First impressions are good, would like to have had support for Wheel with the Off Roading sections though.

Also wish the controls were more like Car Mechanic Sim with less use of keyboard.

To do list should be clickable to highlight items in the shop.

However all in all it’s a good game that will entertain you for a while.

It's okay, more in depth than you'd think, especially for being an SA/Playway game. I haven't played the desert map, but the forest map is great until you travel about 300m beyond where you spawn in. After that point you'll realize the map is unfinished and unpolished. It feels like the mechanic and offroad components were finished so a test map was slapped together to show it off and that's what shipped with the game.

The offroading is fun, but the sound design is pretty poor for the engine noises. The need to use tree straps, jacks, and manually hook up your winch is fun. Leaving your vehicle to go look around and scout trails is fun.

The mechanic portion of the game feels like a streamlined version of car mechanic sim 21, which tbh is a breath of fresh air. It got old in car mechanic sim to dissassemble the entire brake each time you needed to pull it off to get to the disc or backing plate. This game does away with quite a bit of tediousness that was boring for the sake of being a sim and heavily speeds up the process of repairing. It's great. The part repair bench itself is a fun addition that allows you to use different tools to manually restore a part instead of press a button in a watered down QTE like car mechanic sim.

There's also a small car washing side to the mechanic garage that's ok. Seems more like it's there for the player to make a quick buck washing cars if they accidentally spend all their money, haha.

I'd give a 6.5 or 7/10. If you want a more arcadey version of SnowRunner's offroading mixed with Car Mechanic Sim, this is it.

Mixed feelings on this one. There’s potential here, but I’ve refunded the game for now. I had a bug reassigning certain keybinds and found the mini game where you power wash mud off your trucks after every time you drive them quite annoying. The vehicle roster of just six is also too small for my liking. If Playway supports this title with future content and updates I will definitely be repurchasing it, but only time will tell with this publisher.

Yeah, better than I expected. It's fun assembling cars and testing them, recommend giving this a try.

As a veteran of the Car Mechanic Simulator series, I really wanted to love this game, but it feels like every ounce of heart CMS had is just not found here at all. Admittedly the actual offroading is interesting, but painfully clunky at the same time and isn't enough to hold this game up on it's own. Vehicle paints are pre-set colors (no actual color customization!!), there is no garage exterior, the vehicle roster has been brought wayyyyy down to only SIX trucks, and the devs have tried to shoehorn in a dollar store version of Power Washing Simulator in the name of "cleaning" the trucks.

For the record, there are entire jobs where all you do is wash a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ truck.

The final straw for me was taking the front strut assembly off, and being completely unable to disassemble it OR put it back in the truck it JUST CAME OUT OF. So I bought new stock parts and put together a BRAND NEW assembly that ALSO wouldn't go into the truck.. and then I couldn't disassemble that one either. Save your money for something that's more than a glorified demo with game breaking bugs.

I purchased this Sim on release date and played it for a bit more than an hour. Totally a basic mechanic sim and game play. If your looking for this sim to be a replacement or hoping this will be a mirror of "car mechanic sim"..... Its not even close.
Sorry guys, regrettable buy for me!

Car mechanic simulator + snow runner + Powerwash simulator = Offroad mechanic simulator

Pretty decent concept, but is severely lacking in content.
Only 6 vehicles for you to work on, and even then, it doesn't allow you to take apart or customize the engines, simply swap in or out "better" ones. The "original" adjectives on a lot of parts seems to imply we'd get to change them out for aftermarket ones, but there are none to be found. Driving mechanics are fine, but the lack of skidplates or rock sliders is a bit disappointing from a gameplay perspective.

Honestly, wait for a sale, or for them to add more stuff to actually use/customize.

Short version:
Build. Break. Repeat.
I removed the fenders and bumpers from a pathfinder, slapped on some 35s, and then proceeded to beat the ever-loving ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ out of it on some trails.

long:
CMS21 and Spintires freak baby. It does neither aspect great, but it gives rhyme to the reason instead of just mindlessly fixing cars. The physics leave a lot to be desired, but i still found the game to be ridiculously fun. Especially since i have 0 mechanical empathy, constant clutch dumps and steady rev limiter as soon as i experience any sort of difficult obstacle. It really needs more vehicles though, doesn't have a ton of content on release. I can only hope they will support modding one day because that would launch this game above and beyond in my book.

My primary complaints:
Controls aren't streamlines at all and the camera is absolutely atrocious, really need a zoom in or out option
Lacks content, but what it does have is decent
No mod support

It's a buggy mess with no response from the devs to other players, even on Discord. I had to modify the save file just to enter a name on my profile. Then, within about 2 hours of playing, I ended up with a vehicle that would not recognize a new part installed, so I can't complete the job. I even purchased another new part and tried that one. As far as I can see, there is no way of canceling the job either.

My recommendation is to save a few bucks and your sanity and stay away from this one.