The Steam page for WerkstattManager – Uncle Karl's Legacy is live as of today. Add it to your wishlist and Steam will let you know when it opens for business.

The idea: you inherit your uncle's run-down backstreet garage. Customers arrive with symptoms, not answers. You listen, you test, you decide — and you live with the consequences. Every test costs time; every hunch you commit to can cost your reputation. The repair then plays out in the garage: part fetched, car on the lift, stage by stage.

Not a spreadsheet simulator. A quiet Berlin backstreet in the late eighties, warm light, old signs, and the question at the end of each day of whether it was enough.

I'm building this on my own. I test the game at home — my daughter and my nephew find bugs in ten minutes that would have taken me weeks.

A free demo arrives in October, during Steam Next Fest, 19–26 October. You'll get to play the first days in the garage yourself.

Thanks for taking a look.
— Hinterhof Games