegui jogar essa obra prima, acompanhei a série do cazum8 quando eu era mais novo, e agora adulto joguei eu mesmo. Foi muito legal relembrar um pouco do passado. É um bom jogo, sim, eu também queria que ele tivesse um final, mas de qualquer forma eu gostei demais do jogo, recomendo a todos jogarem. Muito obrigado cazum8.

I really tried to enjoy this game.. but it's just not done yet, i've got no idea how this isn't in early access. I've experienced so many bugs from the short time i've played, none that are entirely game breaking, but they are VERY apparent. The sound design is pretty terrible, the engines sound like they're on a simple audio loop to the point that you start getting annoyed at the sounds of cars passing by yours. And the sound of your own car doesn't sound much better either, it sounds like you're driving a lawn mower. The music though, is pretty alright. A bit simple but i guess that's what they're going for. The roads were made by someone who's never driven a car before apparently. There's almost no directions or signs anywhere, and the fact that the game looks the same'ish everywhere you go doesn't help. The looks of the game are meant to be simple and kind of has it's own style but even with those standards it's lacking quite a lot, with 70% of it looking like those placeholder unity assets back in the day. (playing on max graphics btw) The controls are a little bit weird, the item/pickup system is very unintuitive. The steering is worse than what my lowest expectations were. The mechanical part of the game, i mean that literally, the engines and upgrades for you car and such seem pretty solid (even with various parts under the hood constantly needing repairing at an unreasonable rate). But the storing system is absolutely frustrating, you're expected to carry spare parts, repair kits, fuel and such but also pick junk up from the road to sell later, so you find yourself not being able to fit anything in the trunk, even though it clearly looks like there's space to put it in there, and even if there wasn't, a whole backseat and a passenger seat are being wasted because you can't drop stuff in there. I really tried to ignore all of those things and just keep playing but all it made me feel was that these trips were a big waste of time since a big part of the game is the travelling and everything in it makes you wanna get up from your pc and drive an actual car. Plus, i don't think they'll be updating the game often so i can't even say that there's potential. 4/10, can't recommend. Would walk instead.