I'm leaving to drink heavily and repair cheap cars in Poland

Cheap Car Repair takes place in an anonymous Polish village in the mid-to-late '90s, casting you as a mechanic who cuts corners, pockets parts, blasts Slavic pop and consumes vodka by the litre. It plays as a comedic take on doing repairs as sloppily as possible without driving customers to actual violence.

The work itself feels oddly meditative—stripping rust, repainting and repairing tyres has a calming, Powerwash Simulator-like rhythm. The game nudges you toward expedience, which can frustrate the urge to remove every millimetre of rust; in the tutorial I stripped a thug’s car down to bare metal only to discover I had a single can of green paint, leaving the job half done.

Improvisation saved the day: lacking green, I painted the rest in yellow and sent the car off in Brazil-inspired colours. The customer was pleased and the game congratulated me, all while the garage remained littered with bottles—one of the 52,000 beer and vodka containers that feed its offbeat charm.

Poland

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